Chris, along with Charlotte, Jake, Casey, and Martin, but also sometimes joined by Finn, Teresa, Calvert, Ross, John, Ryan, Anne, Jason, Clay, and many, many others.
Influences
Lake Athabasca. Simeon Stylites. Rand McNally.
Sounds Like
People we have been compared to (and we will not vouch for the accuracy of the comparisons): The Mountain Goats, the Violent Femmes, They Might Be Giants, Sebadoh, Pete Seeger, the Go-Betweens, Elephant 6, and of all things, the Pixies. Also someone once said that Chris looks like Ric Ocasek, but that probably doesn't count.
Until recently, the Minor Thirds were Chris, Charlotte, Jake, Casey, and Martin (and whoever else joined them); but things changed after the zombie uprising. Now Chris is fights alone (or with whoever else joins him, which might include Charlotte, Jake, Casey, Martin, or any of a seemingly infinite number of other people). They are camped out in Portland, Oregon, and have been making music for a few years. They have an album about finding paradise in Saskatchewan and one about a crime/love spree that fails terribly and a new one about Darwin and tourism and love in these United States. They have songs about what good friends chickens make, how your tattoo will mock you when you are old, how friendly e-mails can destroy national monuments, how to be a menace at contract bridge, the metaphors that lurk behind breakfast, finding love in the tunnels underneath the prairie town of Moose Jaw, the tremendous importance of not getting in on, finding hope in the small details of pornography, why you might want to be friendly towards your waitress, how difficult it is to see the constellation of the Giraffe, dancing in a house filled with excrement while the cops batter down your door, driving across Wyoming, driving across Nevada, driving across Nebraska, driving and getting lost in Minnesota, the difference between talking about civil disobedience and actually getting out there and doing it, diamond theft in southern Africa, spiritual growth through preparing vegetables, the sentencing to death of King Charles the First of England, how fun it is to lie to your friends through postcards, jailbait lesbian angst on the bunny slopes, mathematical proof for never leaving the house, sleeping in the snow by the side of the road miles from any sign of civilization, running away from your loved ones at the first sign of sickness, summoning a demon because you are a mad scientist and that's just what you do, Alex P. Keaton buying a round of beers for a host of angels he meets in a bar, how those angels could easily commit the perfect crime, and deciding not to kill someone who deserves it even though you so could. So hopefully at least one of those topics sounded interesting.
Unfortunately such a thing does not yet exist, but you will be first on the list to receive a copy when it does. There will hopefully be some more recording sometime this winter. We may have some scratch tracks before that.
Five years ago, three days after Christmas the Taken Girls got together for their second to last jam session (their last one was on Valentine's Day night on KBOO) Jacob Anderson (Tape Mountain & Gang Wizard), Dan Cohoon (Moral Crayfish & Montgomery Park) and Eric Matchett (Turkey Makes Me Sleepy) rocked the Sky Pad one last time. What was produced is the most straight ahead rocking to date (if you think 12 min songs are straight ahead). The album is called EASIER THAN HOPE (as in, it is easier not to have hope).
Happy birthday to you (that's Chris) Happy birthday to you (again, Chris) Happy birthday dear Chris (oh, there we go) Happy birthday to you! (you know who I'm talking about)
Going to Boston this weekend… I watched your Lechmere video again. Oh Green Line, oh how I missed you. The Max in Portland is pitiful when compared to you. The less said about Septa the better.
Great show friday night. Thank you so much for the great cd and wonderful show. I really thought the flute solo and then walk out was a great way to finish off the night. All your cdrs were gone gone gone!!!
Yay, I am going to get a pirated copy of the new song and then take it to the IMAX and blast it on a boombox right before the lights dim for the movie and the previews come on. Take that.
Good rainy afternoon to all in TM3, my favorite non-folk folk trio with songs emphasizing places far away from sprawl and lattes. Thank God for that! Keep writing, the world needs your non-homoginized world view. Dang, I sound like a professor. Time to stop.
he'll take it for a small fee. yes, finn changed my name, ahh, the control i give him.
let me know when you want to record and i can schedule it with his agents.
1. the book is great. we should take a walk sometime together after reading it. book group walks? sounds revolutionary.
2. finn mccool thinks you rock.
3. the cookies were awesome. THANK YOU!
4. of course i cried.
5. i think you are cool.
