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Garrison

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About Me

I like free trade, free jazz, and freebasing.

My Interests

Shows in basements, shows in yr bathroom, shows in yr closet, shows under the bridge in the dumpster, archaic sound mediums, traveling/backpacking, chocolate, thrift stores, garage sales, pinball, my friggin' bike. Yo, and making mix-tapes so get in touch if you wanna trade, ya heard?

Music:

13th Floor Elevators, AIDS Wolf, Animal Collective, Arab on Radar, Syd Barret, Beat Happening, Birthday Party, Black Eyes, Boredoms, Captain Beefheart, James Brown, Caroliner, Johnny Cash, James Chance & the Contortions, Deerhoof, Gene Defcon, Dynasty, (early) Brian Eno, Exuma, the Feelies, First Nation, the Fugs, Gang Gang Dance, Get Hustle, God is my Co-Pilot, (early) Half Japanese, Holy Modal Rounders, Howlin' Wolf, Inca Eyeball, the Intelligence, Daniel Johnston, Fred Lane, Man Man, Charles Manson, Melt Banana, My Name is Rar Rar, the Need, Negativland, Old Time Relijun, Panda Bear, Parliament, Harry Partch, Ariel Pink, Rapider than Horsepower, the Ray Pacino Ensemble, Red Crayola, Renaldo and the Loaf, Residents, Shaggs, Skarekrau Radio, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Stickmen, Stooges, Suicide, Sun City Girls, Sun Ra, Tom Waits, U.S. Maple, Hank Williams, Wind Swept Planes, (early) XBXRX

Books:

1984, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Breakfast of Champions, Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, hecka more

My Blog

Everyone reading this: be in a band with me.

Okay, so I wast to be in a bunch of music projects this summer. Most of my shet is at homie Chad's house and stays there, I do have these: a badass broken toy guitar with nylon strings made from some ...
Posted by Garrison on Sun, 20 May 2007 04:11:00 PST

!!!!!!!!!Summmmmer, bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, it feels pretty good. Though I learned a lot in my picking up and putting down cardboard, I felt it was time to leave the whole "work" thing behind fr a while and enjoy the impending summer seas...
Posted by Garrison on Sun, 20 May 2007 04:01:00 PST

Kurt vonnegut was Kurt vonnegut.

Died at age 84. shit. If I was Kurt Vonnegut right now I would type up an amazing eulogy and you would hang on every word, but I'm not a living legend and neither is he... :( The first chapter of Time...
Posted by Garrison on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:29:00 PST

Thank you, Oprah, for pulling my life from the muck. Let's band together.

So to anyone who has posted an Oprah pic on my page: Thanks. And keep 'em comin'.And those who haven't, it's not too late. It's never too late to pepper my life with the Ope. That's right, I called he...
Posted by Garrison on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:39:00 PST

C + C Muzak Factory

Crap, you guys. I think the gregarious me is gonna take a winter vacation. I feel friggin' sadness comin' like H-E-C-K. Last Winter wasn't that bad compared to past ones, but I was unemployed and my d...
Posted by Garrison on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:44:00 PST

Bike Talk with Leroy.

Crap, dudes. So my bike has been out of commision and I took it to the bike shop to see what they could do. I have suddenly realized that owning a bike with a seriously complex/specialty-type internal...
Posted by Garrison on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:41:00 PST

Car chase and the Saturday hot rock.

So.... 3 o'clock this friggin' morning, I happen to be awake. Layin' there. Chillin'. I hear police sirens. No big deal. Then GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMM!!!!!!...
Posted by Garrison on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:02:00 PST

Un Otra Roadside Attraction.

So I just started reading "Another Roadside Attraction" today, and haven't gotten that far, but, golly, I just remembered why I liked Tom Robbins so effing much. From the first page I felt like I was ...
Posted by Garrison on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:38:00 PST

This is the summer of pregnant babies.

This is the summer of pregnant babies. Charles Manson told me from his cell once long ago about the #9 and we listened for it in Revolution #9 over and over again and also the number 9 upside down is ...
Posted by Garrison on Fri, 26 May 2006 03:28:00 PST

My coming summer as a red Squirrel, and other fables that are true.

Just played an afternoon set with th' dudes earlier. The jam session was awesome. There was a fucked-up dance jam with shout-outs. There was banging on drums. There was some delay put on some instrume...
Posted by Garrison on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:48:00 PST