Genius & Attitude profile picture

Genius & Attitude

We Rise from the ashes of everything & nothing

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/1/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/geniusandattitude
Band Members: Evan Foster -aka "Genius" -guitars, keys, melodies, vocals, dreams, inspiration, sanity.Brett Gerstenberger -aka "attitude" -drums, percussion, keys, vocals, insanity, passion, drive, ambitions.
Influences: Drive-by Truckers, Townes Van Zandt, Television, Pavement, The Clash, The Ivory Coast, Miles Davis, Will Hoge, Marah, Lifter-Puller, The Hold Steady, Counting Crows, Dredg, almost homo-erotica, The Coup, Ryan Adams...
Sounds Like: Soundscapes and dreamlands, art history and impassioned love, lust and hate, and loneliness. Passion ripe with insolence and introspective daydreams. Selfishness and absolution. Anguish and love. Like a quiet morning over the kansas plains, the dew clings in isolation to the last remaining stems of the greenest grass as the sun slowly acsends in all its glory praising the wildflowers.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

of chainsaws, simple levers, and brute force

As we settle in and the number of check marks increases on our seeminly endless parade of tasks to finish our home I have learned the pleasure of simple levers mixed with brute force.  I hav...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:09:00 PST

Awaiting the influx of life changes

The ever growing list of tasks and required skills to accomplish those tasks is now expanding to include minor woodworking. And I am venturing out to build my first piece of furniture, solely for the ...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:25:00 PST

The birthing of a southerner

So our latest and wildest adventure is finally begining to wind down and things are starting to realize our new life in the south.  We had a near catostrophic move to our new semi-permenant ...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:15:00 PST

17 days...

My life in the midwest is ending, and somehow my free time left is exponentially slipping away. Sliding away as my new run as a southerner crests on the horizon. 2572 days of owning home now a th...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:57:00 PST

The apparent completion and transfiguration of an anomaly

Pending the approval of one stinky-cheese eating, red-wine drinking psuedo-frenchmen, Murderbird is completed in full.  An impending release is swelling on the horizon as winter weather paralyzes...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:41:00 PST

Upon the death of an old friend

As the year winds down my time is getting crunched, and all the while murderbird is festering, aching to reach completion.  And alas the time has come where it probably will start coming together...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:13:00 PST

Hands tied to the progression of time

Big meetings and bi-costal trips, hard work and cold rain.Such are the things that fill my days.  It seems once again everything is settling into a proverbial hurry up and waitTrain rides bring s...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:24:00 PST

Life, love, and procrastination are slowly killing murderbird

So at the end of the overtime period Almost Automatic has again ended in a no-decision.  Murderbird is back in the incubator until at the holiday season.The main reasons are my co-hort ...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:34:00 PST

Tilling the soil, upon harvesting the gold

Murderbird has been stagnant for a bit, festering under the heat of the Kansas sun. But in light of a few facts the old beast is once again stirring, proding the fertile soil of creativity with its ta...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:52:00 PST

8/11ths or 3/4ths.....

Evan and I have finished mixing 8/11 tracks, but during the process we came across another song we recorded for the album but "lost" or forgot about in the crazy suffle trying to get things taken care...
Posted by Genius & Attitude on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:00:00 PST