How fucking weird is Steely Dan?

This weird.

http://www.steelydan.com/heywes.html

Here's my favorite part. It sounds like my old film professor Sue Scheibler as if she had just combined some gnarly LSD, speed and Peeps after reading through an entire book of Pauline Kael, misreading it as something optimistic and philosophical:

"Let's put our cards on the table - surely, we are not the first to tell you that your career is suffering from a malaise. Fortunately, inasmuch as it is a malaise distinctly different than that of Mr.______ , and to the extent that you have not become so completely alienated from the intellectual and moral wellsprings of your own creativity, we are hoping that we - yours truly, Donald and Walter - may successfully "intervene" at this point in time and be of some use to you in your latest, and, potentially, greatest, endeavor.

Again, an artist of your stripe could never be guilty of the same sort of willing harlotry that befalls so many bright young men who take their aspirations to Hollywood and their talent for granted. You have failed or threatened to fail in a far more interesting and morally uncompromised way (assuming for a moment that self-imitation and a modality dangerously close to mawkishness are not moral failings, but rather symptoms of a profound sickness of the soul.)"

Read the rest with the link above.