everything written and executed by yours truly
with kind contributions from Rich Stone on bass clarinet and saxaphone
Influences
Morrissey, Smiths, SCOTT WALKER, Siouxsie Sioux, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Erasure, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark with a capital OMD, Silver Apples, Shirelles, The Brill Building, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Television, REM, Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, Tim Hardin, Ramones, Zombies, Sparks, Jeff Buckley, Big Star, Bebop Deluxe, Rufus Wainwright, Suicide, New York Dolls, Stooges, Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Elvis, Elvis Costello, BURT BACHARACH, Serge Gainsbourg, Magnetic Fields, Kate Bush, CAN, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Gary Numan, Marc Bolan, Visage, Cluster, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Klaus Nomi, COLE PORTER, Giorgio Moroder, IRVING BERLIN, Geneva Jacuzzi, Stephen Sondheim, Telex, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Depeche Mode, Phil Spector, The Ronettes, Ray Price, BEACH BOYS, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Patrick Cowley, Ariel Pink, Bee Gees, Kurt Weill
Sounds Like
"one-man electro-lounge crooner/storyteller.... whose debut song cycle: Amelia Earhart CD is the best synth-debut out of Philly since VIP." - A.D. Amorosi for the Philadelphia City Paper
Hello. Welcome. I wrote and recorded the songs above in my bedroom sometime between 2004 and the present. With new equipment, training, and practice my newest recordings are sounding a lot better.
I am currently assembling a new and improved album at little or no extra cost to you, the consumer.
I am also producing and recording Kiss Kiss Kill, a pop-oriented, female-harmonizing bunch of drama queens.
Ta da!!
Wubba Wubba Wubba, Stephen! The Absinthe Drinkers will be at... The Tiberino Museum 3819 Hamilton St., Philadelphia (a block south of Spring Garden, and 38th St.) 6/21/08 8pm $5 The Drinkers do it under the twilight sky with help from... The TBaggadelics: scary songs for children of all ages... Roger Lemur and the Cold War Re-Enactment Society: psychadelic electronica, man... plus dancing girls (maybe) and the quality visuals you've come to expect! Hope to see you there, Thanx for the add!
Sorry to be so anti-social yesterday. One of those days I guess. Next weekend should be better though. I'm going to see the show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch!
never had you pegged for a prairie oyster fan but you have always defied conventional categorization anyway...hey didn't Billy Idol imbibe a whole pint glass of those in that ridiculous 'rock the cradle of love' vid?
not that i know of, but i will keep you in mind! good luck finishing up school! ME: S-U-C-C-E-S-S! What does that spell? YOU: Success? ME: What does that spell? YOU: Success!!!
Not sure why, but I've been waltzing around the house singing Type O Negative's "Black Number One" and N.W.A.'s "Parental Discretion Is Advised" in a Stephen Bluhm-esque voice. I hope this isn't the onset of some strange a cappella tourette strain. Yeah, I'm not sure either...
Suckafree Santa goes straight to the ghetto...with more than a few ho's, a baby doll bottle and a gun in the garland...so get that present peepin' ass back up them steps...he ain't cha daddy!
stay in bed...always good advice. The picture is analogous to the music. As for the Van Halen video it was tantamount to watching a really bad game of 80's semi-pornographic bridge. More keytar could have saved it though.
I have to work. They have me working the overnight shift for a couple of weeks...I go in at 9 and work until 7. Keep me posted though, I will make it to one soon.
Okay, but to answer your question . . . we're not actively looking at the moment. I'm not hip to the church-across-from-purple-house venue. (But did I mention that I love the purple house?)
