Billy Noom - ProfilesArchive

About Me

hello,
i'm billy noom and i write and record all these bulls.
i also play in the offering and in the accordion death squad
i also try to run a collective label called birdrabbitrecords .
i was unknowingly and unwilling placed into this existence in the summer of 1981
i found myself in the suburbs of washington d.c., being raised by a normal and loving family, attending catholic school until i was 18.
it was around the formative years of high school that my brain began the involuntary questioning and dismantling of itself.
unanswerable questions of time, space, existence/non-existence, and death became a constant and obsessive torment causing search for necessary distractions to continue on.
this search is where the story begins and continues.
the search has taken my life into destruction and creation and does still.
love, career, politics, sex, religion, drugs, sloth, music.
i've diligantly examined and tried my hand at all these and many, many more. and i tell you,
of all these, music and art are the only ones i've found to be a somewhat reliable defense from the demons.
i know this only because, when done correctly, i find myself in a state of peace with existence, even if it only lasts for the night that i record the song.
the day after is always a sobering de-toxification and immediate re-toxification of sorts.
so i'm constantly searching for some type of absolution, or ultimate conclusion through creation.
this is what i've tried to achieve in each of these albums below.
obviously, this has been unsuccessful thus far or i would have stopped recording at the end of the first one, Strangers Now.
but i do think each album represents something good.
its a good marker for time passage of the quest for a hope, a hope for a hope, or just a wish for an achievable answer.
the search continues
(if you want to learn more about the human condition and the incomprehensibility of your existence versus non-existence, visit your local library)
Try To Say Goodnight
2007
The Other Side Of The World
2007
Strangers Now
2006
available by request

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/4/2005
Band Website: birdrabbitrecords.com
Band Members:
Influences: the vejtables, neu!, herb alpert and the tijuana brass band, the halo benders, django reinhardt, helvetia, unit 4 + 2, amon duul, r. stevie moore, hermans hermits, tortoise, fantastic plastic machine, the everly brothers, the troggs, the kinks, slapp happy, love, quasi, brian wilson, television, george gershwin, air, mark mothersbaugh, valium aggelein, the lovin spoonful, jon brion, beatles, velvet underground - lou reed, talking heads, wilco, the zombies, joel and ethan coen, built to spill, kevin shields - my bloody valentine, santos and johnny, do make say think - constellation records, blonde redhead, jonathan richman, elliot smith, duster, morrisey, jim henson, june of 44, brian eno, burt bacharach, danny elfman, 13th floor elevators, charlie kaufman, mary timony - helium, bill hicks, phil spector, beekeeper, tom waits, silver apples, lenard bernstein, t-rex, miranda july, radiohead, vincent gallo, the rolling stones, brad mehldau, portishead, david o. russell, tanya donelly - belly, wayne coyne, "the genuine imitation life gazette" by the four seasons, daniel johnston, miles davis, andy kaufman, the doors - jim morrison, frank zappa, r.e.m., syd barrett, rogers and hammerstein, iggy pop, sigur ros, scott joplin, the clash, bill murray, that dog, kerouac, pixies - frank and kim's solo work, the amps, the byrds, the kelley deal 6000, yo la tengo, thomas newman, p. t. anderson, morphine, jello biafra, damon albarn, engine down + anything maura does, pavement - steven malkmus, david bowie, ornette coleman, stereolab, modest mouse (the older the better), sonic youth, the association, "the hot rock" by sleater-kinney, terry gilliam, fugazi, the static cult label, leonard cohen, wes anderson, bob dylan, mogwai, the vince guaraldi trio, hunter s. thompson, freelance, yukow, ellavarella, hooray for everything, bipolar bear, varuna, the offering
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Record Label: birdrabbit
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Other Side of the World

This album is really called... To: The Other Side of the World From: Billy Noom (like those old valentine's day cards you know with the to: and from: on them... in grade school there was this girl cla...
Posted by Billy Noom on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:56:00 PST

Try To Say Goodnight

try to say goodnight is an album that was written and recorded in the fall and winter of 2006 and beginning monthes of 2007. Most of the album was written when i started living with liz in charlottesv...
Posted by Billy Noom on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:20:00 PST

Strangers Now

..> Strangers Now OK.....So after almost a year of writting and recording and blabbering on and on with many things of anger and much love and despair and nothingness...this album is no...
Posted by Billy Noom on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:44:00 PST