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Every issue, we have to do at least three features on "music," and to be honest, it's usually a bit of a bummer. It's not terrible, it's just kind of whatevs, like writing a five-paragraph essay defending your thesis that "cereal is a food." Everyone knows that cereal is a fucking food! That's why you eat it and it tastes like something!

But every once in a blue moon, you pull on your work boots and put the CD on, and your face explodes. It's a very "whoa" moment, and NYC's Diamond Nights just delivered one to the max, Jaded Jack. It's Thin Lizzy all sexed up with some Ric Ocasek silk on top (but like, really Ocasek-y, not just in name like on that record Le Tigre just farted out). If you don't agree that this shit rules, you're a crazy person. We asked guitar guy/singer Morgan Phalen all about knowing nutjobs like you.

VICE: Most people seem to know more crazies when they're little, or at least before they move to New York and totally lose track of who's crazy and who's not. Do you remember any childhood crazies?
Morgan: I grew up in Mexico and we had this maid whose daughter was missing a chromosome. It was called Marionette's Disease. Basically, she walked all stilted and had huge eyes. I think there's a village in Venezuela where they all live, actually. She also ate Barbie dolls.

What?
The only reason we knew was because she'd throw up and it would be this huge pile of black barf with, like, little presents in it. She had a crooked haircut and her name was Edith, but down there you say it like "E-Dit." We fired her mom, so I don't know what's up with her now.

RYAN DUFFY
Diamond Nights debut EP is out now on Kemado Records.



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Subject: xxx
Date: Oct 11 2006 01:10:45 PM
Author: xxx

xxx



Subject: high five...
Date: Nov 20 2005 02:11:28 PM
Author: whoevs

...to the guy who said something about Turbonegro. hooray Turbonegro.



Subject: THE MADE
Date: Jul 06 2005 04:21:24 AM
Author: Turkysh

I had a made once. She had a daughter that smoked our soiled socks. The daughter now is grown and works for Disney. Her job is to wire up animated phlanges for the "Hand Shakes from Famous People" exhibit. My favorite shaker is Iggy Popovich. You put a quarter in is left eye and he will squeeze the bejesuz out of your hand for three and a half minutes. Pure pain for the sake of it. DN is a rock band with talent and a whole lot of quarters. Visit Disney real soon.



Subject: interviews in general
Date: May 04 2005 12:54:32 PM
Author: former editor

did you ever think that interviews can go on for hours ... and that writers can take a few sentences out of context?

clearly the writer took a few things out of an overall conversation to try and fit the piece into the issue's "crazy" theme.

the guy obviously made up the thing about marionnette's disease. clearly he wasn't taking this part of the interview too seriously.

based on this, how do you know if they even had a maid?

even if his family did, never judge anyone - or a band - soley on an interview. anyone can sound like a jerk because of an editor's few splices and dices, even you. especially in vice.

so try listening to their music before you judge the entire band, and their economic backgrounds and values, on this interview.



Subject: music
Date: Apr 17 2005 07:55:13 PM
Author: will

Diamond nights, I tell you something about these fries, why not eat fries?, what wrong with fries man, they are only potatoe & grease, no complications, just simple and pleasureable. Gee's I ate you people that dis the fries. And Thin Lizzy, I'm sure he ate fries to keep thin...I know I do



Subject: this stuff about this band
Date: Apr 13 2005 01:42:02 PM
Author: mr. people

dear awesome dudes at vice,

sorry it took me so long. anyway, have you ever heard of a band called legs diamond? they could be like the autobots and diamond nights could be the deceptacons, but this isn't a perfect world anymore. Not like back when.

your dude, mr. people

p.s.: smile.



Subject: Vice music selection
Date: Apr 06 2005 03:59:46 PM
Author: Disagreewhore

I think they have the best variety of new shit of any magazine. They're good for not bothering with the new Offspring unless they get a really funny review submitted. My problem is with the band profiles. Duffy even admits how boring they're predisposed to being.



Subject: vice music selection?
Date: Apr 05 2005 03:49:02 AM
Author: d. structo

Why does vice insist only mostly just reviewing crappy fucking rock bands that all sound exactly the same. This is same kind of disposable bullshit that is going on in hip hop...no progression. Let's all go to a fucking show and stare at our feet or see who has the coolest vintage tee on. Fuck you indie rock whores!!!!



Subject: Rob
Date: Mar 31 2005 11:17:25 AM
Author: Scroggins

Rob is the shit.



Subject: Maid for Glory
Date: Mar 29 2005 03:32:22 PM
Author: Bakunin

I know, I know...dude. I just don't like the bosses. The hire-ers and fire-ers. I'm just soft I guess. Exploitation by the ruling class and complicity by the middlers - just bugs me.

But fuck that! Let's combine anthemic classic rock with classic new-wavey anthems and sing-along and party and get blow-jobs from girls we won't ever talk to again! Thank you Vice magazine! It is good to be good-looking and live in New York!



Subject: Maid
Date: Mar 28 2005 06:11:29 PM
Author: Mexican

Dude, I live in Mexico city and my family is lower middle class and we have a maid. And guess what. She has a maid. That's just the way it is here. EVERYONE has a maid.



Subject: food for thought
Date: Mar 25 2005 03:26:52 PM
Author: ronnie casio

I think Diamond Nights sound a little bit like the American flag flapping in a stiff March Iraqi wind, the sound of damned freedom dang-it-all!




Subject: The Urge to Destroy Is a Creative Urge
Date: Mar 24 2005 11:37:36 PM
Author: Bakunin

"Oh yeah, we fired her mom...oh, and did you know Daddy said he wouldn't buy me a plane ticket to go to the party in Munich? Everyone's going! Really...Daddy can be such a dreadful boar at times! The price of help in New York is so much higher than Mexico and Daddy's been such a JEW since we've returned."

I know its not cool to care about people's livelihoods and I'm sure she was a particularly shitty maid, but that remark was casual to the point of callous. Ok, I'll fulfill the role of "stupid guy" but fuck rich people! Yeah, you too, Mr. Apologist! Clean your own damn house!



Subject: missed the mark
Date: Mar 23 2005 01:32:46 PM
Author: jane fry

thin lizzy? maybe.

more like billy idol. exactly like billy idol.

what? he's not cool / old enough yet to name drop?



Subject: TURBONEGRO
Date: Mar 22 2005 06:11:05 AM
Author: 3507321C

HANK WILL ASSFUCK ANY FUCKIN THINLIZZIE FUX !



Subject: crap out your mouth
Date: Mar 21 2005 01:22:19 AM
Author: springwick

bonsai kittens



Subject: .
Date: Mar 19 2005 03:06:07 PM
Author: .

I too am let down by the fact that these marionette people don't exist. I'm getting kind of desensitized to harlequin babies and I want some new hideous deformity to freak myself out with.



Subject: rob
Date: Mar 18 2005 09:02:27 PM
Author: tre

fuck goggle. I want rob to sit on one of my throw pillows smack him with a stick for answers and reward him with a handful of sour cream and onion chips.



Subject: Tha Liz
Date: Mar 16 2005 08:51:28 PM
Author: Melly Fluid

Haven't heard these dudes but any group of people that're trying to affect a Thin Liz vibe are engaged in the "good work".( I love it when Mapee asks "Are you feelin' it?" and he magically fucks it up and says "Are you Phil Lynott?" It's a totally forced, embarrassing Dad pun but the depth of feeling there!) No one embodies it like Phil. Utterly unpretentious and true-hearted love of Rn'R as a spiritual force. The lyrics are so stylishly tossed off with such sex in the voice yet they seem like they were written by a high-schooler. Purity.



Subject: no such thing
Date: Mar 16 2005 05:58:08 PM
Author: lizardino

how come when I tried to see what someone with marionette's disease looked like, the only hit I got was this page? a least make up a fake disease that I can look at.



Subject: To EOM with Love
Date: Mar 14 2005 07:13:47 PM
Author: Adrienne

EOM, you're such a sweetie for replying to me, but I'm still not buying it. These men are rip roarer babies to the max, and you're denying it. Ted Leo and the Haircuts will never cock out as hard as these gentlemen.



JESSE YOUR BROTHER'S BAND IS SO HOT! -Alex says hi



Subject: Adrienne
Date: Mar 14 2005 12:19:38 PM
Author: EOM

Shame!? Shame and I are old friends from way back. I couldn't imagine life without him.
But in my defense, they've got the hair covering the ears and that one guy is wearing a scarf. You gotta give me some credit here. No?



Subject: mexican maids
Date: Mar 13 2005 09:31:44 AM
Author: justin case

I dig that shit. Mexico is cool cuz even the poorest families have maids and drivers. maids of maids even have drivers. Diamond Nights son Los Mocos Locos!



Subject: yose a bitch
Date: Mar 12 2005 11:50:57 PM
Author: adrienne jacob

EOM, you should be ashamed of yourself for shitting on the Diamond Nights, especially after mentioning that you have a fucking Ted leo cd.

jesse phalen - whats up - alex turan



Subject: R to the O to the B
Date: Mar 12 2005 02:53:03 PM
Author: Muzix faN

ROB should be writing the music reviews.



Subject: pffff
Date: Mar 11 2005 03:01:29 PM
Author: EOM

Congrats to the Diamond Whatevers. They managed to fulfill the current requirements that every "new" rock band look like, well, every late-sixties, early-seventies Brit-Pop act AND sound like Thin Lizzy. They must have the same Ted Leo CDs as me. In your expert opinion Vice, can you predict when this trend will end. Say, Monday of next week?

thx,
EOM



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