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spartan jet-plex

on cluttered roads inside my mind

About Me

Time is like a prison or the bird that sets us free.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/26/2006
Band Website: ilike.com/artist/spartan+jet-plex
Band Members: nancy kells: guitars, casio, toy instruments, banjo, voice
Influences: (mine) must be anything during my life that I've enjoyed listening to (even if some of them I don't listen to much anymore): jonathan hicks, will oldham, ween, nick cave, neutral milk hotel, of montreal, radar brothers, grandaddy, fruit bats, scud mountain boys, pernice brothers, brian eno, augustus pablo, smog, cat power, circulatory system, dolly parton, willie nelson, johhny cash, the flaming lips, stars, beulah, pulsars, sparklehorse, super xx man, simian, sebadoh, isis, red sparowes, pelican, the black heart procession, my bloody valentine, carpenters, pullman, sufjan stevens, wire, yo la tengo, peter tosh, black sabbath, ozzy ozbourne, daniel johnston, new order, the the, les rita mitsouko, timewellspent, six organs of admittance, sonic youth, earth, flotation toy warning, the robot ate me, cloud cult, bright eyes, songs: ohia, jason molina, castanets, green pheasant, lansing-dreiden, joy division, bauhaus, sisters of mercy, miles davis, skinny puppy, the jesus and mary chain, the misfits, crass, fuzzbox, christian death, the housemartins, the violent femmes, siouxsie and the banshees, the smiths, the cure, sex pistols, the dead kennedys, thelonious monk, soft cell, the beatles, go-gos, the cars, the psychedelic furs, the legendary pink dots, sugarplant, aphex twin, echo and the bunnymen, david bowie, red lorry yellow lorry, the damned, tom jones, kate bush, the notwist, stereolab, a northern chorus, sigur ros, the velvet underground, tom waits, peggy lee, rosemary clooney, seefeel, guided by voices, kid dakota, pj harvey, the decemberists, blonde redhead, mew, psychic tv, black mountain, only son, midlake, fionn regan, elizabeth cotten, woody guthrie, jana hunter, devendra banhart, frere de song, the good ship, joanna newsom, colossal yes,virgin forest, emily wells, the spires, shirley collins... elizabeth cotten doing freight train on the pete seeger show
Sounds Like: My friend, Jason, makes awesome short films. He used my song "take me down" in this one:Check him out at www.benderfilms.com or www.myspace.com/benderfilms
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My Blog

the rush in the trees & the air

lyrics to two new songs:the rush in the treesthe rush in the treesblows bythe purple bleedsblue twilightthe kissed skysettles my kneescontentednessthe birds in my dreamssweet sorrowshe saddles meon em...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:53:00 PST

Optimism For Me

"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimis...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Thu, 29 May 2008 04:03:00 PST

I’ll Miss You by Ween

I'll Miss you by WeenIt could rain for a thousand daysOr something I don't knowLook to the sun and we're having funBeside the river flowYou're doing this and you're doing thatWorkin' all the timeTonig...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:21:00 PST

No Coward Soul Is Mine

No Coward Soul Is MineBy Emily BronteNo coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere!I see Heaven's glories shine,And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.O God within my br...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Sat, 10 May 2008 07:26:00 PST

some poems/lyrics

I've been playing some older songs of mine that I've been reworking... hopefully for the better.  I think there seems to be a spiritual theme going on in them.   All of these poems are ...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:59:00 PST

Does One Vote Really Matter?

I am posting this from CA NOW’s Spring 2008 newsletter. They got this information from www.ss.ca.gov.Consider the following while you are deciding if you have time to vote or if you think the s...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:37:00 PST

you are my light (lyrics)

you are my lightwith each step you softly plant a print inside of meyou are my light, gently guiding meand when you walk, the fires burn far more brightlyyou are my light, gently beside methe sky abov...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:43:00 PST

lyrics to dialogue by jackson c frank

Thanks to my good friend, Jon, I have these lyrics.  I love this song, and I couldn't figure out what some of the lyrics were...so here they are:I want to be aloneI need to touch each stoneFace t...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:00:00 PST

Am I a pietistical atheist?

Here is, in my opinion, an amazing excerpt from the short book that I am reading, Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, written in 1880:    "There is no God, and man is his prophet," repl...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:33:00 PST

lyrics to apart (part 1 and 2)

A awhile back I wrote a song called apart, and I just recently wrote another song that I'm calling apart (part 2):part 1:I live in the sky And you live on the groundAnd we just can't seem to be.Even i...
Posted by spartan jet-plex on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:26:00 PST