a little slow on the uptake?

this controversy has been going on for years, and is mostly believed to be propagated by the man himself.

I was at the talk on Saturday, and I thought it was easily the most honest and open and least rock star things i've ever seen. Breaking down the bullshit walls between audience and performer, and just simply a super refreshing dialogue.

To get people (maybe a lot of people who wouldn't normally) to just talk about experience is super inspiring to me. PLUS FREE T SHIRTS

I was at his talk (didn't go to his show) and I thought it was fantastic.

What did you find painful about the talk?

I guess I was missing something since Saturday's talk was painful for to sit through. I'm all for "Breaking down the bullshit walls" but I was bummed how he just laid on that sofa like he didn't give a fuck.

Wow, that is weird, I got a totally different impression from him.

He seemed genuinely interested in what people were saying (to me)! I thought his laid-back nature just helped to make him approachable and less intimidating.

The way he stuck around after to talk to every single person (over an hour!) was a pretty clear indication he "gave a fuck" (again, "to me").

Perhaps it's an issue of expectation? I had literally never listed to an Andrew WK sing on purpose before going to see him, so I wasn't expecting some hardcore party vibe or anything.

Everyone I've talked to about it afterwards had a really amazing experience and we're all still talking about it days later.

there is also the matter of his messed up knee. hence the big knee brace over his jeans.

i heard him tell someone that the doctors said he should probably have surgery but he is healing it with his mind.

wow, i feel like an asshole now.

but as i took from that talk,
your experience is totally valid and what makes things interesting.....or something.

i can see it not being for everybody.
but, boy howdy, is it ever for me.

Yeah, I was there too, and personally, I thought it was awful. It was like sitting through some terrible Philosophy 101 class at a Junior College. The people in the audience tried to come up with deep meanings, sounding stupid in the process, and he just sort of gave vague, half-answers to any question that came about. Plus, there was no distinct topic, just a guy talking half-heartedly about stuff that he had going on in his head, trying to work through his issues. Sure, I love Andrew WK, and I love what he does for his fans. But this was all in all boring and a waste of my time.
I heard the live show rocked though, and I'm sorry I missed that.

i think basically something happened at an andrew wk concert in 2004 in new jersey where someone else was pretended to be andrew wk on stage.

i think since then it's been a different person. so for the last three years, if you look in all the photos, it looks like an entirely different person.

Of course he looks different! Its called AGING!!

Think about it for a minute guys. He spent a fair amount of time in Japan eating different foods and in a different culture for a while.

It would be strange if he didn't look different after those experiences over the years.

Anyone with an IQ over 50 could always tell that Andrew WK is a no talent brain-dead frat boy moron who was put together by beer companies and corporate record labels to make "the worst music ever".

I just watched his interview on VBS.tv and it was complete horseshit. Not one thing he said made any sense, just a bunch of dim-witted party mumbles.

WHAT A DUMB-ASS!

my boyfriend is obsessed with andrew wk, and i admit that over the past two years, awk has become one of my favorite things.

the part that hooked me was just the whole entertainer aspect of andrew wk and once i started thinking about it this way, he pretty much became my favorite artist alive.

a lot of my friends think i'm crazy, but they just don't know all the facts.

for example, my boyfriend told me that in 2004 someone replaced the "old" andrew wk, and now there's a new guy hired to be the front man. also, i heard that this "new andrew" has been wearing a wig for the past 4 years, since the second album, The Wolf was released.

there were even pictures printed in the fader in 2005 of someone called andrew wk with short hair. but as usual, it looks like a completely different person from the other andrew wk pictures.

here are the links i went to:

http://www.michaelschmelling.com/awk.2005.2.s.jpg

http://www.michaelschmelling.com/awk.2005.1.s.jpg

http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/lofiversion/index.php/t26661.html

well I have an IQ of 147 and

I Love Andrew W.K.