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About Me

MyGen Profile Generatormy name's lisle. i make music sometimes, and when i do this is what it is. i had to write a bio for a class once and it said something like this:

"i grew up in the tundras of new england playing classical piano and one day i moved to california to go to school and decided to start writing songs. i bought a portastudio and started recording, combining my love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with my unrefined knowledge of classical arrangement. i try to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/17/2004
Band Website: home.comcast.net/~lisle.mitnik/fireflies/
Band Members: the "band" is just me. i write the songs and the words and play all the instruments and record them on my laptop and do all that kind of stuff.

Influences: galaxie 500, the cat's miaow, the field mice, her space holiday, nobuo uematsu, the softies, belle and sebastian, nick drake, françoise hardy
Sounds Like: daradara to fuwafuwa to kaze ni fukareru mama fuusen mitaku iraretara donna ni suteki kana
Record Label: music is my girlfriend / lavender recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

mail-order etc

a brief update: the "snowstorm" ep is now available to order through parasol mailorder and darla records mailorder! it should also be available through tonevendor and amazon.com soon. i finally got al...
Posted by fireflies on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:46:00 PST

snowstorm ep -- available now!

as chicago gets ready for another 4-6 inches of snow, the "snowstorm" ep is available today via twentyseven records! all five songs are streaming here on my myspace page today. you can also listen to ...
Posted by fireflies on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:05:00 PST

album release details pt. 2 (available now!)

today on the first snowstorm of the season in chicago, "goodnight stars, goodnight moon" is now available! below are some places where you can order it. www.fractiondiscs.se (sweden)www.tonevendor.com...
Posted by fireflies on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:12:00 PST

snowstorm ep release information

in addition to my "goodnight stars, goodnight moon" album (available this sunday, eep!), this december will also be the home of a winter-themed e.p. via twentyseven records. it is called "snowstorm" a...
Posted by fireflies on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:10:00 PST

album release details pt. 1

it's official, people! as seen here and here, my debut album, entitled "goodnight stars, goodnight moon," will be available starting december 1st, 2007. tracklist as follows:01. i was a brontosaurus02...
Posted by fireflies on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:36:00 PST

song of the day pt. 6+

listen to those harmonies! oh to be able to soar so high! this is one of my favourite songs, and i think one of the prettiest. in other news, my album should be out in the not too distant fut...
Posted by fireflies on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:45:00 PST

song of the day pt. 5

a beatles song i never even knew about! apparently they gave it to gerry and the pacemakers. this has been in my head ever since i heard it. ...
Posted by fireflies on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:12:00 PST

song of the day pt. 4

surf's up mhmm mhmmaboard a tidal wavecome about hard and jointhe young and often spring you gavei heard the wordwonderful thinga children's song ...
Posted by fireflies on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:04:00 PST

website update

i did a major overhaul of my once kind-of-ugly website and made it much cleaner and nicer. i also figured out how to use CSS style sheets! a minor revolution to be sure.you can take a look if you'd li...
Posted by fireflies on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:00:00 PST

sorry if you got spammed

if anyone received a dumb message about macy's gift cards from me, i sincerely apologise. it seems spammers got into my account and sent out faulty messages and bulletins in my name. as a result, i ha...
Posted by fireflies on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:15:00 PST