Steely Dan Finds Fountain of Youth!!

Steely Dan are pissed. Wa-wa-watch out. I've seen 'em get violent with their 2000 Grammy award -- wackin' folks over the head with undeserved hubris, embodied. Apparently, the lionized, but aging, sparkless musicians have it in for Owen Wilson. Damn, I love cross-medium feuding. It's nice to see every once in awhile.

So apparently, Steely Dan are under the impression that the film, You, Me, and Dupree's plot is directly nabbed from one of the band's song, Cousin Dupree off 2000's Two Against Nature.

"some hack writer or producer...like, took our character, this real dog sleeping on the couch and all and put him in the middle of some hokey 'Down and Out in Beverly Hills' ripoff story," Steely posted on their official band site, "THEY DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO THINK UP A NEW FUCKING NAME FOR THE GUY!"

This came from a letter posted on their website. Who was the letter addressed to? Owen's bro Luke Wilson. I'll give you a quick, first person synopsis:

Remember us? We won Grammies. We liked Bottle Rocket, but now most of your parts suck, but you're cool. Cooler than Owen, the hack. We won Grammies. We want to complain about Owen, and not to Owen about his stinky movie. He has ruined his career by selling out and fucking with "pretty heavy artists like us." We're not whining about the idea, but that we didn't benefit from it. "No muffin basket, no flowers, nothing." Tell your brother to come down to one of our shows and apologize to our audience. There's some Steely Dan merch in it for him if he does. He's still going to hell, though, along with his "hollywood gangsters." If he doesn't comply and fucks with us, one of our huge, Vin Diesel-type fans is going to beat the shit out of one-a-yahs.

Age is a precise cycle. You're born with diapers. You die with diapers, sort of thing. I think the nearly 60-year-old Steely Dan members have reached the regression point of elderly prepubescence. They whine to someone about that someone's brother stealing their macaroni to make a new macaroni picture. Even though the 'victims' don't like either of them, they like the brother better, because he's pretty cool in the playground. And it's not even that the thief stole the 'roni, it's that he took it without asking. All the victims want from the thief is an apology professed in front of the class room. Oh yeah, and if it doesn't go down, the victim is going to get his friend's older brother to kick his ass.

Anyway, I'm sure You, Me, And Dupree chews on pubes, but don't make yourself out to be a fool in an effort to clobber it. At least it's not a shitty remake.

Links
The Steely Dan Letter 'o Hating