Member Since: 9/23/2006
Band Website: none. dont press this.
Band Members: mary love. guitar, lyrics, my voicebox (bare with me there, you can milk it for the lyrics and ideas. ive provided both in the player) i also play drums, piano, bass, harmonica, but have yet to adventure to mix and record.
honestly i just enjoy doing pointless musical activities with future hopes of doing more pointless musical activities.
Influences: DIY ethic, andre breton, karl marx, various eastern religious philosophy and isms galore. ummm....humanity. my nature and nurture. caffeine. nicotine. sporatic bouts of vegatarianism. sleep deprivation and sleep binging. jack kerouac, allen ginsberg, bukowski, edna st vincent millay, carson mccullers. beautiful no bodies. the thoughtful ignored, faggots and fagettes and other free feeling deviants, people with good tastes in music, people who know without knowing they know. absurdist conversation. triple x rated philosophies in theory. general concepts such as authenticity, truth, equality and jovial bullshitting. musically-beat happening,deerhoof, husker du, syd barrett, the violent femmes, cadallaca, m. ward, link wray, family tree analog, diane cluck, hergeto, heros and heroines, joanna newsom, devendra banhart,the fugs, beck, angry samoans, buzzcocks, sub humans, peggy lee, karlheinz stockhausen, ebba gron, my bloody valentine, the dirty three, maddness, the specials, mazzy star, edie brickell and the new bohemians, air, kurt weill, gg allin, madeline pereaux, captain beefheart, cocorosie, the vaurakers, flux of pink indians, echo and the bunnymen, amy winehouse, canned heat, bjork, bessie smith, aus rotten, rudimentary peni, smog, massive attack, kaki king, lcd sound system, blonde redhead, autolux, the walkmen, sigur ros, the concretes, the moldy peaches, moby grape, vincent gallo, yo la tengo, primus, philip glass, horror pops, herbie hancock, aesop rock, fiona apple, al green, cock sparrer, stereolab, fugazi, horror pops, john fruciante, bonnie rait, RZA, the disposable heros of hiphopracy, the verve, cream, crass, creedence clearwater revival, vincent gallo, the plasmatics, charles mingus, thelonious monk, erik satie, radiohead, r.e.m., the dresden dolls, david bowie,dharma bums, iggy pop, tom waits, berlin, kimya dawson, the smiths (mostly johnny marr)reverend horton heat, sex pistols, siouxsie and the banchees, smashing pumpkins, sonic youth, the damned, the wipers, woody guthrie,the modern lovers, katzen jammer kabarett, jimi hendrix, the grateful dead, immortal technique, nick drake, elizabeth cotton, shellac, bad brains, john coltrane, the pogues, melt banana, the dillinger escape plan, tommy james and the shondells, sleater kinney and some more i cant think of right now. my favorite labels are-kill rock stars, matador, geffen, sub pop, columbia (they got the classics, man. good stuff)and some stuff off of electra. (i.e. pixies and the doors, especially)
genres such as punk, post punk, new weird america, no wave, experimental, indie, lo fi, cabaret, spoken word, twee pop, shoe gaze, hells. if it has soul...um. im actually probably influenced by a lot of other variables, too. over all nature and nurture, i guess. genes and environment. oh. im a nerd, so im influenced by isms galore.
Sounds Like: an atrophied voice with a honkey guitar. sounds a lot like ideas. sounds like an involuntary reaction. sounds like one person trying to find out how to play her own heartstrings. sounds like evolution in progress. sounds like and electric record of acoustic songs. sounds like yourself in the process of listening. sounds like 12 strings on a guitar. sounds like emily dickenson stripped of talent back to tabula rasa and reincarnated into a 21st century 18 turning 19 turning ancient year old.
but. honestly.
im here to waste youre time. hopefully in an enjoyable way. maybe even a little enlightening. i hope im at least better than tv. .
im also in spiral shadows, chronic melancholy, and have an alter ego called beat alice, all of which are in my friends list.
Record Label: unsigned.
Type of Label: None