Member Since: 2/10/2007
Band Members: Brett Thompson, if that's his real name.
Influences: Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Michael Hedges, Paco de Lucia, Jean Luc Godard, Jack Kerouac, Jack Daniels, Jack Nicolson, Wolf Parade, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Marissa Nadler, Allen Ginsberg (seriously sit down on a warm park bench alone in the summer and read Kaddish and you will laugh and cry and emerge in ecstasy and the geese will stare at you in wonder), Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman (and delicious Dogfish Head Gonzo Smoked Porter), Catch-22, Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, Cat People (a terrible movie with psychotic incestuous Malcolm McDowell and sexy boyish Nasstassia Kinski--daughter of great german actor Klaus Kinski of Aguirre: Der Zorn der Gottes) Werner Herzog, Julien Donkey Boy, Van Gogh, Frank O'hara, Anne Waldmann, birds, especially crows, manatees and elephants, dreams, visions, hallucinations, Buster Keaton, James Ensor. The Best book ever: A Confederacy of Dunces. Dali. Swansea. Dylan Thomas. Tim Burton. Laughter. Sunny Day Realestate. Magnolia Electric Co. Bowie.
Sounds Like: Dark road shovels. A judge pounding the apocolyptic gavel. Dylan Thomas banging his melodica. Slap happy crater mongers. Wild eyed dog vomit. Burrito lullabies.
Record Label: Pigfoot Records
Type of Label: Indie