Member Since: 9/4/2006
Band Website: wayfarergallery.net
Band Members: I don't have a fixed band. My wife Robyn Kenealy and good friend Dean Brown frequently appear on my recordings. I also play in free-noise/improv group Nova Scotia with Rick Jensen and Dean and as The True Believers with Jaime Mellor (when we are in the same country), as The Insatiable Opium Cowboys (with members of The Shambolics) and I have played from time to time in the free-jazz group led by Rick Jensen. Mostly I play solo and with Robyn, who also authors the fantastic Roddy's Film Companion, a comic-biography of actor Roddy McDowall, famous for his role of Cornelius in Planet of the Apes.
Influences:
Notes:This is in constant revision. Nothing gets taken off but things are being added all the time (the world is a thankfully art-filled place). I have included influences from all over my past and present, hopefully without distinction. Everything listed I still consider an "influence" but I may not engage with it regularly anymore (how many times do I need to re-watch The Breakfast Club to know that I still like it? How could I not like it?). I started the list using a lot of what I was listening to (or looking at) at the time and I am always looking at something new eventually. I don't forget what I like but I am a sucker for that "bliss" which the totally new (to me) can offer, what Roland Barthes calls "jouissance."
Musicians:The 3ds, Bartok, Beat Happening, Beethoven, Black Sabbath, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Boss Christ, The Clean, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Tony Conrad, The Dead C, The Delphonics, Dirty Three, Arthur Doyle, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, John Fahey, Alistair Galbraith, Gastr del Sol, David Grubbs, Woody Guthrie, Handful of Dust, Emmy Lou Harris, Jeff Henderson, Billie Holiday, Lightnin' Hopkins, Human Instinct, Mississippi John Hurt, Wanda Jackson, Rick Jensen, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Robyn Kenealy, Alan Licht, Jaime Mellor, Anton L'Etranger, Little Skull, Modern Lovers, Willie Nelson, Nirvana, Will Oldham and Palace, Pixies, Alasdair Roberts, Pharaoh Sanders, Voodoo T. Savage, Bruce Springsteen, Songs Ohia, Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, Tape Man, Uncle Tupelo, The Terminals, The Unknown Rockstar, Townes Van Zandt, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Gillian Welch, Hank Williams, Warren Zevon...
Television:Buffy the Vampire Slayer, M*A*S*H, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, The Office, Shortland Street, Alan Partridge, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks, Trailor Park Boys, The Larry Sanders Show, Blakes 7, Angel (season 4 and 5 especially), Dr. Who (especially the new ones - wow!). Have been half-enjoying Heros recently. NOTE: I love TV as a formal thing. I love the "connection" it has to multiplicity and consciousness. I watch a shit load of TV but I don't quantitatively "like" much of whats on. I like images - perception, affect and action, impulse, movement, time and space. Cinema, and in particular TV, is the metaphysical-imaginary. I like what it says (or doesn't say) about the world through the mental reflexivity of the screen.
Film Authors:Jordon Belson, Stan Brakhage, Robert Bresson, Nick Broomfield, Andy Chappell, Jean Luc Goddard, Alex Greenhough, John Hughes, Jores Ivens, Elric Kane, Stanley Kubric, Len Lye, David Lynch, Marie Menken, Joanna Margaret Paul, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, Planet of the Apes, Michael Snow, Ralph Steiner, Campell Walker, John and James Whitney, Tim Wyborn
Plastic Arts:Hamish Clayton, Marcel Duchamp, Barnett Newman, Rick Jensen, Michelle Jensen, Donald Judd, Alex Greenhough, Paul Klee, Tim Wyborn, Hamish Clayton, Mark Whyte, Smiley, Mark Rothko, J.M. Turner, James Turrell, Leonardo da Vinci
Comic Authors: Robyn Kenealy, Robert Crumb, Tim Bollinger, D.Raw, GCR, Seth, Joe Matt, Peter Bagge, Chester Brown, Shakey Mo, Sam Killeen-Chance, Jarred Lane, Brent Willis, Moniek Whyte, Stefan Neville and Clayton Noone, Charles Schultz, George Herriman
Writers:Isaac Asimov, Sam Beckett, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, Raymond Chandler, Jean Cocteau, Philip K Dick, James Elroy, John Fante, Allain Robbe-Grillet, Dashiell Hammett, Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, Chester Himes, Yasunari Kawabata, Louis L'Amour, Elmore Leonard, A.A. Milne, Anais Nin, P.D. Ouspensky, Harold Pinter, Jean-Paul Sartre, Natsume Soseki, Philip Pullman, J.D. Salinger, Dr. Seuss, Charles Willeford, William Carlos Williams
Philosophy:Aristotle, Roland Barthes, Andre Bazin, Henri Bergson, George Berkeley, Gilles Deleuze, J.W. Dunne, Albert Einstein, Michel Foucault, George Hegel, Martin Heidegger, David Hume, Edmund Husserl, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Arthur Koestler, Gottfriend Leibniz, Lucretius, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Sanders Peirce, Plato, Jean Paul Sartre, Socrates (through Plato et al.), Vivian Sobchack, Immanuel Velikovsky, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilhelm Worringer
And then...:and so on... expand in all directions
Record Label: Wayfarer Recordings
Type of Label: None