Member Since: 6/3/2004
Band Website: flickr.com/photos/brettie/
Band Members: me, my guitar, my drum machine, real drums, a chord organ, and my moog!!!
Influences: 1800’s Mustaches, 1990’s, 2 of ?’s, 24-7 Spyz, 517 Levis, 764-hero, 90’s hair, Aaron Dixon, abandoned storefronts, Al Sharpton, alliteration, American Nightmare, Anacortes, Annalisa Jablonska, Archie McPhee, the b-52’s, Bad Brains, Bane, Bauhaus, Beachwood Sparks, beautiful victorian architecture, Behead the Profit No Lord Shall Live, being a Mason, being a Royal Arch Mason, being a Shriner, being married, being sad, being sleepless, Big Audio Dynamite, Big Country, Bikini Kill, Christina billotte, bingo, black dracula, Black Panther Party, black santas, the Blow, Bobby Goldsboro, the Bodysnatchers, Bolt Thrower, Born Against, Botch, Braceros, Braid, breakdance hat, breakdancing hats, Brian Cooks Art, Bright Eyes, Brotherhood, Burt Webber, Calvin Johnson, the Camerons, the Cha-Cha, Champion, Chief Joseph, chord organs, clouds, Circle Jerks, the Clash, cluttered antique shops, Cold Crush Brothers, Concrete Washington, Countervail, the Coup, the Crabs, Crass, crushes, Crispin Hellion Glover, crying, Crystal Skulls, the Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Cut Chemist, Damien Jurado, Danzig, Darcy, Darcy Rae, Darius Kinsey, de la Soul, the Delfonics, Dennis Driscoll, Depeche Mode, Destruction Island, dilapidated farms, dirty looks, Dizzee Rascal, dj Shadow, Elizabeth "dottie" Daily, d.o.s. is snobs, driving aimlessly, Duran Duran, ec8or, 1892, Elliott Smith, the English Beat, Faith (the hardcore band), Fairwood, Falco, Fishbone, Flight of the Conchords, foggy mornings, folk Victorians, Frank LaRoche, fuck Brown and Cole, Fugazi, Fun Boy Three, g fresh, George Michael, Get Hustle, ghost towns, ghost world, ghosts, good times, the gossip, Gram Parsons, graffiti, graffiti on trains, grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup, growing up and going to shows, harriet the spy, Henri Dumaige, hi, hick~up trucks, himsa, Hiram Powers, historical travel, historical looks, the honeymoon cottage, Hoquiam, hott, Hugo Chávez, Human League, IIlwaco, I like dressin’ like your grandpa, I liked looking out of my apartment window onto downtown Seattle... well... I can’t look into downtown Seattle any more becasue I now live in the fair town of Sedro-Woolley, I like my thrift store guitar Stella, I like old buildings... there is an old building in Cashmere Washington that reads modern apartments on the back, I love graffiti on freeway walls and the back of beat~up building, I miss my friends and I need to make more of an effort to keep them, I’d like to get to know you, I’m a vegeterian, the impressions, indian summer, ink and dagger, invisibl skratch piklz, J Boyd Ellis, the Jam, jokes and jokes and jokes and jokes, Josephine Baker, jough dawn baker, Joy Division, julie ruin, junk, junk shops, K, k records, kathleen hanna, KG, kicking giant, killsadie, kool keith, La Raza, Sandra "lady pink" Fabara, lady pink, lady sovereign, little wings, Living Colour, the locust, Loggerodeo, logging towns, long drives, lords of lightspeed, Los Crudos, LOVE, love as laughter, lovers of the artic circle, luv, lync, the magnetic fields, making out, madness, Mahalia Jackson, malapropism, Malcolm X, Mark Twain, Marrakesh Express, Martin Luther King Jr, Masao Maki, M.I.A., Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the microphones, mini~donkeys, minor threat, mirah, the misfits, mix tapes, modest mouse, Molson and Old Molson, moogs, morrissey, moss icon, Motel No Tell, Motown, mount eerie, Mount Vernon, Muhammad Ali, my moog, my wife, nation of ulysses, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, New Order, NWHC, not erin tate, not gentrification, not logging, NPR, Oak Park, Okanogan, old farm houses, old pictures and frames, OLY, Olympia, Olympia Olympics, OMD, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, ordination of aaron, Oroville, outkast, owls, owls!!!, paris in the crazy years, the pastels, the peechees, pee wee herman, peggy leggs, photo-booths, the pixies, Polaroid Land Cameras, Polaroids, polyester, POLYSTYRENE, Port Angeles, public enemy, q and not u, Queen Anne style, quix*o*tic, Ralph from the Simpsons, rain, rammellzee, reach out, records, red stars theory, Republic of Cascadia, roy, rumbling trains, salvage stores, sam cooke, samhain, Save Polaroid, Seattle, Sedro-Woolley, Seldom, sewing, Schwinn bikes, Scott McKenzie, Sharks Keep Moving, Sharks Kill, Shipwreck Days, shyness, sideways ponytails, silly record collections, Sisters of Mercy, Skagit County, slayer, sleeping in cars, slick rick the ruler, small towns, the smiths, snow, snowcapped foothills, so~and~so, some girls, sorry, Soul II Soul, South Bend, sparks, Sparks is the funniest band, the specials, spoonerisms, stereo total, John Steinbeck, Still Life, stingray bikes, Tae Won Yu, Tarot Bolero, Tattle Tale, teargas rock, This American Life, thrift stores, UB40, Ugly Casanova, Undertow, the Unifics, Urban Dance Squad, Usher, the vss, Watsonville, Western Shoshone Defense Project, what the heck, Wu-Tang Clan, www.xbrettiex.org, x-ray spex, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yellow Peril, yo! mtv raps, Young Lords, Young Patriots Organization, (young) pioneers, the Zombies,
Sounds Like: Me!!!
Record Label: home recording
Type of Label: None