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Sam Francis

About Me


The Roarkian Template
www.animalpsi.com review (4/1/08)
Another episode: Trying to read some kind of post-ironic value or miraculous creative vacuum which the label as handler may have stumbled upon, I’ve attended the MySpace of Sam Francis as suggested by his saran-wrapped CDr and found little sway in any possible direction, leaving me just the folded, hand-written wrapper and nine songs of ‘The Roarkian Template’ to determine. While very uneven in terms of quality – really mandating just one shit-fest (“Close the Deal”) to be excised entirely - the disc earns points for idiosyncracy alone, beginning with the cultural autism of Ted Leo picking unrequited Van Halen riffs on “Koshabox”, Francis’ style crossing the oblique songwriting of Jacob Smigel with the ugly, home-tracked production of a Belly Boat or Ariel Pink. Vastly outshining the tack-board of his guitar, Francis' use of synthesizers and drum machines frequently (and likely unintentionally) suggests the gauzy brilliance of ‘Low’ era Eno and ‘The Return of the Durutti Column’, most notably in the canned-Salsa of “Productivo”, and the closing pair of (mostly) instrumentals “Jersey” and “Sea of Orange”. Bizarre, yet inexplicably relevant.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/27/2005
Band Members: Me - acoustic, keyboard, microphone, 4track, cakewalk, electric guitar, noise pedals, economical apartment rooms
Influences: Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds, Chopin, John Frusciante, Salvador Dali, Henry Miller, David Cross, Krishnamurti, Herman Hesse

By virtue of naming God, God, or personalizing the un-personable you do a great disservice to God if God truly is the one “God.” Or at least aren’t you approaching the whole issue in a condescending manner by way of bringing something so great down to our own understanding of our monkey selves (either a man or woman supreme being in the sky?)...just a midday thought is all.
Sounds Like: the brain during intercourse.
Record Label: http://www.ihadanaccidentrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

rum and roll at Lucky Dog in Worcester

It was fun playing the originals and some covers with Zachproductivokoshaboxzee gold standardgym dayspeople are strangehigh and dryout of my headnorwegian woodcrash test dummies..ummmmm
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:55:00 GMT

The Stones played the Lucky Dog in '81. I'll invade said venue this thursday

FLOCK OF ASSHOLES!!! THE retro 80's TRIBUTE!!! with openers DUC-N-IT EASY, ASHLAND'S ATTIC and SAM FRANCIS (solo) Start Time: 8:00 PM Event Category: Entertainment ...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 14:52:00 GMT

A message from Ram Dass


Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 13:04:00 GMT

Blue Cheer

a new "old" band I recently found out about..good rockagewhat you lookin at?www.myspace.com/bluecheer
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 15:25:00 GMT

zencast.org

http://cdn4.libsyn.com/amberstar/Zencast199.mp3?nvb=20090504 035601&nva=20090505040601&t=0132739427e22977bd4d4
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 21:13:00 GMT

allergy medicine and update on new CD

well it must have the same ingredient, because I feel "good". got rid of itchy eyes and now I'm in the Zone. i'm excited about the possibility of finally releasing something. it's looking like 5-6 son...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:04:00 GMT

a recent bar experience in leominster

....Sam Femino to infomichaelspub ..show details 11:18 PM (4 minutes ago) ..Reply....Hello- I'm just writing to voice my displeasure in a recent trip I had toyour fine establishment. I entered your ba...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:24:00 GMT

bob odenkirk as God lol


Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:13:00 GMT

watchmen official site

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/productivo near completion...final mixing, mastering, and digitilization underway
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:43:00 GMT

Our Gold Standard

the professional athletes should pay off all our national debtthen we could walk around with less regretthey're the reason, we've become lazybeen living in the moment, cheering on our teamfootball pla...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:10:00 GMT