Myrrh Larsen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Kids on stage playing their fucking hearts out.

File under: Turn it up.

(Did we add you without saying hi first? Shame on us. It's probably just because you're beautiful and we're easily intimidated. Take it like the compliment it is and say hello yourself.)

Well now that we're such good friends

We don't mind if you add us to your top 8 or top 50 or whatever you roll with.

Here, we'll make it easy for ya.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/11/2004
Band Website: myrrhmusic.com
Band Members: Myrrh Larsen (vocals, guitars)
Jesse Brooke (drums)
J.T. Reno (lead guitar)
Chris Sherman (bass)
Influences: Sonic Youth, Prince, Massive Attack, Jawbox, The Pixies, The Afghan Whigs, Catherine Wheel, Bryan Adams, The 1966 Rolling Stones, Urge Overkill, Beth Orton, Joy Division, The Velvet Underground, The Mars Volta, Smokey Robinson, Mogwai, Cheap Trick, The Dresden Dolls, Harry Nilsson, John Cale, Fugazi, Elvis Costello, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, A Tribe Called Quest.
Sounds Like: You tell us.
Record Label: whole note
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I havent cracked.

For some reason, and despite the fact that I explicitly opted out of the SNOCAP agreement, Myspace has added the SNOCAP MP3 store for ANOTHER ARTIST, the christian band "Myrrh", to my page.I've sent a...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:19:00 PST

Happy Halloween, continued.

It's like putting on a musical costume. Don't just dress up the outside, dress it all up, paper yourself in streamers and fake blood and entrails. My halloween greeting for you, dear reader, is a fun ...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:23:00 PST

No time to run, no time to think.

You might've seen me mentioned in the Oregonian a couple weeks back. I've been collaborating with a brilliant local visual artist in some impromptu performances at Portland's Someday Lounge. We've got...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:43:00 PST

Life on pause.

Lately I feel paused, suspended, inanimate. Put on the shelf. I try to write a song about it and instead I write a song about Ben Chapell, and then today I'm getting my blog fix and Amanda Palmer (of ...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:54:00 PST

Flashbulbs and the men who love them.

A lot of people have a whole community of their MySpace friends who chat them up in the blog comments. I'm not one of those, if you couldn't tell, but I'm grateful that I have lots of people who write...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:00:00 PST

Short version of an earlier bulletin post.

When I was in grade school, the school was heated by a complicated system of oil radiators. We'd go out in the hallways in the wintertime and melt Crayola crayons (wrappers first carefully removed) on...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:45:00 PST

The myth of words for snow.

Cruel, meandering, the rain of slow defeat. Trusted and made rust of stronger fools than I. Tell it to the bus driver, the girl on the street, the man between doorways, the cat at the windowsill. Tell...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:07:00 PST

I fought the law and you know the rest.

Huge thanks to everyone who spent time with me on my brief jaunt to the east coast and the middle bit of the country. I've had an eventful first week back in Portland.Monday afternoon, fly back into P...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:28:00 PST

Alternative transportation dreams.

By the way. Remember my dream about the horse-drawn carriage? Well, you'll be glad to know that the fabulous Ditty Bops are going on tour this summer on bicycles from LA to NY. Kudos to those two bada...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Thu, 18 May 2006 10:20:00 PST

Learning by the book, notes from a deleted entry.

In rewind: Jesse and I sat down last Friday morning and watched the video from last month's show. Then we watched it again. Then we went to the Red Light to buy him a couple of shirts.We ducked into t...
Posted by Myrrh Larsen on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:37:00 PST