| Member Since | 8/22/2004 | | Band Website | mattpondpa.com | | Band Members | matt pond - vocals, guitar
dan crowell - drums
steve jewett - guitar
chris hansen - guitar, keyboards
| | Influences | Cranberry Rocawear, MICK JONES 4-ever, Tony James, Serious Tambourine Dreams, Mr. Eggers, blisters on blisters, Atlanta freak out, bird songs, Bald EAGLES, and baby bald eagles, Mr. Bauer, Van parties hosted by Dan's channelling of Hunter S. Thompson, Mr. Knowles, GET AWKWARD (Jemina 4-ever), EAST LANSING, The wandering midnight hands, THAT FIRST SMELL OF SPRING KILLS ME, Living the undead, The flute, Cherry Popsicle in the form of a beverage, WOXY, Wilhelm Reich, OH FORTUNA, gush, what is a dark leaf, RED LETTER, gainesville 4-ever, the brown thrasher's sweet song, Monkey, A one-way ticket to tickle town, State College SNOW, the St. Augustine dance crews, gators, big cypress reservation, the sweetness of a rad run of kick ass opening
bands, the new definition of sunday night beef (B.I.G. and wait...), THE WALKMEN, norfolk Karaoke, the constantly cracking hotel bathrooms, the fever (..the horror..), Tallahassee-Hailey, Charleston Charlie, St. Louis Sweetness, Doris Lessing, Ask Me About My Cats 2008, Stax Museum, Pho Saigon, Goner Records, The DUCK walk, KDHX, WLCA, Mahjongg, Flagstaff snow shower, shai labeouf: our new voice, RHIANNA, soul stations in the middle of f-ing nowhere, (dan is so down with Joel Mchale and Chelsea Lately)T-Rex, Ravel, Strangers with Candy, Celia Cruz, St. blurci, Minoru, YUKI, & records, Refreshing mint eyedrops, the preeminent part of the eternal thigh, Intense Karaoke (intense), A ten mile walk to SHIBUYA, osaka castle, choko and mimi, puffy amiyumi, MT FUJI, pear chocolate, grape sour, orange sour, grapefruit sour, lime sour, lemon sour, SOJU, dan crowell's awkward impersonation of scarlett johansson (and his intensely awkward fascination with kiefer s.), MODEL HOTEL, nhhmbase, overleaf, ALOHA, these cliches about sushi are proven true by chris, matthew and steve, HOTEL ROOM ROBES (and dan's terrifying parting of the robe), octopus, self-heating spaghetti, colorful warnings of horrible things to comeNeruda, Blue Blazes, new paltz nightz, Chilangolandia, missing thanksgiving, Lewis NORDAN, winter recordings of the blue, blue snow. Jemina Pearl Abegg. Jarvis Branson COCKER. Steven Patrick Morrissey, Paul JULIAN Banks, Neil Percival Young, the sound of a baby robot protecting it's bed, Jaime Sabines, Mario Benedetti, SCARFACE, and the mimosas in bed, dans mon rêve vous touchez le ciel peint. nous rions comme des enfants, Sketches of Spain, preparing for Minneapolis radio shows can be some serious business, aa bondy, THE lasting los angeles, wolf whistle, having to leave chicago can be hell, DEtroIT -- the back seat isn't made for throwing up -- but we will not shame those that do, AND MORE, hotel hot tubs get crowded quickly (what is implied is not nearly as hot as the real reality), ATLANTA DROPOUTS, Alessi Bros., Chapel Hill -- when leaving is the last thing on our minds (and gifts are the greatest), Adrienne in SF, dan's youtube odyssey, Sketches of Mexico, KEXP -- over and over, The constant trust in combustion, THE WIZARD, smashing the cooler and it's it's contents all over a conservative kentucky gas station, super bad penn state afternoon's, APOLOGIES, (for mis-given fingers late at night, for parades of tirades), The advent of Chris Hansen and Matthew Daniel Siskin, REVOLUTIONS -- in corners of vans, in the closets of hotels, yes -- CLOSETS IN HOTEL BATHROOMS, movie auditions are the new sign of the devil, Mr's. Siwinski and Sweeney Major's diner in Pine Valley, sublime border crossings, AIR (for lungs and ears), Les succettes, ithaca, marquez, DENNIS WILSON (and no love for mike love), Lo L, Bustos Bustos Joey and the Sanfrantastic dream, THE JUPITER HOTEL, seattle sadnesses, The plight of an empty bottle of Jameson, The euphoria of Brooklyn and the anticipation of everything to come. Professor Higgins, Lil' Wayne, Free Beaches, David Byrne, van smells, health bars post practice, girls with canes, fall coats in summer + NYC sans humidity, finished websites, procrastinating websites, tour dreaming, emailing england, shaving necks, legos, beach vacations in winter, poland spring gallon water bottles, tocca candles (havana), that pole stuck in the bar at enids, pretending to be an adult, daddy's and around and around, Cormac McCarthy, lily allen, axes (plural: axen?), Lastings Milledge, Trevor Luikart, brigitte bardot, TIO BITAR, pellet guns against the forearm, anyone kissing in pictures, stella, designedmemory, THE maccabees, ft. tilden rain delay, THE ANNIVERSERY OF THE A's, Always, Ashes, and so on. the strand, white pants, that's right -- white pants, summer of love, faulkner, running always running. eye sQuirts, allergies, the dark leaves, coetzee, sterling pixies in mini dresses chomping around bushes and leaves, Bartok, quorn unchicken nuggets are not just for infants, the return upstate, Elizaville diner, Red Hook diner, (diner grudge match), motorcycle diaries, BREATHLESS, Jane Birkin 4ever, THE ABSOLUTE (another 'a') END OF THE FAWNS, bach, grizzly bear, au, tuung, 40 laps -- give up the prize, napping eternally in the room with green and pink floral wallpaper as the crows keep crying across the summer buzzing. Hallucinogenic Poetry, Black Briefs, The Shemps, Kate Beckinsale, Cam'Ron (get well soon), Maria Thayer, Mr. Jellineck, Jimmy Tickles, The Moononites, Curtis Jackson III, Devin the Dude, Neil Young, Finland and Canada, Utopia (the concept and the restaurant), Seymour Hersh, Walker Percy, Fudge, Juice, Mischa Barton, Detroit, TONIGHT!!, dude eggs, fiber, born against, morocco, ice cream, circuit bending, the strokes, sunshine, the misfits, plugging in, skiing, fairport convention, the ocean, scarlett johansson, john cassavettes, sarnia, ny mets, ghostface, iceland, birds flying south, dinosaur jr., herzog, super troopers, philip roth, gambling with m's, gorbachev, hollerin' at squirrels, tommy lee, jason anderson, perri bible fellowship, ping pong, mowed grass, grass, Carl, Tim Horton's, Against ME, Danzig, VANZIG, poutine without curds, Brome Fair, three's, the new UK, Three 6 Mafia, the day after minneapolis, Risky Business, karoake, termintor series i-pod cover (fucking RIP after the shelter - wtf), perezhilton.com, paris hilton, Hayden, dancing next to a genius with a shirt that says "space is the place", Pink Floyd, hotels without mold, Salinger, Juelz Santana, Adrift Skate Shop, Rat Pedal Distortion, picnics, Dave Chapelle, hot city, Atlantic Monthly, Boyz In The Hood, LOS ANGELES (knock on wood how that happened at the same time), cheddar cheese, vegetarian souvlaki, Skanaetles (sp?) Lake (it is super to swim there without the clothes and all that), Russo washed jeans, IRIS, lily, jackson....., mexican feast, May Lightfoot, woodstock, Tonight's the Night, joanna newsom, MIKE STROUD, cornfields after cornfields after cornfields after cornfields, Dazed and Confused, Gerard Way, Runzelstirn and Gurglestock, fall accessories, Golda Meir, John Lennon, Richard Pryor, nudity, good haircuts, JFK, Patrick Swayze, ELO, ben franklin, Apples, water, KIM DEAL, grateful dead, Maple trees, George Clooney, swimming, the flying A, egg-plant parm, Sailing, NARNIA, puppies (toby is the cutest - toby wan kenobi, toby crockett, toby trice), cats, Iron Maiden, AI, interpol, sweaters, dry shoes, parties, head injuries, massages, Conifers, four-minute-miles, Logan Tom, Cardigans, chris wilson, Philly, melissa's tattoo, Christiania, james kendi, MCR, thomas jefferson, Andre Dubus, the Beatles, thai food, sharpies,
........new shit......ft.collins air hockey saved our lives, 36-oscars, johnny tecate, sippin' lean, PAUL WALL, fresh azimiz, new loft, after the show it's the..., bri-guy, CRISIS JOE, the mirror-cle, perf-F, terror squads, myopic, meeting harry dean stanton, the sadness of a detroit hotel room, rainless in seattle, the doug fir lounge, the sadness of leaving the doug fir lounge, chains, nudity, REAL FOOD DAILY in LA, michelle gondry and dave chappelle, levatino and mitha, switeck and zito, kool crunch, cool ranch, JAN HAMMER, trevor's eternal graduation, sleeping in your pants, NEW RATATAT, adam brody, KEXP, waiting for the new white magic, gin bramble, mountain time zone, mt. shasta, great expectations, dios (malos), sleeping in someone else's pants, beyonce, NMH, closets for cribs, cacti, in and out burger, FALSE ALARMS ARE NOT COOL IN ANY WAY, led zeppelin, jim lehrer, DFA, bearsville, baked goods (cookies in columbus, winchells in LA, rice crispie treats in scottsdale), new pornographers, buyouts, cry me a river, left right and center. RICKY GERVAIS, plugging in, cassandra, intense ziplock bags, iginition REMIX, chris russo, cristal poppin' in strech navigators, sonic youth, youth group, zicam, march 21st, vitamin c, ORANGE AMPS, new drums, new guitars, much less state patrol, anchorage, y., BLUEBIRD, amanset, paris texas, paris hilton, detroit public transportation, spring training, cinci, rick rubin, fade to black, get rich or die tryin', terry gross, THE RUNAWAY, food without hair, gawker, driving through the arizona desert and dreaming of open bars, less talk/more dice, babyshambles, the genius of bottled water, JOHN BONHAM, whatever is in the water in montreal (someone wrote this as a prophecy or a warning...don't know. i disagree -- but not in the argumentative manner. only taking the best part, "I love nothing but love itself.." IDLE RACE, the ever-increasing single population, Randolph VT., sugarbombs, eugene's trick bag, little plastic-screw-top-party friend,intense tents, CLASSICS, Neko Case, Los Angeles (everything. the strange color of the sky. the 101. the valley. recording. everything). jamie lydell, foster silvers, ms. dunst, flying,hotel lobby photo ops, be your own pet, early modest mouse, keggers, bruises, especially of the unkown inner thigh, DOUBLE ZEROS, wyndham hotel security, waxy arms, vashti bunyan, paul bunyan, and babe the blue ox. tracksuits -- all day, every day. LOST. louisville, JERMAINE, the pump don't work cause the vandal took the handle, paris and nicole together again (warms dan's huge heart), DUFF, the gos and his sweet rachel (again. dan and his heart), B4 -4, sun showers, packing heat means something i don't understand, denim -- the band and the cloth, body body bodies.our second purchase in seattle, lori petty, andy dick bumping into steveo and sarcastically saying "you're cool", skinny dip, tom petty, the vibrating seats make some of feel strange in our stomachs, teas, pleasure way vans, FHA, PHA, CHA, blasting off, mt. shasta gulch, steveo's philosophies beat his conspiriacies into the ground (he's growing up so fast), ralph MACCHIO, madison, milwaukee, minneapolis, gear list: tom jefferson, cymbal sheppard, ulysses s. hi-hat, snare bear, cher, revenge of the nord, kick zinner, bass ventura - pet detective. google, gogol, ginger bollocks and the cinnamon stick, nico, nick b, english nick, neko, nika, st. nick, the knicks, nick drake, nick zinner, nicole eggert, nicole r., nick cave, nick lachey, nick rivers, nickels, nikki sixx, psilocybin, gorilla biscuits, MASSEY PRE-nup, viv savage, kate winslet, stereolab, jessica s., paul loduca, the mets, bolshoi, tolstoy, pushkin, push-ups, our first purchase upon arrival in seattle.
FAWNs. eva green. the greenest. devin the dude's newest. waiting for dungen. listening to 'EMILY' again and again. JOE WALSH. the not-so-tender deterioration of a rental car. the not so tender deterioration of our ride (why do people keeps trying to hit us). sad eyed lady of the lowlands. homemade kahlua. fig bars, short bread...gifts of any kind. New rules for touring. ROB SHNAPF. honey oil. black widows, richo's pizza. joan didion. the warm hair. did we mention fawns? Airplane parties can last 15 hours (seem to make flight attendants angry. we're only passengers of this world looking for good times). Wiley. the dark leaves will exist in the future. Buck OWENS. the longest spring in history, cahoots, Maggie, Cory, DAFT PUNK, el duque, PIMM's, cherokee park, kate BOSWORTH, manhattan summers (with new hampshire as the constant alternative). bowie, isabella, stella, champ, ginger. COLE POND -- what a terrible waste -- extinguished thoughts. Jordan. Kombucha saved our lives. And fasting nearly killed. the pretenders. roy orbison. candi staton. Burning for blueberries. maple syrup. LOUISE GLUCK. purple finches. cardinals. blue jays. Skinner brook. brooklyn is complete on sunday. DOUG BOEHM. (umm. get your lettuce off my keyboard. not like reese's cups. not cool). OTTAWA (always). whoa. JOse saramaGO. the re-united wu-tang clan. oversized remote controls. PHUKET. (please no more damning connections to terrible music). SOFT. the greatest dinners of all time were in the heart of Kentucky. St. Cecelia. more fawns (and to the hope that there's an end to the havoc reaped). chickadees. selma blair. | | Record Label | Altitude Records | | Type of Label | Indie |
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