Music:
Member Since: 3/31/2006
Band Website: This is it!! Thanks Rupert!!
Band Members: Casey Grimes
Influences: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Red House Painters, Jeff Buckley, Suede, Pink Floyd(greatest band ever, when I was on drugs), U2, Police, Minor Threat, Bowie, Roxy and Ferry, all Eno, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Low, Chapterhouse, Boo Radleys, Medicine, Curve, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Galaxy 500, Stone Roses, Charlatans, Ride, The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, Mew, Air, 60's music(so much and thanks Mom and Dad), Nuggets, Erasure, Joy Electric, Echo and Ian McCulloch(Candleland), both Elvises, Peter Gabriel, Vangelis, Hearts of Space, Velvet Underground, The Cure, Your Mother, Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, Miles Davis(even his mistakes were great), Cocteau Twins, Verve, Afghan Whigs, M83, Placebo, Mute Math, POP SONGS(Check out the chorus to "Genie In a Bottle" and try to get that out of your head!), Brian Wilson, Kent, Hartfield, Daniel Lanois, Ministry, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Testament, Slayer, Faster Pussycat, the 80's(way much), Left Banke, Sigur Ros, Starflyer 59, B and S, God is an Astronaut, Vertigo(station on Live 365, check Groovy Jim out), 90 BPM's or slower, simplicity, Prince(my hero), more music, Bukowski, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, Harper Lee, Huxley, Orwell, Flannery O'Connor, Barry Hannah, David Sedaris, Buckey Felony. Gabriel Marquez, Twain, Dostoevsky, Richard Dawkins, Joseph Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Phillip K. Dick, Carl Sagan, Alastair Reynolds, James Lee Burke, more great and shit lit, Withnail and I, City of Lost Children, Blade Runner, Midnight Cowboy, Amelie(Audrey is the hottest), Lost In Translation, THX-1138, Star Wars, The Jerk, Tim Burton(all), Smoke, Blue in the Face, Return of the Living Dead(1984), Brazil, The Apostle, Tender Mercies(love Duvall), Tron, Krzysztof Kieslowski(Trois Couleurs), Jean-Pierre Jeunet, All Kubrik(because he was a genius and dealt with the darkness better than anyone I've ever seen), Pee Wee Herman, more movies, Lost, Firefly, the Equalizer, Quantum Leap, X-Files, Battlestar Galactica(both of them and yes, I am that old to remember), Play-Doh(eating and molding in the early years), Spirograph, Tinker Toys, Speak and Spells and chemistry sets(childhood favorites), all food, especially Mexican(Queso Blanco as you can't get in Cali or Arizona), Taquerias, so much cheese and wine(a whole other page), Newcastle, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, dirty vodka martinis, really spicy bloody marys, lost, made, making and new love, heartbreak and heartmend(we are made to heal better and stonger), Yoga, biking, Family and Friends(without them, I think I would be a dead man), atheism, faith and mythology(I'm still flirting with this), aquariums, any zoo, animals(especially dogs and Pomeranians are the best and no i'm not gay.), all art, girls with black hair, people who smile and laugh at bars, Kansas City Royals(one day, they will be good again), Arkansas, California and Arizona, Lawrence, Kansas, brutal honesty, the Golden Rule, pure and unbridled silliness, thunderstorms and lightning, sky, my guitars and comfortable bed(oh yeah, they go together), Ocean, LONG BEACH and all the love from those peeps, rocking chairs, sweet tea and Mom's cookin', the sound of Cicadas at night, Lightning Bugs, old synths, older people with paper thin skin, conversations with the older, homeless or crazy. A guarded, yet open heartmind kinda people. So many people. More. Exhaustion and I guess,,, longwindedness??
Sounds Like: A medium sized octopus on acid walking on eggshells in a sea of dreams.
Record Label: Uhh, no.
Type of Label: None
