Occupation: Musician Birth: July 22, 1973
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component..
I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the….
Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the win….
I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep….
Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio..
It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to ear….
I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever ….
Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound..
I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring..
I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic..
I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer..
I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording..
Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting..
Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do..
A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from refere….
Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with ….
I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I….
Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be lim….
Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Wo….
There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you a….
It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh..