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Manders

Be careful how you end me

About Me

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."

"I'm too much of a f**cking wolf - kill, attack, move on." -Jerry
Bitches...I'm a singer, doing the struggling artist thing...stumbling from one stage to the next. I like to say random things to make people scratch their heads in disbelief. I like to push peoples buttons to see if they can hack it. I can laugh at myself. If you play golf with me, I'll probably kick your ass. I like hanging with my best bud, Georgia, co-writer extraordinaire/road manager. She threw in her skills on most of the songs on my new CD. We are a pretty good writing team, for a couple of broads. I don't like playing follow the leader. I like to stick out. I drink George Dickel from the bottle. I love music that has a soul. I love a song that is written by someone who doesn't care if you get them or not. I play a little geetar. Write a few songs. Ya know... the neverending quest to be a rockstar. I spend most of my time surrounded by music, whether it's my own or some TX/Red Dirt Band. That's how I do...
Nobody’s Fool at Lone Star Music
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My Interests

Golf, singing, writing songs, playing guitar, going to New Orleans, my Granny's homemade pickles, road trips, Muffalettas, drinking myself into an early grave and enjoying live music... pretty much anything to do with music and alkeehall... I'm there!
Jerry and Slash
Cody Canada
Shooter Jennings
Layne Staley

Alice in Chains-Down in a Hole
Patty Griffin-No Bad News
Jerry Cantrell

I'd like to meet:

Jerry Cantrell, Bryan T. Shaw, Merle Haggard, Janis Joplin... any dirty rockstar will do!

Music:

I could be here all day with this one.....
Mike McClure
Reckless Kelly
Jerry Cantrell
Monte Montgomery
Heart
Muzzie Braun and the Boys
The Tyler McCumber Band
Alice in Chains
Micky and the Motorcars
Patty Griffin
Silverchair
RED CONCRETE
Janis Joplin
Merle Haggard
Cross Canadian Ragweed
No Justice
Vern Gosdin
Gene Watson
Pearl Jam
Stoney Larue
Travis Linville
Nirvana
Dixie Chicks
Shooter Jennings
STP
Keith Urban-my one mainstream weakness!
Led Zeppelin
Mitch Hedberg and Dane Cook comedy CD's
90's Alternative
70's and 80's Country music
Guns N fuckin' Roses....

Movies:

Anything with gore and blood, I'm in! House of 1000 Corpses, The Devils Rejects, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original), Saw series... you know that sick, twisted shit!Scarface is one of my faves though!

Television:

RKTV... absolutely genius!!!! But, best show on TV, hands down, is RESCUE ME. I also like Intervention, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, Trailer Park Boys and The Colbert Report.

Books:

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey ( I don't care if he did make the shit up, that book is goodness)
Does reading Mike McClure's rambles count??

Heroes:

My mom
Mike McClure
Merle Haggard
Gary Braun
Alice in Chains

My Blog

Featured Artist

I'm the Featured Artist on this weeks Texas/Red Dirt Music Scene blog! Go check it out, or don't....Texas/Red Dirt Music Scene
Posted by Manders on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:42:00 PST

Little something

What does friend mean to you?A word so wrongfully abusedAre you like me, confusedAll included but youAlone...The sounds of silence often sootheShapes and colors shift with moodPupils widen and change ...
Posted by Manders on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:00 PST

I need a paper bag

My boys, Alice in Chains, are OFFICIALLY going back on tour this summer! After I scrape myself off the floor and regain consciousness, I will be stalking the website to buy tickets. God help me if the...
Posted by Manders on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:15:00 PST

Betty Homemaker

Seems I have become somewhat of a home economics specialist, that's the scientific term... I have decided to delve into the world of canning and pickling. So I did my first batch of plum jelly and EUR...
Posted by Manders on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:35:00 PST

Skeered are ya?

Well, they are gonna yank Hostel Part II out of the theaters cuz of piracy. Damn thieves!!! I think it's running for about one more week and then its going to DVD. I have to go see this IN the theater...
Posted by Manders on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:17:00 PST

If a fat girl falls in the forest do the trees laugh?

Ok... so summertime is apon us and after browsing a couple myspace profiles over the past couple of days, it seems I need to make a public service announcement for all the big girls out there... ...
Posted by Manders on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:12:00 PST

Radio Free Texas, bitches!!!

Get your ear heroin on www.RadioFreeTexas.org in the form of ME! Yep, the new CD, Nobody's fool just got added to the RFT playlist, so get over there and request yours truly. Turning you into a junki...
Posted by Manders on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:32:00 PST

Anna Nicole an organ donor???

So, my cousins son said the funniest thing I think I've ever heard... His input to this whole liver transplant thing was this: If my mom woke up from surgery and said, "Do you like my body? Trim Spa, ...
Posted by Manders on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:21:00 PST

What a battle!

After a very long, stressful week, we got the news today that my mom gets to go home from the hospital on Monday!!! It's absolutely amazing... she had her liver transplant on Thursday, March 1st and i...
Posted by Manders on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:23:00 PST

Perspective

I blinked today... One minute I was walking in the sun with my mom& happy, content, both of us actually laughing for a change& and then I blinked. One, two blinks. Holding my mom's hand as she lay on ...
Posted by Manders on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:13:00 PST