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So, I was one of the audience members for the infamous SXSW Andy Dick Q&A. No, he didn't hump an audience member's head -- he humped co-star Mo Collins after pushing her to the floor of the Austin Convention Center. He also continually grabbed the microphone from the other participants while they were in the middle of answering questions, interrupting them with whatever popped into his head. He flipped off the cameras, and he inhaled the microphone in a Bill Hickian snort several times. It was something to behold.
OK, if no other Pixies fans out there are going to comment on Andrew O'Hehir's clueless discription of Frank Black, then I must.
Here's what he says: I don't know whether this is intentional, but Pixies fans close to the band's age may experience the film as a sobering look in the mirror. Black Francis is now a bald, overweight husband and father, with two kids, two stepkids, a minivan and a house.
Jeez Andrew, were you too busy listening to Vanilla Ice in the old days not to know that Frank Black has always been sexily plump, and as far as I remember either bald or shaved? In fact, I have always thought he was cute, in a dangerous kind of way. And so what if he's a middle-age-married-tax-paying-mini-van-driving-head-of-a-blended family??? WTF? Sobering? This makes me love him more. He doesn't drive an SUV or a Hummer! Does he get any props for that? I saw them at Coachella two years ago, and they were as fabulous as ever, and it was great fun to see all the tattoo'd youngsters eating it up.
Thanks for your time.
