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About Me

in the summer of `05 this project emerged from the cool abyss smiling slyly and dressed impeccably. kris would crawl in through the open window into stately doig manor to find peteR calling up the spirit of el degas collect to the howling drone and whir of a child's chord air organ. after some pontification as way of greeting, they proceeded to commit a selection of song forms to a steam powered 8 track device with a broken record button and complicated manual written in sanskrit. pretending to mind their own business, neighbours, mysterious birds, and the guy with the greasy hair down the street with the motorcycle would let the wind blow in their carefully charted contributions. children, too excited to sleep, would knock on the door half expecting willy wonka himself to appear. tomato plants swayed gently against each other on the porch, the sweetness of their red fruit inexplicably increasing with the twist of reverb knobs on crackling tube amplifiers. peter also plays in kids these days and octoberman and was a guest of the mohawk lodge. kris has been a promiscuous musician during his life and has been a tenant of the mohawk lodge, where he met peteR during that project's prenatal period.then came jeremy...then jay and megan.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/02/2006
Band Members: jay arner, jeremy fisher, kristopher clarke hooper, megan mcdonald, peteR doig
Influences: easily put under the influence of women. we also like 20's/30's jazz and workin' tunes from the south. peteR really likes the 50's girl bands (the shirelles, the ronettes, dianna ross), motown, the beatles, creedence... and had an earnest interest in bands like firehose, swervedriver, the rheostatics, loreena mckennit (what ?... its totally true), uncle tupelo, palace music (wil oldham), son volt, wilco and superchunk as a teen in the early 90's and through his university years... i guess that may have influenced him a little. currently though, alotta rock and roll bands and folk, esp. the mohawk lodge, sun parlour players, hawksly workman, ladyhawk, niko case, and jim guthrie... but alternatively and mostly the CBC and AM oldies stations.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

all yee fishers and fisherpeoples

so kris, young ryan and meself wer out jiggin' off the pint a fortnight las' week when yee scallywag wulgatler had a wee tug on his pole... i think its another rock-cod yankin yee chain remarked kris....
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:36:00 GMT

ahoy!

we, ship-wrecked and marooned on this tailor-made island... would like to welcome ryan wugalter... his little sailboat, though strong and true, and skippered well, ran aground on our little...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:50:00 GMT

Gesturors

I can think of about twenty thousand things that are more appropriate to ask a fellow human then: 'how do you do?' or 'what do you study?' or 'what time is it?' But I guess thats a s...
Posted by on Thu, 11 May 2006 12:33:00 GMT

Hey !?! I need those paisleys

If I were that business man's tie, I would be dying for a good book to read or a decent cup of coffee or sex on the counter with a glass of water and a tulip on the window sill. If I were h...
Posted by on Thu, 04 May 2006 15:57:00 GMT

slowboat to china

in the next life, i'll be a sailboat... and if i awake in a sheltered bay and a ripple appears in the usual still water, i'll bet on a strong wind that day... that may even take me to china. ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:01:00 GMT

unicycle leg

I wish I could erase unhappiness with a giant, pink eraser. Picture this and at 'the drop of a hat', a ridiculous, giant, pink eraser lowers itself from a giant, blue sky and goes to work.&...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:57:00 GMT

pill food

pillfood: condensed versions of spare-ribs and lollipops busy getting to places we need to go getting out of bed... beds, then busy days busy days, then beds we all eat; we all wish we were not so m...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:50:00 GMT

what accident ...?

...I've just improved my dearest friends... as Hemingway: that rum swillin', elephant-gun shootin', literary-critic smackin' mallet might say. I had a fall from my goddamn skateboard...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:20:00 GMT