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The Knapsack Superlative

octopus swimming and microphones swinging

About Me

These are songs about dreams, fantasies, delusions, the purest love, and more. Everyone is beautiful in one light and a sick fuck in another. Let’s celebrate.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/28/2005
Band Members: Derek - guitars, vocals, synths, keys, singing saw, various noise, recording & mixing
Influences: cross-dressing, dreams, the Incredible String Band, nursery rhymes, blanket forts, Syd Barrett, bad parents, Bob Dylan, love with no strings attached, the Velvet Underground, Charles Chaplin, Halloween, Neutral Milk Hotel, silent films, Nick Drake, fairy tales, Elliott Smith, the taboo, of Montreal, kids, Brian Eno, makeup
Sounds Like: happy bedroom music
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Nearly Forgotten

Seeing as I haven't proven myself alive for the past four-five months, I thought that tonight I'd dig up some stuff that I was last working on before starting whatever kind of hiatus I am currently in...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:58:00 PST

The Story of Andy Kite

This is a nursery rhyme. Don't listen if any of the following applies to you:- You think of yourself as an "adult."- You watch football on television.- You take your religion seriously.- You believe ...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:24:00 PST

I Keep Posting Shit As Soon As It's Done...

And I need to stop it. I gotta keep some stuff under wraps for once. So there are two new songs up now, "A-Okay" and "Queen Andrew Pt. 1." They're much more complete than any other recordings I've ...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:46:00 PST

Whoa, I Did Work

Right, so I worked the last two days and got those new songs recorded and uploaded. They're kind of different, I guess, from other stuff I've done, but I hope that's a good thing. Anyway, I already ...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:50:00 PST

Something Witty, Something Witty...?

Because I don't really have anything else new to put up right now, I decided I'd toss up a recording of a little remnant from the concept album days. It's one of the last things I recorded in Arizona...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:03:00 PST

Two Extra Songs

I took down the first two songs of The Cranbury EP and put up a couple of "extra" songs that I tracked at around the same time. They're both kind of long and all, and I don't know that I could call e...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:50:00 PST

A Look Back At Halloween

In the couple of months before Halloween this year, I set out to make a small, short collection of songs about a Halloween book from my childhood--a book called "The Pumpkin Smasher." On Halloween ni...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:18:00 PST

My musical hero died.

In honor of Syd Barrett, founder of the british psychedelic band Pink Floyd, who died on friday at the age of 60, I quickly recorded and uploaded four cover songs. I hope everyone enjoys them. I pro...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:28:00 PST

Download the "Neutral Milk Hotel Suite," performed by yours truly.

I don't know how long it'll be up (it depends on how many people download it), but I uploaded a song to Rapidshare. It's just me performing pieces of songs by Neutral Milk Hotel. If you REALLY have ...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:41:00 PST

Creative Weekend

Well, I wrote and recorded another song since that lost blog entry earlier today. So now it's uploaded and all that stuff. This song, "Eleventh Birthday," is yet another song for the project (yes, t...
Posted by The Knapsack Superlative on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:51:00 PST