Member Since: 26/06/2007
Band Members: Nicholaus is really all the fire you'll ever need; thanks to Kent Odessa.
Influences: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, The White Stripes, Orange Juice, Edgar Allan Poe, Roxy Music, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, David Lynch, De Sade, Jean Genet, Dennis Cooper, Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roland Topor, Throbbing Gristle, Elliot Smith, The Raincoats, Wanda Jackson, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Mayhem, Dissection, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Alfred Jarry, Henri Alain-Fournier and his "Le Grande Meaulnes," Flann O'Brien, Mikhail Bulgakov, Miles Davis, Wolf Eyes, Jack Ketchum, Rick Algergot & "Doofus," Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Waters, Robert E. Howard, Grant Morrison, Robert Walser, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rodin, George Orwell, Barrack Obama, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Oliverio Girondo, Jorge Luis Borges, John Ashbery, John Weiners, Frank O'Hara, Jack Ketchum, Mathew Stokoe, Chuck Palahniuk, Paul Bowles, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Television, The Ramones, Johnny Thunders, Syd Barret, Aleister Crowley, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Tom Brady, Derek Jeter, Vincent Gallo, Phillip K. Dick, Clive Barker, Nick Drake, Judee Sill, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Buddy Guy, Robert Jordan, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Beaumont, Joss Whedon, The Libertines, Babyshambles, Malaria!, Freddy Krueger, The Gun Club, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Kinks, Iron Maiden, Headless Joe, Paul McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, Quentin Tarrantino, Douglas Sirk, Dexter, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Georges Bataille, Heinrich Von Kleist, Achim von Arnim, Scott Walker, Lou Reed, Nico, Animal Collective, The Knife, Claws in the Snow, "Back to the Future," Michael J. Fox, Richard Laymon, Squeeze, Legendary Pink Dots, George Kuchar, The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling, Ray Bradbury, Bjork, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, Tubeway Army, Fad Gadget, Soft Cell, Marc Almond, Traci Lords, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Marilyn Chamberts, Bridgette Lahaie, Kay Parker, Young Marble Giants, Liz Phair, P.J. Harvey, Chan Marshall, The Kills, RTX, royal trux, Phil Spector, The Ronnettes, Roald Dahl, Peter Jackson, Jim Henson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gerard De Nerval, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Todd Solondz, Chris Penn, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Lous-Ferdinande Celine, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Alexender Mackendrick, "Freaks and Geeks," Fritz Lang, Samuel Fuller, Greta Garbo, Gloria Grahame, Guy Maddin, Val Lewton, Nicholas Ray, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, The Clash, Blondie, Wreckless Eric, Robert Mitchum, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scoresse, Richard Widmark, Orson Welles, Edward J. Robinson, Charles Laughton, Keifer Sutherland, Vincent Price, Tod Browning, Claude Chabrol, Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Leonardo Da Vinci, Raymond Roussel, Motley Crue, Brain Jonestown Massacre, Suicide, Spacemen 3, Primal Scream, Captain Beefheart, Paul Klee, Egon Schiele, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Jacques Tournier, Boris Vian, Boris, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Chris Ware, William Blake, Shakespeare, James Tate, Chris Claremont, Big Star, Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, The Replacements, Husker Du, Bob Mould, Seijun Sezuki, Akira Kurasowa, Chan Wook Park, Bob Clark, River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, The Germs, slumber house massacres, Eddie Murphy, 20/20, The Scruggs, 13th Floor Elevators, Lolita, Patti Smith, Peter Lorre, The Church, Echo and the Bunnymen, Kenneth Anger, Santa Claus, Tales From the Crypt, EC Comics, Van Halen, The Associates, Flannery O'Connor, Joy Division, New Order, Ian Curtis, This Heat, Cosmic Jokers, Can, Faust, Cluster, Aphex Twin, The Pretenders, Marlene Dietrich, The Go-Betweens, Joseph Losey, "The Servant", Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Elvis Costello, Betty Davis, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, Pet Shop Boys, Xiu Xiu, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Virginia Woolf, "The Wolf Man," Daniel Paul Schreber, Sigmund Freud, Frederich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, Christopher Lee, "Gremlins," Garbage Pail Kids, 80's Star War movies, Ginger Lynn, "Spirits of the Beehive", "Bad Boy Bubby", "Sergio Leone", Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog, Teardrop Explodes, Julian Cope, Roy Orbison, Ray Smith, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Liquid Liquid, James Chance and the Contortions, Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Outcast, Cannibal Ox, Blondie, Paul Collins' The Beat, The Congos, Brainticket, The Feelies, Herman Melville, Jonathan Kellerman, The Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, James Brown, "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Hellraiser", Dino Buzzati, Serge Gainsbourg, The Shaggs, "Donnie Darko", Tears for Fears, Paul Verhoeven, David Cronenberg, "Videodrome", John Ford, Anthony Mann, "The Naked Spur", "Spider Baby", "Brain Dead"(w/ Bill Paxton), Anthony Perkins, Robert Luis Stevenson, "A Confederacy of Dunces", John Kennedy Toole, "Night of the Creeps", "Magic", Tobe Hooper, "Something Wicked This Way Comes", Guitar Wolf, bats, The Lemonheads, John Cale, Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, Catnip, Dante, Mike Tyson, Catnaps, Mukie's(the best rest stop there ever was), "The Mudge Boy", "Mysterious Skin", "Faster, Pussycat! Kill!...Kill!", Russ Meyer, trapdoors, Georges Franju, "Eyes Without a Face", Frederick Exley, "A Fan's Notes", "A Catcher in the Rye", howling train tracks at midnight, Big Country, The Skids, "Gloomy Sunday", The Skids, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Freddie Mercury, The Who, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Haircut 100, Prefab Sprout, John Cusak, Alex Winter, "Freaked", The Zombies, Arthur Lee's Love, Flamin' Groovies, The Db's, Bauhaus, The Chameleons, Tones on Tail, Skip James, Terry Laban, Pete Bagge, Gang of Four, Fruit Hollywood, Henri Barbusse, Igmar Bergman, "Interiors", "Manhattan", "Fanny and Alexander", "Class of 1984", Milky Way Railroad, Kenji Miyazawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Edogawa Rampo, "The Mystery of Rampo", Strawberries at Dawn, Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, Pavement, Stephen Malkamus, Daniil Kharms, Amos Tutola, Tim Rose, Them, Van Morrison, The Pogues, Chuck Berry, Yves Tanguy, Larry Clark, "Alf", "Dinosaurs", ice cream socials, Alexander Trocchi, Denis Johnson, "My Sweet Orange Tree", Pedro Almodovar, "Bad Education", Richard Matheson, Notorius B.I.G., Hart Crane, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Bruno Schulz, Cinderella, Cesar Vallejo, La Jette, Charles Mingus, Jacques Lacan, Electric Prunes, Sir Lord Baltimore, "Medulla", Blaise Cendras, Balthus, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Daniel Johnston, Michael Haneke, Link Wray, Peephole, The Johnny Cockrings, etc.
Sounds Like: A trip through the backwoods of Louisiana, with several gorgeous teenagers as company, and a maniac with a jack-o-lantern mask on the loose...
Record Label: Unsigned