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About Me

Check out our Platinum Blue Music Xray TM for "Dancin' In The" here As far as music goes, I write it, I record it, I play it, and I sing it. The playing and singing part of it I do simultaneously at venues. I have all sorts of short and long term goals, like finishing my coffee at this moment and pouring myself another cup. Life is good and dark and telling. yah don't want to miss what it's saying. My tunes have something to do with that idea.Under The Absolute Zero, I've recorded two albums in 2006:Pelican Daughters of Modo,Incident at the Hatfields,and a third and fourth one in 2007:And the Sea Did Rage -The Long Road to the World -i'm working on aneeeother. I like to travel and play. I hate my day job.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/25/2005
Band Website: huh?
Band Members: Michael Trenhaile - guitars words musicsNick Ryan - engineer/producerShawn Maxcy - guitars/bassAmy Scott-Samuel - vintage photos Tom Murphy - me pics
Influences: Syd Barret, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Jolie Holland, Laura Veirs, Dirty Three, Simon and Garfunkel, Mogwai, The Ex, Ray Lamontagne, Grease Machine, Can, Sufjan Stevens, Guitar Wolf, The Viscounts, The Sex Pistols, Cowboy Junkies, Night Shark, Cat Power, The Tarmints, The Sonics, Husker Due, Bongwater, The Dead Kennedys, Stereolab and lots of fucking books.
Sounds Like: music with melodies and verses and choruses and lyrics
Record Label: Slug Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Gas Stations and Fried Chicken Gizzards

Something always pushes me out of the cityInto the grit wilderness and terrible gloryOf the highwayZipping phone polesHumming and buzzingShadowed long and blackIn a long drifting highway sun Whole tow...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:51:00 PST

CHECKLIST

CHECKLIST - Take shower / trim beard - Gather fruit drinks / ziplocks - Bring cooler / kitchen knife / tooth brushes / clothes - Go to King Soopers and.... ...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:51:00 PST

Night Drive to Albuquerque

"Hold on, hold on" I say to myself The black night to AlbuquerqueThe solemn gleam of interstate signs in my headlightsThe joyous voice of my sonNext to me in the car's interior This Chevy Aveo bought ...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:39:00 PST

Man at the Gas Station

Whips in the heat of peoples glowering staresParticularly from some seemed-to-be-church-goingWhite man at a gas pumpJust outside of Aurora Nebraska Seems there might be a menace in my faceSome long he...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:06:00 PST

McDonalds and "lovin’ it"

McDonalds, fast food, all that shit. McDonalds has a new logo, - "lovin' it". Well, I'm not "lovin' it". Fuck you McDonalds. Your food will kill me and if it doesn't, will cause me to be t...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:53:00 PST

from "My Life as a Hack"

What am I preparing for, what have I worked for all these years through strings of hours and days? What grey sky doesn't look exactly like other grey skies outside the window of this h...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:46:00 PST

a quote for the evening

"If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved" - - - Jack Kerouac "1954 Richmond Hill Sketch on Van Wyc...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:27:00 PST

Motion Without End

I drive these roads to escape my shoebox city apt. and stultified work-a-day Every day I hear the yammer of countless non-value items mumbled and hissed over by the American public, nesting and bestin...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:42:00 PST

to my profound horror

..... i got on today and saw that all the friends in my top had changed. my apologies to everyone... i haven't the slightest clue how this happened. i'm gettin' everyone back though ...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Fri, 23 May 2008 07:06:00 PST

North Platte Exit

I take the North Platte exit As I drive east bound out of Rocky Mountain high Into farmland lows North Platte interstate town of about 26,000 souls Situated on that dividing line or slope Before th...
Posted by The Absolute Zero on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:00:00 PST