Member Since: 28/05/2005
Band Website: www.openingflowerhappybird.talkspot.com
Band Members: Brian & Matt
___April 24, 2008 @ Local 506___January 18, 2008 @ Local 506
Influences: Andy Goldsworthy, David Lynch, Chuck Close, Oliver Sacks, Charles Bukowski, Richard Diebenkorn, Family Fodder, Jesus Lizard, Robert Rauschenberg, Sunsets, Grand Canyon, Nirvana, Billy Kluver, John Cale, The Ocean, Hal Hartley, Hermann Hesse, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Broadcast, the Coen Brothers, Devo, Tom Waits, Sleeping, The Boston Red Sox, Soup, Going All the Way, Terry Giliam, Drinking, Toulouse-Lautrec, Ray McKinnon, all the Gustave's, God, Steven Hawking,White Lion, White Snake, Jumbo Slice, White Light White Heat, White Nights, Black Sabbath, Black Mountain, Frank Black, Black Dice, The Metallica song Blackend, Blacky Lawless, Agent Orange, The Oranges Band, Red Skeleton, Red Cross, Red House Painters, Red Fox, Blonde Red Head, Sammy Hagar the Red Rocker, Metallica, The Industrial Revolution, Frank Gehry, Kieslowski, The Zombies, Good Pizza, Bolin Forest, NPR, the Guitar, the Drums, Cities, Levi's 514, Broadcast, Monkey Movies, Flowers, Leisure Sports, i.e., Pool, Golf, Penn and Teller, Bowling, Bull City Headquarters, Mr. Show, Ghandi, These Are Powers, The Buzzcocks, Bruce Springstein, The World, Uppers and Downers, Micro Cosmos,Todd Rundgren, Rodin, Daft Punk, Can, Trey Parker, Cosmos, Ricki Gervais, Ken Burns, Big Huge Massive Turtles, Whole Wheat, Naked, Taking it Easy and Stoping to Smell The Flowers every once in a while because Most People don't really do that, Brian Eno again, Herbert Scale, Fishing, Going for walks with elderly people, Romance Language, Hang gliding, Spank Rock, Base Jumping, Grilling, Making Awsome Beats, Break Dancing, Styling, Karl Marx, Julia Butterfly, Old Motorcycles, New Gear, Washington D.C. (by default), Bob Dylan, Long Distance Running, Keeping in Shape, Lifting Heavy Rocks, Dirty Dancing, Clint Eastwood, Tall Grass, Wind Generated Power, Terry Gross, Black Cats, Lenny Bruce, Sport Shooting, Muscle Cars, Bars, Michel Foucault, Skateboarding or Shreding, Kool and The Gang, Gang Gang Dance, Al Green, Slow Jams, Botany, I.M. Pei, Chips, South Park in Syndication, Neil Gaiman, The Blowfish, And Oats, And Jean, And Taneel, The Gang, The News, The Revolution, Young Love, Young People, And their Companions, Trampolines, Saplings, and Tree Identification, Shark Week, Going Out to Dinner, Beach Boys, Arm Wrestling, The Sun, Over the Top, Rambo, Steven Segal, Jean Paul Sartre, Walker Texas Ranger, Homeless People, Alfred Hitchcock, The Confederacy of Dunces, Anita Hill, Kurosawa, Science, The Outer Banks, Lee Scratch Perry, Toshiro Mifune, Crystal Ship, Love Boat, Captain Beefheart, Delay Pedals, Alfred Hitchcock, PBS, the Kindness of Strangers, Row Boats, Albums, John Locke, Espresso, Indian food, Sushi, Pho, Tai food, Asain Food and People in General, Desmond Decker Gravity, The Old 9:30 Club, and Firecrackers, Talking Heads, Foosball, Fragle Rock, Long Hot Showers, The Outer Limits of your Mind, Hitting the Snooze Button, Smashing the Alarm Clock, Ocean City Maryland, The very first Lalapaloza, Cooly D, Talent, Success, Whole Wheat, Mopeds, E-Bow, Hybrid Cars, Goat Cheese, Crayons, Magicians, RV's, Sheep River, JBS, Solar Power, The James River, Beat-Up Guitars, Basement Jams, Leanardo DaVinci, Sand Dunes, CD Alley, Local Honey, William Burroughs, Radio Lab, Makers Mark, Ingmar Bergman, Dr. Octagon, Sonic Youth, Home Recordings, Reading and Writing, Eastern North Carolina BBQ, New People Places and Things, Talking, Beaches (the movie?), or the Beach in General, Jeopardy, Deerhoof, Steven King, Alien Lanes, Ritual de lo Habitual, The Great Salt Lake, Broadcast, Not Talking, Glow Sticks, Can, France, Jack Karouac, Torrents, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Mustardayonaise, Rainbows, Raymond Carver, Things that glow in the dark, Keeping your Old Car Running Forever, the Groundlings, David Sedaris, Boats, Mods vs. Rockers, Mockers, Jah People, Tax Refunds, Trivial Pursuit, Roky Erickson, Vic Firth 5A, Fugazi, Landscaping, Building things, the Forest, and Walking on the Rocks to Cross the Stream, Grocery Stores, The Cichlids of Lake Victoria, Making Your Own Movies, Carl Sagan, also Taking Thousands of Photographs but not Looking at them, Bagels and Cream Cheese, Cultures, Charles Darwin, Judd Apatow, Learning by Watching, Niandra La Des, Four Track Recordings from when we were Seventeen, Raymond Carver, All my dogs, Pinot Noir, John Fahey, Henry Darger, Soap Box Racers, I'm gonna git you sucka, Arizona, Mushrooms, Virginia, Maps, Time Travel, Glow Stick Catch, Penn and Teller, The Food Network, Lightning, Being under water, Black Flag, Vans, Vacation, TransGendered, Nitrous Oxide, Tools, Soft Pillows, Collard Greens, Lee Hazlewood, Good fitting clothes, Sonic Youth, The way a pet looks at you when you feed it, Anarchists, Cable Access, Ecology, The Dead Milkmen, U Street, H Street, 14th Street, Jumbo Slice!, Traynor, David Sedaris, Gang of Four, Bones Brigade, Bob Moog, Nina Simone, Grace Street, Josephine Baker, The Sandman, Dirty Projectors, also regular slide projectors, Models, Pantera, The Mediteranian Deli, Pills that give worms to ex-girlfriends, Playing shows, Crunch Wrap Supreme, Five Guys, HBO shows on DVD, Getting new equipment, Jogging, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Space, Being Alive, Flanery O'connor, Iron Chef, Monster Garage, Howe Gelb, Lou Reed, Plough and Stars, Sligos, Lungfish, Low, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Swirlies, The Southern Belle, The Reservoir, Truth, The OCSC, The Knife, Not Voting for Republicans, Matt's new Bong, Syd Barrett, John Fruciantes Drugged out 4-track music, Leonard Cohen, Swirlies, Hose.Got.Cable, Eating Right, Fake Chicken, also Real Chicken, Your Local Scene, Big Black, Memorization, Tee Shirts, Shoes, Stickers, Ageing Hipsters, Dreams, Instinct, Log Cabins, Getting Drunk in Hot Tubs, Humans w/ Animal Features, Home Made Anything, Community Radio, Public Space, Food Co-Ops, Dogs, Civil Rights, The Blue Lagoon, Alan and Son, the Q Shack, High Cotton, Buzz and Ned's, etc.
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Type of Label: Major