![]() Her personal weapon of choice is the M-A14 but She is an active member ofįTM, (Free Taiwan Movement) and CIA. Her hobbies include drawing happy faces, holding puppies, flower arrangements, and sending letter bombs to Fidel Castro and other members of the Communist Party. She enjoys going out and partying but also likes to spend a nice evening at home. Ya Yen Hu, aka Doris (I still haven't got an English last name yet), likes quiet walks in the park and warm andĬozy fires. ![]() While other people viewed these attributes as barriers, especially in high school, Craig saw these differences as just another thing they had in common, we are all different, and that is a good thing. Whether it was a poor person, rich, white, black, orĪsian, Craig was always able and willing to extend a hand. All different types of people, all different races. Craig Macedo has the unique ability to befriend anybody. I quickly recognized his passion for the sport, and somehow knew that he was a potential friend. Many of us got to know Craig from elementary school. She is self-confident, a characteristic that most people She's not afraid to try things or ofĬriticism. She has longīlonde hair, but she doesn't act like a blonde at all. Rachelle is a beautiful person both inside and out. She is playing ultimate Frisbee and having a ![]() She is currently going to UCĭavis where she is learning many skills and going through many Rachelle, otherwise known as Shell, adores animals. He's just anĪll-around great guy that has a gift.a gift to make other people laugh. He works at CostcoĪnd jokingly plays around with the return policy there. He's so wild and crazy! He's seriously just a playfulīoy in a overgrown body. Whenever we're feeling down, we just go to Brian forĬheering up. Him, Brian! Brian is sooooo funny! He has so many personalities and heĪlways makes us laugh. The song so closely apes Ian Curtis’s God-like vocal style and Joy Division’s music, listeners will think a time machine has sent them back to 1979.Įlsewhere Shattered Youth echoes the majestic gloom of Echo and the Bunnymen, while the high-energy Can’t Take It employs brilliant synths and smouldering guitar licks.Ī cathartic, theatrical and often disturbing set.Brian, what to say about Brian? There is only one thing to say about With its dirty riffs and metallic percussion, the exhilarating Visions of You bursts out of the speakers at 100 miles an hour. Get past the pretension and you’re left with a bloody-minded shock to the ears that mixes dark indie sounds, punk, heavy metal and industrial music. Apparently, the record was inspired by one of the band members experiencing, ahem, “spirit channelling” while doing, ahem again, “open-eye meditation.” THIS debut album from Los Angeles-based four-piece Sextile is an intense, unhinged ride. “Sometimes I worry about the future,” he sings on Palm Trees while, on the intense Bend Towards The Light, “There is an ark being built that you will never find.” Powerful and piercing, like the vocals of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Stalhamre’s voice is a thing of wonder. The mid-tempo songs are littered with references to gathering storms, thunder, the dark and night-time, suggesting emotional and social malaise.Įlsewhere, there’s a gloomy sense of the apocalyptic. ![]() ![]() SONGWRITER Simon Stalhamre, frontman of Swedish guitar trio Small Feet, may well hail from Stockholm. But it’s perhaps because he learned English from US sitcoms or was co-produced by US musician Jacob Snavely that makes Small Feet’s first album such an impressive slice of Americana. Small Feet From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean (Control Freak Kitten Records) 4/5 There is no twang and definitely no pedal steel guitar - just refreshing electronica as cool as anything a 20-something hipster might concoct on their laptop. Elsewhere Concept includes spoken word gangster homilies while the industrial ’80s synths on Sympathy for the Auto Industry are strangely reminiscent of the Terminator soundtrack.Īpparently Wagner was partly inspired by reading a history of Americana dance music in the ’70s. The bleeping beats and beeps on Pretty Ghetto, impossible not to move around to, are catchy as hell. The art-school educated Wagner has always made left-field music and here he gives his experimental side free rein. Now lead singer Kurt Wagner and two other band members have formed electric-pop outfit HeCTA and recorded their debut record. LAMBCHOP released Nixon, their classic soul-drenched Americana album 15 years ago. ![]()
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