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Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers)

Menstrual Cyclist/Nutritionist to the Stars

About Me

I love music, animals and a small group of people. The only "higher power" I believe in is a 100-watt Marshall Plexi. I've been divorced a lot. I like long walks on the beach, kittens and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter...spray.

Me and my "higher power" at The Girlfriend Experience's final show.

My Interests

Music, Writing, Vegetarian Cooking, Beer, Fat Bottom Girls.

I'd like to meet:

Your tired, your poor,your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore...AND PATTY HEARST!

Music:

Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, Morrissey, Television, The Swans, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, PJ Harvey, Crime and the City Solution, Killing Joke, PIL's first three albums, The Who, Guided By Voices, The Small Faces (not The Faces with Rod Stewart...yuck), The Kinks, Big Star, T. Rex, The Velvet Underground, Gary Numan, David Bowie, King Crimson (60's - 80's), Can, Roxie Music, The New York Dolls, Nico, early Iggy Pop, Agent Orange, The Ramones, The Jam, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, Fear, MDC, Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Dead Kennedys, The Circle Jerks, GBH, X, The Replacements, Elliot Smith, Matthew Sweet, Lee Hazelwood, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Radiohead, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Sleep, The White Stripes, Superdrag, Built To Spill, Stereo Lab, God Speed You Black Emperor, Wire, Pere Ubu, The Pixies, The Breeders, Nirvana, The Casual Dots, The Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, Ride, Blur, The Good, The Bad and the Queen, Quicksand, The Jesus Lizard, Fugazi, Slint, Lungfish, Dinosaur Jr., Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, Joy Division, The Posies, Husker Du, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Sugarcubes, Bjork, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Neil Young, Beachwood Sparks, The Flying Burrito Bros., Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd (pre-The Wall), Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, Black Sabbath, Curtis Mayfield, Cody Chestnut, Richie Havens, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Dick Dale, The Ventures, Link Wray, Slayer, Meshugga, The Melvins, Neurosis, Beethoven's String Quartets (not a big fan of his symphonic work), Bella Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Brian Ferneyhough, Glenn Branca...there's so much more, but who's got the time? Besides, if you've read this far you may be a stalker...which I'm totally OK with.

Movies:

Five Easy Pieces, Wild Zero, Ghost World, Wild At Heart, Santa Sangre, Repo Man, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Breakfast Of Champions, I Love Huckabees, Boogie Nights, American Beauty, Drugstore Cowboy, Citizen Ruth, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Fire Walk With Me, Fear Anxiety and Depression, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Vulgar, Boys Don't Cry, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, anything by John Waters, Kill Bill vols. 1 & 2, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, Dirty Harry, Ed Wood, pretty much anything by the Cohen Bros., Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Ran, About Schmidt, Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Heathers...and probably hundreds more that I can't think of off of the top of my head.

Television:

I hate (no...loathe) television. The list below contains the only shows I can watch without wanting to gouge my eyes out with a dirty mellon baller.
Strangers With Candy, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Mister Show, That's My Bush, South Park, Family Guy, The Sopranos, The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Iron Chef.

Books:

Interzone, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Love Is A Dog From Hell, A Night Of Serious Drinking, The Complete Works of William Blake, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Iron John.

Heroes:

Tor Johnson, Larry Bud Melman, Morrissey, Michael Moore, and Clint Eastwood.

My Blog

America deserves Britney Spears...

...she is the sad, pathetically dismal reflection of our nation's collective soul glaring back at us in all her slack-jawed and empty headed glory...confused, frightened, belligerent and tragic, like ...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:58:00 PST

New Testament 2010...In the beginning...

I had a dream...a dream of businessmen crucified to Coke can satellites, spinning out of control through space. All had hands and feet pop riveted to the hulls, bleeding profusely onto starched white ...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:27:00 PST

I am the minor key arpeggio

I am the minor key arpeggioShe is the Braun handmixer juiced on 1000 volts, screeching and hissing well beyond its function.She is cordless yet eternal, just won't shut the fuck up. Echoes through my ...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:35:00 PST

Why I play guitar

I am a piece of nothing aspiring to be the peace of nothing. Silence somehow seems so much sweeter after you have viciously driven big ugly chord after big ugly chord into it. It's like finally being ...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Phone Call From An Ex-Wife...A Slight Return

Love? Love? Love?!!! Understanding?!!! Spiritual bliss?!? I paid my 50 bucks for a good karma seat, god damn it, so lay it on me! I tell Carolyn Im moving to Amsterdam. Are you taking drugs? sh...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Girl Of My Dreams

I saw an angry woman with a jackhammer tearing up sections of sidewalk one day. When I asked her why, she replied, I had a dream that when I was born, I was a wrench. In this dream, my mother told me...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Distant Politeness

Quit now! No more games with rules that shift to dead end. Pass it by, move on to the dead beginning. Nowhere stretched out before you like a lover with a headache or a girl that wants to be just fri...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Polite Distance

Im disconnected. The caffeine chews at my brain. Depressed and amped&Neat! All I need for a destruction do-it-yourself kit. Not recommended for children under 12. Pregnant women should consult a phys...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Crappy Love Poem #3

Sit in silence with me lover. No need for chit-chat or hoo-ha. If tomorrow never comes, this is our last chance to go out with a bang. Our purpose, though insignificant, is clear. Play the music of tw...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Erika

The notes hitting my eardrums simultaneously soothe and rip my heart and mind. A reminder of an empty place in my life that I cant seem to fill. Her angelic nature gives the piano a soul like no o...
Posted by Ty C. Gerhardt (guitarist, The New Day Breakers) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST