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Steve Taylor recently had this interesting post on his Facebook page:

Dear Facebook Friends,

Sarah Gibson, the niece of legendary singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston, approached me six years ago about making a documentary with me as the subject.

I suggested she could do better.

She persisted. So…

…I agreed to loan her a box of dusty videotapes on two conditions:

1) I would have no creative or editorial input. She could do whatever she wanted as long as I didn’t have to be interviewed.
2) I required a signed Daniel Johnston t-shirt (like the one Kurt Cobain wore on the 1992 MTV Music Awards).

She fulfilled both conditions, and the forty minute result of her six year labor of love is premiering Saturday night in Nashville. She’s given her film the cryptic title “Steve Taylor Is Not Dead,” which strikes me as presumptuous since we’re still five days out.

I’m not the one throwing this party, nor have I seen the final result. But the good people at Lipscomb University are kindly hosting the film’s premier this Saturday, November 12th at 7pm at Collins Alumni Auditorium on the Lipscomb campus. They’re even hosting a reception afterwards, which will give me a chance to thank you for coming (and give you a chance to mock my choice of stage attire over the last thirty years).

If this sounds like fun (or even if it doesn’t), please join us Saturday night.

Yours in self-aggrandizement,

Steve

More information can be found on this page.

Sorry to be a few days late on this, but the website for the innovative Steve Taylor documentary is now live. The website is really a companion to the documentary Steve Taylor is Not Dead scheduled to be released in Fall 2011.  ToBeAClone.com is a nicely-designed fact-filled site about all things Steve Taylor.

A new documentary about Steve Taylor is coming in Fall 2011: “Steve Taylor is Not Dead.” The exact release date can probably be gathered from tobeaclone.com – but I’m not good at math (the promo video mentions August, though).  There is also a Facebook companion page called Steve Taylor’s Digital Clone. The Facebook page as well as the related Twitter account are featuring Steve Taylor facts and trivia. With Taylor also mentioning new music coming this year, as well as the Blue Like Jazz movie project taking off – could 2011 be the year of the Steve Taylor comeback?

This has been making the rounds on the boards recently, but in case you haven’t heard it. Not sure what this even means exactly, but I’ll re-post what Steve Taylor put on his Facebook page recently:

So many birthday greetings – I just finished reading them all, and I’m dizzy with gratitude. I can never adequately say thanks, but I can promise this:
New music in 2011.
Really.

Not sure if that means a new song or album or what – but would be cool no matter what.