Dan Deacon Is Not On Acid
But hopefully he really is in love with seahorses. Whatever the case, after Sarah Silverman Tweeted about he and Liam Lynch's 2006 video "Drinking Out of Cups" with the note that "Dan Deacon trips on acid" and the clip was subsequently discussed by Opie & Anthony, the DayGlo Baltimorean posted a MySpace bulletin proclaiming that he was not taking acid during the creation of said clip. In fact, he's never tripped on the stuff. It might seem a tad indulgent that he felt the need to proclaim his sobriety in such detail, but he does have some fun with it. He gets a well-placed Whartscape plug in there, too:
Via P4K:
the video for 'drinking out of cups' (2003 meetle mice) seems to be going viral again, this time in the comedy world. sara silverman posted it on her twitter and 'opie and anthony' discussed it on their radio show. there is an amazing amount of disinformation and completely wrong information about this piece and i just want to clear some things up.in 2002 i recorded myself watching television with the sound off doing a character that was meant to embody long island culture (where i grew up). i was NOT on acid when i made this piece. i have NEVER DONE ACID.
while i have no problem with psychedelics and think that they are important to human culture, i do want it to be known that i was not on any psychedelics or any drugs while making this piece. it was all stream of conscience, reacting to watching the tv, changing the channels, with the sound of, talking to it as if it were a person communicating back to me.
the track was on my 2003 album meetle mice. in 2005 or 2006 liam lynch came across the track as it was getting passed around on message boards and file sharing sites. he contacted me about making a video for it and about using my song 'big big big big big' as the theme song to his podcast show. i love liams work and of course said yes. the video has grown in popularity to the point where i get fan mail from soliders in iraq, blog about my celebrity comedians and its gotten 2.8 million views on youtube.
this is all great and whatever but i want people to know this video was created without drugs or acid. i'm glad that people like the video but lets just make this perfectly clear:
1. I WAS NOT ON ACID WHILE MAKING THIS VIDEO
2. I WAS NOT LOCKED IN THE CLOSED AND BEING RECORDED
3. I RECORDED THE TRACK 100% SOBER
4. I USED THE TRACK A SCHOOL PROJECT AS A SOLO VOICE/TAPE PIECE
5. I HAVE NEVER DONE ACID, AND LIKE JEFF LEWIS, NO I DON'T WANT ANY ACID, THANK YOU
6. YES, THAT IS ME TALKING AND I WROTE THE PIECE
7. ITS A CHARACTER SATIRIZING LONG ISLAND STEREOTYPES
8. THE SONG CAME OUT IN 2003
9. THE VIDEO CAME OUT IN 2006
its really insane to me that i have been the subject of two separate viral videos that exist simultaneously inside and outside of my music career. the internet is a strange place. i don't really know how i feel about this kind of stuff. while my work is weird and some what "experimental" its not that weird or that "experimental" where it should cause so much confusion and bewilderment among the mainstream audiences that it comes across. but i guess thats what happens when anything is out of the immediate ordinary.
anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this. please stick up for me if you see on message boards or youtube comment sections or anywhere if you see it being stated that i am on acid while making that piece. i made the piece to be funny and a piece of absurd humor. it was edited down and crafted with care. while it seems like a mindless ramble, some time and effort went into making it. if that ads or distracts from the piece so be it, it wasn't meant to be a process piece and i never thought i'd be explaining it or that it would be seen by nearly 3 million people.
i guess i should just be glad so many people enjoy it. however, to have it be stated that i was on acid time and time again takes away from any of the creative process i put into the piece. i'm not sure i'm getting my point across but i am tired of writing this and need to get back to work on whartscape. love you all.
dan deacon
In case you haven't seen the video, it is really funny:
[Dan Deacon photo by Josh Sisk]
Posted at 10:15 AM by brandon in Video
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Well, that was stupid
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"Stupid flowas..."
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Ridiculous to see the shitstorm that ensues when people involved in mainstream media suddenly catch on to something that many of us have known about for years (see Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, etc.). Still, hiliarious video-- always a good time.
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It's VIA we listen for you, P4K as always copy and pastes our articles/titles. Check it out:
http://welistenforyou.blogspot.com/2009/07/dan-deacon-was-not-on-acid.html
(POSTED MONDAY JULY 6th) P4K posted yesterday, THUR.
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when did stereogum become copyandpastefork?
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October 15, 2003.
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slow news day, huh?
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I can see why he is frustrated. While LSD is a wonderful, inspirational drug, it is annoying when people automatically assume than anything creative had to have been done with the help of drugs. Adventure Time is another video that is constantly accused of being thought up on acid. Absurdist humor is great and original, and rare these days, people should stop marginalizing it with "lol these guys were on drugs"
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