In no particular order: M. Ward, The Postal Service, The Beatles, Weezer (old), The Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Charles Bukowski, The Mountain Goats, Tom Waits, Tom Jones, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, David Foster Wallace, Magic 105 FM, Elliott Smith, Jonathan Halper, Animal Collective, David Bowie, Pip Proud, Ben Kweller, Russell Edson, Smashing Pumpkins, The Zombies, Shel Silverstein, Atlas Sound, John Pantry, The Creation, Pulp, Plastic Ono Band, Big Star, Guided by Voices, Boston Spaceships, My Bloody Valentine, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, The Supremes, The Magnetic Fields, Scott Walker, The Jesus Lizard, Borges, Jens Lekman, Jonathan Richman, Panda Bear, Os Mutantes, Donovan, John Berryman, Tim Hardin, Townes Van Zandt, Bill Fox, Wes Anderson Films, Michel Gondry films, Films in general, Van Dyke Parks, The Star Tribune Sports Section, The NY Times Crossword Puzzle, Radiohead, The NBA, the time I met Kevin Garnett at PetSmart, Nico, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Wilco, Dr. Seuss, Belle & Sebastian, R. Stevie Moore, Prince, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus, The Beach Boys, Sufjan Stevens, Bishop Allen, Caribou, Brian Eno, William Basinski, Robert Ashley, T. Rex, McCartney II, Wreckless Eric, Aphex Twin, Ricky Nelson, Spoon, Saturday Looks Good To Me, R. Stevie Moore, Nouvelle Vague, Azure Ray, Miles Davis, Paul Simon, Jack Kerouac, Towers Thick Walls, The Flaming Lips, Caribou, Destroyer, Billy Bragg, Joni Mitchell, Hunter S. Thompson, The Weakerthans, Richard Brautigan, Daniel Johnston, TV, TV Personalities, Shit that happens, Places I've lived, Places I want to go, People I know, People I don't know, My friends, Bands my friends are in, Bands I hear at shows and then promptly lose track of
Neye Benziyor?
"A husky, balls out, synesthetic's view of the underside of that driverless truck, filled alternately with multicolored bouncing balls and late eighties neon trading cards" -Max Rivlin-Nadler
My name is Lionel O. I'm a Minneapolis ex-pat currently living in rural Ohio. I've got four records: Brontosaurus Breakfast (2006/7), Lionel O's Fool's Gold (2007), Nemo Nocturne EP (2008), and Stranger (2009). I write songs because I want to write songs. I hope you hear them. I hope you like them. If you just want specific songs, click the little plus sign on the left of the albums listed on my snocap. Drop me a line here, or at my e-mail, which is listed nearby.
"...a staple of the Oberlin music scene" -The Oberlin Review, 10/10/08
...and all the records except for Stranger are up on
and CDbaby, at http://cdbaby.com/all/lionelo . Stranger should be up sometime soon.
Hey! Stop what you are doing! We are having a button sale! 100 Buttons Just 15 Dollars! 500 Buttons Just 70 Dollars! 1000 Buttons Just 130 Dollars 2000 Buttons Just 250 Dollars! The sale ends August 1st so check it out now!
Our Record Label is about to forgo business, and is trying to get rid of its stock before it does, so both our albums are now just £0.01 +postage, basically free from http://d67.bigcartel.com
Hey Lionel - It is no surprise to see all the Lionel's on the Myspace network, what is surprising is how remarkably talented they are, espeically you. Thanks for adding me please check out my "Lionel List of Friends" and you will see what I am talking about, Must be the name! Sing and Play on! Lionel
The future of the indie music world post-Person Pitch/Merriweather Post Pavilion? We might just be seeing/hearing it in young (freshman at IU) Bloomington, Indiana-based Spirit Spine. (My Old Kentucky Blog)
Spirit Spine spreads his hands with a smile, and between them stretch neon coloured wills o’ the wisps which are arranged around your room most delicately to create a tunnel of halos which ends at a glimmering gate in your ceiling, if you slide inside this path and levitate past the gate you will find yourself standing not in the sad mess of your neighbours’ flat above, but on top of a warm mesa from which you can behold an orgy of orange and red as twin suns set over an alien landscape of ravishing beauty. This is the sound of Panda Bear if he was into Arthur C. Clarke instead of Walt Whitman. (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
Good to have you as a friend! So great to see the internet in action this way, shortening distances between people.
I hope all's well with you and that you enjoy checking out my web site some time.
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Best, Faber.
"Just a guy trying to make the world a better place. "
