Josh actually came up with the name. He was drawing a little picture in one of my sketch
booklets, and it was a portrait of an alien with a mohawk and the whole punk getup, with one of those shirts with the Anarchy symbol on it (you know the circle with the "A" in it). And that's it. Virtually no depth at all. However, I found that the name has become definitely useful in
provided an image of what I'm trying to create. ...That's my opinion at least...it may not be true to anyone else.

I've rarely played live, and when I did it was a few time in highschool. Those few times were when I was in a little band-thing called the Willy
Bubba Gang. We wrote maybe three songs and one was a huge hit at school. It was a bluegrass song called "Oh my House". We based it off an old
American poem about a ladie's house burning down. Since then though, I don't preform. I would like to though.

I can declair myself as a member of the Napster generation. I started using it along its twighlight year, but I downloaded like a theif
in a music store. I found some of the best bands I've ever heard on those programs, most of which inspired me to purchase some of their CDs, and others inspired me to go to their shows. I know that downloaded is under heavy assult from rich musicians and corperate labels, but downloaded hardly even effects them. Most of the album sales go to the label anyway. The real dough is in the concerts, and you can't download the full experience of that. The free sharing and downloading of mp3s really helps the smaller bands that have limited outlets of advertizing. They can finally get their name out there. Personally I don't feel bad about people depriving some rich pop singer of buying a private island, and forcing them to buying only a private penensula instead.

Nah. First of all I don't see myself ever reaching that level. Even so, there's too much of a gamble involved, too much pressure, and compromise of creativity. Nope. The "mom and pop" lables would do.

Aug 98- Buy guitar and amp, buy a chord book, learn to play
Sep 98- Make my first tape with an old Talkboy...it sucks
Dec 99- Two mics allow for usage of two track recorder. Yippy
July 01- Make my first CD with friends four-tracker. Use keyboards for drums and synths, strings, ect.
01-03 - Record some stuff with Josh using drum machine for rhythm.
June 04- Record second CD "The West", sounds much better than first. Though still a long shot from professional.
Also made acoustic CD with Josh consisting of old songs we wrote years ago.
Aug-Oct 04- Purchased a used Tascam 488 MKII (8-tracks, 7 of which work) and made a very experimental tape... I may put some of that stuff up soon.

At two years old my favorite song was "The Walk of Life" by Dier Streights. As I grew a little
older, maybe 6 or 7, my dad would play Pink Floyd in the car when we'd go on trips. Weird Al played a huge roll in my pre-teen years, which meant
I was given a wide variety of genres. I soon grew out of that and got into a lot of punk and hard rock like Dogwood, Hangnail, Stavesacre, and
so on, and that evolved into some of the indie stuff like Twothirtyeight, Pedro the Lion, and some heartwrenching self-pity indy bands who's
names I shall not mention for personal reasons. The end of my senior year I discovered Radiohead "Kid A", that album saved my music-life. I had never heard anything so amazing as that album. The perfect fusion between electronic paranoia and rock, that could only be created by a post-punk enlightenment. I realized that this was the stuff I had been looking for all along. I started listening to more Pink Floyd, and then Muse, and Death Cab for Cutie, Air, Nada Surf, and Chris Staples...the list grows.

Angwin will always be home to me, but the Humboldt County redwoods will definitely hold an infinant place in my heart.

I use a Fender Strat, a Yamaha acoustic (1976), a Sigma acoustic, a Korg AX1G effects pedal. An early 90's Yamaha keyboard, which I strictly play running through my AX1G. I record with a Taskam 488 MKII.

While on a walk something caught my eye... and then ran off with it.