Me: lame ass guitars, awkward ukulele, cheesy vocals, loud burps, very bad Eddie Vedder impressions.
Myself: whistling, musical
saw, yodel, dodgy backups, saucepan/spaghetti VS tinfoil drums.
I: clumsy mouth trumpet, lalalas, champagne glass glockenspiel, badass often off-beat beatbox.
Influences
Neutral Milk Hotel, Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Daniels+honey+hot water, zombies, bunnies, robots aliens and freaky dinosaurs, Nirvana, The Beach Boys, Kimya Dawson/The Moldy Peaches, The Pixies, Bad
Brains, The Black Heart Procession, Daniel Johnston, PJ Harvey, Emilyn Brodsky!, Kermit the Frog, Berurier Noir, Outkast,
Minor Majority, Noir Desir, Black Flag, anything Nintendo, horror movies, Goran Bregovic & the No Smoking Orchestra, Regina Spektor, The Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Sixteen Horsepower, Woven Hand, Gogol Bordello, The Ditty Bops, Rina Ketty, The Dresden Dolls, Bobby Vinton, The Beatles, Iron Maiden, Aphex Twin, George Clinton/Parliament Fonkadelic, White Zombie, Joy Division, Kronos Quartet, Violent Femmes, Sepultura, Billie Holiday Louis Ella and co, L7, Tender Forever, Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra, The Tiger Lillies, Faith No More, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Lou Reed, Wu-Tang Clan, Frehel, Devotchka, Tori Amos, Dr Dre, Klaus Nomi, Frank Sinatra, Nina Hagen, X-Ray Spex, Arrested Development, Nick Cave, Ausgang, Tom Waits, The Fugees, Josephine Baker, Christian Death, old school reggae with shitloads of voice harmonies, Antony and the Johnsons, Baby Dee, Henri Garat, Franz Nicolay, The Clash, Angelo Badalamenti, Björk, Kana Moon, Sxip Shirey, Jolie Holland, Laura Veirs, World Inferno Friendship Society, Dionysos, Mr Bungle, Slint... Oh, and lousy breakups I guess.
I'm trying to enjoy being a human as much as possible and rejoice in miniature joys of life.
I usually write folkrockish songs on guitar but was caught a few times making acappella mix-ups, which is what you're likely to find available on my page for a start. Probably lots of covers too, I'm a coveraholic. Ukulele. And musical saw collaborations here and there (blame it all on Delicatessen).
Since I have no technical approach of music whatsoever (was never taught solfege, I tried but was a lazy ass and eventually gave up), guts are the only direction I have. That's why I have a very simple, naive feeling to my songs. That's also the reason why my arrangements are chaotic and unsteady but for now I like them this way.
I've often been thinking about whether music really mattered or not, and how I could share whatever moods pass through, whatever emotions assail me, with songs. One could say this wee video excerpt is a good clue of why I'm doing what I'm doing. (Thanks a bunch, Gregory, for posting this ♥)
I'm collaborating/playing/singing/having fun in other bands, so if you wanna give 'em a shot...
Anyway, I hope I'll be able to meet good people here, not just checkoutmyband!!AWESOMEEE!!LOLZZZ!! spammers of sorts.
I hope I'll be able to draw real connections with musicians and creative people.
The wider your network grows, the harder it is to keep in touch with each and everyone of you (God knows I'm trying hard, and sometimes it all really freaks me out).
I used to take a good lotta time before I took care of requests, because I wanted to check out every page.
I was recently telling someone about how I would let friend requests pile up like comic books on my couch before I got into them thoroughly. Sadly, with the growing number of requests I'm not able to do that anymore. It makes me sad but you gotta be practical at some point (and my life doesn't revolve around Myspace). Still, if you feel like dropping a line you're more than welcome, even though I'm a bit awkward at times when it comes to writing to people (one could say that's part of the reasons why I write songs).
THANK YOU! ♥ (for listening, and reading all of that)
And now, for a word on politics:
(couldn't find one with a French flag)
I edited my profile with your mom (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Le Tribute album à Barry Louis Polisar avec ma version française de All
I Want Is You viens de paraître en double CD aux Etats Unis. Ce titre
francisé en "C'est toi que j'veux" est en écoute sur mon player.
Plus d'infos ici : http://barrylou.com/tributeAlbum.html
Marie ! t'es là ! je voulais te dire: 1 - que tes chansons elles sont nul 2 - que tu ne sais que grattouiller sur ton uku et j'ai pourtant essayé que tu grattouille ailleurs mais il n'y a pas eu moyen de moyenner bref que t'es une vrai connasse mais je voulais te dire que malgré moi je te pardonne My Darling ...
Hey Marie , merci pour les invites jeudi on ne t'a pas vue après le concert mais je tenais à te dire que c'était vraiment cool donc bonne continuation et à bientot =)
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punk.
