Cake Boy special screening at Hyperion Tavern July 11, 2010

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:54:47 -0700

The Epic Wheel-Chair Comedy Feature film Cake boy, starring Warren Fitzgerald and Scott Aukerman, and directed by joe escalante, will have a special screening at the Hyperion Tavern on July 11, 2010 at 8PM. There will be a Q&A with Warren, Scott, and Joe (and whoever else shows up) following the glorious presentation. Admission is free and there’s booze there. This is the first of a new sunday night movie thing going on there in Silverlake at 1941 hyperion Ave.

This important work also stars Pad gidley, bob odenkirk, patton oswald, kyle gass, mia crowe, no use for a name, Fat Mike, B.j. Porter, brian posehn, weirdest Kulap, and sheila platt.

To have the film overnighted to your house to memorize in advance click here.

Daily Variety President Exhibits bold Hypocrisy In Vandals and Iron Cross Lawsuits

Fri, 28 May 2010 16:42:15 -0700

As you know, the Vandals have been sued not once but twice for their artistic parody of the Daily Variety’s logo on the discontinued version of Hollywood Potato Chip. Because of the Fair Use Doctrine of the Copyright Act, the Vandals had a perfect right to parody this logo. The Daily Variety knew this then and they know this now. They actually rely on this doctrine to do business as a news organization, but ignored the law to file a meritless lawsuit against us in 2004.
This law suit cost the Vandals and Kung Fu Records tens of thousands of dollars. They bullied us by threatening extremely expensive litigation if we didn’t give in and sign a settlement agreement with them.
Now as you know, they are suing us again for the same thing when the artwork they are suing about was discontinued 6 years ago. They are completely ignoring the material terms of the settlement and trying to shake us down for money. It’s like groundhog’s day.
Recently the Daily Variety was sued by a film maker who said their review of his film was a breach of contract in connection with their agreement to promote his film rather than trash it. Of course it is arguable that if they promised to promote his film and charged him money, then they trashed it, they burned him. However, we support The Daily Variety’s 1st Amendment right to trash even the films that they are depending on for financial support. It’s not smart, especially when the film maker gave them $400,000 worth of business but we support them.
However, get ready to puke, knowing what you know about Variety’s meritless and abusive lawsuit against the Vandals, take a look at what Variety President Neil Stiles has to say in an article featuring Variety patting themselves on the back for defending the 1st Amendment.
"We are extremely pleased with the judge's ruling," said Variety president Neil Stiles. "It is a shame that a filmmaker saw fit to use the law in this way, but good sense and justice prevailed. We hope that this decision sends a clear message against meritless lawsuits being filed against Variety , Reed Elsevier or any other news organization."

Toldja you were going to puke. According to their own version of the law, they owe us tens of thousand in damages and legal fees, yet they are suing us for $75,000, still to this day.

Yes The Vandals are being sued by Daily Variety

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:15:15 -0700

UPDATE: 5-3-10
The Daily Variety is still suing the Vandals. They are a bum out. People ask me what you can do to help. We will be uploading more info about the law suit later to show people how ruthless and unethical this law suit is, but in the mean time, let Variety Editor Timothy Gray know that you don't appreciate supposed journalists using abusive lawsuits against small punk bands to stifle their free speech rights and shake them down for money. tim.gray@variety.com. Ask him the same things we've been asking his lawyers. What harm has been done to you by the Vandals? Name one example of damage. What do you think of the Fair Use Doctrine?
A message from the Vandals: In response to inquiries, yes, it is a matter of public record now: The Vandals have been sued by The Daily Variety (Hollywood trade newspaper). Here's the public link to the lawsuit:

This was filed in Delaware on order from a guy named J.Paul Williamson from the law firm Fulbright and Jaworsky that has 950 attorneys on staff. The named Plaintiff is Variety's parent company Reed Elsevier. They have about 32,000 employees.
We are looking for a Delaware attorney that will help us remove this abusive lawsuit to California where all the parties are located and we can be abused closer to our homes.
If you know a Delaware attorney, please email Joe at joe@vandals.com.
We also need other help. The Daily Variety claims that our old logo for Hollywood Potato Chip, which is a parody of the Daily Variety logo commenting on the materialistic culture of Hollywood, is still on the Internet and they are suing us for this. We agreed not to use this logo anymore and we have no product for sale with this logo so their claims that we are intentionally using it and harming the Daily Variety are ludicrous.
We do not have this logo, or any other of their logos on any of our sites under our control. They are telling us that it is still on the Internet but they wont tell us where it is. Instead, they have demanded a HUGE sum of money. I mean HUGE, OUTRAGEOUS, and IMPOSSIBLE TO RAISE; and $25,000 for their attorneys to cover all the damages they have suffered from what they call a breach of our settlement agreement.
We have breached nothing. We are just a punk band and a small insolvent record label trying to keep stuff on the shelves and pay royalties to other artists.
Now they are in the process of punishing us with an abusive law suit filed in Delaware, where none of the parties reside or do business, because this will cause us the most financial harm and when we get sick of it, and realize we can't afford to fight them, we will pay them the money. That is our opinion of what is going on because we cooperated in every way to try to take the images down, but they filed the suit anyway…. in Delaware.
So we are asking for your help. If you see a logo from this album, or from the Kung Fu Records compilation "Gone With The Wind Of Punk Samplers" that is on a site that we control, please notify joe@vandals.com so we can take it down. Their last letter told us there were logos on myspace and youtube. We can't find them, and The Daily Variety refused to point them out so we could fix them, then they sued us. We are baffled.
Anyone that find's one will get two tickets to an upcoming Vandals show planned as a benefit concert to raise money to pay the legal fees involved in fighting the Daily Variety (Hollywood trade newspaper).
Other than the irony of a newspaper (supposedly devoted to serving artists) suing a small punk band over a free speech issue, this is very serious so we need a Delaware lawyer right away and we need to find any of these "infringing" marks and get them off the Internet.
Thanks. The Vandals. www.vandals.com