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lisa m. bendel

About Me

I love music more than I love food or sleep. I also love friends, buses, english ivy, sleep deprivation, sleeping on floors, low lights, the holland tunnel, my roof, my family, my nieces and nephew, bad television, sloth sessions, hard work, word games, cleverness (not in the english way), sincerity, emotional risk-taking, emotional prudence, and contradiction. Oh! And cooking. Being on stage has become more fun for me than I ever dared hope it would be. I hate that this format won't allow for the making of paragraphs, but stream of consciousness is fun as well. I love new cities. I love figuring out the formats and I love the moment (which I never quite pinpoint at the time, but later) when everything starts to click.for colors and stuff you can use Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/11/2004
Band Website: www.mchenrythemovie.com
Band Members: Lisa McHenry - songwriter, rhythm guitar, vocals.
Dan Green - lead guitar, pasta concoctions, house full of instruments.
Marcos Perez - bass, amazing painting of me and my sister, getting me to draw comics.
Brad Gunyon - drums. And cigarettes. And drums.

However, on these recordings -
Lisa on rhythm guitar and vocals,
Vincent Cecio on bass and background vocals and songwriting arguments,
Cristina Williams on lead guitar and background vocals and making me keep my eyes open when I sing; also on website,
Michael P Nordberg on drums and background vocals.

Thanks to Todd Starlin - HTML lesson.
Influences: I'm not sure if I sound like any of my influences. They range from 90s indie rock (a very wide range) to motown to early 80s pop to 70s rock to classical music I learned on the piano at a very young age to twinkle twinkle little star to store grates falling and locking and garbage trucks rumbling and footfalls at 3am when you know the girl in the boots just wants to unlock her door without incident to my friends' music, which has more than often been more insightful and profound and melodic and clear than anything that ever got really famous.Earliest influences: Mom singing church songs and showtunes from musicals; Dad teaching me sheet music on the piano; spontaneous craziness with my sisters. Later my brother recording me first in our basement on 4-tracks he hooked up to speakers in crazy wrong ways that somehow worked, drinking bottles of wine with the labels burned off stolen from a liquor-store fire. I think those tapes still exist somewhere. (Hi Dad!)
Sounds Like: That's why I have some songs posted, so you can listen to them. But if you can't, the C-Note just said something about "tuneful melodic folk rock like Lucinda Williams or Dar Williams or Buddy Holly." But Vince said there are more words in Potholes than Buddy Holly ever wrote in his life. Fair enough, I was still damn flattered. I think at best I sound like the early 80s pop, and at my other best I sound like the things you think about when you're a little drunk and writing before you go to sleep. (And by you, I mean me.)
Record Label: I need a taker. Somebody good!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The OED agrees with me.

Remember my blog about changing my name, and how I don't like hyphens? Looks like I'm not the only one.Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches onBy Simon Rabinovitch 2 hours, 9 minutes agoLONDO...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:13:00 GMT

one more thing....

My other blog is visual, and it's actually my flickr account.http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisamchenryIt's my favorite hobby of the moment.
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:58:00 GMT

Dry socket: the agony and, well, the agony.

Has anyone here ever had the dread condition known as dry socket? If not, count yourself lucky.Two weeks ago yesterday I visited my neighborhood dentist to check in about a pain I was having. The pain...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:51:00 GMT

A rose by any other name.

Today I changed the name on my profile to try it out for a test drive. As many of you know (and witnessed), Tommy and I got married a month ago. That leaves me 11 more months, legally, to figure out w...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:35:00 GMT

Caves of Mercury debut at SICA!

Exclusive footage, captured by Bernadette McHenry. There are three short clips but you can see me playing bass (thanks to Vincent for lending me this awesome bass I love so much). And John singing! An...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:04:00 GMT

christmas chase fun!


Posted by on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:43:00 GMT

Philevangelism.

So two of my dear friends came for a visit this past weekend from NYC, and I found myself expounding with joy, almost to the point of annoyance, I bet, upon the virtues of my recently-new home. I told...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:39:00 GMT

Internet distress.

Or, more accurately, internet deprivation.So, at about 10am this morning, the internet went down at my office. This means no e-mail, no sudoku, no news; no window shopping, no bank statements, no mysp...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:25:00 GMT

band names.

Naming a band is extremely difficult. Because our band has three members with equal say, it makes it all the more difficult. Usually in a band, one or two people come up with the name and then foist i...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:50:00 GMT

the thread factory.

Near my new house is a magical thread factory. When I get home from work in the late afternoon and through the evening, it looks like any of the other old factories in this neighborhood: eyes shut, fa...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:05:00 GMT