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About Me

I am weary draining old and all alone nothing
I am traveling song tattered american drivel
father mother son strangling the sun
tangled air soil without a name
the stuff dreams are made of
I am damaged stardust novocain coffee
terrorist jamboree weeping wilted what I am
Ain't what I ain't
despite popular belief meaning can't be quantified. Though you may hold me accountable; I will not be accounted for.
I'll never have much to count on account of I tend to pursue that which i cant do. I tend to find something else to do as soon as I start getting good at what I had been doing. Somethin to do with an inherent penchant for self sabotage, I suppose.
And I hate working on somethin I don't believe in. That's why I bartend, I think: cuz I believe in public intox. And dancing girls. I definitely believe in dancing girls.
I also believe that each and every one of us is entitled to have a good time without spending any money, save tipping.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/23/2007
Band Members: Just Me.
Single
Cancer
26 yrs old
From Cleveland, OH
Influences: Tom Waits, Both Guthries, Dylan, Sonny Boy Williamson one and two, Willie, Tommy Makem, the Clancy's too, David Lynch, Leadbelly, Charlie Chaplin, Miles, Andy Warhol, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Vonnegut, John Lee Hooker, Van Gogh, James Dean, The Doors, Guy Davis, Hank Williams, Odetta, Steve and Kathy Kelly, Cash, Velvet Underground, The Beatles (except Paul), Leonard Cohen, Arthur Crudup, Nina Simone, Elvis (the one with the glasses), Robert Johnson, David Bowie, Daniel Johnston, Leon (Redbone And Russel), Devandra Banhart, Muddy Waters, Robert Lockwood Jr., E.E. Cummings, Bruce Weigl, The Chieftains,
Sounds Like: someone who can't usually find his keys or his cigarettes, sometimes forgets names and betrayals but never forgets a soul, falls in love often and hard, drinks a lot of coffee to keep going and alcohol to stay down, skips meals unintentionally, eats meat because it's there, and tends to move forward easily from that which he thought he'd never survive. and a little like a drowning cat.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

the thing I like about whiskey

Accompanied by your absence I almost had a chat with a flask of whiskeyI thought about all the things I would say To it and all the things it would say to me In thinking about all the things we'd say...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:41:00 PST

TV ad: Bush-McCain Challenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUBDM16ylvU ...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:03:00 PST

The Border Collies

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Posted by Brendan Kelly on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:52:00 PST

paradise bound (for melissa)

when the sea is still and the breeze has quitand the sun is burning out my willmy love's sweet breath is a gust of windand though the waves poundshe sends me home calls me back again ...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:57:00 PST

Baby, You (for Melissa)

I don't know what drives my car; I don't know what a cyllinder is.I don't know why history's marred; I don't know what Dillinger did,But, Baby, maybe I know you. I can't understand why 2 and 2 is...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:03:00 PST

Hesitation Blues

The playboy with the punchy eyes coos and crows with untied shoes.He pretends he's alone when she cries.Drunken Drew can't find the frets, it tickles him that she's upset.I'm all out of bills; can I b...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:12:00 PST

At the Botanical Gardens My Love Turns

Following the leaf-shaped projectionScreen, your camera slung low,Strap crossing your breast, arms out and up embracingThe ridiculous digital film on urban gardening,Revolving on your toes like a loca...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:45:00 PST

the greatest show ever

Posted by Brendan Kelly on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:39:00 PST

This place aint big enough for the three of me

The system needs to be flushed. No, really. Listen to me. I know what I'm talking about. I'm swimming in a festering poisonous slop bucket of cancerous civility. today is gone and yesterday is gainin...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:53:00 PST

Americans are so self involved we even took u out of our colors and humor

I don't know what she saw in me (I never knew what anyone ever saw in me). I leaned on a skateboard with too much goop on unrelenting hair and too much shirt around unimposing frame. We talked for hou...
Posted by Brendan Kelly on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:24:00 PST