The Hotel Yorba

Remember the mystery message with the Man Ray quote?
Not so mysterious anymore. A trip to the official Stripes website revealed that our favorite rocking duo is…
…selling cameras?
LOMOs, specifically, perfect for lomography, an Austrian commercial trademark/photographing style that emphasizes spontaneous snapshots and optical tomfoolery.
Two different LOMOs are available, the Jack and Meg models respectively, and they go on sale…take a guess, Yorbites. Yes, X XV. October 15.
For those of you with formerly rich and currently dead uncles, you should know that the first 333 customers to purchase both cameras will get a mystery gift. “Golly gee!” I say with utter …read more

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A bit of cryptic quotation and enigmatic enumeration in the latest message from the White wire:
“The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.” – Man Ray
X XV MMVII
Yorbites, judging from the Roman numerals, I do believe we’ll see something spectacular in the Stripes universe on October 15. Well, Jack, we await with bated breath!

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It’s official, ladies and gentlemen. The world is on a Tokyo commuter train blazing toward the End of Times.
Let me just start by saying that all of the following is speculation and rumor. There isn’t a shred of truth to be had here today, if at all.
As we all know, the Stripes recently canceled the remaining dates on their 2007 tour (both U.S. and across the pond), citing Meg’s “acute anxiety,” which is certainly a legitimate reason for taking a break, what with the pressures of a national performance schedule and all.
But many of us are wondering whether Meg’s …read more

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Looks like rumors about our own Mr. White acting in the parody biopic Walk Hard are absolutely true.
A John C. Reilly vehicle co-written by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin), Walk Hard will feature Jack as the King himself, Elvis Presley.
But we Yorbites know this isn’t his first foray into the acting world. He appeared as Georgia in Cold Mountain and did a vignette with Meg about a Tesla coil in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes.
Here’s how the role came about, in Jack’s own words:
John C. Reilly called me up and asked if I would do it. …read more

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