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The Collingwood

About Me

This is the OFFICIAL MYSPACE PAGE for THE COLLINGWOOD and for guitarist/filmmaker CHRISTOPHER MALINOWSKI. Chris's FILMMAKER PROFILE can be located at MYSPACE.COM/ALMSYOUSAY.
“There is an autumnal longing in The Collingwood’s music, the wistful guitars and half-buried vocals evoking long-abandoned dust-filled rooms and the last light of dusk falling on empty suburban streets.” - Shaun Brady/Philadelphia City Paper
Formed in 1999 by guitarist/filmmaker, Christopher Malinowski, The Collingwood mesh cinema-driven, minor-key melodies with elements of post-rock and progressive-soul, creating circuitous compositions, both contemplative and severe. The Collingwood is renowned for its impetuous, harshly-lit live performances, equal parts drama and ass-shake. Members live, run, and photograph in Landenberg, Pennsylvania - Newark, Delaware – and Elkton, Maryland.
RELATED BANDS are Freakshow (Delaware -1986-1990) and The Absurd (Delaware - 1992-1995).
RELATED 16-MILLIMETER FILM PROJECTS are "Metz Committed", "Son of a Fishlicker" and "'Alms,' You Say" (almsyousay.com) or (myspace.com/almsyousay).
The Collingwood's "Sylvester to the Bzz Myapp Accompaniment" C.D. is available here:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/7/2005
Band Website: ... so under construction right now...
Band Members: Malinowski... Naudain... Ackerman... Pennington
Influences: LOCATION: Cape Henlopen Seashore Park, DE... Lewes, DE... Nantucket Island, MA... Wilmington, NC (esp. Borden Avenue)... West Grove, PA (796/896 split... X-Mas '76-'77)... Townsend, DE... Welby Way, Van Nuys, CA... Sherman Oaks Galleria, Los Angeles, CA... Burbank, CA... Kennett Middle School (campus), PA... Old Saybrook, CT... and the ferry ride to Hadlyme... my carriage home and the ensuing property, Landenberg, PA...GUIDE: Elaine Greggo, Butch Malinowski, Harris Ross, John Snyder, Elizabeth Nonas, Joseph Campbell, Dan Millman, Paul Stanley, Andre Breton, Christian Metz, U.S. Anderson, Myatin...PICTURE AUTEUR: Bunuel, Altman, Allen, Sautet, Rohmer, Lynch, Baillie (esp. "All My Life"), Rudolph, Jodorowsky, Bergman, Deren, Haynes (esp. "Safe"), Egoyan, Heckerling, Rafelson, Antonioni, Coscarelli (esp. "Jim: The World's Greatest"), Lumet, Carpenter, Bogdanovich, Petrie, Leone, Brakhage, Ferrara, Argento, Soderbergh, Kieslowski, Lebute, Eastwood, Mulligan (esp. "Summer of '42"), Hartley, Nichols, Kaplan, Boorman, Friedrich (esp. "Sink or Swim"), Sayles, Coppola (esp. "The Rain People"), Anderson, Tykwer, Truffaut, Frankenheimer, B. Clark, Cronenberg...STILL: Sally Mann, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Shelby Lee Adams, William Eggleston...SKETCH/BRUSH: Edward Ruscha, Robert Motherwell, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth (The Helga Pictures)...PROSE: Oates, Carver, Gifford, Hurston, Salinger...SOUND: I love this silliness. This is where I list all of the bands, "retro" or contemporary, that musicians interviewed by Details, Blender, Alternative Press, et al claim are "smart" influences to have on a band resume... thus guaranteeing me a vast, young female fan-base, who are now more-than-enamoured with my ultra-cute, overtly-postured Collingwood 8 X 10... suck it... never gonna happen...rather... here is a list (non-comprehensive) of quintessential records by bands who have done this better than us which you could be seeking out in lieu of reading half-assed MySpace pages...Labradford "Mi Media Naranja", Cerberus Shoal "Homb", Pan American "Pan American", A Small Good Thing "Slim Westerns", The Jefferson Airplane "Crown of Creation", The Chameleons "Strange Times" and "Script of the Bridge", 16 Horsepower "Sackcloth and Ashes" and "Secret South", Gogol Bordello "Gypsy Punks", Cliff Martinez "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" Soundtrack, Current 93 "Thunder Perfect Mind", The Cars "The Cars", Cheap Trick "In Color", Fred Myrow/Malcom Seagrave "Phantasm" Soundtrack, Shudder to Think "Pony Express Record", Nick Cave "Let Love In", Supertramp "Breakfast in America", America "Hat Trick", Talk Talk "Laughing Stock", The Incredible String Band "Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air", Nina Simone "The Amazing Nina Simone/Nina Simone at Town Hall", Ova Looven "52:34", Joy Division "Closer" and "Unknown Pleasures", Elvis Costello "This Year's Model", Red Lorry Yellow Lorry "Nothing Wrong" and "Blow", Jackson C. Frank "Blues Run the Game", Afghan Whigs "Congregation", "Gentlemen", and "Black Love", Twilight Singers "Twilight As Played By the Twilight Singers" and "Blackberry Belle", Antarctica "81:03", The For Carnation "S/T", Hood "Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys", Dirty Three "Horse Stories", Bauhaus "The Sky's Gone Out", Tarantel (anything), Scorpions "Animal Magnetism", Love "Forever Changes", The Strawbs "From the Witchwood" and "Hero and Heroine", Kiss "Hotter Than Hell", Ed Tomney "Safe" Soundtrack, Jesus Lizard "Goat" and "Liar", Fields of the Nephilim "Elizium", Big Black "Songs About Fucking", Shellac "Terraform", Creedence Clearwater Revival "S/T", Tindersticks "S/T", Chet Baker "Sings", Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy", Sisters of Mercy "Reptile House E.P." and "First and Last and Always"... more later...
Sounds Like: ... a proposed score to a Bob Rafelson film or a Joyce Carol Oates novel...
Record Label: Myatin Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Collingwood interviewed by Mike Bardzik of the Daily Local in West Chester, PA

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/04/29/cc/doc49f85646 e973e251515111.txt
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:19:00 GMT

Hotel Rodney... Lewes, DE... 4/4- 4/5...

... to say nothing of her save for the mention of her exquisite poise in observation of the paper panda and the volley of lush flare, bold sea, and naked dune swimming to become her angular tenderness...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:10:00 GMT

It’s lonely at the top...

... in a really good, self-satisfying way.  Here, here.
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:15:00 GMT

RECORDING CONTINUES and CONTINUES...

... for The Collingwood's upcoming Spring c.d. release "The Pitter-Patter of Little Everything"... track listing includes... "Birthday Cut""Even the Black Lamb Tuckers""Fuck Yeah, Hollywood (Bonjour, ...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:42:00 GMT

Malinowskis Top 36 (and growing) Halloween/Autumnal Listens...

1.  "Green Manalishi" - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac2.  "Season of the Witch" - Vanilla Fudge3.  "To Be Treated" - Terry Reid4.  "I Love the Night" - Blue Oyster Cult5.  "A Sad...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:18:00 GMT

Marital Infidelity Really Ain't So Bad...

... just watch... honesty is more sound and fair... but... follow the golden path... if you're bored... move the heck forward... "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (Woody Allen - 2008)"Strangers When We Mee...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Week of 8/14 - Three Songs I Wish I Had Written

"Driver's Seat" - Sniff 'N The Tears"Magnet and Steel" - Walter Egan"Gold" - John Stewart  
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

... allow snakes...

... into it...them benign... into it...until, they wear your robe and your achievementsand polish your trophies and replace your nameto chaw to your women and fatten and gloat andlie... lie... lie in ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:07:00 GMT

Requests For Music From My Former Musical Endeavors...

I get numerous requests for copies of both Freakshow and The Absurd material.  Recently, someone made me a comprehensive c.d. featuring all of the material spanning 1986-1994.  When I find i...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:07:00 GMT

Save the best of yourself...

... for your family, your creativity, your physicality, and your select intimates.  Beyond your control, the others must wonder and wander until they are satisfied with themselves. 7/3/08  
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:54:00 GMT