We’ve writ­ten about Andrew W.K. before. We felt that it was a reas­on­ably accur­ate account of the things that were awe­some about the man, but there are so many things that we missed out on or have happened since, that we’ve had to rec­tify it with this post in front of you.

The very first thing we should men­tion is that Andrew W.K. has a Twit­ter. Go on, fol­low him. Yes, now. Yeah, I’ll wait while you cre­ate an account. Of course there was no reason to have one before, who the hell would you fol­low? Well, now there is a reason. You too, can wake up to your Twit­ter applic­a­tion of choice, and see this:

Who know that Twit­ter could bring you such eth­er­eal exper­i­ences? Of course, there are many more things that you are miss­ing out on. A video of Andrew mak­ing break­fast and feast­ing on pan­cakes, a Twit­ter peti­tion (which from now on shall be known as a twi­ti­tion … FUCK, it already exists) to get Andrew on The Ellen Degeneres Show, and of course my favourite:

I will leave you with this.

It’s very import­ant to note that no where on this album is the word alco­hol or drugs ever men­tioned, and there’s never any instruc­tion as to what to do to have a party. Hav­ing a party is as much eat­ing a piece of cake as it is dan­cing as it is drink­ing as it is sit­ting in your room listen­ing to music. It’s whatever you want it to be. That’s the most import­ant thing to know here. No one is going to say, “You’re a wimp. You’re doing it wrong. A real hard partier does this.”

We do what we want when we want to do it, and I’ll get totally drunk and wasted one night, but maybe the next night I don’t want to. That’s hard for some people to under­stand, but I just do what I want, and I just want people to do the same. The most import­ant thing to me is that they know that they don’t have to do any­thing to be per­ceived as cool by us. As long as they’re hav­ing fun, they can do whatever they want.

A lot of people who like this band are straight edge. I never thought in a mil­lion years that someone who is straight edge would love this music. I’m not straight edge and no one in this band is straight edge, but there are tons of people who are who love this band. And I ask them, “Please don’t get me wrong here. I’m honored that you like this band, but explain to me why.” And they tell me, “Because we know it’s not about drink­ing, it’s about hav­ing fun.” And that’s the whole point. If you want to drink to have fun, then that’s great, but if you don’t, then that’s fine too.
Andrew W.K. on party­ing

It’s about hav­ing fun.