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The Cosmic Giggle

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About Me

The Cosmic Giggle played their first show in 1999 and their last in 2006. For a band that never had any commercial success, their career spanning two centuries is remarkable. Go visit them at the Good Night's page. It's the same band, but with a slightly less shitty name.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/12/2005
Band Website: thecosmicgiggle.com
Band Members: Tom Jackson, Alan Chang, Brad Ranola, Greg McFall
Influences: Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Eminem, Jeff Buckley, Brendan Benson, Elliott Smith, Ray Charles, Supergrass, Mr. Bungle, Lauryn Hill, the Beatles, Blind Melon, Paul Simon, Ben Folds, Skip Spence, The Living End, Oingo Boingo, Kyuss, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Maya Rudolph, Geggy Tah, the Reverend Horton Heat, Rustic Overtones, Soundgarden, Sublime, Mars Volta, Huey Lewis & of course, the News
Sounds Like: fun
Record Label: What's a record label?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

we're changing our name

THE QUARRYMENMOOKIE BLAYLOCKDADDY LONGLEGSTHE WARLOCKSSound familiar? Soon, THE COSMIC GIGGLE will join this elite list of discarded first band names. The time is right. We've hit a creative peak that...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:41:00 PST

No New Demos

Alan convinced me to pull my home recordings off the page, with the exception of Time Itch, for the simple reason that: a) you don't want to give too much away too soon (those are sketches for our new...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:10:00 PST

New Demos

A note about the demos on our page:Though the Giggle is usually four guys (Tom, Alan, Brad and Greg), some of the newer songs I've posted were recorded in my apartment and I played all the instruments...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:26:00 PST

Sorry For All That Stuff I Said About You Los Angeles

We're still here. In LA. All that shit I said about moving to Santa Cruz is still true, but I guess it lies further in the future than I expected. Why are we still here?Everytime we play a show in LA ...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:40:00 PST

Children of Color

I'm a substitute teacher in South Central Los Angeles. Where I grew up, white kids had the run of the place. Jennifers and Brandons and Brendans everywhere.So it was with some amusementupon taking th...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:56:00 PST

Jeff Buckley's Birthday

Jeff Buckley was a show off. The handful of songs he wrote in his too short life are full of soaring twists and turns and vocal acrobatics, the kind of choices that are really hard to imitate. His sup...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:28:00 PST

The Killers vs. The Bravery

You know that scene in the first Act of FIGHT CLUB, when Edward Norton's insomniac character "Jack" finds the only thing that will help him get a good night's sleep is to crash a bunch of support grou...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:32:00 PST

Farewell Los Angeles

The Giggle is leaving townand not just because of the recent heat wave, though heat in LA has a special way of hanging in the hazy sky, warming up the dusty smog until it lays over the city like an as...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:18:00 PST

Bublame

I guess I should have expected this. The flood of "friends requests" coming from Bublé fans. And yeah, who doesn't want to beef up their number of friends in the MySpace popularity contest? But se...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:24:00 PST

why "THE COSMIC GIGGLE"?

Six years ago when I named the band "The Cosmic Giggle", I was in the throes of a psychedelic-fueled transformation. This period, condensed into the summer of 1999, the summer Alan joined the band, th...
Posted by The Cosmic Giggle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST