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Grimes, just grimes

I'd go out more if my dialogue wasn't messed up

About Me

Music is good. It's sounds really cheesy to say it's "your life". Also no I don't want to take on putting together any more shows for quite a while. Money corrupts art.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/10/2006
Band Website: The days before Rupert Space existed
Band Members: Grimes-guitars, basses, keyboards, drums, vox, and more.
Influences: Here's some music I hold in high regard, notice it's all quite good, so maybe you should discover it for yourself: King Crimson/Fripp/Belew/a gazillion more related projects, Brainiac/Enon, Shudder to Think, Failure/Autolux, EELS(especially electro-shock blues), The Kinks, Robyn Hitchcock,Helmet, Yes, DRIVE LIKE JEHU, WIRE, Today is the Day, David Bowie, LOVE, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Unwound, Rhythm of Black Lines, The Pixies, Camper Van Beethoven, Nektar, Television, Soundgarden, Gentle Giant, The Who, The Clash, Sonic Youth, Navies, Ten-ton/Binges, Genesis/Hackett/Gabriel, Meat Puppets/Curt Kirkwood, Bicycle Day, ICARUS SYNDROME, Veterans of Flight, DEMONS, The Metroids, The Variable Why, Handmedown Satellites, Della Drive, E, Mayflower, Shuffleplay and the Mutations, Things Falling Apart, Reckless Triumphant, Carpet Munchers, HWP, Mike Taylor, Coin Operated, E=MC Hammer, This Specific Dream, Zebras, Kitty Rhombus, The United Sons of Toil, Colony of Watts, Make A Rising, Capillary Action, Queens of the Stone Age/Desert Sessions, Jimi Hendrix Experience/Band of Gypsys/Buddy Miles, MY WAY MY LOVE, Transformer Lootbag/His and Her Vanities, Fromanhole, System and Station, Kieskagato, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/Book of Knots/Carla Kihlstedt/lots more things by these people, and about a lot more random bands, friends, musics Grimes forgot.
Sounds Like: Schizophrenia in sound form.
Record Label: Not ment for mass consumption
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

sometimes...

Things aren't so clear cut and you don't know if you're doing the right thing. I'm looking forward to laying a bit lower here soon. I'm kind of considering pursuing having my own venue. However wor...
Posted by Grimes, just grimes on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:55:00 PST

Well...

Updates galore. I'm going to start(get back to is more the way to put it, as I've still got a lot of songs and more ideas now) working on some solo things, as trying to keep a band going in this town...
Posted by Grimes, just grimes on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:51:00 PST

Power

is the ability to get things done. To think with your heart as well as your mind.  You are the universe, if only you could do more than talk about it. 
Posted by Grimes, just grimes on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:19:00 PST

Onion AV Club GRIMES FEST Blip

This is what was written about Grimes Fest in the Onion AV Club Madison edition, it even got an AV pick. Much thanks to Scott Gordon for doing more than any other Madison writer with writing about ac...
Posted by Grimes, just grimes on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:16:00 PST

Grimes Fest 2008, thanks!

Well Nottingham Co-op makes for some interesting shows. As is noted by everyone, the setting is awesome. Getting people to come out is often hard, with bad parking, being in frat row, and being on t...
Posted by Grimes, just grimes on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:34:00 PST