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I GET WET Praise for the series: It was only a matter of time before a clever publisher realized that there is an audience for whom Exile on Main Street or Electric Ladyland are as significant and worthy of study as The Catcher in the Rye or Middlemarch … The series … is freewheeling and eclectic, ranging from minute rock-geek analysis to idiosyncratic personal celebration — The New York Times Book Review Ideal for the rock geek who thinks liner notes just aren’t enough — Rolling Stone One of the coolest publishing imprints on the planet — Bookslut These are for the insane collectors out there who appreciate fantastic design, well-executed thinking, and things that make your house look cool. Each volume in this series takes a seminal album and breaks it down in startling minutiae. We love these. We are huge nerds — Vice A brilliant series … each one a work of real love — NME (UK) Passionate, obsessive, and smart — Nylon Religious tracts for the rock ’n’ roll faithful — Boldtype [A] consistently excellent series — Uncut (UK) We … aren’t naive enough to think that we’re your only source for reading about music (but if we had our way … watch out). For those of you who really like to know everything there is to know about an album, you’d do well to check out Continuum’s “33 1/3” series of books — Pitchfork For reviews of individual titles in the series, please visit our blog at 333sound.com and our website at http://www.bloomsbury.com/musicandsoundstudies Follow us on Twitter: @333books Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/33.3books For a complete list of books in this series, see the back of this book Forthcoming in the series: Selected Ambient Works Vol. II by Marc Weidenbaum Smile by Luis Sanchez Biophilia by Nicola Dibben Ode to Billie Joe by Tara Murtha The Grey Album by Charles Fairchild Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Mike Foley Freedom of Choice by Evie Nagy Entertainment! by Kevin Dettmar Live Through This by Anwyn Crawford Donuts by Jordan Ferguson My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kirk Walker Graves Dangerous by Susan Fast Definitely Maybe by Alex Niven Blank Generation by Pete Astor Sigur Ros: ( ) by Ethan Hayden and many more … Andrew W.K.’s I Get Wet Phillip Crandall Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 1385 Broadway 50 Bedford Square New York London NY 10018 WC1B 3DP USA UK www.bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury is a registered trade mark of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2014 © Phillip Crandall, 2014 All rights reserved. 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ISBN: 978-1-62356-550-3 Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN I Get Wet Andrew W.K. 1. “It’s Time to Party” (1:30) 2. “Party Hard” (3:04) 3. “Girls Own Love” (3:13) 4. “Ready to Die” (2:54) 5. “Take It Off” (3:10) 6. “I Love NYC” (3:11) 7. “She is Beautiful” (3:33) 8. “Party Til You Puke” (2:34) 9. “Fun Night” (3:22) 10. “Got to Do It” (3:54) 11. “I Get Wet” (3:23) 12. “Don’t Stop Living in the Red” (1:40) Contents Puke (Preface) viii Ink (Introduction) 1 1. Perilymph 14 2. Juice 37 3. Sweat 60 4. Smoke 84 5. Blood 109 6. ˈkəm 126 Ice (Interviews and Sources) 146 Stop Bath (Photographs) 152 Champagne (Acknowledgments) 156 • vii • 9781623567149_txt_print.indd 7 26/11/2013 12:20 Puke Isn’t that fun? —Wendy Wilkes Andrew is standing on his Los Angeles kitchen floor, but he could topple over in a projectile-heaving daze any second now. Seeing his wobbly reaction playing out exactly to script, Wendy Wilkes is ready with Step 2 of her devious master plan. As a girl growing up in northern California’s Bay Area, Wendy spent 360-some days of her year ticking off boxes until the next Walnut Festival. Commencing as summer turns to autumn in Walnut Creek, the festival officially celebrates the beloved crop whose groves replaced area vineyards during Prohibition. Whatever the reasoning, it was young Wendy’s opportunity to enjoy rides that only got more twisty, twirly, and exciting with each passing year. Wendy went on to study English during the Lew Alcindor-era at UCLA, and, after graduation, train as a paralegal during that profession’s infancy. There, she met Jim Krier, a professor of law who would later co-write the preeminent casebook, Property. In Jim, she would find love, happiness, and a life confined to lame merry-go-rounds. • viii • PHILLIP CRANDALL “I quickly found out that this guy was not going on any ride with me ever unless it stayed on the ground,” Wendy says. “I was doomed.” So when Wendy gave birth to Andrew in May 1979—“I was delighted to have a son,” Jim says, “[and] I went home and told the dog we had a boy in the family, then three hours later went off to teach”—the mother saw, among many adorable first-child traits, a partner in rollercoaster-riding. Shortly after Andrew learned to walk, Wendy put her plan into action. Wendy led Andrew into the kitchen and picked him up, placing her arms under his tush and his arms around her neck. Holding his body tightly against hers, she began twirling around, hoping some vertigo would shake his equilibrium to the diaper-donning core. After three or four intense spins, Wendy bent down to stand Andrew up on the kitchen floor. If body language is any indication, this kid has no clue what’s happened or why his body is responding accord- ingly. He looks to his mom, who, as the spinner, created this internal mayhem and perhaps has an explanation as to why the dishtowels are waving. In this instance, the dosage of spin needed to carry out Step 1—getting a toddler dizzy—would not impair the spinner’s ability to carry out the second and most important step of this plan. Allowing for the dizzy effect to make just enough of an impression on the young brain, Wendy looks Andrew in the eyes and, in a gesture quite opposite to bringing him to barf’s edge, lays some comforting mother-voice on thick. “Isn’t that fun?” • ix •
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