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Brandon

brandonarnold

About Me

i've been told that i say "alright" a lot. and, i've found that to be true.
i play music with The Preakness . we are a band. we now have a 7" single out on eskimo kiss .
also, i post my 4 track demos here .
i wear a lot of black t-shirts.
I like the word unfathomnable.

My Interests

Doing the thing.

I'd like to meet:

These guys:

Music:

Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Wire, Yo La Tengo, GBV, The Who, Nick Drake, Stones, MBV, Brian Eno, wooden wand, silver jews, The Zombies, Butterglory, Sportsguitar, Flying Saucer Attack, Fela Kuti, The Animal Collective, David Bowie, Syd Barrett, Bikini Kill/Kathleen Hannah, John Fahey, Orphins, Byrds, Dead C, Shellac, The Books, Teengenerate, My Bloody Valentine, The Grifters, Oblivians, Menomena, Anna Kramer, Jim O' Rourke, Talking Heads, Mummies, Makers, !!!, Outhud, six organs of admittance, Guns N' Roses, Jennifer Gentle, Zeni Geva, Dirty Projectors, Meters, Selmanaires, Vetiver, Joanna Newsome, XTC, Can, Wolf Parade, Excepter, Mouse on Mars, Tortoise, Neu!, Beachwood Sparks, New Order, Public Enemy, Go Betweens, Gang Gang Dance, Pentangle/bert jansch, Canyon, Slint, Brian Jonestown Massacre, broken social scene, TRex, Ash Ra Temple, Glen Branca, Led Zep, Lake of Dracula, Luigi, Suicide, Rodan, Manitoba, Unwound, Hood, Hendrix, Eric's Trip, No Neck Blues Band, Pavement, Gary Numan, Albert Ayler, Julie Doiron, Trans Am, Bardo Pond, Karp, Black Lips, Beat Happening, Electric Prunes, Dios Malos, Stooges, mogwai, Devandra Banhart, Polvo, Azuza Plane, Neil Young, MF Doom, Sufjan Stevens, Graham Parsons, Samara Lubeski, Califone, Red Red Meat, Kraftwerk, Elvis Costello, Helium/Mary Timony, Sun Ra, Dinosaur Jr., Calexico, Giant Sand, Iron and Wine, NWA, Gang of Four, Les Savy Fav, Karp, Grizzly Bear, Liverhearts, Mirah, The Sonics, Sly and the Family Stone, Will Oldham, Butterglory, Skip Spence, Comets on Fire, Labradford/Stars of the Lid, Jessamine, Smog, my friends bands, Skygreen Leopards, Havergal, Viva Voce, Sebadoh/sentridoh, Dungen, Blood on the Wall, LCD Soundsystem, Man Man, Castanets, Hall of Fame, Dead Meadow, Decemberists, Small Faces, Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops, Great Lake Swimmers, Charalambides, sentridoh, sleepyhead, portastatic, unrest, pony, helium, apples in stereo, moviola, east river pipe, sammy, young marble giants, folk implosion, teenage fanclub, galaxie 500, versus, guv'ner, the rosebuds, Black Sabbath, destroyer

Movies:

Evil Dead II, Rushmore, Jules and Jim, Thin Blue Line, Blue Velvet, Ghost World, The Third Man, Election, Raising Arizona, Bus 174, Lone Star, Miller's Crossing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, John Waters, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, Ed Wood, Wild Strawberries, The Ice Storm, Network, Mystery Train, Donnie Darko, Mean Streets, Spinal Tap, A Brief History of Time, Do the Right Thing, Touch of Evil, The Apartment, Crimes and Misdemeanors, American Splendor, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Punch Drunk Love, Royal Tenenbaums, Tarnation, Sideways...Directors: Errol Morris, Jim Jarmusch, John Sayles, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Bergman, Cronenberg, typical gen x stuff.

Television:

Arrested Development, Mr. Show, 30 Rock, shows I work on.

Books:

Our Band Could Be Your Life, Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Chuck Klosterman stuff

Heroes:

Brian Eno

My Blog

i don’t blog

that's right.  i don't blog.  well, maybe once a year or so i post something here...  i don't mind if you do though, so go right ahead and blog your heart out.  i might even read i...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:07:00 PST

ride the lightning...

it seems like all i want to listen to lately is metallica's ride the lightning...must be some wierd regression.  oh, that and the new panda bear record which is also very nice.oh, and i just crea...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:46:00 PST

top records of 2006

Whew!  There are an aweful lot of records I didn't hear or buy this year, but of the ones I did, these are my favorites: 1. Joanna Newsom  YsBrimming with dense, allegorical lyrics, virtuosti...
Posted by Brandon on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:51:00 PST

SXSW 2006 (highlights of)

friends, seeing as i'm running on about 4 hours sleep and probably still a little drunk from the festival, my detailed rundown of the past weeks events will be forthcoming on my super self-indulgent b...
Posted by Brandon on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:52:00 PST

the preakness is real!

My lo-fi life turns real life!  (thanks to Tim and Tracy) We've got a sho' nuff show happening April 20th at the EARL with a band called League of Evil (not as evil as it sounds) and someone els...
Posted by Brandon on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:42:00 PST

2005 music releases...

okay...i know that you're all dying to know, so here are my picks for the year... records (in no particular order, but this is the order they came to me): deerhoof - the runners four (best work so fa...
Posted by Brandon on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:23:00 PST

twinkies and fireworks

yeah...so last night the liverhearts got showered in broken twinkies and teen wheat went out in a blaze of roman candle pyrotechnics.  lenny's could have burned down.  we survived.  pro...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:53:00 PST

SXSW 2005 wrap up

Can I just say what a complete fucking blast it was? My personal highlights: Jennifer Gentle, The Unicorns are The Corn Gang, Aqueduct, Midnight Movies, An Albatross, The Castanets, Dios Malos, Dead...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Spam haikus

By popular demand, the Spam haikus: Silent, former pig one communal awareness myriad pink bricks Blue can of steel what promise do you hold? salt flesh so ripe Can of metal, slick soft c...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST