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About Me

I'm from NYC...well, sort of...via the South (I was born in Gibtown, Florida) and have lived in various areas all over the continental US (sometimes twice)...wanderlust, I guess...and reincarnation, of course! I recently moved to California's Bay Area, after a brief stop in Kansas City and several stops on the East Coast.
I'm a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, organ, bass, lap steel, hack banjo, ukulele, theremin, harmonica, drums, random percussion, things that go clang, snap and pop, I recently got my paws on a melodica, and a banjuke, etc..).
I'm obsessed with: carnivals, sideshow oddities, B-horror films, haunted houses (both real and man-made), mystery spots, beautiful imperfections, tattoos, tattooed ladies, etc... I'm a photographer...I have a fairly deep voice and I mumble... I play mostly guitar in RAGWATER REVUE; we are diligently spreading our gospel of debauchery, wine, women, one-eyed wonders, wooden legs, and alligator babies through sin and song. You can visit our website and hear some MP3s here: http://www.myspace.com/ragwaterrevue
Apparently this has been said about me (but I'm sure there are significantly less flattering stories that have been circulating around NYC): "Kris Fernald has been a part of the musical fabric of New York City for years, and is fairly well known on the independent music circuit around the world. His fondness for the more theatrical side of the industry has given him the opportunity to perform with such notable acts as The Creatures (w/Siouxsie of Siouxsie & the Banshees fame), among others, and heâ€™s also contributed his talents to the BBC in London. His latest endeavor- Broken Umbrellas- is a tasty mix of surf and crime jazz..."
Nick Cave... dark and creepy. You're a bi-polar
genius, with equal passion for the most
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In a Past Life...
You Were: A Gorgeous Sailor.
Where You Lived: France.
How You Died: Dysentery. Who Were You In a Past Life?
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My Interests

Sleep, photography that resembles SILENT FILM stills, travel, SEA FOAM GREEN & BLOOD RED accompanied by toppled ice cream trucks, VINTAGE organs, playing slinky guitar through tremendous amounts of REVERB, old music (garage, blues, surf, forgotten soundtrack composers, traditional eastern european waltzes, etc...), very little new music, California's Bay Area, carnival games, electronic gypsy fortune tellers, garlic, PINBALL, miniature golf, go-karts, playing drums with my feet, inventing strange percussive instruments, side-show oddities of the past, boardwalks, RAIN/THUNDER, EXCESSIVE REVERB, NYC, Coney Island in the fall, NOLA, strange instruments, Twin Peaks, Ed Wood, old b-horror films, Hitchcock, film noir, suspense, Twilight Zone, beeswax, London, shoes made out of alligator, ostrich, and/or suede or with buckles or all of the above, traditional tattoos, BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTIONS, Farfisa, Vox, and Hammond organs. Hollow body guitars, vintage surf guitars. Theremin.

I'd like to meet:

Open-minded people who can carry their end of a conversation. People who have lived, and have tales to tell. Old friends, new friends. Elvis, Ed Wood, Rod Serling, Johnny Cash, Charles Buckowski, Jo Jo the dog faced boy, Hank Williams Sr., etc...but I can't communicate with the dead...yet.
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Music:

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Howlin' Wolf, Leadbelly, Henry Mancini, Man or Astroman?, The Mummies, The Gories, Leadbelly, Bernard Hermann, Quintron, Link Wray, Public Enemy, Tom Waits, Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Cramps, Crypt record samplers, Bessie Smith, Elvis Presley (thief...but good at it), Christian Death, (yes...really...listen to the early Rozz Wiliams takes), Elvis Costello, The Modern Lovers, The Flaming Stars, Gallon Drunk, Billy Childish (most everything he's done), Django Reinhardt, Chuck E. Weiss, Calexico, Robert Johnson, Mark Ribot, Joy Division, Grinderman, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Angelo Badalamenti, Stan Getz, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, Satan & Adam, Big Bill Broonzy, Astrud Gilberto, The Doors, Bob Dylan, The Smiths, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Danzig, Stretcher Case, THE EERIE distorted MELODIES that PIPE OUT of passing ICE CREAM TRUCKS LOUD SPEAKERS, Misty Roses, Friends of Dean Martinez, The Lonesome Organist, Hank Williams Sr., Bauhaus, The Slow Poisoner, The Damned, but it goes on and on and on and on. I'm also a sucker for Eastern European/ Gypsy music. WALTZES!!! I love waltzes!<img src="http://www.carrollsweb.com/rockndog/illegal.jpg&qu ot;

Movies:

Six String Samurai, Vampire's Kiss, Ed Wood, Donnie Darko, Shaun of the Dead, Cemetery Man, Twin Peaks-Fire Walk with Me, Carnival of Souls, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The House of Yes, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Blue Velvet, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, My Left Foot, American Movie, The Abominal Dr. Phibes, (the original) House of Wax, Dead Alive, Dead Man, Europa Europa, Glen or Glenda, Beetlejuice, My Life as a Dog, The 10th Victim, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Vertigo, Dial M for Murder, The Man who knew too Much, Jack the Ripper (produced for BBC in the '90s), Sunset Boulevard, Another State of Mind, Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Wild at Heart, North by North West, Return of the Living Dead, Homicidal, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Buffalo '66, Carnival Girl, and most of the classic Universal horror films, etc...

Television:

Kids in the Hall, Twin Peaks, Mystery (BBC), Sigmund the Sea Monster, Creature Features (Tampa), Forensic Files, Cold Case files, Six Feet Under, Fishing with John, CSI, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Blind Date, Arrested Development, Dog-the bounty hunter, etc....

Books:

Notebooks of a Naked Youth, Demian, Herman Hess, Camus, Nightmare of Ectasy, Love is a Dog from Hell, Post Office, Cometbus, Scary Stories to tell in the Dark, etc...

Heroes:

Sigmund the Sea Monster, Vincent Price, Special Agent Dale Cooper, Bela Lugosi, Vampira, David Lynch, Howlin' Wolf, Ultraman, Ed Wood, Irving Claw, etc...

My Blog

My Dad passed away last night...

My Dad's health took a severe turn for the worse and he passed away just before midnight EST on 7/25/08. His influence on me was amazing and I would not be who I am today if it wasn't for him. He shap...
Posted by Kris on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:05:00 PST