INSTRUMENT: Fender Highway One Jazz Bass. Vocal chords made of gold.
FAVORITE BANDS: The Jam, Joy Division, Billy Bragg, Westbound Train, Hepcat, the Slackers, Stiff Little Fingers, the Clash, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Against Me, the Lawrence Arms, At the Drive-In, the Decemberists, the Smiths, Jphnny Cash, Hank Williams (senior--Jr. and 3 are shit), Iron and Wine, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, New York Dolls, the Who, the Small Faces, Sam Cooke, the Watery Graves, Chris Murray, the Debonaires, Go Jimmy Go, the Allstonians, the Aggrolites, Stubborn All-Stars, GOD DAMNED ELVIS COSTELLO.
FAVORITE MOVIES: Surviving Desire, or for that matter, anything by Hal Hartley. Dead Poets Society. Walk the Line (that was good, yeah). Boondock Saints.
HOBBIES: reading. writing. guitaring. not updating websites.
INFLUENCES: wystan hugh auden. greek mythology. other things are highly influential when i drink too much.
LIKES: nice things. red wine. sunglasses. pants. organs, or I suppose any instrument I haven't quite mastered that sound cool. Remember when you would put the name of girls in this spot?
DISLIKES: when my bio hasn't been updated in nearly two years. seeing videotapes of GYLBOTS in 2002 (you know, the Josh Cook era). Someday when we're mega rock stars, that shit will hit Ebay and our careers will be ruined.
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE: dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio.
I was once straight-edge.
This picture, however, is not a good example of that time period.
This is Petra Haden.
We're getting married someday.
So deal with it.