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About Me

Jeremy Quist used to play keyboards in California. Then he moved to Boston and wasn't able to immediately get his keyboard out there. Subsequently, his attempts at making music included the use of a guitar that he doesn't really know how to play, a glockenspiel that was added to his Christmas list one year as a half-joke but surprisingly was given to him by his loving parents, a toy melodica that cost roughly $1 on ebay but the shipping was outrageous, and a sampler left over from his past forays into hip-hop. For better or worse, this is the result.Jeremy was a kitchen manager at a cafeteria, a manager at a record store, a pension administrator, and a technical support analyst. Now he's in graduate school for cinema studies. Where they just watch movies all day and nothing else. Jeremy thinks Rushmore and the Graduate are the two best movies ever made, but what does HE know? He also thinks that when you combine Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach, perfection is achieved.Jeremy lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Suzanne, who currently works for Harper Collins and as a freelance copyeditor. And she is the bestest. After a while, Jeremy's allergy shots finally kicked in, and they now have two cats: Feist and Orbie. And they are also the bestest.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/29/2005
Band Website: Pop: /cusackdoublefeature. Hip hop: /thesensei.
Band Members: Unfortunately, just me. But sometimes Suzanne, too.
Influences: In no particular order: New Order, Pernice Brothers, Elvis Costello, Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers, Saturday Looks Good To Me, New Pornographers, Magnetic Fields, Ben Folds Five, Don Lennon, Cinerama/Wedding Present, Belle and Sebastian, Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, Cars, Cure, PSB, Smiths/Morrissey, DM, Erasure, TMBG, those Beatles...
Sounds Like: Sincerity.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

In Trouble Now

Hey. Well, here's the newest track. As you can see from the title, it's called In Trouble Now. It's my failed attempt at trying to sound like the Cars. I got kinda obsessed with Tonight She Comes, an...
Posted by The Jeremy Agenda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Updated site.

Okay, for anyone that wants to hear some Sensei stuff, that site has been updated with old tunes. Visit www.myspace.com/thesensei. Sorry that I haven't been able to come up with any new songs lately. ...
Posted by The Jeremy Agenda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A couple new ones.

So, MFA and Literally Ten Minutes are the newest ones. I've also included They're Not Allowed and a re-recorded version of Don't Correct Me Kathy. It's not any better or worse than the original one, i...
Posted by The Jeremy Agenda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

This is it.

My last batch of FAWM tunes. Hope you enjoy. If anyone is looking for songs about affairs, headphones, publishing students, or covert operations, please visit www.myspace.com/cusackdoublefeature.
Posted by The Jeremy Agenda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New batch plus links

Okay, so here (finally) is a new batch of tunes. For better or worse. Anyone looking for that dumb hip hop song can find it at http://www.myspace.com/thesensei Anyone looking for the prior pop tunes ...
Posted by The Jeremy Agenda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My first quote!

"I was rolling my eyes at the lyrics at first... BUT... after listening to the demo, the whole package works very, very well. Sorry I ever doubted you." -Burr Settles
Posted by The Jeremy Agenda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The demos.

I've got some rough demos up. Please let me know if you think they sound like country songs being covered by New Order. Cause if they do, then that's really neat. If they don't, wouldn't it be cool if...
Posted by The Jeremy Agenda on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST