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About Me

aim = "implicitly vague." the two recordings above are just rough ideas that me and my friend brandon recorded...we both play guitar. we want to form a band. if you'd like to join us message me if you like simple music and wanna play or if you('re) like this guy

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/20/2005
Band Website: .
Influences: the image of me before I was aware of me, 10,000 page russian novels that give me a life when (real) life consists of only a yo-yo and a lot of liars, the god-sent moments when a truly beautiful song finds its way to my ears, sociopathic envirowhackos who write stories and have a sense of humor, people who have the advantage but never impose;the gentle giants who aren't tall, the ones who are aware of a life being lived and time being spent and so go about life not taking everything so seriously; the ones who are aware of a life coming to an end and time being passed and so go about their days breathing life into the sleepers, the people i've let in and who've stayed...........music: this seems sorta pointless but if I'm lucky a person (or 10) will type one of these word combinations into the influences section in the search engine and a fruitful, musical relationship will be made: Bob Dylan, Wilco, John Fahey, Bob Marley, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Thelonious Monk, Built To Spill, J.S. Bach, kraftwerk, moby, Midlake, The Cure, old jazz music when I hear it in movies and stuff (it's boring to listen to when I'm boiling an egg or something), The Smiths, The The, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Thom Yorke, henry miller, M Ward, Conor Oberst, Jonny Greenwood, Modest Mouse, REM, R.E.M., Daniel Johnston, Supergrass, james jamerson, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Pink Floyd, Pj Harvey, psychedlic, experimental, The Flaming Lips, Ian Curtis, Velvet Underground, billie holiday, louis armstrong, joanna newsome, Jose Gonzalez is pretty cool, Leonard Cohen, M Ward, Micah P. Hinson, moby, new order, Nick Drake, Pj Harey, Rachmaninov, Hector Berlioz (symphonie fantastique after smoking), Supergrass, shoegaze, Stevie Wonder, The Arcade Fire, arcade fire, The Libertines, The coral, thethethethe the thethehtthehthet the, the doors, the flaming lips, the shins, the strokes, Tom Waits, van morrison, Joy Division, Robert Smith, Sonic Youth, ambient, pavement, hypnotic droning rhythms, the sound of a well-mic'ed acoustic guitar being strummed with urgency as electronic sounds with no direction wash within the 3:00 minutes of captured time, The Stone Roses, David Bowie, Dave Matthews, Broken Social Scene, Echo and the Bunnymen, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple pilots, Brian Eno, aphex twin, mogwai, explosions in the sky, mississippi john hurt, rage against the machine, slowdive, my bloody valentine, (I HOPE THIS IS WORTH THE HASSLE), jam, jamming, alternative, indie, pop, first wave punk, new wave, penderecki, roxy music, cat stevens, Nick Drake, , spiritualized, black rebel motorcycle club, peter buck, michael stipe, neil young, Lou Reed, The Pixies, Vetiver, Dave Van Ronk, Johnny Marr, Jeff Beck, The Arcade Fire, Beck, Galactic, Sigur Ros, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dinosaur Jr., HONEST sounds FunkFolk FucknPunk....And the power of pop.ETC
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My Blog

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  Here's some gum to chew on.   Stale gum -------------------------------   You can only fight for so long in a battle in which nothing's to be won. Soon enough, you will come ...
Posted by jr on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:27:00 PST

chances fade

April 8, 2008 Today, when I was at the beach, I saw the most incredible sight. It was overcast but the sun found its way through some of the grey and because of that, the beach was all black-and-white...
Posted by jr on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:15:00 PST

Time Machine

                    Preface (for everything that follows) there is a book on my desk which is being used as a doorstop but not a doorstop (it's holdin...
Posted by jr on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:03:00 PST

Words: They mean something, or they don't...

------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------   The worst thing you can do in life...is to never ask "why?" To never question the forces that put you through 20 year...
Posted by jr on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:21:00 PST