Teaching a bear to speak english.
Teaching a dog to speak english.
Teaching a peregrine falcon to sing madrigals.
BANDS I'VE PLAYED WITH (asterisk denotes membership)
23rainydays
Airiel Down
AgroLola
the Avenger
Brenna and the Blacktones
Brooklyn UK
the Bronzed Chorus
Brownbird Rudy Relic
Chapter VII
The Cheat
Coaxial
Jon Crocker
Cuomo!
Darren Deicide
Davenport
DigShovelDig
Dogs of Winter
The Ear is the Brain
Electric Purple AntiFreeze
Far Beyond Strength
Five Threads
FS
Fucoustic
Gifts From Enola
Dylan Gilbert
The Hanks
the Hitmen
Indonesian Randolph
Irata
Jelly Sharks
Keruoac or the Radio (previously the Dark Engine)
Last Year's Model
the Late Greats
Line in March
Lost Underground Energy
Lotus
Master/Slave
MC Homeless
Joe Mejer
Mental Floss
Migrations*
Million Billion
Million Dollar Sunset*
My Fifty-Five
Nat Turner & the Slave Rebellion
The New Thrill Parade
Oceanside Anti-Helicopter Squad*
On the Take
Ostinato
Paperboy
Parsley Flakes
Preacher's Gun
Princess and the Criminals
Arum Rae
Richard & Homeless & Corbie*
Rudolph Lyrics
Saint Solitude
Sexytime Explosion
the Shakeup
Shiloh
Shiner Miners
the Silent Years
Single Engine Airplane
Skintback City Public Radio
the Sky and Myself
Skywire
the South French Broads
Spy Satellite*
Sarah Stebnicki
Stuck Lucky
Sweet Zombie Jesus*
Those Meddling Kids
Tick Tock Boom
Ticus
Todd & the Termites
Until the Grave
the Vinyl Strangers
Lonnie Walker
Where the Buffalo Roamed*
Wildildlife
Yellow Crystal Star
BANDS I'VE BOOKED
A Trip to Ambulance
All Good Things
Aubergine
Blue Jeans & Khaki Pants
Born Broke
Burnt Bridges
By Morning
Cold Hands
Commited
Dice Fly High
Elara Luna
Electric Damn
Electrodog
Experimental Lucas
Fruit of Choice
Go Devils
Hank Jones Ghost
Kablammo
Lazaras
Loose Six
MindShapeFist
Mirth Remedy
Raccoon Party
Rooster Scratch
Serpents
SPORTs
The Telepromtors
Touchless Automatic
the Tyrones (AKA We Are! We Are!)
Anne Vaughan
Voodoo Court
BANDS THAT ARE JUST PLAIN AWESOME
Adventure
Albatross Party
big smoke
Descolada
the Dog Gods
DrugMoney (especially the Tuesday night at Vincent’s ear era shit)
Pierce Edens
Erster Eindruck
Finn Riggins
Giants
Glorious Jones
Hammer No More the Fingers
Height
Hey Neighbor
JUST DIE!
Locks
Mainly Yeti
Maserati
Mosquito Bandito
Petty Crooks
Preacher's Gun
Ra Ra Riot
Reductio ad Absurdum
solo nuns
Subramanium
Sugar in the Dirt
sWordplay
Tereu Tereu
Vincent Black Shadow
Vintage Trash
You know, it's just a medium. It's only as good or as crappy as the artist behind it. I've recently started seeing some good uses of it.
of note: Battlestar Galactica (the new one). Is this the shit, or what? also: the Colbert Report, any Star Trek that doesn't have Scott Bakula in it, Futurama, Firefly, most adult swim.
Vonnegut
Dee Brown
Hunter S. Thompson
Orson Scott Card (pre-Empire)
Frank Herbert
Stephen Hawking
Steinbeck
others...
any band/musician I've ever shared the stage with or helped with a show.