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The Picture is Dead

The Picture is Dead

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"MUST SEE ELECTRONICA" "Behind the cool electronic exterior, the music of The Picture is Dead simmers with suppressed turmoil...their sound discourages easy comparison." Bob Massey - THE WASHINGTON POST EXPRESS ------------------------------------------------------------ ------For booking, contact Sam Serafy, PID Entertainment 703.294.4231

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/9/2005
Band Members: * Bryan Cornell - keyboards * Sam Serafy - vocal * Patrick Timony- resonator *James Wolf - guitar/violin *
Influences: THE PICTURE IS DEAD but they used to quite like...* the pink floyd * syd barrett * krzysztof komeda * roman polanski * francis bacon * rosemary's baby * michael haneke * sylvia plath * david bowie * robert moog* peter greenaway * orwell's essays * fowles' journals * last year at marienbad * walkabout * jean baudrillard * andre breton * witold gombrowicz * samuel beckett * lionel bart * tiny tim * alan bennett * daniel paul schreber * montaigne * lewis carroll * graham chapman * euan uglow * david lynch * guy debord * oum kalthoum * brian eno * friedrich schroder-sonnenstern * basil brush * marcel duchamp * harold pinter * william shakesomthingorother * norman finkelstein *
Sounds Like: "Reality, unlike the image on the retina or on the television tube, is infinitely resolvable -- `resolution' and `acuity' are properties only of images."
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Young Person's Guide to Character Assassination

If the law is against you, concentrate on the facts. If the facts are against you, concentrate on the law. And if both the facts and the law are against you, denounce your opposing counsel.
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:10:00 PST

Underpass

It was another perfectly ordinary summer afternoon. They escorted the prisoner, blindfolded, her wrists bound behind with a length of electrical cord, down the escarpment to the center of the disused ...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:25:00 PST

All the Same in the Dark

I may be blind but I am no fool. There are many in the sighted community out to take advantage of someone like me and such situations require more than a dog and a stick. But I had a secret weapo...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Thu, 25 May 2006 12:42:00 PST

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At last it was starting to take effect. He watched her mouth. It had become crooked. It made her look unattractive. She was beginning to slur and was making little sense. She felt giddy, but she had n...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Tue, 16 May 2006 07:23:00 PST

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She laughed at his bashful clowning, his foolish self-deprecating demeanor. He was prostrating himself, making himself helpless before her, offering her a project to replace the one that had been so c...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:55:00 PST

The Professionals

They lay side by side, she, disappointed, tugged at him hopefully once more. A note sounded from the apartment below. He wanted to be mistaken, but it soon sounded again, then again. And if he could h...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:43:00 PST

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The most popular of the attractions is the Opinion House which is a particularly noisy, but most entertaining place being especially enjoyed by children. The opinions are restless, drunken animals con...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:56:00 PST

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I wanted her to be visible to the others, but powerless so they would realize she was not the know-it-all she pretended to be. One thing I've learned is it's hard to be perceived as right when only ba...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:48:00 PST

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Upon switching on the bedside lamp, she was startled by a gigantic centipede scuttling across the lambs wool. It froze, apparently aiming to be inconspicuous, a joke, considering the thing's preh...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:35:00 PST

Notes

The subject is a 19 year old female who was admitted to the center following the sudden appearance of schizoid tendency.  She announced she was due to be married (quite untrue) and that she ...
Posted by The Picture is Dead on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:31:00 PST