A Head Full of Wishes

Dean Wareham reaches 45 today (August 1st) so in celebration here's a career spanning compilation of videos...
Galaxie 500 - Tell Me (1990)

Dean Wareham is selling signed copies of his memoir Black Postcards...
For those who couldn't get to a book reading, but would like to buy a signed copy of the book, you can get one by sending a Paypal payment to fuzzmail@nyc.rr.com.
Within the U.S., send $25 (via Paypal only) to fuzzmail@nyc.rr.com
From Canada, send $28.
From Europe, South [...]

I grabbed a handful of CDs from the Ps this morning...amongst which was a bunch of Pastels albums and while listening to them this picture popped into my head and I headed off to hunt it down. It lived for a long time on Jonathan Kilgour's almost official Pastels website which is thankfully still available [...]

Dean has answered ten questions for French pop magazine Magic - you can read the full questionnaire at deanandbritta.com
E: What was the worst thing you ever did to achieve your goals?
D: Play an acoustic set at the corporate offices of HITS magazine, a trade magazine for the radio industry, sometimes referred to as SHIT magazine.

There's an interview with Dean Wareham on the CBC Q podcast. The interview with Dean starts 18'20" in (after a lengthy item on poo).
Direct link to the mp3 (22MB)

There's a bit of a followup to Liz Phair's NY Times review of Black Postcards in an interview on Rolling Stone's website...
You recently reviewed former Luna and Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham's autobiography for The New York Times. How did that come about?
I had a really good time writing that. They approached me, and I [...]

Things I'd Rather Be Doing has an interview with Dean Wareham about Black Postcards...
I could barely play the guitar at that point, how could I be a professional musician? But then you learn and perhaps this is the lesson of punk rock that you don't have to be amazing players to cook up something beautiful. [...]

There's a lengthy interview with Dean Wareham talking about Black Postcards recorded for WNYC Soundcheck on the NPR Music website
"When Luna broke up, I finally had time to sit down and tell this story," Wareham says. "The personal stuff was more difficult — I was pushed by my editor after handing him the first draft [...]

The New Yorker's music critic Sasha Frere-Jones reviews both Black Postcards and Liz Phair's NY Times review of Black Postcards in a post on the New Yorker Online...
Wareham’s book briefly recounts his childhood—there is an excellent line about a hat he wore as a schoolboy in New Zealand—and moves on to his beginnings as a [...]

Dean Wareham is featured in the first episode of a new web TV show called Process, the five minute item features an interview and clips from Dean's recent appearance at the Book Court in Brooklyn.