Member Since: 10/04/2007
Band Members: Joe McDougall - The Painted Bird
Influences: Wisdom, literature, great minds, love, humanity, the little spots in the world without footprints, forests, snow, jazz, the dharma bums, art, smiles, blurred streetlights outside of wet car windows, truth, beautiful lies, single souls, blues, black coffee, the graceful silhouettes of birds on a gray sky, sexual tension, success, sympathy, the Vairocana, dreamscapes, film, self-expression and those who were tortured by it, ink, equality, skin, philosophy, those who dance blindly, mystical satori, those who don't try to be feared, misunderstandings, "the makers of cigarette filters for thinking men, the Beat and the Sloppy and the Petulant, the chosen cultists, all the lofty experts who know so well what we should and shouldn't do with our poor little sex organs, all the beardes, proud, unlettered young men and unskilled guitarists and Zen-killers and in-corporated aesthetic Teddy boys who looks down their thoroughly unenlightened noses at this splendid planet where Kilroy, Christ, and Shakespeare all stopped"(-J.D. Salinger), the Shakyamuni, forgetfulness, weathered hands, family, children's books, Robert Louis Stevenson's verse, knomes, small sailboats on the horizon, water (from the dark clouds to the mountains to the rivers, and into the oceans), the treeline from the tops of great mountains, the tales of hobos and travelers.
Sounds Like: An old house with an open window.
Record Label: Unsigned