About me:
I. am Rael OneCloud. For those who don't know me, I have dark blonde/brown hair (often dyed bright colours!), blue eyes, glasses, & a Rubenesque figure (or whatever other fancy term y'all use for fat these days.) I am a Saggitarius with Pisces rising. I am half Cherokee and half some kinda Euromutt caucasian whatever. I sing, write songs, and can play the guitar and the bowed psaltery.I travel a lot, altho a good part of the time these days I am in Burlington Vermont. I am the editrix of the zine Alphabitch Afterbirth, and the host of the VCAM channel 15 music TV show Postmortem Espresso. Why do I have a myspace now? welll...gosh. dunno. You got me there. But....well, hey. here I am.
Influences
influences? I dunno. Lex Hixon was a pretty inspiring guy. Karunamayi. Jesus Christ.
oh. you mean musical influences. Click the mp3(s?) and see for yourself.
BTW, here's the rest of the stuff from when I had this as a 'person' profile.
Who I'd like to meet:
We're always looking for new stuff for the show, so if you make weird short films,videos, psychedelic visual montages or are in a band that doesn't mind coming here to Burlington, get in touch!
On a more one-on-one level? I'm always looking for travel companions, as I don't have a car. If you carpool regularly to east coast shows, or are thinking of doing that across-the-country road trip thing, invite me along; I'll contrib mixtapes, convo and a bit of gas money.
Locally? I am always looking for fun folk to jam with, and I also enjoy nature walks and role playing games. If you are into any of the stuff on the rest of my list too, drop me a line, let's hang out at Dobro's or the Bean and see if we click.
Sounds Like
I've always referred to my music as 'psychedelic-Celtic-fylk-grunge-blues'.
that pretentious label aside, I play acoustic guitar, mostly, but the songs are kinda punq. (OLDSCHOOL punq, thankee.)
picture, if ya like, Pink Floyd and Nirvana getting mugged by Patti Smith in a dark alley.
or better still, just listen for yourself.
Zoww! I don't have a whole band, I am just a songwriter. I am, however, always looking for people to jam with. I have a few regs who I record with and who turn up to play on my shows, but nothing is written in stone so far as a band is concerned.
I have, however,put up some mp3s up for you. (assuming the player works¬.¬ interests
zines, fonts, Sims1 objects, Vampire:the Masquerade, thrift shops, Rainbow Gatherings, video editing, playing guitar, roadtrippin', long philosophical chats til 2am, cemeteries, cats, acupuncture, managing diabetes type 2, collage favourite music
The Beatles, the late bp helium, Nirvana, Mantits, early Genesis / solo Peter Gabriel, Akira Yamaoka, Pink Floyd, The Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Purrr, Gangula Stretch, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Jucifer, early Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, Wolfmother, Last of the Juanitas, Cranial Perch, The Smittens, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Gong, King Crimson, Bauhaus, Black Sabbath, Olivia Tremor Control, Santos-Dumont, Venom, Small Faces, Iggy and the Stooges, Tom Waits, Keith Urban, Christian Death, B-52s, Malice Mizer, Yes, Thinking Plague, Meat Puppets, Neil Young, The Tea Party, Paul Williams, AC/DC, Lydia Lunch, and so much more...
movies
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Wizard of Oz, Yessongs, Donnie Darko, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Fight Club, The Crow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Jesus Christ Superstar, Razorblade Smile, Psychomania, Performance, Teenage Caveman, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Ed Wood, Fellowship of the Ring, Kwaidan, The Devil's Rain, Quest for Fire, Krull, The Grudge, Dead Alive, Interview with the Vampire, The Prophecy, Across the Universe, Dead Man, ehh I'll think of more later. television
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Robot Chicken, Quantum Leap, Lexx, X-Files (pre-Doggett), House M.D, Dexter, Forever Knight, Invader ZIM, Tiny Planets, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Max Headroom, TV Funhouse, video free Burlington, Deathshead Theater, The Davey Horror Show, The Alternative (VH1Classic), Subterranean (MTV2), Holy Hip Hop, Hey!Hey!Hey! (Japanese), VideoMusicHeaven (Korean), M*A*S*H*, Angel, Passions (early season reruns only!), Dark Shadows, The Uncle Floyd Show... most the shows I really liked are long over now, actually. books
Terry Pratchett, Roger Zelazny, Ian McDonald, Neil Gaiman, Mercedes Lackey, Anne Rice (earlier works), Poppy Z Brite (earlier works), William Burroughs,Peter Straub,Stephen King, Chuck Palahnuik, and numerous one offs. Those are some of the main writers whose works I've actually followed. I am fond of musicans' biographies, and educational books on any topic I'm interested in at a given moment.
I love comics, some of my favourites include Shade the Changing Man, Sandman, The Crow (and anything else James O'Barr puts out), Mythos, Mercy, Dr.Strange, Silver Surfer, Man-thing, and various indies.
My favourite magazines include Tattoo Savage, Juxtapoz, Spin, and NME.
My favourite poets include William Blake, Kenneth Patchen, Anne Sexton, Erica Jong, Lydia Lunch, and ee cummings.
Oh. and the Bible. Jesus was way cool. ^_^
It still exists, as (I think) http://www.angelfire.com/scary/mantits
maybe there's a .html at the end or something. you can google search 'mantits' and it comes up...
I just didn't bother giving the annual payment for the URL name. maybe I'll do it up again. I like it much better that way...then again, Pretend You're Happy should probably have that URL....
my forgetfulness regarding Mantits is largely due to this fact: Pretend You're Happy has been the big deal musically for me for the past year and a half. The final mixed/mastered CD should be done this summer. should be...
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