Member Since: 3/17/2006
Band Website: This *is* my website !
Band Members: Russell Van Rooy -
electric and acoustic guitars,slide guitars,electric guitar with echo, bass, vocals, electronic programming, composition, production.
Influences: Favorite Bands,Musicians & Stuff I like: Tom Verlaine,Richard Lloyd, Television,Neil Young ,Richard Thompson, Bob Mould ,Robert Fripp,Eleventh Dream Day,Jessica Bailiff,MyBloodyValentine, Bill Frisell,Jimi Hendrix,Flying Saucer Attack,Bardo Pond,Pink Floyd,Patti Smith Group, Capt. Beefheart ,The Grateful Dead,The Byrds,Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young,The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth,The Dream Syndicate,Joy Division,The Who,The Stooges,Cocteau Twins,Devo,Dinosaur Jr,The Beatles,Bob Dylan,Jeff Buckley,Jim Page,PJ Harvey,Nirvana,Jefferson Airplane,Howling Wolf,Matthew Sweet and much much more...
Favorite Authors: Rudy Rucker,Chuck Klosterman,Philip K Dick,Roger Penrose,Marco Vassi,Peter Mathiessen,Michael Grant,John Derbyshire,Edward Gibbon,Fyodor Doestoevsky,David Sedaris,Livy,Homer,Alan Watts,Heinz Pagals,Robert Pirsig,Richard Brautigan,Gabrial Garcia Marquez,Herman Hesse,Spalding Gray,Jack Kerouac,Charles Baudlaire,Raymond Carver,Sylvia Plath,Brian Greene,David Deutsche,Martin Rees,Tom Wolf,Yogananda,Robert Kaplan,C.J. Jung,Lester Bangs,Bertrand Russell,Lao Tzu,John Cramer et al.
desert island book: The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Recent Good Movies: ever changing list...
Into the Wild, I'm not there,No Country for Old Men, There will be Blood, Juno
Important Mentions: I love my wife,the best friend I've ever had, Leah ,my family and friends in Seattle,Portland, and Kalamazoo, and now Chicago!, Heros:Yogananda,Alaxandre Grothendieck, Richard Feynman,Alan Kay,Gautama Sakymuni Buddha,Maya Deren,Hypatia,Abraham Lincoln are greatly admired by me. Mathematics is my religion,MySpace 'friends',air, Perrier,strong coffee,anything that can inspire and BoingBoing .
Sounds Like: Flying Saucer Attack, Tom Verlaine,Neil Young, Bardo Pond,David Gilmour,Bob Dylan,Jackson Browne
Type of Label: None