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About Me

I was born with a raging thirst, a hunger to be free, in Connecticut. Then I lived in Vermont for awhile. There i recorded a little 10 song album, including some of the stuff here. ----if you like it, contact me and i will send you a cd. rare first pressing still available. ha.---- After a little wandering, i landed back in CT, and that's that for now. As far as my musical bio, i loved punk rock when i was fourteen and played guitar in a crusty band. Then i started sort of feeling groovy and listening to the grateful dead and jamming long-winded jams with my friend kiyoshi the excellent drummer. Next it was time to put away childish things such as the electric guitar and accompany my friend dave on the great acoustic songs he was writing. soon enough i was writing my own songs and the rest is melodramatic popular song history.in vermont i went to college for a second and listened to radiohead and washed a lot of dishes for a few years. i would write and sing during little patches of inspiration, sort of far between, aided by the many loony and gifted artists in northern and central vermont. These phases became longer and more productive; then in the winter of 06 i came alive with energy and ideas and songs in my head and smiles for how funny everything was. i played shows, recorded, had big plans. well, lord knows that can't last.so now i'm playing songs into my magic box here, some old, some new, some not mine. lots of decent fake sounds to work with.it's great to find everything funny. hopefully i'm on my way back there......apparently if i want my profile to look boss like this i have to whore myself to some service, so just ignore this next bit. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/02/2008
Band Website: www.danzura.com
Band Members: visit my website for other songs and info
Influences: the clash, beatles revolver, t rex, michael hurley, neutral milk hotel, gillian welch, pavement, nick drake, elvis costello, mississippi john hurt, alcohol, v, robyn hitchcock, elliott smith, milo goes to college, basquiat and bill murray and yes, bob dylan.
Sounds Like: me rocking out ... to read a review, click here
Record Label: _ records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

performing independence day eve

hey everyone. reminding you to come down to javapalooza, 330 main street middletown, ct this friday july 3. i'm going to be playing a couple sets of songs starting at 8 pm. some copies of this elusive...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:52:00 GMT

like a consolation

well, yes, still hung up on the logistics of releasing my e.p. . i'm not cut out for logistics. thanks, loyal fans, for not breaking my door down over it. here is a cover of like a prayer with crystal...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:04:00 GMT

sleeper hit

i've just returned from ol montpelier where i finished some finishing on the e.p., and it's basically ready to go. i'm tickled. it's called sleeper hit. there are six songs. they all sound pretty good...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:30:00 GMT

distraction and helter skelter

hey everybody. this e.p. is so nearly done. it just needs some overdubs and some mixing and some art. i actually gave a few rough copies around to folks, sort of jumping the gun on a disciplined certa...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:33:00 GMT

a record coming together

hey friends. well, i'm working on song number 4 for this record, and i'm having a swell time. my friend crystal recorded some vocals. i'll be travelling to vermont soon to visit and play music with so...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:36:00 GMT

in the studio!

by which i mean my studio apartment. i'm always here. however, i've begun recording a yet to be titled release of original songs. something between an e.p. and an l.p. i guess. more on this remarkable...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:11:00 GMT

secret kindness

i had gotten the spider off the wall and onto a little brochure from the cable company. he was quick and smart. he looked like a miniature tarantula. or she. ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:20:00 GMT

long poem from a plane

ten seconds upand colorado is a quiltblock and patchgenerations of men and womenfamilies refining their squareplanting and harvestingmaybe every son or daughter is a stitchthese are whole lives spento...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:14:00 GMT

rooting his rosy snout in the oats

well i joined facebook and found this magnetic poetry application with which i can write poems, it is called fridge. almost as good as a real fridge except there's no beer in it.in other news, i have...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 18:30:00 GMT