The Bunnybrains are the Bunny Brains,are you?

Chronograndma article

2011-12-19T08:54:00.000-05:00

This is a magazine article from a magazine that yur grandma reads
enjoy

soundcloud lynk

2011-12-19T08:52:00.000-05:00

heres a way to hear whats goin on at soundcloud
back to yur day now

bunnybrains knitting factory pixx

2010-08-30T21:48:00.001-04:00

raimondo bunny

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What the bleep?
Originally uploaded by drshrinker

the great raimondo

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I can see your house from here
Originally uploaded by drshrinker

FUCK YOU 2009 YOU VENGEFUL SHITHEAD..BEST OF

2009-12-28T10:42:00.000-05:00

FUCK YOU 2009 YOU VENGEFUL SHITHEAD..BEST OF

1-diane cluck at jean deux books in hudson ny-diane brought her own food in recyclable containers,never complained that her dressing room wasnt warm enough and didnt require any m&m extracting..she held a bunch of possibly grumpy folkfollowers in her hands and heart for 45 mins and they went home full of cake.
2-talk normal,jana hunter,tara jane o neill-i don't make jokes about estrogen anymore so stop reading this if your looking for one.If anybody "won" this evening it was TalkNormal..before they were on th cover of Rolling Stone and expense accounting their beers to Vivendi they were a raw massive snarly robot of fury dragging all th freshman to th dirty floor and leaving them there..awesome...jana and tara remain spooky,spooked and super charming as ever.
3-bunnybrains w meshell ndegeocello-jasons bar-hudson ny-as bad ideas go,asking grammy nominees to jam w an elderly noiserock outfit should stand as one of th worst ones.except when said nominee is looking to flush some demonickry of her own out th pipe.and thats where it lay.like a goldfish fucking Mike Pattons face.awesomeness
4-flaming dragons of middle earth-john doe jr greenfield mass-what happens when a handicap is a strongsuit?flamings Danny Cruz leader and lover,directs and heckles and throws ideas around like an alchemist who makes gold into shit and then back again.With adhoc help from various wesmass citizens the room fills up with horns and guitars and drums and chants and then its all gone.snowflake.on.fire.on.your tongue
5-boredoms at EMPAC-RPI Campus-great show etc etc etc etc etc etc
6-Joe Moore-jasons bar-hudson ny-When the ghost of Mark Lanegans sewing kit decides to take up residency in your throat whats a man to do.The unyoung Moore does th hard thing.Write grreat loner road songs,beer songs,love tracts,and still plays a mean strange spirit filled guitar.Now that he has brushed mortal coils with a recent bout of Lyme disease,his songs have a layer of ether and rot on them that only real life can provide.
7-Coma Club VHS and on Cable Access in Western Mass-Jamie Mohrs trapdoor of analog delight seems to go forward,sideways and backwards in technology,writing and skillsets all at the same time.Less self aware and more AWARE than "real" video art,Mohr crafts tv loveletters to her friends and sidekicks with every episode.CF from Kites in a sub B zombie love story,Jessica Rylan bleeping her hearts in chrome bubbles,Frankie Martin cooking something noone will eat and on and on.The amount of obvious sincerity and craft in each ep.is a great barometer to see how shitty and contrived so much of this genre is.Check your local library or GardenComa on youtube.

shows

2009-03-23T21:43:00.001-04:00

Beaver Hunt

2009-02-26T16:47:00.000-05:00

Matadors Revenge

2009-02-26T16:23:00.000-05:00

Bunnybrains on Amazon,Itunes,Napster,Rhapsody,Emusic

2009-02-24T13:59:00.002-05:00

The Bunnybrains new cd What Makes You Think you can Save Yourself(From Yourself) is now available on Amazon,Itunes,Napster,Rhapsody,Emusic....big deal you may say.as well as i would say on certain occasions..well now u all can enjoy the fruits of intersystems pleasure web..it's clear you are the system,so subvert your life for once.

philly 2006

2008-11-06T18:30:00.000-05:00

a stone for adam nodelman

2008-09-19T08:02:00.001-04:00

please come and support
florence vfw
florence massachussetts
sep 28

Bunnybrains in new cookbook!

2008-09-18T14:52:00.002-04:00

south sweet skreeport

2008-09-11T15:11:00.000-04:00

Bunnybrains at Ontological Theater..2008

2008-08-07T23:09:00.000-04:00

new blog only release

2008-08-01T23:37:00.000-04:00

if yur into bunnybrains
paypal us 10 buxx (bunnybrain@hotmail.com)for this blogweb only release
its sick

xbunnybrains

philadelphia 2005 devendra banhart tour

2008-07-16T15:04:00.000-04:00

parking lot at john doe books

2008-06-23T18:10:00.001-04:00

DSC03511
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knitting factory cancelled

2008-06-05T17:09:00.000-04:00

a show at kf june 6th has been cancelled..don't worry

2008-05-23T19:29:00.000-04:00

bunnybrains at knitting factory june 6th

2008-05-23T12:37:00.002-04:00

we r playing w dusted off wackjob gary wilson for his dvd release party..come on and dirty!!!!

style conkious

2008-05-13T17:22:00.001-04:00

trouble in th form of eyes,hat and pants...the male andre leon talley..so smooth..

Bunnybrains Live May 17th in Hudson NY

2008-05-13T17:17:00.001-04:00

may 9th st marks church show

2008-04-23T16:20:00.001-04:00

Friday, May 9, 2008
8:00 PM

St Marks Church
2nd Avenue at 10th St
New York City, New York
40.7298, -73.9868
Category
Performing/Visual Arts
Description
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. – May 11, 2008: 1 a.m.

Ontological Theater
St. Mark's Church
131 E. 10th St.
Manhattan, NY

Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the "Incubator" program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art. The festival will feature short compositions and performances by established and emerging artists. Each evening opens with a Radio 4x4 as the audience enters the theater. Radio 4x4 is a free103point9 collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, "mixing" the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals. Other artists will perform each evening. Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe, and Damian Catera will curate each evening.
Thursday, May 8
Curated by Tianna Kennedy
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Tianna Kennedy + Mark Anderson + Jordi Wheeler + Tyler Nolan
Lith (Jordi Wheeler)
Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer from the Zs)
Dome Theater (Forrest Gillespie directing "Fucked for Real")
Friday, May 9
Curated by Tom Roe
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Giancarlo Bracchi + Tom Roe + Slink Moss + Michael Garafalo.
Bunnybrains
Michael Garafalo (Latitude/Longitude)
Giancarlo Bracchi
Tom Roe
Saturday, May 10
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Damian Catera + () + Tom Roe + John Baird
Skyline
Damian Catera
Andrea Parkins
Curated by Damian Catera

2008-04-21T18:47:00.000-04:00

from lifesbathroom blog

bunnybrains live at suny purchase april 18th

2008-04-09T19:13:00.002-04:00

...20 yrs later bunnybrains return to th suny purchase campus in mid afternoon mode..
FRIDAY april 18th
FRIDAY
1 p.m. Under the Rasta Influence
2 p.m. Ecstatic Sunshine
3 p.m. Polar Bear Club
4 p.m. Cassidy feat. DJ L
5 p.m. the BunnyBrains
6 p.m. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
7 p.m. Atlas Sound
8 p.m. Gang Gang Dance
9 p.m. El-P
10 p.m. TBD
11 p.m. (in Student Center) DJ Cocoa Chanelle

some upcoming shows

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04/18/2008 12:00 PM - Culture Shock Fest at SUNY Purchase
Anderson Hill Rd
purchase, New York
US
Cost:free
Description:not sure what day we r playin..w/ CURSIVE DEERHOOF GANG GANG DANCE AMARFIS YACHT MR EASY ATLAS SOUND BUNNYBRAINS MEN (JD from Le Tigre’s band) CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE CARE BEARS ON FIRE POLAR BEAR CLUB

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new york, New York
US
Cost:N/A

your heroes

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2007-11-28T17:48:00.000-05:00

The Silver Globe at the Kitchen by Aida Ruilova

2007-11-20T20:49:00.000-05:00

My stint at th Kitchen is over and a welling opal pillow of emptyness follows.Aida crackerjacked her velvet whip and sandpaper tongue and molded a great show out of sticks and stones. The gas fumes of opening night were enough to blow up the building,but they were natural like a woman.DAis took her cues from Harryhausen and Clint Eastwood(the reggae unit) and Mary Martin as Peter Pan and Tobe Hoopers chicken bone strewn floor in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Mahler and Joe Torre,she kept punching away at the thing and it finally went over the fence,Thanxxx Aida u kinda rool..xxdd..
By the way here is what the New York Times wrote.."As for “The Silver Globe,” I made it to the Kitchen in time (thankfully this city is hopelessly unpunctual; it started around 8:15), logging five Performa events that day. The reward was a hedonistic, wild mix of film, live music (including Ian Vanek of Japanther), dance and sculpture.

Ms. Ruilova exploited Caitlin Cook’s seductive, anarchistic energy, offsetting the choreographer-musician’s grungy glamour against densely satisfying audio and visual bursts. As the singer Daniel Seward menacingly crooned, “We never, ever, ever, ever, ever do anything nice and easy.” I didn’t recognize myself in it, but it was unrecognizably, irresistibly itself. I leaned forward. "

Martha Stewart loves Bunnybrains

2007-10-16T01:40:00.001-04:00

In the new issue of Martha Stewarts Blueprint magazine she lists an upcoming book that contains a recipe from Bunnybrains......."number 68. "Experience a new variety of tasty licks courtesy of "cool-kid" bands: Find favorite recipes from Animal Collective and Black Dice, to name a few, in "Lost in the Supermarket: The Indie Rock Cookbook" by Kay Bozich Owens and Lynn Owens ($16, Soft Skull Press, November)."....we knew Martha had taste.

Ass and you shall recieve

2007-10-15T20:41:00.001-04:00

here's a still from the show i'm in on Nov 16th and 17th..its by my favorite lady Aida Ruilova,its called The Silver Globe and is at The Kitchen..come and see it if your in NYC

Bunnybrains at Campfire Sounds at Wave Farm in Acra New York 2007(all photographs-Giancarlo Bracchi)

2007-10-09T14:27:00.000-04:00

New video soon

2007-08-01T13:05:00.000-04:00

thirsty

2007-08-01T09:05:00.000-04:00

Jamie Bytheway

2007-07-27T17:11:00.000-04:00

yeah thats her real name,what can u say? uk?..shes responsible for making me make it real at th shoppe..its not easy and she made it so much easier

Where are you going

2007-07-25T15:25:00.000-04:00

carcar has a drink

2007-07-19T23:59:00.000-04:00

degeneration dripping with blood fading away

2007-07-19T12:52:00.001-04:00

degeneration dripping with blood fading away are playing at martha colburns this sunday...

FOR SOME SUMMER FREAK VIDEO MUSIC FUN FILM TIMES COME:

doors open at 730.....showtime......800/ 830

when? July 22 Sunday 2007

where? (EXILE) (legendary old mafia bar and former 80's dance hall where Klaus Nomi and Blondie performed) Long Island City

An eve of performances and films and videos.

bring drinks, and snacks if you like, we'll have vodka watermellon.

Live Music/ performance by:

DEGENERATION DRIPPING WITH BLOOD FADING AWAY. (all the way from Albany NY!)

If that didnt say it all! Jamie from Bunny Brains teams up with her 11 year old daughter Odell. Drums, birds, brokenrecord players a singing saw... regular singing ...drums? did I say drum

http://freematterfortheblind.com/07releases.html

Mudboy will perform on synthesizer

(all the way from Rhode Island!)

Www.mudboymusic.com

WJEN midi-oke boombox performance

http://www.jennifersullivan.org/

RAHA Raissnia - film and Marc Orleans - guitar

They will perform…….

MARTHA colburn and TIM REARDON will premier their new music videos!

wtchh sells me potion class

2007-07-15T16:40:00.000-04:00

jessica rylan

2007-07-15T16:39:00.000-04:00

jessica rylan
why r u so awesome
and full of fun
and vinegar
and leg
and greatness
u rool
xx

2007-07-05T10:39:00.000-04:00

2007-05-30T14:48:00.000-04:00

this is the cover to our record on blackjack.todd schorr did it,i hope he's still ok.

betsy has a smoke

2007-05-30T12:04:00.000-04:00

sometimes i think of you and i remember the sounds we heard
and then i hear your mom yelling goodnight from the basement
and then i hear the records coming from your brothers room
and then i hear your voice
like a kid
saying everything will be alright

E

2007-05-30T10:29:00.000-04:00

I can't wait for Elena to come visit the usa

Madre aqui estoy

2007-05-30T10:26:00.000-04:00

my madre went away
to togo and mandalay
but shes home again i think
for beef fajitas
and spicy drink
my madre is my soul
she looks upon my eyes
and then she fires the coals
and applies them to the lies

duchess and th lady

2007-04-10T17:38:00.000-04:00

paraxx hylton luvs her sum bunny

2007-04-10T17:37:00.000-04:00

uhoh

2007-04-05T23:14:00.000-04:00

devendra lays it on thick..san francisco 2005 tour

2007-03-13T19:58:00.000-04:00

nyeve

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we r one

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2007-02-03T16:23:00.000-05:00

2007-01-29T16:44:00.000-05:00

club midway flyer

2007-01-24T14:32:00.000-05:00

yo

2007-01-21T02:05:00.000-05:00

pussy power

2007-01-14T10:09:00.000-05:00

cat food

2007-01-14T10:06:00.000-05:00

Women I Love:Jamie Mohr and Martha Colburn

2007-01-07T10:02:00.000-05:00

experimental people band philly 2006

2007-01-06T15:47:00.000-05:00

bunnybrains in philly 2006 december

2006-12-26T15:59:00.000-05:00

we love philly
we love experimental people band
we love wian tweetin
we love moxie colburn
we love jewels de balincourt
we love jamzzxies

jamie mohr,bunnybrain of the highest order

2006-12-15T18:47:00.000-05:00

the grrrreat zumi

2006-12-15T16:22:00.000-05:00

New Cd on Paha Porvari(France)

2006-10-18T10:11:00.000-04:00

Aida Ruilova is my mommy

2006-10-18T10:02:00.000-04:00

help the open season

2006-10-15T11:45:00.000-04:00

kittens am cute

2006-10-14T22:21:00.000-04:00

2006-10-07T14:18:00.000-04:00

free103point9 | Live at Tune (Out)))side at Wave Farm

2006-09-25T20:19:00.000-04:00

free103point9 | Live at Tune (Out)))side at Wave Farm

poodle party

2006-09-18T18:11:00.000-04:00

poor baby

2006-08-20T19:36:00.000-04:00

A Mom and Pot Operation

2006-03-17T17:17:00.000-05:00

Drug Ring Sold Pot-Laced Candy, Soda - March 17, 2006

friends form ever

2005-12-18T15:55:00.000-05:00

here is my friends blog,,,she is a cupcake..wrapped in dirt

xmas tyme

2005-12-17T15:00:00.000-05:00

acoustic bunny concert mp3 summer 2005

2005-12-10T09:35:00.000-05:00

here is an mp3 from the awesome wave farm evnt that th free 103.9 cattys put on amongst th trreess..this is called "the transubstantiation of matt valentine"

tour blog from ilxor.com

2005-12-01T12:04:00.000-05:00

so did anyone go see the hairiest show on earth, or what? (aka devendra/bunnybrains tour)
ilXor.com > ILM
I Love Music | New Answers | Unanswered Questions | Ask A Question Logout | dan bunnybrain | Settings

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do you know how hard it is for my brother to get out of bed? let alone fly to california? he's never been near california! anyone go? i can't remember how many shows they have played. maria is going to somerville on wed. northhampton is tueday, i think. i'm not going anywhere cuz i'm tied to my apronstrings.
-- scott seward (skotrok@earthlink.net), October 16th, 2005.

Answers
If he were playing Providence I'd be tempted. I'm alternately repulsed and fascinated by Devendra, so traveling any distance to see him would not be wise.
Anyway, I'll save my monies for Faun Fables later this month.

-- Edward III (ehonauer@gmail.com), October 17th, 2005.

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Yes Northampton is Tuesday but I don't have the funds to go :(. Please tell Dan and company to be extra abusive to the trust fund fake hippie audience that will attend. Noho is the shanker of MA.
-- brg30 (brg30@yahoo.com), October 17th, 2005.

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I'm going on Thursday (NYC).
-- o. nate (syne_wave@yahoo.com), October 17th, 2005.

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i might go thursday, dunno.
-- hstencil (hstenc!l@NOSPAMyahoo.com), October 17th, 2005.

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I'm going Wednesday.
-- Maria :D (djdutch@gmail.com), October 18th, 2005.

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i might hit slummerville weds
-- kephm (dogtheprophet@yahoo.com), October 18th, 2005.

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Hey, Scott, this occurred to me a few weeks ago while watching an SNL rerun: Did Dan get the band's name from Phil Hartman-as-Frankenstein monster? "Rain . . . Spain . . . Bunnybrain! Hahahaha!"
-- Rickey Wright (rrrickey@aol.com), October 18th, 2005.

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i was so bummed out to miss bunnybrains.
m.
-- msp (m@shapeshifting.org), October 18th, 2005.

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I have something else I have to go to first, but I hope I get there in time to catch Bunnybrains.
-- o. nate (syne_wave@yahoo.com), October 18th, 2005.

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im a bad blogger i admit..but its so hectic out here its tuff to keep up..santa cruz was awesome played w vegan brownies in our bellys and later we entertained a lot of really sweet people w drinks and sweet kisses..los angeles was a crazy fuck of a show w tons of lil girls all coiffed up and hiplessly shakin their stuff..weird club like bladerunner orwell chrome trapeze and shit..tucson was terrible and we tried to lighten them up but they were tooo drunk to care,,i met my childhood sweety johanna tho..shes great,,austin was amazing a really great city w fun kids who love fuckkd music..met whitney th softcore latchhooker and she showed th way..houston didnt appear to be a cinch but we spackled them nicely w sound and converted a few folkies..dallas was in a tiny club and it felt like old danbury at tks sports cafe all cramped up and sweaty..super stuff..nashville blew our minds w th lights up high and kids down low..lots of drinks were had and fresh faces were dirtied up..carrboro nc was in a huge place and we had accordion backup along w sum good whiskeys..played sum football and eliza got her dev tattoo..played a tea bazaar in charlottesville virginia home of dave matthews and we switched it up dev and kev and andy doin neil yung songs and then we came on under darkness w kind indian sauces and lost our shit live style..i never seen so many kids dancin to chaos like that..rose csorba made a sweet dessert after it was all over..philly style was a lil stiff but i had candy underpants on and i didnt care..th kids really like "songs" so we made sum up for them..nyc was nuts we made a fan in mr and mrs dustin hoffman and gave them bunny shirts to do housework in..dustin likened our show to the Living Theater which is a huge compliment..we got their daughter Becky bunnyixed on stage and she wrestled the Wolfman Jason..its Cleveland tonight rainy and cold so it shall be warm inside
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 23rd, 2005.

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If the Bunnybrains play in Philly without Devendra I'd check it out.
-- miccio (anthonyisright@GEEmail.com), October 23rd, 2005.

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20.10.05
Devendra Banhart
Went to see Devendra Banhart play last night at the Somerville Theatre. It was a brilliant show; Banhart is clearly gifted. He began his performance with "Quedate Luna" and ended with "Little Boys," both tracks from the Cripple Crow CD (XL Recordings, 2005). And yet attending the concert also has a relative down side (for me, at least). The audience, mostly comprised of "organic" hipster-hippies, could be rather obnoxious. The undergraduate twentysomethings reminded me, in many respects, of the type of culture I was surrounded by--and often had a tenuous relationship with--while studying at Hampshire College. Favorite moment: Banhart's response to musical requests. As the masses screamed song title after song title, Banhart quickly rebutted: "I sing the songs I wanna sing." Least favorite moment: Having to endure the smelly spectacle by the Bunny Brains (or the Brainless Bunnies). The let-me-shock-you fest by dressing outrageously, banging pots and pans (in the worst "first world" evocation of an unconscious cacerolazo I have ever heard), wearing face masks, dancing in underwear, and babbling individually anti-establishment stances was kind of funny for the first five minutes. But soon the supposed cutesiness wore thin. The B. B. bunch (by which I parenthetically still mean the Brainless Bunnies) scared me. They made me clutch onto my purse throughout their performance, as they pointed to particular audience members and yelled, in an accusatory tone, "Honda Civic! Honda Civic!" The joys of performative civility. Alas, this entry should be about Banhart. The bottom line is that I greatly enjoyed his show--especially those linguistic distortions, ever so musically, of both Spanish and English.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 24th, 2005.

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The second band, the Bunnybrains, put on one of the most ludicrous stage shows I've ever seen. It started off with just two people onstage; a long-haired typical indie guy, and this guy in a black Zorro hat, a steel mask and a cape. The long-haired guy played a really out of tune guitar while the masked man hit a symbol over and over again. At one point, the guitarist made a joke about how Pabst Blue Ribbon's like "Cristal for people who listen to the Shins," and then talked about how Connecticut's filled to the brim with strip clubs.
It was only beginning though. After a few songs, the rest of the band came out. They were: a guitarist with like a cat mask and sunglasses, a bassist dressed as a fox, a girl dressed as like a Viking/Amazon who played a saw with a bow, and two more women who just sort of stood there screaming, one dressed as a garden gnome and one not so much. After a few songs, the original guitarist stripped down to a leotard which really didn't adequately support his, er, member, and started jumping around. You could kind of see waves of people catching on in unison about what exactly was dangling around down there and then covering their eyes and shrieking or whatnot. At one point, they brought up this very small man who sort of looked like Devendra Banhart (beard- and hair-wise, at least) and had him deepthroat a banana.

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 24th, 2005.

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That was practically high art compared to the second band, Bunny Brains. "We don't make any bones about the fact that we're an amateur band," the singer said early in the 30-minute, um, performance.
He wasn't kidding. He and a drummer done up like the Phantom of the Opera, complete with a silver mask covering his face, started the set with atonal meanderings, and were slowly joined by others in costume. There was someone dressed like a garden gnome, a young woman in a red leotard and pink tights who mumbled and shrieked into a microphone and a guitarist wearing a plastic dog snout and jowls. The singer slowly disrobed to reveal a red unitard that provided nothing close to optimal coverage of his nether region.

It would be far too generous to call anything they performed "music" or describe any of their work as "songs" - and Bunny Brains would likely agree - but there were a lot of lyrics about barnyards and salted butter.

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 24th, 2005.

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I wish I'd caught the Bunnybrains set at Webster Hall, but I got there too late. I would have rather seen that than the Tarantula A.D. Oh well. Nice job emceeing though. That story about the baby's neck was hilarious.
-- o. nate (syne_wave@yahoo.com), October 24th, 2005.

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Just when you thought free love was going out of style, Devendra Banhart & Hairy Fairy roll into town, playing an unforgettable show at Emo's Monday night. Devendra's style merges the pyschedelic songwriting and heartfelt folk of the 60s with his own spiritual, idealistic, neo-hippie voice.

The opening act, Bunny Brains, was a staged parade of costumed merry pranksters. That night, the band included a tuxedo wolf bassist, a masked, drumming cowboy, and one bearded jazz wizard on a Theremin who was apparently named "Nobody." Their lead singer eventually disrobed to a red, zip-down one-piece with white horn rimmed sunglasses.

The band's vocals ranged from convoluted (beatnik) rapping of sorts to a gurgling infant duet. The acid rock ensemble's masturbatory overload of sound is enough to take in. But by adding sideshow theatrics, including the stripping of an audience member down to his underwear on stage, to the costumes and music, the performance bordered on insanity. In a good way, though.

When Devendra took the stage, he thanked Bunny Brains "for being sweetness," and began to play. Amongst the long-haired and bearded camoflauge that is the Hairy Fairy band, Devendra Banhart crooned and cawed mystically.

-- scott seward (skotrok@earthlink.net), October 24th, 2005.

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Least favorite moment: Having to endure the smelly spectacle by the Bunny Brains (or the Brainless Bunnies). The let-me-shock-you fest by dressing outrageously, banging pots and pans (in the worst "first world" evocation of an unconscious cacerolazo I have ever heard), wearing face masks, dancing in underwear, and babbling individually anti-establishment stances was kind of funny for the first five minutes. But soon the supposed cutesiness wore thin. The B. B. bunch (by which I parenthetically still mean the Brainless Bunnies) scared me. They made me clutch onto my purse throughout their performance, as they pointed to particular audience members and yelled, in an accusatory tone, "Honda Civic! Honda Civic!" The joys of performative civility. Alas, this entry should be about Banhart.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 26th, 2005.

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Bunny Brains were ridiculous, one guy was in a dress, another in a wolf costume, another in a phantom of the opera meets mr roboto costume, and a girl wearing a see through top and what i can only describe as booty shorts with the booty cut out. they played incredibly bad, but very entertaining music. i swear that girl was on some serious drugs though, jesus.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 26th, 2005.

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The opening band (Bunny Brains?), on the other hand seemed to have one gimmick and that gimmick was not playing music, unfortunately. The had interesting costumes (bunny, baby, dog, etc) but the "music" wasn't much more than a guy shouting, "Shiloh" and other non-sensical stuff. Then again, I supposed I was meant to be "challenged" by their performance. It was challenging to sit through it... However, Bunny Brains did set up Devendra to kick some ass.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 26th, 2005.

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some good pix from nashville
http://www.livejournal.com/community/the_body_breaks/70276.html#cutid1
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 26th, 2005.

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yeah, i was in nashville; good show by all. did you spend much time with that young lady singer, dan?
-- Peter Densmore (peteyfiveoh@comcast.net), October 26th, 2005.

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Hopefully, Banhart and company will take a page from
Bunnybrains, the spontaneous clowns who opened.
Halloween might be around the corner, but you got the
feeling the band doesn't require much convincing to
play dress-up with (animal?) masks and other
role-playing attire. If you combined the drone of
early rock improv acts with an unhealthy dose of
absurdist rhetoric in the punk vein of Caroliner, Sun
City Girls or Cheer-Accident, then you know exactly
what Bunnybrains offered.--------cleveland free times
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 26th, 2005.

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some good pix from cleveland
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2846244&blogID=56100886
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 26th, 2005.

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So we go in and the first band is Bunny Brains and they're pretty much the craziest thing ever. The lead guy with long hair and beard and glasses came out looking semi-normal and said "We're Bunny Brains, we're from upstate New York and that's our problem and not yours," which I thought was pretty funny. Then the rest of the band comes out, including a cowboy with robot mask, a sumo Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Japanese wrestler, an essentially topless girl with a wig covering most of her face, and a girl (though we didn't know she was a girl until the end) wearing just some weird guy mask. Oh and a bass player dressed as a racoon or something. And they played this weird noise ambience while the lead guy yelled nonsense into a microphone. I don't think they actually had songs, I think they were just making shit up as they went. 3 of them (not including the lead singer) had Mics and were either doing these weird vocal harmonies over the music, or doing effects on their voice with pedals, or just hitting the microphone with a drumstick. I know I liked them, but that's really all I can say.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 27th, 2005.

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oops
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2005/10/devendra_banhar_10.html
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 28th, 2005.

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did wasco go out with you guys? wish i hadn't missed it.
-- hstencil (hstenc!l@NOSPAMyahoo.com), October 28th, 2005.

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Animal collective
BunnyBrains out-freak the folkies, plus Broken Social Scene
BY CAMILLE DODERO

Devendra Banhart’s audience was warned. A week ago Wednesday, percussionist/singer Gregory Rogove from openers Tarantula A.D. tried to prepare the Somerville Theatre audience for about what was to follow. "BunnyBrains is up next," he told us. "Be afraid." Even though Boston should’ve known better — BunnyBrains have been kicking around here for a decade, with a five-disc box set issued just last year on Narnack — it was sorta like alerting a coastal city about an impending tidal wave. When 15 freaks materialized on stage, in the aisles, and at the back of the theater in half-assed character masks (a white-bearded lawn troll, a fuzzy unicorn hood, a wolf-snouted bass-player), it was as if Hanna Barbera had unloaded the company dumpster into the hall. Stringy-haired BunnyBrains mystic Daniel Bunny moaned nonsensical mantras like "Wade in the water" and "Take your shackles back!" while a cacophony of horns puked, a red-dressed woman yammered into a pair of microphones, another woman choked into a CB radio, and a shirtless guy shone a near-blinding spotlight onto the crowd. Screw Don McLean: this was the day the music died.

With characters on and off the stage in full freakout, it was difficult to tell who was in the band and who wasn’t — even more so when members of the local folk/performance art collective Dreamhouse dragged an enormous sky-blue tarp down the stage-left aisle like a Chinese New Year dragon, then covered the unsuspecting middle-orchestra section with the canvas. Cue people gettng furious, holding the tarp over their heads, trying to push it off. A theater manager appeared, ordered the sound cut, and loudly, hysterically declared the tarp a fire hazard. Plunge into Death’s Mark E. Moon later reported that Banhart’s father and friends "were really pissed off." A Northeastern sophomore laughed, "I have no idea how I’m going to explain this to my friends. Like a circus without any cages?"

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), October 28th, 2005.

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The band that opened for them was absolutely hysterical.. the bassist was dressed as a wolf.. and!!! Two girls from the audience, one of which was from uic, wrestled the wolf. I also found the burlesque costume that the female vocalist was wearing strangely erotic. Oh, and they were called Bunny Brains, seriously, what a name.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 5th, 2005.

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Anonymous said...
This opening act was beyond typical opening band suckiness. The lead singer was a big bearded guy with face paint and a prom dress. The guitarist was dressed like a WWI soldier. The drummer was a quasi phantom of the opera, the bass player was a wolf in tights and the 2nd singer was a woman with bright green hair and a taped on mustache (in a bikini).
We can't verify this for sure, but we're pretty sure that had local laws allowed it, each and every single band member would have been naked by the end of the show.

This would not have been a good thing.

I don't think they really even have songs. They just get up there and bang around on shit. It was pretty terrible. Of course, they'd probably think this is a complement. It's not. They can't even get the art rock acid shit down right. It was embarassing.

Before the show they came out and danced through the audience with an old time song in the background. You could tell they hadn't peaked yet with their highs and they looked uncomfortable and self conscious. Rightfully so.

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 8th, 2005.

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-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 9th, 2005.

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-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 10th, 2005.

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Bunny Brains alone were worth the price of admission, not that the rest wasn't good, it was EXCELLENT, Devendra puts on an amazing show and dances so cute and is so little. Really cool arrangements on the songs too. And I liked how much he interacts with the audience. Very good.
Okay, Bunny Brains.. these guys are fucked up. The lead singer wears a pink dress and plays the guitar with a recorder. Like, he uses the recorder to play the guitar. The drummer wears and mask and jumps and hits drums placed all around the stage. The bassist wears a dog coustume and sings about animal S&M. Then there's this chick who started off playing a saw ("She's playing the saw!") but by the end she was merely rollng around on the ground making noises. The last member of the band was also female.. I think. She wore a gnome mask and big feet. Her role was to bang a microphone against random things on the stage.

All in all it was a very interesting experience.

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 20th, 2005.

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The opening band, New York’s Bunny Brains, was more interesting to watch than it was to hear. The costumes and stage antics were phenomenal, but the music left a bit to be desired. As my friend remarked to me, it would have probably made much more sense had we been on acid. Luckily for us, they only played for about half of an hour, leaving plenty of time for Banhart and his band to take over and erase the bad memories of Bunny Brains’ music from the ears of the audience.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 20th, 2005.

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Bunnybrains successfully pissed everyone off who was there for a lovey-dovey, hippy-dippy folk festival. They started their set with half of their crew in the back of the room, in costume, on stilts, dragging a gigantic tarp over the audience as they made their way to the front. And not exactly a clean, new tarp. It smelled like campground, it was torn and filthy, and tied up in it was scrap metal, flattened cans, car parts, all banging and clanking together. It went for about about five minutes, the audience horrifyingly passing it over all their heads like the kindergarten parachute game, until the house killed the power. We sat while the Bunnies gathered up the tarp and dragged it backstage, and then they started their free-for-all back up again. Somehow, they succeeded in turning stoic Bostonians into free lovin' flailing, dancing hippies. A bunch of kids got up and dance with them next to the stage, on stage, behind the stage, lying on their back on stage. Goddamn the Bunnies make a gigantic lot of colorful noise. Strangest thing, watching twenty people in the spotlight, all dressed up as sumo wrestlers, wolves, chickens, aerobic instructors, and Richard Nixon, and then turning my head and watching motionless, slack-jawed audience members. Don't miss them. I'm not saying they're good, but they're certainly worth the price of admission (well, unless it's $20 for the show, which it was last night, but I didn't pay, I'd never pay that much, so it was worth the price of admission for me).

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 21st, 2005.

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Anonymous said...
This opening act was beyond typical opening band suckiness. The lead singer was a big bearded guy with face paint and a prom dress. The guitarist was dressed like a WWI soldier. The drummer was a quasi phantom of the opera, the bass player was a wolf in tights and the 2nd singer was a woman with bright green hair and a taped on mustache (in a bikini).
We can't verify this for sure, but we're pretty sure that had local laws allowed it, each and every single band member would have been naked by the end of the show.

This would not have been a good thing.

Before the show they came out and danced through the audience with an old time song in the background. You could tell they hadn't peaked yet with their highs and they looked uncomfortable and self conscious. Rightfully so.
This was the Minneapolis show, right? Most of the kids up front were from a local Christian college and were insufferable. Thank you for making them uncomfortable.

-- mason r butler (masonbutler@gmail.com), November 21st, 2005.

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VandelayInd
Oct 08, 2005
[Rating2875937]
The worst excuse for music.
That's all I have to say right now.

More later.

Rated:
LincolnHawks
Oct 08, 2005
[Rating2875911]
Y'know ranting about horrific opening bands is beginning to be somewhat of a regular occurrence on top of its delightful nature for me.

Bunny Brains is absolutely no exception, and when I saw Devendra Banhart's face solemnly turn to distressed stone upon hearing Bunny Brains create a life-succubus of annoying ruckus on "HIS" stage at (new Hollywood Club) Vanguard, I new that this review must become a reality.

Bunny Brains: a drunk guy in a fur towel with "Lolita" sunglasses, attempting to play two acoustic tracks only to have their retarded noise interrupted by his rising vomit or talk of how "LA drivers are fuckin' screwed up"........if this would have been the extent of Bunny Brains set, my life would be a happy one, instead his band decided to come up: tortured animal manifesto's and all!

You've got a guy with a Nixon mask and a Sumo suit, a guy with a Unicorn Mask, a chick with random shit all over her, and a third guy with a simple white fox mask. Each one of these character proceed to join their frontman and go on a high, drunken rampage all over Mr. Banhart's stage ("you getoff stage!" says Yacoff Smirnoff from the 3rd row). The worst part about this, of which set it apart from a mere on-stage neo-free love spectacle, was the fact that these people tried to play instruments, and aside from the bassist, none of them could or did.

The girl was perhaps the worst, I compare her to Fergee from the Black Eyed Peas...a blatant attempt at causing hard-on's, only this girl was slightly more of the extragenital consortium. Quite frankly, I didn't mind glancing at her protruding butt cheeks in hopes of seeing "something more", but this didn't make her a musician or anything resembling a real person. Her musical repertoire peaked at slamming her high heel against a metal folding chair while making the noise "eeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!"

Don't listen to this other guy, although Bunny Brains might represent the most intensely visceral experience of your ignorant or not-so-ignorant life, they are a complete joke, not to be bothered with.

Gime me a break. This is what morons declare brilliance because it hits them in such a tantalizing fashion of repugnant glee, they have no place to go but say it's great based on its weirdness. Weird is not good, good can be weird, and bad is sometimes weird, but a shoe is not a giraffe unless you mold it into a capillary gland

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 22nd, 2005.

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i have to admit to having had no interest in seeing you, dan bunnybrains, based on the photos i had seen - but after reading this reviews i rilly rilly want to check your shit. why why WHY could you not have been opening for devendra in the uk instead of that awful espers shit.
-- sean gramophone (sean@saidthegramophone.com), November 22nd, 2005.

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hahahaha, that's a good one.
-- scott seward (skotrok@earthlink.net), November 22nd, 2005.

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The Bunnybrains opened, quickly throwing their hat in the ring for Most Insufferable Band. Decked out in costumes ranging from a G.I. to a wolf to a party favor and rapper MF Doom with Indiana Jones’ hat and Dracula’s cape, damaged indie rock rarely gets so intentionally messy and incomprehensible. Daniel Saxton Bunny runs this racket — it looked like he had St. George’s Cross painted on his face — and rambled supposed drug musings over a chaotic din of arrhythmic bass, detuned guitars, and start-stop drums. There were (allegedly) songs called “Tommy Teeth” and “Mustache On Charles Coolidge’s Face,” but the best portion was when two girls were invited to wrestle the wolf onstage. Nothin’ beats the prop comedy of Carrot Top with a little Andy Kaufman.
-- scott seward (skotrok@earthlink.net), November 22nd, 2005.

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a bunny brains salute!

-- msp (m@shapeshifting.org), November 22nd, 2005.

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ill be in th uk playin may 7-13th and then th 14th at ATP..cmon out and show non-committal loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
xd
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 22nd, 2005.

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these pictures are fuckin' awesome:
http://junko.slide.com/c/Devendra+Banhart+_2B+Bunny+Brains

-- scott seward (skotrok@earthlink.net), November 22nd, 2005.

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its too bad for guys like that guy.
-- bb (bb@repellentzine.com), November 22nd, 2005.

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The show took place at Walter’s on Washington, a small venue that had no problem holding the 50 to 60 fans that attended. It commenced with a band straight out of an 8-year-old kids nightmare, including strange grownups dressed as a wolf, peacock, and freaky looking cats with masks, body paint and everything you need to make an indelible impression on not just a kids mind. They called themselves Bunny Brains and had a sound easily forgotten over their stage presence, which included much yelling and screaming (or meowing and howling?) from its members. They’re sound was driven by rhythmic guitars that were at best interesting, however, you could not prevent from wishing you arrived later after the circus had finished it’s act.
-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 23rd, 2005.

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The Bunny Brains
Box the Bunny
Narnack
Box the Bunny is a collection of the previously vinyl-only output by Connecticut’s The Bunny Brains. It is a collection that is expansive and intense. The Bunny Brains is truly a freak show musically and performance wise. Still, this is pretty listenable set. The Bunnies have so many different sounds and styles (as well as band members) that they can continually bring something new to their noisy-psyche freakouts and make for a pretty interesting listen if you have four hours or so to trip your face off.

The obvious comparison for The Bunny Brains’ music is early Butthole Surfers. Never quite reaching the cohesive heights of the Austin maniacs, The Bunny Brains also lives in a world that encompasses everything from garage-rock to Kraut-rock to psyche jams that disintegrate to swells of distorted guitars and pulsating VU drumming. One can see a distinct progression disc by disc as the bunnies seem to “mature” in the most minimal of ways, but overall noise is the message and The Bunny Brains deliver this message over and over again to a fairly satisfying effect.

The live DVD really serves to show what this band is all about. The audio quality of the performances vary, but what really shines through is that this is an exhilarating live band. Filled with cross-dressing, mind-bending light shows, on-stage fires, and a vibe of absolute insanity, this is probably the most intriguing part of the box set. It shows that this band is, first and foremost, a group of performance artists. While the recordings are worth a listen, they do not seem to hold as much weight and get their point across as well as the live performances on the DVD.

This is an extremely interesting collection, and is a must have for those of you who live for early-Buttholes or supremely noisy no-wave stuff. It’s not hard to understand why the original releases were so limited and found such a limited audience. Still, it seems that the audience for really abstract, noisy music is increasing, and in this atmosphere The Bunny Brains certainly deserves another look and listen. – Larry Hess (2005, The Daily Copper)

-- dan bunnybrain (bunnybrain@hotmail.com), November 24th, 2005.

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2005-09-27T14:01:00.001-04:00

hurley tunes it his way

2005-09-27T14:01:00.000-04:00

tara jane tunes it up

2005-09-27T13:59:00.000-04:00

opening for hawkwind at coney island high

2005-09-27T13:55:00.000-04:00

i love mark twain

2005-09-27T13:54:00.001-04:00

jimi

2005-09-27T13:54:00.000-04:00

elizabeth peytons eyes of laura mars sketch

were all hippies now

2005-09-17T20:00:00.000-04:00

spent 4 days in nyc on th dev banhart and hairy fairy promo train..and it was tuns of funn..we got in a vid by simon henwoode at th chelsea hotel w antony hegarty as the Veiled One and dev painted his glyphs on all involved..then we did th virgin megastore thing which was nuts..so many kids..girls made entirely of dew

Polenta mouth

2005-07-01T09:54:00.000-04:00

its so muggy here my boots are peeling off of me like back in Da Nang..if I wore boots..This weekend is th big free103.9 festival tune-outside..i cant wait to see peggy ahwesh and b ess play..i love them sooooo..and todd merrill...a ex bunny will whip out his lectro comps and he will smoke everyone elses pot..and matt valentine will strum a faeries tune while erika whistles andes mtn hymns..and th sun will shine?they r puttin up 4 helium balloons w cams in em so check their site out im makin stuff for th october tour..trinkets for tourismos..i doubt don henley knits Eagles brand cock warmers for his fans..but i could be wrong..check on www.freaksendfuture.com if u wanna he has a great 3 cd box comin of 3 archive live showz..good stuff..ummmm..dan

bunnybrains in spain gently on th plain

2005-05-19T17:52:00.000-04:00

umm..lots of stuff comin up..june 12 we r playin w sunburned hand of th man at arties in troy..arties is awesome and they always love to have a good time for sum weird reason..july 15th we r playin at the wave farm event in acra ny w tons of great people..august is hot..september we may have a new record out..and in october its full on bunny magick live tour w devendra banhart all over th usa..so stay tuned and keep in touch

2005-04-28T19:58:00.000-04:00

hibiscus and angel jack cockettes

2005-02-22T15:28:00.000-05:00

I imagine everyone who comes in contact w Chan has a picture like this on their fridge,but I didn't so I had one taken by the fab Sebastian.
Proud Parents

Desi Bollet

2004-12-12T16:32:00.000-05:00

I went to a memorial service last night for Caleb Fullam..He was a local via Boston area..accomplished puppeteer,vivant,etc,,What I didn't know was that he was in a parallel bunnybrains band 10 years prior called Chuck Rocker and the Dirt Bombs featuring Desi Bollett.At the service we were treated to archival 8 and 16 mm films of all the men I see on a daily basis around town playing like the juiced up 25 yr olds they were back then.Flaming creatures settings,concerts in cherry orchards,lots of hair,eye shadow and damaged druggy foolery.They played some of Calebs music and I was stunned by it's ez roxymusic/bowie/rockyhorror trumping.It's great.I hope to get some copies to share

Cat Powered

2004-12-12T13:46:00.000-05:00

I hosted Cat Power last friday and it went pretty smooth..If u don;'t read all her past press or listen to haterz it can be a fun tyme..This guy hated it http://www.metroland.net/live.html
But he has to live in Albany so u do the math..The dinner we had was punctuated by people who had driven up from nycity to get away from people who stare at rock stars staring at a rock star..Chan is a super sweetypiepants and her friends are of the same stripe..I'm gonna try and put a warm weather event together w them and their fancy friends.Dana the soundperson is doin monitors for Slint in th UK and we got on a track about the relative paucity of their existence versus their influence,awe was in order.

2004-12-12T10:56:00.000-05:00

Those aren't snowflakes Chan,those are antique carcinogenic particles of death

2004-12-12T10:54:00.000-05:00

asbestos detectors