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Battle Tapes

wars and tornados are taking our loved ones

About Me

i hear things.
i (usually) know what i want, even if i can't have it right then. (except food because it is of no interest to me beyond sustaining my mind shell)
you'll get it someday.
psychic technology could be in our hands! i prefer the song to the street. all you internets are CRAZY LIARS who INVENTED the raft but may have made it out of rocks. my favorite color is green. i also like navy blue.
i need a vacation. bad. inquire with suggestions at your own leisure.
i think i may be completely losing my shit but i'm not sure i really even care anymore.
i want to be air, and compression, and expansion, and i want to be electricity. i don't know why but i know why it should. we are all the same (literally). the fabric of space and time has enveloped me in its filthy clutches for 30 years now. help me find the wormholes? which life? this: freeze motherfucker! FBI! i wish i was a drummer. i am (mostly) only interested in space and/or time travel. i invented the salad. also, holy crap, i'm the fantastic, legendary genius. You have unleashed the fury. i also record music for a living and have a studio called battle tapes recording and make those sounds go "pretty!" and "angry!". i am funnier than most people you know and probably do other things better as well. sick sometimes. allergies. a man's body, i can almost beard it now. lalalalosloslosLOS.
i want to be buried in outer space.
fucking fuck fuckfuckfuckfuck fucking fuck fuck fuck. fuck. seriously.
*bands, i have disabled friend requests from bands. it was a big time turnoff for me. if you know me or i know you and you know, you know, gimme a letter in the mail and self addressed stamped envelope and i'll send it back to you.

My Interests

black magic, the parties of the mind, particle acceleration, radiation deflection, astral projection, space colonization, paradoxes, pain-free livin', hot dogs (beef), old people (not driving but still being alive), being awesome, bacon, laughing, making others laugh, music (recording and playing(?)), space stuff, turkey, fred tomaselli, shitty tv, sleeping, humor, women with knives, and knives that read minds, darkness and pain (the fun kinds). making the sort of record that you will want to listen to for a long time or that makes you remember listening to records and being taken somewhere that isn't the mall or a fucking video game commercial.

I'd like to meet:

psychonauts. ghosts. people smarter than me. the human originator. the keeper of blood. oh, and retards! i love retards! is heroin a person? if so; him (or her).
serial killers who would not want to kill me or make me feel too weird.
brain erasers (not like the ones in the movies, the real ones who can just flip a switch and poof that shit.
people that will absolutely blow my mind. (though, be warned, it's not an easy one...)
someone who can explain shit to me when we're on the soil of some distant planet and i can't figure out where to get a slice of pizza or a good hot dog.
air conditioned clothes for the tennessee summer heat.
people who like shitty horror from time to time. or people who like to watch movies (who the hell does that??).
i would like to meet the best songs ever. the ultimate truth kind... i will massage them and treat them nice.
people who want to give me money to make their records sound good. people who want to give me their money to make their songs better than they were previously. people who want to give me their money for my blood.
i cut my shin. i cut my thumb. i cut my brain.
a little understanding.
the perfect opposite to me.
a witchdoctor/shaman/medicine man who can help me figure it out.
whores what makes hell's fire light the sky during the day! o! helios, you enchantress!
i DO NOT want to meet: +trade secret violators! +chainsaws currently throttling. +people/animals in clown makeup +politicians +bummers

Music:

bob dylan, the beatles, the band, the beach boys, brian wilson, wilco, mr matt moody (hands down eugene), nina simone, the louvin brothers, kings of convenience, the super friendz, mock orange, david bowie, turbo fruits, umbrella tree, caitlan rose, turncoats, JEFF, cake bake betty, be your own PET, t.rex, roxy music, the cure, (old) metallica, pavement, low, blonde redhead, justin timberlake, shuddertothink, failure, apollo up!, zach grace, the whole fantastic world, kanye west, the zombies, thin lizzy, forget cassettes, the carter administration, stevie wonder, yes, king crimson, ocelots, henryk gorecki, the privates, drakkar sauna, new buffalo, the cars, good songs.

Movies:

hitchcock, wes anderson, fincher, coen(s), pt anderson, jonze, horror film, the apatow clan, barf patrol 8.

Television:

loooooooost. and animal planet (put your kittens in my mouth) and court tv or anything about murders or serial killers. holograms. sometimes i draw fast like it's tv and then i pass out and see grandma.

Books:

murakami, bukowski, palahniuk, dick, auster, delillo, tolle, 100 suns, any good music bio or recording session diary for the beatles, dylan, the beach boys, and that unreleased jesus record he did with some whales.

Heroes:

kenny buttrey. and whoever those people are when they make those records. phil spector (the murderer one). carl sagan.

My Blog

the current trend of FREE MUSIC.

i know every other band is on the "give shit away, see how it pays off in other ways for the physical release" but i think the concept behind it all is a good one. as such, i offer the following:from...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:57:00 PST

the aching (or how to wallow in the swamp when it’s 2 inches deep)

the tennessee summer... a hot, humid, slow death.i know as many depressed/bummed people as i do "happy" ones. what's in the air other than pollen and ozone and asphalt? when did the sun start feeli...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:13:00 PST

even the pawn must hold a grudge

this little show on the LHC (the Large Hadron Collider) is maybe a little "sexy" and uses some fancy photography but it's still pretty cool, and, hell, pretty much everything ive read on the LHC has b...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:04:00 PST

fuck you, pay me!

that's what i said and that's what they (finally) did (after months of harassing). major labels look out, i'm not standing for your shit (for much longer than 3 months)!also, it seems like lots of pe...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:54:00 PST

put the beast to sleep, it broke its legs!

cats sure can be fucking idiots sometimes. thanks be to human originator for the gift of the feline. take its dander into your heart and your blood will sneeze gold.go to the river!...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Mon, 19 May 2008 11:08:00 PST

more bobby, please?

because there's never too much bob dylan to watch or listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO5LlwDaa_0 i'm off to see my little brother graduate from law scho...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Fri, 09 May 2008 11:46:00 PST

babby deelaun

sometimes i think about writing music again... i used to do it and enjoy it. but for the past few years i've been really absorbing specific dylan songs/lyrics. i've done it with tons of beatles stuff...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:33:00 PST

meditations on a beard.

about ten minutes ago, somewhere around 1am, i decided i'd had enough. in the past, i've flirted with the idea of facial hair and it definitely appears to be the most acceptable time in my memories o...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:42:00 PST

battle pod 2: the outtakes

the 2007 battle tapes podcast is now up. it's called "battle pod 2: the outtakes". check it out:www.battletapes.com/news
Posted by Battle Tapes on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:33:00 PST

jury duty???

i just got notice for jury duty. i watch way too many crime dramas to want to get involved in this shit. i'm not putting away any drug kingpins, no way! i do not want to sleep with the fishes. so,...
Posted by Battle Tapes on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:07:00 PST