Russ Courtney - ProfilesArchive

About Me

So my name is Russ and, first and foremost, I play piano in a band called A Million Engines in Neutral. Definitely something you should check out. In fact, if you've got my profile music on, you're listening to "The Bottom of a Charcoal Grill" right now. Click the image below to get to our myspace page. Next, I write short stories--fiction and nonfiction. Also something you should check out. You are welcome to check out the one's I've made available as blogs. You can also find stories from me in literary journals--let me know and I'll direct you to them.Oh yeah, and I love the Columbus Crew, and the MLS in general. Currently obsessing over:
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Maritime - We, the Vehicles...So glad Davey is back!
Music now available for my new band:

myspace.com/amillionenginesinneutralDavid Bazan = Jesus?

My Interests

INDEPENDENT MUSIC, contemporary literature, movies, poetry, politics

I'd like to meet:

Karl Pilkington

My favorite poet, Suheir Hammad.

Music:

Hot Water Music, Pedro The Lion, The Lawrence Arms, Radiohead, Modern Life is War, The Ghost, The Broadways, Bad Astronaut (joey cape), The Sound of Animals Fighting, Explosions in the Sky, Bad Religion, Hanelei, Park, Godspeed, Tristeza

Movies:

Magnolia, Pi, Half Baked, Punch Drunk Love, Elephant, Run Ronnie Run, Koyannisqatsi (whole trilogy), Requiem for a Dream, Virgin Suicides, Primer

Television:

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Office, Simpsons, Family Guy

Books:

Bright Lights Big City (McInerney), Middlesex (Eugenides), the Rum Diaries (H.S. Thompson), the Virgin Suicides (Eugenides), the Bell Jar (Plath), Less Than Zero (B.E. Ellis), House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III)

Heroes:

this guyand... Chuck Ragan, Ricky Gervais, Landon Donovan, Larry David