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The Diving Captain

About Me

We are The Diving Captain. We are flying projectiles. We are highly evolved. We take music in our hands and smear it all over our chizzled faces. We make grown men cry. We are in the process of renewing our previously revoked amateur beekeeping license.WARNING: May cause severe lack of inhibition and "euphoria". High risk of dependency. Take only in moderation...
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/8/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/TheDivingCaptain
Band Members: Jake "Ploopinator" Laughterstein -Colin "Woodchuck" Jenkins -Erin "The Pooper" Teasdale -Wells "Wheels" Barber -
Influences: Colin -Good/Gooder/Great/Best- French Kicks, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Muscles, The Hood Internet, Matt and Kim, Tokyo Police Club, The Maccabees, Deerhoof, Blink 182, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Clipse, The Hold Steady, Dan Deacon, Les Savy Fav, Built to Spill, Islands, Ponytail, and more stuff. You know, cool stuff... you probably haven't heard of any of it..................................................Jake: -Indie/R&B/Soul-Core/Pop - !!!(CHKCHKCHK), 25 HOURS A DAY, Aaron Neville, The Cribs, Dead Kids, Joe Jean & the Jing Jang Jong, John Fahey, Les Savy Fav, Locksley, The Maccabees, Ok Go, Phoenix, We All Have Hooks for Hands,The Pillows ............................................................ ..Wells: -Indie/Pop-Punk - The Vines, Bloc Party, Jimmy Eat World, Matt The Electrician, Sound Team, Sun Ra(in persona only), Fall of Troy, Blink 182 (that's right bitches), Ben Kweller, Sum 41, The Von Bondies, Pull Tiger Tail, The Blood Arm, Mika, The Pigeon Detectives, The Maccabees, The Holloways.........................................Erin: - All Things Rockin' and/or Bangin' - The Fall of Troy, Death From Above 1979, The Wombats, Flosstradamus, Cool Kids, Fear Before The March of Flames, The Holloways, The Maccabees, Wu Tang, MF Doom, Converge, Trae (stand up houston!), The El Guapos, Every Time I Die, Matt And Kim, The Teenagers, Madonna, Jackson 5 and everything else and in between thats' context consists of being either dope, fresh, mad fresh, ill, illmatic, bangin', or any combination of the above.
Sounds Like: Optimus Prime high-fiving Godzilla at a birthday party!
Record Label: We would love one, thank you.

My Blog

New songs on a newish album? COMING SOON!

That's right. We'll be heading back into the studio pretty soon, so that you lovely ladies and gents can hear our new material. Now, it's going to be a little different, it isn't exactly like what you...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:57:00 GMT

Apricots & Textiles

GOGOGOGO to:http://apricotsandtextiles.blogspot.comand read the blog about us(among all of the other awesome posts)Big thanks to them! We (Jake) have bigtime crushes on them.-The Diving Captain
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:57:00 GMT

Chapter 5: the Happenings

After many a month, the Diving Captain finally managed to vanquish their now long time foe, Darth Rekording.  Who had recently applied for a job as a Sith Lord, but his application was not a...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:44:00 GMT

King Rekording

In short, we're recording Sunday the 19th, but for those of you true fans of the mystical tails of captain and his crew here's the real story:Once there was a King who was know to all of his peasants ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:35:00 GMT

A Lovely Look into the Land of the DC

Greetings young traveler. Let us tell a tale of the mysterious Diving Captain and the events which consume them. One day as the Diving Captain were wandering through the dark woods of Elrogrotho...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:49:00 GMT

The Frets: The Second Coming

Once upon time, in land far far away, The Frets (a group of gifted young teenage sorcerers) realized that they had become weary of there own awesome might.   The group spun into a downwards ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:50:00 GMT