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About Me

"T: That’s a common theme among alcoholics.M: I wouldn’t know. I’m not an alcoholic.T: Oh? What would you consider yourself?M: Not an alcoholic. More like an escapist. I drink to simulate travel."(excerpt from "Pressurized Heated Water Chamber")

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/10/2006
Band Website: www.thesecondperson.com
Band Members: Matt McClure, Joe Piche, Joel Segerstedt
Influences: Wilco, Big Star, Silver Jews, Television, Sparklehorse, Phil Hendrie, GBV, Paul McCartney's Beatles, Neutral Gina, Pavement, Lou Reed/VU, Neutral Milk Hotel, Light-O, Neil Young, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Richard Brautigan, Elvis Costello, Kenneth Patchen, the Wrens, Destroyer, Pixies, Replacements, Led Zeppelin, Bill Binzen, Gordon Matta-Clark, The Open Up and Bleeds, Kim Deal, The Amps, "The You and That Tree; Losing Needles by the Thousands Players", Joel Segerstedt, James Tate, Charles Simic
Sounds Like: "A Verbatim Recital of Herbert Hoover's 1929 Presidential Acceptance Speech."
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

"The Second Person" Album Release and New Tracks

Friends!It sure took long enough, but the Red Kitchen album "The Second Person" is now available for your elective consumption.  I was hoping that it would be up on iTunes by now, but from our home ba...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:17:00 GMT

"Implied Sunsets" Lyrics

.............. .. Implied Sunsets: If Im the Second Person, the Second Person, Then Im probably not even here. Its just static in the attic, The unphotographable new river flowing th...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:34:00 GMT

New Red Kitchen "Poetry" blog

Hello friends,I've started a new blog with poetry and other episodes associated with the upcoming Red Kitchen album, "The Second Person".  You can view it here:http://thesecondperson.blogspot.com...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:20:00 GMT

With Our Apologies...

With Our Apologies:....Its very late and he cant sleep because his new friend is standing outside his hotel door loudly describing to him what chocolate tastes like.His pleas of 'I know. I've had it...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:06:00 GMT

"Triskaidekaphobia"

'Triskaidekaphobia'I was thirteen when I met you,Look at me now, look at me knowWaiting for the patient to finally make it homeWith anything from Xanax or in the best case, Methadone.But when will y...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:52:00 GMT

Lemons vs. Baseballs

In front of a supermarket in another country altogether,a careless woman puts her car in reverse without lookingand hits a man just out of the exit toting two bags of fruit.He screams some...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:52:00 GMT

Collected Episodes for "The Second Person"

Preemptive FlossingOne day, seemingly as an act of kindness from the beyond;He awakes 40 years earlier with all of his teeth intact.And since he doesn't have any children yetHe hasn't started that awf...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:07:00 GMT

New Song: Right Subject, Wrong Day

Hello there friends,There is a new Red Kitchen song posted and below are the lyrics and more backstory.  This song was recorded and performed almost exclusively by the unfairly talented Jonathan ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:48:00 GMT

The Return of Continuity

The Return of Continuity If he was at all familiar with the tactics unfairly utilized in the editing of Modern American Reality Television Programming, it would have been a lot less unsettlin...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:56:00 GMT

Three Men Enter a Café In Reverse

Three Men Enter a Café In Reverse....If he hadn't been staring out the window, at a dog that isn't even there yet, he would have noticed that the last three men to enter the cafe did so in reverse, l...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 13:07:00 GMT