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jeff stiles

About Me

i have a two pronged assault devised on the music business. i write a catchy tune but, being that i'm not exactly blessed in the buttery voice category, i'd like to write for established artists. i novelty write stuff that is edgy, satirical and darkly humourous. i'd like an artist after such a tune to give me a chance. on the other hand, i have a high energy live set that features my tunes and re-worked, somewhat unrecognizable covers ( SEE 'in the ghetto' - if you've heard it, you'll know what i'm saying). i lean towards a punk-pop style live that if just fun, lively and frenetic. i love to mix it up between songs with banter that is sometimes caustic, provocative and just plain silly. i know my stuff live isnt exactly radio friendly but i always get people commenting on how much they liked my set and how a song's lyrics touched/inspired/ agitated them in someway or how much i reminded them of someone else who is off the beaten path. i think the stuff i write with other artists in mind is more radio friendly and the stuff i write for me is a guilty pleasure to be enjoyed by a live audience of indie music fans. i think way too much...i think. i cant turn it off. is it a curse or a gift? i'll let them decide and they know who they are! oh, yes they do!! .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/09/2006
Band Members: just me i am too anti-social to have bandmates. i used to frown on the band-in-a-can thing but really, how many drum samples have ever shown up late, drunk or at all for practice? hmmm?
Influences: every sensory stimulation i have ever had in my life including, but not exclusive to, tom waits, wilco, ryan adams, led zeppelin, abba, kiss, chopin, rush, stephen sondheim, the rolling stones, frank sinatra, pink floyd, the sweet, the cure, ac/dc, madonna, badfinger, duran duran, wings, joseph arthur, ass ponys, the beatles, uncle tupelo, all bands that start with 'the', all bands that are named after someone in the band or a city, any band that's name ends with 'band', any band having the conjuctive phrase 'and the' in its name, any band that feels a need to designate its guitarists as either rhythm or lead, any and all bands that lists the singers instrument as "vox', all bands that are an acronym, all bands that use a 'z' instead of an 's' to pluralize, all bands thats names are intentionally misspelled, any band thats name ends with an apostrophy d and kajagoogoo.
Sounds Like: i have been told i make bob dylan sound like pavarotti, hence, i try to make the music and lyrics as interesting as possible.
Record Label: unsigned.sign me. i'm 40. i'll be anyone's bitch.

My Blog

very budget movie making

here's my first attempt using windows movie maker  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCpPZiRnGDI
Posted by on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:21:00 GMT

sobriety and nothing else

normally, one would attribute memory loss, et al, to drinking and other artificial forms of social laxitivity but i have not drank since july and i can't, on a regular basis, tell what day it is....
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:17:00 GMT

after some, but not much, consideration....

...i have decided to reload 'tommy'. i have many close observations with both pleasure and problem gamblers. problem gamblers are a strange ilk. all the scenarios in the song are true. the two poems t...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:44:00 GMT

west is best...at being wrong

watch this, too. great slap in the face to western 'morality'. it suggests that love is only OK when society deems it to be within acceptable parameters yet card carrying 'adults' can fuck up, ch...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:44:00 GMT

great fun with brain candy

this movie is a thinker. it is slow moving with little or no rising and falling action but with a huge metaphysical payoff for anyone who can exist outside of the hollywood ending box. stuff like this...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:36:00 GMT

cyberlove

what is it with facebook, yet another new dimension of "networking". why search for a new way to get your heart broken? no need to comb endlessly through cyberspace for that. i'm sure t...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:36:00 GMT

how many mid life crises can one expect?

i went to the bluesfest thursday or should i say the cougar fest. i walked there thinking like a fatalist all the way there. too much wine. no excuse just a play by play comment. when i got there i st...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:34:00 GMT

Dategrape for dec 06

  Before we start, class, perhaps we shall review, hmmm? Last year was a smear, a bug on the windshield, a tiny ball of lint nestled in the sweaty fault of my tookus. As memorable as a 4am piss ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:10:00 GMT

downtown duet

Apartment overlooking Ouellette ave.   My face is lit by computer light But the room is otherwise dark I see the letters on the screen But will I ever make my mark My anger fingers spit out Thei...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:56:00 GMT

3 pm tues-sun

Swing Shift   And they wave American $20 dollar bills at you and some say 'change' like it's a two syllable word and fifty becomes fiddy and I'm sorry, I don't speak American and I'm not a chang...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:53:00 GMT