Member Since: 01/03/2005
Band Members: Brendan likes to do everything.
Influences: OK, so influences is tough but strangely entertaining, as you get to hear people list the weird amalgam of popculture references that they somehow think affects their daily life. For example, I like peanut butter, pop rocks, and listening to Radiohead. How many new things did I just become? Shit, I digress- here's my amalgam:
Music:
Elliot Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Ben Harper, The Meat Puppets, Zakk Wylde, Free, Bela Bartok, Primus, Dillenger Escape Plan, Hound-Dog Taylor, Curtis Mayfield, Robert Johnson, and basically any other old badass blues players, Modest Mouse, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Dream Theater, Micheal Schenker, Robin Trower, Franz Liszt, Eric Johnson, Tortoise, Phish, Derek Trucks, Psychedelic Breakfast, Soundtribe Sector Nine, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Thelonious Monk, Steve Morse, Ten Years After, the Black Keys, Onion-Flavored Rings
Books:
Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, David Eggers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tom Robbins, Irvine Welsch, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, Roald Dahl, Kahlil Gibran, Shel Silverstein and Carl Sagan.
Especially: Sirens of Titan, Naked, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Coney Island of the Mind, Still Life With Woodpecker, Glue, Revenge of the Lawn, New Poems, Enough Rope, The BFG, The Prophet, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Contact, respectively.
Also: Ishmael, The Tao of Physics, The Tao of Pooh, GoderEscherBach, Mutant Message from Down Under, and The Brothers Karamazov.
Art:
Anything Surrealist, Man Ray and Dali, and especially the new guys who throw crazy different styles into the mix, like Alfonse Mucha. Edward Gorey... little pencil drawings, pinup art from the 40's and French ads from the turn of the century... Mmmmmm! Absinthe!
I also like any and all sarcastic, spastic lowbrow humor. Sometimes the Dumber the Better... Comics have and will always rock. Calvin and Hobbes kicks ass...
Goddamn, I need an ergonomic hand rest for this shit... I may make fun of this stuff, but I still like to be complete about it, dammit.
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