Posted by
Kyle McInnes
• 07.18.08 06:42 pm

As a special birthday gesture, I called around the McInnes family tree (which isn’t really a tree, more like a twig) to ask them to say a little “Happy Birthday Gavin.”

A portrait Gavin painted of our family back in 1995. Used to say “Merry Christmas” but I ruined it with a shitty photoshop.

As a special birthday gesture, I called around the McInnes family tree (which isn’t really a tree, more like a twig) to ask them to say a little “Happy Birthday Gavin.”

The first phone call was our mom. She forgot. After that I called our Gran. She also forgot but that’s okay because she is 91 and the sweetest woman in the world.

Here is the conversation.

Then it was time to call my dad who sounds like a British fag but is actually a hooligan who still gets into bar fights. He gave a really interesting account of why Gavin was born in the month of July which pissed off our mom.

Here is the audio.

  1. NO MORE CRAPPY BIRTHDAY
  2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAWG!
  3. THE STROKES FAMILY GETS ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM THE TAPE RECORDER.
  4. OHHH CANADUUUHHHH


Comments
  1. WORLD WAR DREW says:

    Gavin looks like a crosseyed Tom Green.

  2. Double Blumpkin says:

    (INSERT SPAM HERE)

  3. Double Blumpkin says:

    Kyle McInnes seems a lot nicer and cooler than Gavin.

  4. tokahontas says:

    i really liked this. i have talked to your parents on the phone i think more times than i’ve talked to you.

  5. tokahontas says:

    oh yeah happy birthday to gavin too, I GUESS.

  6. Moooles says:

    could you be any more into your own assholes?
    seriously

  7. small town girl says:

    Happy Birthday Gavin!

  8. rick johnson rock and roll machine lyrics says:

    Happy Birthday…
    It’s your Birthday…
    I’m so glad that you were BOOORRRNNNNN

  9. brambilla says:

    the accents are a humorous touch.

  10. mathieu says:

    happy bidet gros gavin des bois

  11. Kath says:

    Happy old

  12. Gavin says:

    There are two theories going for our dad’s faggy, pompous accent.
    1- HIS SONS’ THEORY
    He is obsessed with denying his working class roots and wants to come across, not as a brawling barfly from the Gorbals, but as a posh aristocrat from North London.

    2- HIS THEORY
    Nobody understands a Glaswegian accent so he was forced to over enunciate every word. This careful way of speaking just so happens to sound English and gay.

    Whatever the reason is, we know the Glesca ‘ard man lurks within because every time he talks in his sleep we hear, “Ah’ll fuckin’ ba’er you, so ah wull! You’re a wee shite of a man, so ya are.”

  13. Kyle says:

    http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2780904500047537350GEZDGc

    “The best thing about Glasgow? You never get homesick.”
    -Jimmy McInnes

  14. raymi says:

    happy birthday that chat is so cute