Breakfast profile picture

Breakfast

About Me

Writer of goofy and dark songs. Rearranger and deranger of classical pieces for uke and kazoo. Also play classical piano, funky sax, Moroccan folk music, and North Indian ragas.Member of Chicago-based marching band Environmental Encroachment and Santa Cruz-based street band Love Gutter . Check out their links on my friend space below.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/03/2007
Influences: Beatles, Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, Dylan, Tom "T-bone" Stankus, Zappa, Monk, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Warren Senders, Malikarjun Mansur, Kodo, Nass el Ghiwane, Debussy, John Cage, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Ani DiFranco, They Might Be Giants, Beethoven, Bach, Flatt & Scruggs, Esquivel, Kishore Kumar, Manu Chao, George Carlin, Cheech & Chong
Sounds Like: Here are some videos from youtube --ALMERIA BLUES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ec_btgM0U&feature=chann el_page NOMAD SONG: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nfpGkHR2Elo ----SONG FOR MILLARD FILLMORE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45x5DmZYtU&feature=chann el_pageRAINBOW LAKE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvnkRpRO5o&feature=chann el_pageIN PRAISE OF INTESTINES (lyrics by Stacey Simone): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy3K9DzdCoU&feature=relat ed ----TEA TREE OIL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0ha3Xha0N0g ----TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES (by Mark Levy): http://youtube.com/watch?v=WQE8YR7QVl8 ----
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Barbara Boxer, eat your vegetables!

I'm working at an English camp in France right now, or at last I was until this afternoon.  At this camp the counselors all have funny names (I get to continue being Breakfast here) and the kids choos...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 12:09:00 GMT

Premonitions of a Future Virginia Tech Killer

Right now I'm working an English-language camp for children in France.  Every week we get a new batch of children.  This week's batch comes from a school for gifted kids and is 75% boys, mostly 11- an...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 14:21:00 GMT

Five Haikus

Poetry's worthlessThis isn't a real haikuGo drown in your fartsEverything's okayThat's what they want you to thinkBut you know betterAliens from MarsAre coming to take our jobsLet's build a big wallGa...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:29:00 GMT

Overheard one afternoon...

Overheard outside my van on 3 December '08 at 3:00 PM:"Pee. Right now. C'mon, pee. I said PEE, dammit! Good boy."
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:43:00 GMT

When You Wish Upon a Cloud

A few nights ago I was walking down the street in a light rain. I was wishing I'd had an umbrella when suddenly, the man walking in front of me angrily threw his umbrella down on the sidewalk and wal...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:11:00 GMT

Sex without love...

"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best." -Woody Allen
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:09:00 GMT

Overheard last night...

... at 16th Street and Harrison in San Francisco: "I don't do coke and pills much right now, at least not until February."
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:07:00 GMT

The Church of Diarrhea Pancakes"

Hnaxxl! Oh my qihou! Everybody pihg for your dahiflekojgs! Ugsdofg asduhgasd gsfd fafxvkc cckljxg fvdzfjklgjshcdb fgdlkrsajlsdb hfsflekafsfdb! What do you mean you don't komjnhserth? I just hipj...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:35:00 GMT

Drama on Haight Street

Last night I broke out my sax on Haight Street a busked for a couple hours. A couple jazz guys with guitars invited me to jam with them, so I did. People smiled and gave money. Tourists took pictur...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:32:00 GMT

Breakfast - Rainbow Lake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvnkRpRO5o
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:11:00 GMT