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Les Invalides

About Me

Les Invalides (pronounced lays on-val-eed) are a California pseudoart collective specializing in music, literature, progressive agendas, the arts-en-plastiques and absurdity.With a constantly evolving and growing membership, Les Invalides was created by Mark Dolislager and Michael Edminster in 2006, a move that Michael would later describe as "the single worst decision of my life; I've created a monster."This page represents the music side of things. Although mostly created while at least one of the band members was completely unconscious, the music presented here is an example of the sort of pure naivetee that can come about when a group of non-musicians/art majors try to make music together.We apologize for any distress this music may cause you, and thank you for listening.

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Member Since: 03/12/2006
Band Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
Band Members: Bark Dolislager- Drum Machine, Singings, Guitars, Keys, Samples, Tambourine, Paint Gun
Daniel Rice- Guitars, Keys, Nord Lead, Bass, Rhythm, Vocals, Orange Peel, Bokononism, Pundit
Michael Edminster- Guitars, Fender Rhodes, Synths, Bass, Rhythm, Vocals, Samples, Machinedrum, Trampoline, Job Hunting, Aspiring Pundit
Rob Dudley- Guitars, Keys, Synths, Percussion, Sequencing, Job Hunting, Safety Specialist
Taylor Cavale- Drums and Percussion, Conversationalism, Sensationalism, Toothpaste Manufacturing, Job Hunting, Bicycle Calibration
Also:
ReNelle Gurnea- Vocals, extraterrestialism
Monsieur AK Erect!- Live performances, provolone factory, Inspiration Mining
Shawn Kilgore- Squeaky door, Paper Expert, Foot Cream Tester
Billy Woodhall- Laughing, inside-outednessesness
Chuck Berry, John Lennon, Paul McFartney- Inspirational song stealing, circular lawsuiting, etc, so on, blah blah blah, et cetera, such as
Influences: Kraftwerk, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Super Furry Animals, The Flaming Lips, Air, CAN, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Soft Machine, the newspaper "Le Monde," ¡No Hay Banda!, Bradley K. McBurnett, the citrus industry, Salvador Dali, Bertrand Russell, the element "polonium" (atomic 84), Jacques-Yves Cousteau, James Earle Fraser, The Zombies, Love, Belle & Sebastian, The Beach Boys, Ananda Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Andy Warhol, Chet Baker, Caribou, Manitoba, DJ Danger Mouse, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Saul Bellow, The Cast of America's Funniest Home Videos, Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, Four Tet, Beck, Black Dice, Alphonse Mucha, Jimi Hendrix, Cody Chesnutt, The Roots, Love, Animal Collective, The Velvet Underground, Donovan, The Millennium, Bob Dylan, The Rascals, Tommy James and the Shondells, Os Mutantes, Smokey Robinson, Radiohead, Harry Nilsson, Brad Thomas, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Technotronic, Queen, Charles Mingus, Electric Light Orchestra, Frank Lloyd Wright, Claude DeBussy, Dinosaur Jr., Death, Life, Dntel, Kid 606, Architecture in Helsinki, Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, Girl Talk, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, Mellow, Múm, Outer Space, The Carpenters, The Postal Service, Billie Holiday, Elliott Smith, Sun Ra, Hummingbirds, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the colors pink and red, Bjork, Paul Simon (and Garfunkel), Nina Simone, Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie, DJ Shadow, Nirvana, John Fahey, Pharrell Williams, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Ornette Coleman, Mendelssohn, the Who, Roy Harper, Neil Young, David "Rebel Jew" Berman, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Sam Cooke, Vince Guaraldi, Caetano Veloso.
Sounds Like: missed the last train to mexico, so we caught a cab. drunk on wine and high on life. tipped the cabbie, said, "Hey Boris! You're only young once! Better do it right!"-Jesse "leBrun" Rizado
Record Label: ??

My Blog

Follow up the the "What is Art?" post.

We've gotten a few responses to the bulletin I posted yesterday about "art."Although we know we run the risk of being silly "art" snobs, we'd like to post some thoughts that have occurred to us in ret...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:22:00 GMT

The Art of Art, Or, Some Stupid Philosphy

The question "What is Art" is of course overused, dull and perhaps unanswerable. Some of us artistic types have long gotten into it with some scientific and logical types about the fact that there is ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:53:00 GMT

The true meaning of Les Invalides...

Earlier today Les Invalides were questioned about the meaning of their name.The Scientist [] remarked:"Hummingbirds. Penguins. The feeling you get when a cold sore goes away. The feeling you get when ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:42:00 GMT

From the desk of Les Invalides

Message from Brain Trust Inc.:"We take this moment to officially welcome and thank you as our new myspace friends. We hope that you enjoy the terrific mediocrity and half assed attempts at musicianshi...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT