15-16 puzzle plays guitar, sings, and on occasion can be heard on fuzz bass or kazoo.
Influences
The Beatles
Minor Threat
Bob Dylan
The Pixies
Franklin Bruno
Superchunk
Brett Gurewitz
Mr T Experience
The Judy's
Ed's Redeeming Qualities
my sister
Sounds Like
Buskers wearing suspenders, seventh chords, a roadtrip the day after Christmas, guitars who want to be banjos, slowly floating down a river on a raft on the first day of summer, tv theme songs from shows about waitresses, singing for your supper on an empty stomach, a half-unexpected phone call from that cute temp that you just started working with, a story from your grandfather about the girl he loved before he met your grandmother, ten seconds before a really good kiss.
Movies That I've Bought, But Haven't Gotten Around to Watching Yet
The Phantom of the Opera (the Lon Chaney one), Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Warriors, Supersize Me, Desperate Living, The Brother From Another Planet, 35 Up, Bringing Out the Dead, Dawn of the Dead (the George Romero one), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Touch of Evil
Famous People Who Inexplicably Bother Me
Michael Moore, Sienna Miller, Claire Danes, Eliza Dushku, Ben Affleck
Stuff I Really Want to Do
Refinish my headboard and bedside table, Pay appropriate bills, Throw away clothes that I have been making excuses for, Clean my house all the way, Mow my front lawn, Lose a good ten pounds, Figure out a good Halloween costume, Drop off a carload of stuff to the Goodwill, Find my headphones, Draw a picture a week, Get a bunch of photos from my sister, Drive to see that Prada Marfa, Eat crepes, Find some drawer pulls that won't make my bathroom and kitchen look like crap, Start walking before work, Fix up that rundown minigolf place
I live in Austin. I try and write and record music, under the name 15-16 puzzle. It is hard, because 1) I'm a lazy perfectionist, and 2) that name makes babies cry. I have craploads of good songs all written, and I really need to get around to recording them soon. I think it would be pretty rad if I got one of these bikes for free.
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About Cryptozoological Discoveries
I kind of hate nature. Well, I really just hate creepy animals that choose to invade my personal space. For a while, I had this creature that was living on my porch. I thought I had a wasps' nest on the ceiling of my porch, all up in the corner, but when I took a closer look it appeared to be either a chipmunk or a baby duck. It would either crawl or fly down while I was at work, or asleep. It freaked me out every day I would see it, until it got big enough to fly away and never come back.
Now I have this three-legged possum thing that lives in my attic. At first, I thought it was squirrels running across my roof, until I heard the noise and decided to run outside to see the squirrels. There wasn't no squirrels on my roof. Crap.
Whatever it is, it can be heard limping/running around in my attic, and digging up stuff, perhaps to make a nice comfortable bed out of insulation so that it can attract other feral creatures with tales of a swinging bachelor pad. I am scared shitless that it will claw its way through the ceiling while I am asleep, and fall on my face.
After this creature is taken care of, I imagine the next increasingly awfuller thing to haunt me will be some sort of double-sided snake that lives in my toilet, or a telekinetic land-octupus that lives under my carpet.
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Who I'd Like To Meet
Ladies who give free, yet powerful, backrubs. People who like to tell interesting stories, while they cook. Folks who make good margaritas, mojitos, or cosmos (preferably all three). Cute, bad girls with real scottish accents, or real cute girls with bad scottish accents. People who are afraid of things (and not the boring crap like public speaking and being alone). Drummers. Psychics. Identical twins, but not at the same time. A knowledgable sort of person who will introduce me to good music because they think I'll like it, not because they want to seem cool. Anyone who don't care about all the stuff that I don't know about (like when to shut up, and subject-verb agreement).
it was a complete success..someone even asked if "that" was real..that being my rather large belly, home of my parasite. All i could say in reply was OH YEAH!
more? MORE?! Jeesh.. i don't have more..but i will be sure to have my halloweeny ween ones once i have commited to the costume. I lost my facebook account though..SO poo.
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Dear Erik, I have recently learned that "doo wop" is not a genre of music you enjoy. I have found this out from an unusual source. I am ashamed to call you friend.
