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Manko Eponymous

About Me

Manko Eponymous and his numerous unindicted co-conspirators in over a dozen bands have been guilty over the years of dabbling in bluegrass, art-punk, folk-punk, punk-punk, heavy metal ukelele, indy folk, acid folk, psychedelic grunge, protogoth calypso rock, college rock, grad school rock, avant-gamelan, epic trance, spoken word, trenchcoat folk, bossanova drum n' bass, tribute bands for Neil Young and the Rolling Stones, electroclash, electribal, tribalectro, tribal house, minimal house, acid house, bleak house, bliphop, triphop, barbershop, and Afropop. Under a variety of pseudonyms he's released five cds, two books of poetry, countless cassettes and one 45 rpm single (yes, he's that old). He's performed at venues ranging from Wolf Trap's Filene Center and the Virgin Festival to the Burning Man Fire Conclave and a national feminist convention, not to mention two memorable years in the house band of a hotel in Lesotho.Since 2005 he's focused mainly on progressive world fusion catering to DC's tribal bellydance community. His latest endeavor, "Kaihealoha," is a tribute to his friend, lover and partner Kaihea, a bellydancer and firedancer who passed away in November 2008 from ovarian cancer. It's really rather good, and it's available for a variety of prices at Itunes, Emusic, Amazon and out of the trunk of his car, a beat up 2000 Honda Insight that still gets 53 mpg even after 110,000 miles. Most nights he parks it outside a townhouse in the barrio near Dulles International Airport and goes in to feed his three wonderful cats.Manko fears peaches and jellyfish (together or separately), has never eaten a twinkie, and would rather be a rumor than a lie.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/07/2007
Record Label: ZED
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hey Hey My My

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az0T2L93Eq8 Heh - me on bass. 'Twas a silly gig. The way I remember it, we'd never rehearsed or even played together in this lineup before, although I di...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:26:00 GMT

So I says to him, I says

We're out of dry catfood, so I figure I'll stop at Giant on the way to work, and grab myself a bagel for breakfast at the excellent bagel joint a few doors down. I pull into a parking space near the b...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:20:00 GMT

Weekend Vignettes

So I'm heading into the diner for breakfast when a stranger with a cane says, "Excuse me, sir, could you help me cross the street?" Of course I say "Of course," and I hold his hand and together we mak...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:18:00 GMT

Answers and the Dharma Buzz

As my last big public post presumably implied, going back to performing live brings with it for me a certain amount of head-scratching to try to remember why the hell we do this stuff.  Dean Wareham's...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:17:00 GMT

Country Girl / Ohio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCeI1tMYdjg Whoa - over 11,000 youtube hits for this clip of Broken Arrow covering Neil Young. I'm on bass.
Posted by on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:48:00 GMT

Issa!

Huh.  I turn my back for a few minutes and another of my heroes does something unbelievably cool...Jane Siberry, who beat Reznor & Radiohead to the "name your own price" by a few years (she put her en...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:16:00 GMT

Too many metrics, too many games?

I was browsing Kevin Kelly's webpage about "the quantified self," which appeals to one side of me, the empiricist side that thinks if only I tracked the right data about my life in sufficient detail a...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:15:00 GMT

Let's see if this works...

http://mutantmuse.podbean.com/This is me trying to connect my podcast to my MySpace account.  In this episode I didn't get an interview with anyone, but there's some great music from a wide range of a...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:51:00 GMT

RadioLab on Death & Dying

I generally find RadioLab's style abrasively quirky and gimmicky, but I'm getting used to it, I guess.  Tonight they're zipping around 11 different interesting pieces about death, some really intrig...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:49:00 GMT

Self-Promotion Nausea/Vertigo

Disclaimer: this isn't really about you, or me, or us, it's about the world we've made, and it's not a complaint because I don't have any real suggestions/answers to offer.  It's just the way this m...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:48:00 GMT