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Gregor’s Fiddle

About Me

"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug." -Kafka

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/04/2007
Band Website: All Gone, All Gone
Band Members: Patrick Hyland - A thousand tiny echoes from the back of the brain. "Those who tell don't know, those who know, don't tell" -Da Mayor.
Influences: Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan (1962-66,) Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce, Syd Barrett, Liam Walsh, Dr. Seuss, David Bowie (The early stuff,) Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, Salvador Dali, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Donovan Leitch, Trumbull Stickney, Wes Anderson, Billy Childish, Ken Kesey, Daniel Pinkwater,John Steinbeck, Tristan Tzara, Ernest Hemingway, Van Gogh, Tom Waits, Ken Nordine, early Frank Zappa, The Oblivians, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, Jonathan Richman, Robert Johnson, William S. Burroughs, Raoul Hausmann, David Lynch, Daniel Johnston, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fernando Eimbcke, Flann O'Brian, Hunter S. Thompson, Neutral Milk Hotel, Early Beck, Harry Partch, The Raincoats, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Nick Drake, Half Japanese, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart, The Flaming Lips, The Cramps, The Young Marble Giants, The Television Personalities, The King Khan & BBQ Show, The Deadly Snakes, Can, Thomas Pynchon, The Minutemen, The Embarrassment, The Clean, The Golden Lemons, Charles Mingus, James Brown Michel Gondry, Destroyer/Daniel Bejar, Jim Jarmusch, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Chris Knox, The Band, The Black Lips, Neil Young, Wolf Parade (and other assorted Spencer Krug groups), Los Para Noas, Otis Redding, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Yann Tiersen, Modest Mouse, The Beach Boys, A Band of Bees, The Animals, Guided By Voices, Public Enemy, Edan, Jacques Dutronc, The Dodos, Michael Stephens, Lou Barlow, Pavement, Leonard Cohen, The Fugs, Johnny Cash...all that good stuff...
Sounds Like: 20-20,000 Hz
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Pocket Nocturne #1

........ @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Pocket Nocturne #1This nightIs crawling with funeralsAnd cigarette burned cyclistsHeadlights competingWith the moon,And everyw...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:57:00 GMT

Collaborative

 Collaborative 1/10/09 Liam,Joel, Dylan, Patrick........ ........  Ishot myself silly in a minor key.Something to regret in days bed-ridden. For nothing years.But now the keys are broken ,Dripping...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:02:00 GMT

Des Moines

             The neurotic postman took my keys to shave on a morphine high. He got fragged in the alley with a bonfire and a black cat. So my wife...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:20:00 GMT

The Winter Satellite

by Patrick & Lady   It is not just of this day It is also me Which places the Winter Satellite inside me. Not just the grip of the day. Whiskey, you are the time of the season. Lest I forget ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:17:00 GMT

Insecure Express

Insecure Express Patrick Hyland              The Insecure Express blows across the transcontinental, a coal train, a tumbleweed with whiplash. Th...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:30:00 GMT