how about books? why isn't there a 'favorite books' section for bands/musicians? isn't that kind of sad? well, i'm the only member of my band, so maybe i'll use this section to write about some books that i like. but then i'll sound even more pretentious than i usually do. so, what to do? how about some random books i like....john cheever's journals. walker percy's 'the moviegoer'. wittgenstein's 'tractatus'. frank herbert's 'dune'. anything by flannery o'connor. dostoevsky's 'the idiot'. anything by f. paul wilson. rudyard kipling's 'the jungle books'. 'the once and future king'. danny gregory 'everyday matters'. david james duncan's 'the brothers k'. anything fun by neil gaiman, especially 'stardust'. legs mcneil 'please kill me'. lawrence wright 'saints and sinners'. bill bryson's 'mother tongue'. bertolt brecht's 'mother courage and her children.' ok, i'll stop there for now.
Influences
david bowie, kraftwerk, roxy music, public image ltd, goldfrapp, tv on the radio, suicide, echo and the bunnymen, television, led zeppelin, grace jones, pantera, joy division, flaming lips, massive attack, donna summer, eno, nick drake, derrick may, the birthday party, bad brains, the feelies, polyrock, john lee hooker, george gershwin, blind willie johnson, the gun club, silver apples.
i had a long and factual and fairly tedious bio up here but it was, well, long and fairly tedious. so now i have this. although at present i don't know what 'this' is, as i haven't actually written 'this'. in writing a bio i'm trying to find that nice balance of self-involvement, pithy self-deprecation, and brevity. which leads me to think that i should just stop here. but i've never been one to err on the side of brevity, so i'll just keep writing. i was born in nyc on september 11, 1965, and now it's 2008 and i still live in nyc. which(living in the same city in which i was born) would be provincial and depressing if nyc didn't happen to be the least provincial and depressing city on the planet. and i'm sort of stuck living in nyc because: a-i don't have a drivers license(we all benefit from this, trust me, i'm a terrible driver). b-most of my friends live here. c-nyc is nice. what else about me...i make records and occasionally go on tour and play concerts. i'm currently signed to mute records, which makes me proud because mute is a great label and i get to call nick cave and goldfrapp and diamanda galas my label-mates. now really is the time when i'm going to force myself to err on the side of relative brevity(my other bio was about 30,000 words). thanks for reading. -moby
KommuneElb im Freihafen 26.07.08/ 23h/ Herrmann-Blohm-Strasse 10
Das Lineup: Daniel Dreier (Highgrade/Sender – Berlin) Jens Bond (Highgrade/Sender – Berlin) Zoran Zupanic (Philpot/philE – Hamburg) Amir N. (Bypass – Hamburg) Frauke Unruh (Female Pressure - Hamburg) Pelle Buys/ live (Sweatlodge – Hamburg)
Optics: Marc Schreier (bypass – Frankfurt am Meer)
i love reading your bio. you have a great sense of humor. thanks for being such a great role model. you show the world that there is more to life than what we do. it's about who we are in the process of doing what we do. you rock!
those bio's can be a real bitch... we're trying to get through that whole process right now. nothing worse than lengthy, lofty biographies... however YOU have every reason to have an extensive one. :)
My name is Hannah and I'm a young independent film maker from Kodiak, Alaska. I just added my latest film to my profile so if you're interested you should check it out. If you do so, thanks.
OKUS DOLPHIN to MOBY... DICK (?!) No double-entendre intended! THANX 4 CUMIN' 2 SWIM IN MY OCEAN Hehehe... Together we can have a Whale of a Time..hohoho.. Okus the Property Developer (Boo hoo)
