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A Televised Reality

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About Me

We are tired of the sell out heroes, and escapist facades that our society presents. This is a time for artistic, social and political action. The future is coming and coming on fast, and without action we may just lose out on the hopes and dreams past generations have worked so hard to secure for us. The feminist, gay and civil rights movements are not simply just footnotes in a history book. These are relevant, here and right now. We hope that you will be willing to express any ideas relating to these issues to us. Also please check out, Rohan and David Virgin.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/21/2006
Band Website: davidvirgin.com/atelevisedreality.htm
Band Members: Harlow Crandall

Alex Northrup

Kyle Simmons

Travis Stein
Influences: The Velvet Underground, Syd Barrett, The Modern Lovers, Iggy Pop, Television, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, Rocket From the Tombs, Television Personalities, Lou Reed, Peter Laughner, John Cale, Brian Wilson, Peter Perrett, Crass, Sex Pistols, Arthur Lee, The Fugs, Lester Bangs, William S. Burroughs, Bright Eyes, The Count Five, The Godz, Jandek, Phil Spector, John Coltrane, Jonathan Richman, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Patti Smith, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Seeds, The Easybeats, Andy Warhol, Love, Bob Dylan, Pearls Before Swine, Tim Buckley, Ornette Coleman, The Raincoats, REM, Big Star, Sid Vicious, The Blue Things, Howlin' Wolf, Public Image LTD, Built To Spill, John Lee Hooker, The Animals, The Remains, The Left Banke, Sonic Youth, Interpol, Robert Johnson, Pere Ubu, Electric Prunes, The Sonics....
Sounds Like: Proto-punk...the like...the Velvets and Modern Lovers uhh with umm... mixed with uhh 60's garage rock tendencies such as ? and the Mysterians and at other times I'd say that we have umm... a heavier post-punk feel with also moments of umm i gues it'd be like Elliott Smith/Johnny Thunders acoustic...uhh acoustic self-reflective type songs and the lyrics...a mixture of heavy Richard Hell and Jonathan Richman influences in terms of the tendencies in the lyrics...and definately a Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd guitar playing influence here and there I'd say...(Harlow continues to ramble half stoned...)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Short Story

A voice spoke, and the liquid night receded. Beneath the sheets his body uncoiled. Cold buzz of a florescent light seeped through the window.          &nb...
Posted by A Televised Reality on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:29:00 PST

a year old poem about writing

Contraception         ;           ;           ;   &...
Posted by A Televised Reality on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:23:00 PST

Various developments

Our current break is over, and we are starting to book shows again, also line up change in progress along with the adoption of our Leather and Fur side project into the ATvR archives due to lack of re...
Posted by A Televised Reality on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:04:00 PST

FREE LIVE CDS!!!! (info within)

Send us you're adress and we will send you recordings of our live sets for free. - Harlow
Posted by A Televised Reality on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:21:00 PST

Reformed?

Between college and pure insanity of life, we kind of became stagnent for a bit but we're preparening two new shows and are working on new songs again. Travis with luck will be rejoining us for our tw...
Posted by A Televised Reality on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:15:00 PST

new news about songs and insults against teddy geiger

We have finnally posted our new recordings there are alot more unfinished songs wherethose came from that I would say expect sometime in another month. We have probably roughly 2 albums worth of amter...
Posted by A Televised Reality on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:45:00 PST

Back to Rochester.... a week ago...

More pointless updates for whoever actually would take time to read this, we went back to Alex's place last weekend re recorded a bunch of songs along with 3 new ones, just the basics so over the cour...
Posted by A Televised Reality on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:35:00 PST

New Demo online tonite!

Hello all, Harlow wrote and recorded a brand new ditty we like to call "Crazy" at 5AM yesterday. We've already put it up here in its original hand-held tape recorded form. Let us know what you think.....
Posted by A Televised Reality on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:42:00 PST

New Recordings Coming Soon?

Hey friends, We're really ecstatic that you've all enjoyed the recordings here on the site so far. We're working on recording some more new demos, and we will post them as they're finished. Right now...
Posted by A Televised Reality on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:30:00 PST