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baron morris

About Me

--- sound-sketches rotated frequently - pls keep checking back! ---- singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. I majored (tinkered) in philosophy at - NEW COLLEGE - in Sarasota, but found academia MASTURBATORY - a hall of mirrors for narcissists, at least from where I am standing. Of course I still wonder just what in the hell it's all about... I hope I will always be making music - audience or no. ;-)False friends have fallen by the wayside. New friends await. Bless them all.Some of my interests and pursuits: scatological eschatology, primitive camping, being still in nature, trees glorious trees, transmutational music of any genre, songwriting, singing, guitar, piano, drums, kazoo, etc., deep books, shallow women (not so much, really), the female form (in all its splendid variations), the wind in the trees, bad bird calls (random, unrehearsed), the beach at night, the ocean in the day, feasting, fasting, mysticism, finding the sacred in the profane, being the change I need, getting the hell out of the belly of the beast, the occasional (too seldom) ecstacy of communication, passionate people... I am also interested in somehow organizing the maelstrom of my past recordings and scribblings plus my current thoughts and feelings into some kind of life-sustaining art that would be first of all redemptive and secondarily buy me a ranch in Ecuador or somesuch. Collaborations welcome...mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" style='display:none'

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/07/2005
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/baronmorrismusic
Band Members: just little old me. hmmm. I guess I am from Pensacola. grew up there. mostly I have lived in Florida. Want to live somewhere a bit more literary or picturesque. I hear the dollar goes far in South America and Southeast Asia. Perhaps one day you will find me there...
Influences: JEFF BUCKLEY, JOSEPH ARTHUR, RADIOHEAD, muse... Ok, now please hold on, cause here we go (and this is the short list)... -- andrew bird, beethoven, belle and sebastian, the BEATLES (esp. john and george), ben harper, beth orton, big star, the black keys, bob dylan (duh), bob marley (jah), brian eno, bright eyes, the books, built to spill, calexico, chopin, the church (their later stuff), the clash, cowboy junkies, DAMIEN RICE (who I got to play with backstage), david bowie, devandra banhart, ANI difranco, dirty three, DJ shadow, django reinhardt, the doves, ELO (nostalgic from childhood), (the late great) elliott smith, fiona apple, flaming lips, garbage, grandaddy, grant lee buffalo (/phillips), the high llamas, john cage, jonathan richman, karate, king crimson, lamb, lemonheads, leonard cohen, liz phair, lloyd cole, lou barlow, louis ;-) armstrong, my man mahmoud ahmed, mark lanegan, mars volta, marvin gaye, massive attack, matthew sweet, mercury rev, miles davis, mogwai, mojave 3, morphine, neil young, neutral milk hotel, nick drake, nina simone, nusrat fateh ali khan, paul weller, paul westerberg, pavement, pearl jam, philip glass, pink floyd, pixies, pj harvey, porcupine tree, portishead, rem (just their early stuff), ravi shankar, ray charles, the roots, rufus wainwright, schönberg, sebadoh, sigur ros, the smiths, smog, sonic youth, sparklehorse, stephen malkmus, stereolab, the strokes, swervedriver, t-rex, tom brosseau, tom motherfucking waits tortoise, tosca tango, tracy chapman, tragically hip, unkle, velvet underground, vic chesnutt, the von bondies, ween, the white stripes, wilco, yo la tengo, the zombies... (and, yeah... that WAS the short list.) Oh, and also - I have been known to break the antennae off of cars that I own, to topple in my small way, the icky mediocracy-radiocracy. I can't believe people tune in to that shit. Just like on TV, it's called "programming" for a reason. Wake up, somnambulist drones! (Yes, this has been a public service announcement. You're welcome!)
Sounds Like: an ironic soundtrack to the kali yuga? a heartbroken phone call in the rain? a fleeting daydream memory of a time before the fall...
Record Label: none yet. come and get me!

My Blog

art

ART is liberation from the confines of conditioned consciousness.
Posted by on Wed, 10 May 2006 13:25:00 GMT

garden haiku

sit in the gardenclouds glide by, bees lick flowersthe wind sweeps the leaves
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:35:00 GMT

stillborn nation

rename this nation Icarusfor it has flown too higheven as the pilots revelin ever more astounding slight of handon the wings the wax is runninglike the butter on their breakfast toastyet still and on ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:23:00 GMT