James Hellican - ProfilesArchive

About Me

So it goes...
Itâ€™s so hard to tell your lifeâ€™s story. In fact, when you write it out, you realize how insignificant it was. Who cares where Iâ€™ve been or where Iâ€™ll go. I could lay quiet like the soft driven snow. I could speak. I could say words aloud. I could cover my ears and shout in a crowd.
I never actually recorded an album, but each year I'll give a name to a compilation that will ascribe its efforts. This yearâ€™s offering, Bishop Whispers began as a conceptual stripped down single thought song, all written during the dawning daylight hours. Its a rather modest reflection of life around me. and sometimes its not. Sometimes i can come together, and escape through a song, and sometimes its just coffee.
Guitar continues to become my most natural instrument. I can sing and play together for some songs, for others I have to rely. I played bass in a band once , and started on bass in another . And every now and then I've been known to whip out an egg shaker on the end of a drumstick
and shake uncontrollably.
seeking a drummer/best friend.
inquire within.
Jewel, Deepest Confinement Video by Tobias Stretch
Mastered by Kilo Watts

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/22/2006
Band Members: All songs recorded, performed, sequenced, bastardized and conceived by Jameswith some special appearances by : Dave Juncos on Guitar Mike Meyers on Bass Nathanael Balon on Drums Thea on vox Peter Trezzi on Drums Ductape Halo on Guitar and Vern on the shaker...
Influences: adam x, agnes poetry, air, bad religion, bauhaus, beach boys, belle and sebastian, blur, bird and the bee, brian eno, british murder boys, broadcast, carl jung, camera obscura, cure, catherine wheel, chopin, cramps, david bowie, dead milkmen, dead kennedys, depeche mode, dimazza, ductape halo,emerald down, eliot smith, farside, grassy knoll, gg allin, go-betweens,guided by voices, heaven 17. helium, into another, intro to india, jesus and mary chan, james, jane's addiction, jawbox, joey beltram, joy division, juliana hatfield, knife, love and rockets, low, ladytron, lush, luna, medicine, mercury rev, modern lovers, woody mcbride, make-up, mission uk, morrissey, mouse on mars, moldy peaches, my bloody valentine, new order, ocean blue, orb, prototype 909, pet shop boys, pastels, pj harvey, polvo, primal scream, pulp, robert hood, rollerskate skinny radiohead, rasputina, ride, riverside, roxy music, saint ettine, sebadoh, shudder to think, smiths, siouxie, suicide, sugar, slowdive, sonic youth, spacemen 3, soviet, spiritualized, sigue sigue sputnik, sensefield, spirea x, stereolab, suede, swirlies, supergrass, superchunk, t.rex, terrence fixmer, television, tortoise, twitchen vibes, this mortal coil, talking heads, union jack, unrest, velvet underground, verve, velocity girl, vaselines, xtc, yo la tengo
Type of Label: None

My Blog

to the birds...

i think i may have missed my calling as a eulogy writer, but i don't think i could stand the pressure. how do you sum up someone's life in a few paragraphs? i surely could hope that my lif...
Posted by James Hellican on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:16:00 PST

goodbye,yellow brick road

At 102, Albert Hofman says goodbye to this world and transforms into the void as the man responsible for giving people the ability to think in colors and pictures. Not unlike the man respo...
Posted by James Hellican on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:44:00 PST

desire.

staring down, the tarmacbeneath mewaiting for, the dawnto release meso many times i’ve tried to ridewith angel wings at my side.only to find that empty cupscannot be filled by mountain tops....
Posted by James Hellican on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:30:00 PST

the killing fields

Okay, its obvious that Philadelphia has a problem. I don't need to get into the statistics of it, but people are dying by each other's will. This is nothing new, of course,...
Posted by James Hellican on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:41:00 PST

ode to infinity

Nic is always cold. Always. It could be 70 degrees, and she's cold. But she's cold to the touch too, her extremities, ice. At first, I observe the obvious: Maybe it's the job i...
Posted by James Hellican on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:27:00 PST

To Catch A...

I've been in love with my DVR ever since I got it. Now that i'm armed with Ad-Block and my fast forward button, I'm slowly removing myself from the advertising world. But that's another th...
Posted by James Hellican on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:02:00 PST

Its still life...

So it begins& I've never written a blog before. I've never had the opportunity to stand on Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, caressing the air with words that no one cares to hear. ...
Posted by James Hellican on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:09:00 PST