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Water wings

About Me

So far the band is just me, my computer, and my acoustic guitar. I'm sure I'll have some friends joining in soon enough. While I was getting my B.A. in philosophy at CWU I was also in an "abrasive math rock" band called The Super Nachos . The other two members were bass player Andy Fortier (www.andyfortier.com) and drummer Ben Reames(owner of tiki tattoo in Ellensburg.) I should also mention that I was in a band for about four days with eburg locals Devlin, Brady, and Bennie Rebar. We got enough songs together to play a going away show for Devlin and Brady(they graduated from highschool and were movin to the city.) We named the band after a shady local tavern on the outskirts of town "The first and last chance." Below is a home video I made of an average day trip to the beach.
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Below is a video collage of random home video clips that I filmed with an incredibly small (1 inch tall/ 1.5 inches wide) digital underwater wrist camera. Unlike the video above this one is set to music (my song "The Noodle Boat (Part 1)". I guess that makes this my first music video.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/02/2005
Band Website: www.purevolume.com/waterwings
Band Members: John Bowen
Influences: My Bloody Valentine , The Cat Ion, The Melvins, VBS TV , lamb, The Softies, The Sonora Pine, TJO, Mirah (from Oly), Mira (from Florida), Tattle Tale, Anais Nin, The Ruby Doe , Karp, The Dresden Dolls, Bjork, Chris Haslam Heavens to Betsy, Big Brother skateboard Mag Mike Aho, ((Sounder)), a rare individual , Howard Barlow and Justin Gibbens are the 2 halves of Common Creature Catcher , Juno, Shudder to Think, Peaches, Sigur Ros, Sebadoh, Black Bear , Sparklepsy, Elbow, My Parents, My Grandparents, the Grandmother I wish I could have known Betty Bowen , The Goldener Adler Goldener Hirsch condos, Snowden, Pinback, The Sneaker Pimps, Jeff Buckley,The Monitors, Syd Barret, Turfola, Birdwatchers United, The Police, Caustic Resin, Santogold, The Helio Sequence, Little Joy, Foals, Joy Division, High Places, School of Seven Bells, Sigur Ros, Destroyer, Good stuff if you don't like burning out when your having fun, Deerhunter, MGMT, Atlas Sound, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Times New Viking, Crystal Castels, No Means No, The Helltones, Pele, Iron and Wine, The Swans, Minus the Bear , Slayer, Liz Phair, Ladytron, Le Force, Husker Du, Juana Molina, Heavenly, Vice , The No No's, Dream Syndicate, The Gun Club, The Lights, The Joggers, Worms, Casio Casanova, The Microphones, Shellac, Big Black, The Silver Jews, Sugar, Sonic Youth , The Thurston Moore Trio, both bands with the name "Small", Mines, El Cid, 91 words for snow , Penguin League!, Belly Boat!, The Notwist, The Shins, Ralph Steadman , Steel Pole Bathtub, J.F.A., Black Sheep, Ween, Del, CVB, Pailhead, Ministry, Mary Stuart Masterson, Gus Gus, Stereo Total, Starblazers(cartoon)theme song, a good laugh ,Tracy and the Plastics, Her Space Holiday, The Velvet Underground, Working at the Gorge amphitheater, Lou Barlow , Nick Drake, Enon, Four Tet, Lush, Tara Jane Oneill, Possum Dixon, Lisa Germano, (snowboarders Chris Roach, Craig Kelly, Jamie Lynn, David Benedek, Nicolas Muller , Travis Parker , Gigi Ruff) Sub Society, Figure Ground, Teresa Flowers ,The Smog Blossoms, Massive Attack, Throwing Muses, Wonderful Broken Thing, The Postal Service, Andy Fortier , Eric B. and Rakim, N.W.A., Helix Resonator, Peter Tosh, Yellowman, Bad Religion, Misfits, Terri Gross, the masterminds behind Dreamland and Grindline skateparks , Jack Johnson, Bruce Lee, Omega Supreme, Pillow, Sharks Keep Moving, Tetch, Minor Threat, Metallica(the Cliff Burton Years),The Swirlies, R.E.M., The Band Vibes!, All, Big Drill Car, The Stiff Little Fingers, Green Day, Agent Orange, The Faction, G.B.H., first 3 Social D. lp's, Every band that has ever ripped off Slint, Descendents, Charles Buckowski (actually it's spelled Bukowski), M. Atwood, Wendell Berry, Ozzie Wright , Dashenka, The Goons of Doom , Gavin Beschen(sick style), Kassia Meador, The Sinora Pine, The Jesus Chords , Jen Wood, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Hall and Oates, Kelli Alli, Bill Cruise, R.T.S., Beamus, Screaming Trees, The Dark Fantastic, Dinosaur Jr., B.T.S., D.C.C.,David Cross, Hooverphonic, pavement, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat, Noam Chomsky, Ira Glass, Ram Dass, The Dead Milkmen, cz/cruz/sst records, The Treepeople, DRI, AC/DC, CCR, Hendrix, Jay Z, Log Hog , Blandow, Nervous, The EVER INTERGALACTIC JEVFRO, 94.9 KUOW (NPR radio shows like This American Life , Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, New Dimensions , Living on Earth, Alternative Radio , Studio 360 , P.H.C.), M.D.P., Four Time World Mogul Champion Terry Parker!!, Mr. Robato and the big Yank, Dutch Flat, Duran Duran, Iodine, Seed Verb, Sloe T, that one radio station , Jim Croce, John Denver, Jello Biafra, The Miami Vice Soundtrack!, Scream Club, Microphone Dragons, Turfola, In 4th grade I was so crushed out on the singer from Bow Wow Wow(still am) they've definitely influenced me...Yeah.... "I want candy", Common Creature Cature, Big Buisness, Ryden , Radiohead, Canvas, Neurosis, Smoke and Smoke, Deepok Chopra, Les Savy Fav, The Swords Project, The Faint, Sonic Youth, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Engine Kid, Anything Kevin Shields has ever had anything to do with(accept that Dinosaur Jr song he supposedly sang backing vocals on. Who ever mixed that blew it.)
Sounds Like: An internet street musician/ It's music made for crappy car stereos/ I found these songs hiding under sand dollars at the beach/it's a medicinal sound extract derived from the healing properties of 1 and a half trillion resting snowflakes
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

An open source song. Your song to play with, your song to finish

So if you're a musician, videographer, or someone that just likes to tinker with songs on their computer, I have a gift for you.  The song I've posted entitled "Open source sound" is your song to...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:16:00 GMT

Today I...

Today I was driving home from ski acres when I noticed a guy brushing off his snowboard.  He had dark hair, a goatee, and sharp features just like Craig Kelly.  For a split se...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:33:00 GMT

Somethin to do

If you haven't listened to the radio show "This American Life" you should. You can listen to any episode any time at www.thislife.org (if your in Washington it plays on 94.9 KUOW Fri-7pm Sat-11am...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:01:00 GMT

Concert Diary

My freshmen year in college (oh so long ago) I decided to try and make a list of all the concerts I had ever been to. I think I filled a couple pages w/ shows. I don't know where that list is, and I'd...
Posted by on Fri, 05 May 2006 15:26:00 GMT