the written word, italian women, instinct, everything that does or doesn't happen to me
people & bands I have stolen things from, intentionally or otherwise:
the microphones, elliott smith, akron/family, village harmony, silver jews, joanna newsom, philip levine, tim bowling, james joyce, pedro the lion, wilco, spoon, animal collective, tv on the radio, panda bear, krzysztof kieslowski, leonard cohen, sufjan stevens, neutral milk hotel, shira, shai, jake, noah, paul simon, john updike, walt whitman, the band, sam cooke, bruce springsteen, robert frank, phosphorescent, infinitely more...
According to other people:
TV on the radio, Jandek, elvis costello, peter & the wolf, nick drake, the beatles, leonard cohen, the walkmen, the silver jews, phosphorescent, okkervil river, kevin ayers, bon iver, animal collective, akron/family
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October 2008 - Your Body Is Your Soul - Full Length Download, Produced by Nick Boyajian Jan 2008 - One day the distance between myself and god will disappear - Full Length CD - 41.5 min Jun 2007 - The Pity Parade - Minute-a-day CD - 12 min May 2007 - I am the place to all lies start - Minute-a-day CD - 25.5 min
Apr 2007 - songs to sit in empty rooms to - Minute-a-day CD - 27.5 min
Apri 2007 - April Fool - EP - 4 min Jan 2007 - Hangups - EP - 13 min Jan 2007 - Autobiography - EP - 20 min Dec 2006 - There are bones in the trees - Full Length CD - 55.5 min
thunder + hands on fire + car crashes + diving birds + torn envelopes + bedroom magic
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boy without god
And now, the origin of this alterego: one day, our hero was riding the train to his jesuit university when he spotted a pretty blonde woman on the same train, dressed elegantly in all black. She disembarked at his stop and approached him, asking directions to a hall on campus in a thick italian accent. Always the good samaritan (and inept giver of directions), he offered to walk her there. On the way they passed by a seminary and she asked him, "is that a church?" At the time, the boy did not know what this building was, and admitted that, not being religous, he did not frequent the religious buildings on campus. They shared a joke about a non-believer who would attend a catholic school.
Finally, they arrived at her destination. Late, she began to run inside, calling back over her shoulder: "thank you, thank you, boy without god!"
At that moment the boy resolved that when he did have a solo project, it would be called Boy Without God.
more possibly may be that i come to boston and visit you guys? id love to come up and i get time off. so please let me know. i could come crash for a night.
i regret not talking to you sooner. come to NY whenever, you have a place to stay of course. call me whenever. and we need to catch up. i miss you man and big AL
hey gabe..looks like things are going well for you. i have been listening to your cd while driving to work in the am. a bit of melancholy is all i really need to begin the day! sam wants to know if denmark really is the happiest place. c
Hey B.W.G.... I love your new graphics and I have been thinking about the name of your new album... my body has been falling apart lately due to a certian loss of spiritual responsibility. I have forgotten that my body is my soul. Any way, I really liked the way "Good Place To mingle" turned out... if I start a new page with a new song... I hope you'll contribute a version. In theory... we could make a million pages of this type.
