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Landspeedrecord!

THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM.

About Me

We make music. Etc.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/17/2003
Band Website: landspeedrecord.net
Band Members: Charles Jamison - Vocals, Guitar / Marc Berrong - Drums / Thomas Stehr - Bass / Ron Spencer - Guitar, Vocals
Influences: Bauhaus, Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, Devo, Talking Heads, Jesus Lizard, Can, Brian Eno, Amon Tobin, The Police, beers of almost any kind.
Sounds Like: We seem to fuck up everyone's musical comparometer. We have been compared to: Dismemberment Plan, Wire, XTC, At the Drive In, Archers of Loaf, Skeleton Key, Q and Not U, Ween, Weezer, Nirvana, Devo, the Clash, the Talking Heads, Fugazi, Juno, Oingo Boingo and on and on... Message us and tell us what YOU think we sound like. I will add it to the list.
Record Label: Ambiguous City and also Resin Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Our live show - download it!

So we played our first show in over a year.You can listen to the entire show on our website for free here:http://www.landspeedrecord.net/simplemainstuff/music/ls rlive2008-06-17.htmlRon Spencer played ...
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:53:00 PST

Joke Detection & National Security

I was thinking today that the single greatest problem for the NSA and hence national security is joke detection. Really.  Bear with me here.They have millions and millions of recorded conversatio...
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:30:00 PST

Pretending to Pretend Part II

Read the prior blog before wasting even more time on this one.Liz offered up the concept of pretending to pretend to be busy...I replied that someone who is a salesman might do this to make the prospe...
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:07:00 PST

A Short Essay on Pretending to Pretend

"You can pretend to pretend to see but we both know you aren't fooling me.Unless you poke out your eyes, you're not blind."So I wrote the above lyric in a song and at the time I knew exactly what I me...
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:10:00 PST

DERRIDA AT THE CONVALESCENT CENTER

And now for the most dreadful children's poem ever:DERRIDA AT THE CONVALESCENT CENTEROh beautiful squirrel.How I long to see you dance in the tall grass.Jump Jump Jump.Munch Munch Munch.Winter is comi...
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:59:00 PST

Not as bad as this:

No matter how bad your life gets, it is not as bad as this:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_ fact_sacks?printable=true
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:29:00 PST

Myspace is dead.

Urgh.  Myspace is dead.  So dead.  I knew it whent they got bought out by FOX TV.  Yeah I know it wasn't literally FOX TV but you know what I mean.I should have switched to faceboo...
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:44:00 PST

Motivational Speakers

If everyone in the world went to a motivational speaker symposium and everyone was equally pumped up and motivated by the speaches would anything change the next day?
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST

The Benjamin Franklin Effect

http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/ben_franklin_ effect.htm
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:28:00 PST

Music is a harsh mistress

A friend of mine recently asked me this about his creative music efforts:"What the fuck am I doing? And why am I never content with it? Did I reach my creative potential at 18 years old and give up af...
Posted by Landspeedrecord! on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:57:00 PST