Member Since: 23/06/2008
Band Members: Art Z: vox, axe, heart attacks & self-appointed seasick-prone captain; monKEYpaw: electronix, vox, multiple spelling bee champion, astrological navigator & Leviathon harpooner; Roman V Monroe: woofers, coral reef-er marine biologist, designated idea-man & sea-wench magnet; C$: tweeters, tuna fisherman, premature seaman & resident jesus-freak; J5: skins, skin-flute, lucid voyager, craft beer connoisseur & avid drunken roller-skater.
Influences: All film directors w/ surname Anderson, Reality Sandwich, William Faulkner, The Beats, small town provincialism, [big] CITY LIGHTS, Fractal Theory, The Velvet Underground, Infinite Jest (i.e. David Foster Wallace), Woody Allen, Radiohead (esp. OK computer - Amnesiac), Stanley Kubrick, Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray, Lars von Trier, Dogma 95, Breaking the Waves, Pet Sounds, Pavement, David Berman (Silver Jews & Actual Air), David Lynch, Osvaldo Orengo (Our 1st official drummer: one hell of a drummer; one hell of a man!) Jessie Stoddard (Our 2nd official Drummer: Jessie's a hard man to sum up between parentheses.), Barry Hannah, Ravel, Debussy, The Fall, Can, Wire, Television, Echo & the Bunneymen, Joy Division, Requiem For A Dream, Robert Zimmerman, Bonzo, Gonzo Journalism, the mothers of invention, Gonzo (the Muppet), The Muppets, tossing shots in strumpets, probably not tea & crumpets, definitely not trumpets, Tourettes? F*CKING C*CK-SUCKING C*NT-SANDWICHES! Leonard Cohen, Liars, Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom, Meat Puppets, Mario Savio, Syd Barrett, John Barth (i.e. Floating Opera & the End of the Road), Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Penderecki, Space is the Place, Noam Chomsky, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Tati, Peter Sellers, Eugenides (i.e. Middlesex & Virgin Suicides), The entire Coppola family, White Noise (i.e. Delillo), Chinatown, The Onion, The Believer, sushi, Neu!, Terrence McKenna, Sigur Ros, Sparklehorse, Afghan Whigs, The Cure, Guided By Voices, Magazine, The Stranglers, Early R.E.M., Sonic Youth, The Kinks, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Pere Ubu, David Bowie, Suicide, Unwound, Gang Of Four, Mission of Burma, Fugazi, Faust, This Heat, Robert Wyatt, My Bloody Valentine, Damon Albarn, stoned armchair digressions concerning the implications of Quantum Physics, mainstream media banality, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Roxy Music (i.e. the Brians), Andrew Bird, Dosh, Isolee, Captain Beefheart, Love, Andy Kaufman, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Richard Linklater, Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Michel Gondry (i.e. Science of Sleep), Putney Swope, Dancer in the Dark, Crispin Glover (i.e. brilliant stunt he pulled on Letterman) , Spaghetti Westerns (i.e. Sergio Leone), Ennio Morricone, gratuitous overbearing irony...NOT! The Worm Ourobouros, astrology, Dave Eggers, Post-modernity, Post-Punk, Punk, Abbey Monks (mostly their beer), trace amounts of myriad pharmaceutical drugs found in city drinking water, probably slightly more than trace amounts of dioxins found in Midland BREATHING AIR thanks to our dearest pals @ DOW devoted to the HUMAN ELEMENT (come on now; why would they drop loads of cash on this consummate ad campaign consisting of umpteen, so poigniant & aesthetically pleasing it hurts, commercials, if they didn't really care about us? Ha! See, they do care after all!) The Dalai Lama. The llama Dolly. alien abductions, consequently & with great shame...anal probes, which isn't meant to be a euphemistic double entendre implying latent homosexuality or sodomy. Latent homosexuality [sigh]...& sodomy. Boris Karloff's voice in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Thurl Ravenscroft's voice in the corresponding theme song You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch, Kurt Vonnegut (i.e. Breakfast of Champions), Steve Albini, Un Chien Andalou, Luis Bunuel en general, Dada, Surrealism, Salvador Dali, Henri Rousseau, Abstract Expressionism (i.e. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) Maya Deren (i.e. Meshes of the Afternoon), Italian Neo-realism, French New Wave, New Wave, Shoegaze, Craft Beer, general douche-baggery, psychedelic frolicking, general pretention, generally guilt upon reflection of pretention, generalized anxiety concerning the possibility of unconscious general pretention followed generally by guilt surrounding said pretention:PANIC ATTACKS! Hospitals. Addictions as attempt to self-medicate all the above. More Hospitals. Addiction to Hospitals. Hospital personnel chasing from triage exclaiming, "there's absolutely nothing wrong with you, you charlatan!" I could not disagree more.
Record Label: Unsigned