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About Me

Faded Paper Figures writes music in those fleeting snippets of time between work, traffic, and dissertation chapters. If it seems deep, you should see the 91 during rush hour.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/18/2007
Band Members: R. John Williams - Vocals, Guitar
Kael Alden - Guitar, Drums, Keys, Machines
Heather Alden - Additional Vocals
Influences: MUSIC: Death Cab, Morrissey, Pinback, Postal Service, Trash Can Sinatras, Stars, Hot Chip, Lali Puna, Ms John Soda, The Notwist, Deerhoof, Radiohead, Tahiti 80, Wilco, Fischerspooner, Weevil, Jon Brion, LCD Soundsystem, Psapp, Shout Out Louds, etc.IMAGE: French New Wave, Italian Neo-Realism, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Kubrick, Boris Artzybasheff. etc.TEXT: Friederich Kittler, Jacques Derrida, Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Sartre, Heidegger, Donna Haraway, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin, Paul Virilio, Adorno, Rey Chow, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, Stanley Fish, etc.
Sounds Like: Sounds like we've been influenced by the people listed under "influences."
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lyrics to Genevas Gone

Geneva's Gone Geneva's gone, like forgotten songs in a country sleeping warmly in the night. We believe Exxon, we play along the water getting blacker as we fight Geneva's gone, like a faded s...
Posted by Faded Paper Figures on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:00:00 PST

Lyrics to Being There

Being ThereMoving days are coming Like the traffic, full of broken worlds. Being there is harder when you feel it,when your self is long deferred. And when you talk to me,don't talk through me.My re...
Posted by Faded Paper Figures on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:47:00 PST

Lyrics to The Persuaded

The Persuaded He won't know AdornoHe's an adult with an adcultYou can buy your way into his head He was never better Wearing sneakers and a sweaterMade by 12-year-olds sweating in ...
Posted by Faded Paper Figures on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:57:00 PST

Lyrics to Polaroid Solution

Polaroid Solution I put on a disguiseAnd put out both your eyes&you will not see me&you will not see me. So put on infrared;Turn the light off in your head&you will not see me&you wi...
Posted by Faded Paper Figures on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:15:00 PST

Lyrics to B-Film

B-film I can't pay today and I never will I'm on the downside of the double billHere's where I am (no surprise)A Monogram guy with Bela Lugosi eyes So why did you say "love" is an act of t...
Posted by Faded Paper Figures on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:57:00 PST

Lyrics to Fell Off My Name

Fell off my NameThe self that is wholly comprehended by civilization resolves itself in an element of the inhumanity which from the beginning has aspired to evade civilization. The primordial ...
Posted by Faded Paper Figures on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:56:00 PST

Welcome to the new site

So for those of you linking from the old url (myspace.com/machinediscourse), welcome! We are hard at work on some new songs, and promise not to switch sites and names again. Thanks to ever...
Posted by Faded Paper Figures on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:55:00 PST