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The Parlour Trick

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About Me



More songs will be posted eventually. Keep yer pantaloons on, dearies. Meantime, please visit The Vanity Set , Pinataland and Belacqua . Other cherished collaborators and mentors include Love Life , Scott "Bunny" Spencer , the Dresden Dolls , Nicki Jaine , Danny Cantrell , Faun Fables , Parker & Lily , Sport Murphy , End , Botanica , Shahzad Ismaily , Dame Darcy , Alice Texas , the Walkmen , White Hassle , Joan Tower , Richard Teitelbaum , Kyle Gann , David Garland , Raz Mesinai , Rosin Coven , Moe! Staiano , Marina Rosenfeld , Aaron English , Joan Tower , Jenny Scheinman , Xar (for As Four ), Stefany Anne Goldberg + Myla Goldberg , Dreiky Caprice , and Butch Morris , among others.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/23/2006
Band Website: theparlourtrick.com
Band Members: Meredith Anne Yayanos (violins, voices, theremin, autoharp, stomping, gnashing, etc.)
Influences: Nick Drake, Angela Carter, Dmitri Shostakovich, Terry Riley, Jules Verne, John James Audubon, Bob Moog, Bela Bartok, Jim Henson, Swans, Athanasius Kircher, Werner Herzog, Clara Rockmore, James Chance, Mickey Spillane, Johnny & June, Max Ernst, Olivier Messiaen, Lee Bontecou, Remedios Varo, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Popol Vuh, China Mieville, Brian Eno, Kronos Quartet, Lustmord, Moondog, P.K. Dick, Hasil Adkins, Slayer, Winsor McCay, Danielle Dax, Nikola Tesla, Morton Feldman, Orson Welles, Anais Nin, Jessica Joslin, Frederick Law Olmsted, situationism, Brian Froud, Fritz Lang, Aubrey Beardsley, Neutral Milk Hotel, Weill & Brecht, Jeunet & Caro, Arvo Part, Klaus Nomi, Vincent Price, the Ex, Pat Keck, Alan Moore, Ota Benga, Warren Ellis, Joy Division, Ray Harryhausen, Ennio Morricone, Scott Walker, rembetika, Hayao Miyazaki, Goblin, Diamanda Galas, Einstürzende Neubauten, German Expressionism, Italian Futurism, trepanation, traveling by train, wolves, whales, narwhals, owls, marsupials, monotremes, hedgehogs, lyrebirds, gibbons, bricoleurs, dirigibles, clang & boom & steam.
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My Blog

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

Young Flapjack embraces the carnage.A while back, my talented chum Danny Cantrell landed a gig composing all the music for a new animated children's show and enlisted me to fiddle for it. The Marvelou...
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:15:00 PST

A Free Mans Worship

"To every man comes, sooner or later, the great renunciation. For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to th...
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:37:00 PST

the fight in the dog

To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting...
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:22:00 PST

Please sign petition to release our friend Diz from Dubai prison

http://www.petitiononline.com/cle2008/petition.htmlPlease take a minute to sign this. We need to get Diz out of there.
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:02:00 PST

Top list anxiety.

Tch.Some sort of MySpace glitch just scrambled up my "top list" when I went to add Elegi (yaaay Tommy!) and I don't have the patience, energy or time to sit down and suss out who exactly went where be...
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:37:00 PST

Greetings from the Dubai tourism board.

My friend Mil Von's partner Diz was arrested last weekend in Dubai for carrying melatonin, an over-the-counter aid for jet lag. That's just the beginning of a long, ridiculous horror story for Diz and...
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:24:00 PST

COILHOUSE BLOG & MAGAZINE LAUNCHES TODAY.

Hear ye hear ye! Today, I am verrrry proud to announce the launch of Coilhouse:COILHOUSE is a love letter to alternative culture, written in an era when alternative culture no longer exists. And becau...
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:58:00 PST

HACKED!!! SO, SO SORRY!!!

Obviously, I have no interest in hawking Macy's gift cards. My sincerest apologies to all for the spam.Have changed password.xo~Mer
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:41:00 PST

Every Day Sunshine

MySuck's blog interface continues to confound and frustrate, so.... Bumbershoot blog is up here.
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:30:00 PST

playing with Edison Woods @ Cafe Du Nord 8/22

My dear friend Julia Frodahl is coming to town with her band Edison Woods and I'll be sitting in on the set. Cafe du Nord is a lovely place and I'm looking forward to supporting Julia there. She is a ...
Posted by The Parlour Trick on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:47:00 PST