Member Since: 13/03/2006
Band Website: hotcongressdenver.com
Band Members: Thank You Brian and Rod Blackhurst for everything you've done for us. PHOTO BY OTOLAST (JOHN BOTTS)
Influences: Jah Rastafari Haille Sellassie I, thundercats, sandwiches, jewel cases, denmark, quick release skewers, mad max, the lilliputians (not to be confused with midgets, dwarves, small people, leprechauns, lepers, fetuses, or gnomes), city of mumbai india, flying dragon/dogs named atreyu (not the band), the power of geometry, sinus headaches, flatulence, ambivalence, malevolence, benevolence (to a lesser degree), shapely thighs, crayfish a.k.a mudbugs and/or crawdads, other underappreciated crustacians, echinoderms, exothermic reactions (especially relating to bruce willis), all made up terms for clothing most specifically "shpants", electric rotisserie machines (genius), carboxymethylcelulose, amino proteins, chance romantic encounters at laundromats that have never yet but may still happen, most forms of bubbles, Campari, texas hold 'em, the cry of the lonely coyote, magpies, delicious berries wrested from a willful monkey's tireless grasp, friction, "teasing" as it relates to hair, fulton's folley, the good kind of "professional women", vans that really do have puppies, the judicial system, third base, sanskrit but not sandals or vandals or scandals, the amazing sure-footedness of goats, incontinence, continents, spontaneity, play-dough but fuck sculpey, bathroom walls, tasteful non-threatening ninety's rock piano covers, aquasocks (sox?), reader's digest, climbable trees, Redbeard (el Barbarossa), satchmo, that fish with a light on its damn face, fireworks, strong well-made bricks, anything 2-in-1, the 700 club, hockey pucks to the "troat", polemics, and polycarbonate containers. just try to break it.
Sounds Like: "a garage band tool plays the amelie soundtrack"- kenneth "the littlest yeti" arkind
Director/Editor/DP - James Shaughnessy
AD/AC/Producer - Thomas Stemrich
Gaffer/Grip/Producer - Brian Wiley ***BigHotStars***
OTOLAST
Record Label: that one that makes you pay for everything.