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Main Attraction: Kit Carruthers
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My name is Kit and I have a drug problem. I'm all dark and passionate. And the thing I'm highest on is myself. And I'm hipster. And I hate everything that's dumb! Leave me the hell alone. I am a 37 year old artist and philosopher with a messiah complex. Born and raised in Winnipeg. I am the founder of The Solanaceae Artist Collective and the one mostly responsible for our dark and mysterious image. I hate society and everything that it does, but in this particular project I will be focusing on my hatred of the music industry. Though I have a very beautiful voice, I will never be singing. Though I am a very aesthetically appealing pretty boy, I will never be on stage. This whole "Never singing, never on stage" thing allows me to present an image of the person singing is the star of this project but everybody knows I'm the genius here sitting quietly in the background I don't need to show anybody my genius I don't need to tell anybody I am a genius it is clearly self evident I don't even care if anybody knows I'm the genius look at me look at me. When people ask me what kind of music I listen to I say "Alternative, experimental and psychedelic." My favourites are Ambient/Sound Art, Post-Rock, Psychedelia, IDM, Neoclassical, Shoegaze, Post-Hardcore and "Post-Metal." Though of course I listen to all forms of music. I pretty much know all the musics, particularly the alternative musics, I don't think you could surprise me at this point. I respect all of the genres but I do not respect all of the sub-genres. I have no tolerance for modern popular country, 80s hair metal and 90s bubblegum pop. I can "get" anything but the only way for me to "get" modern popular country is to pretend I am in the mind of a very boring person. I understand the brilliance of improvisational jazz but it is not entirely for me, I prefer carefully crafted structure. "I listen to all forms of music I pretty much know all the musics" requires me to break indie cred a little and I don't really care for it but I don't really see any other options. My top ten favourite bands and artists are... Boards of Canada, Tim Hecker, Steve Reich, Sonic Youth, Bardo Pond, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Autechre, 65daysofstatic, Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine. And although they are only sixteenth on my absurdly long list I need to mention I love The Doors very much. My aesthetic is very The Doors and I feel I must bring this to your attention because it is a very important part of my carefully crafted image and it is very important to me that you all have a full understanding of my image. Oh and the fact that the only thing I care about is image is also very important to my image. I mean, what are you if you are not your image? You are nothing. All you are to everyone is the surface that everyone can see. And all I want you to see of me is pretty. Sparkles and death, that's all I want to be to anybody. And that is all I am to my very core, to the very depths of me all I am is my image. All I am is sparkles and death. I am superficiality. I only exist to be pretty. ...All of this only exists to be pretty. I believe everything is superficial, it is only here to be pretty. Why on Earth would you ever exist if you are not pretty? Pretty inside, pretty outside, everything should be pretty. If you are not pretty... You do not need to exist. I only wish to live in a world where everything sparkles brightly. I only want to make everything sparkle. Everything must sparkle. Bleak hollow empty interior flash sparkle exterior that's me. I traffic in bleak, melancholy, pretty music. I am mostly inspired by the dark and the psychedelic. My sounds slice, sparkle and decay. I enjoy adding classical instruments and distortion to figuratively every little thing. Figuratively. I enjoy pulsating and entrancing sounds, I enjoy sounds that evolve and flow in and out of other sounds. Though we are all very pretentious, my music is the most pretentious and least palatable of all of us I win, I win my imaginary who's the most pretentious contest I win. I play the synthesizer and the piano. Note: I'm only deleting the pretty Winnipeg stuff from here as it's going in my The Society of Lucifer about me that should be fucking soon as long as some people hurry the fuck up. Note: And while you're waiting for The Society of Lucifer... I'm giving it less than a month, every tier three and the only tier one is ready we're just waiting on a few tier twos, which is where I am I am a tier two. Anyway, it has all of my social media on it and I figure a few people are probably waiting for some of my thoughts, so... My Threads has some of my thoughts but obviously my essays are considerably better. But no those are all hidden you don't get those even after The Society of Lucifer is up. But if you ask nicely you can have a selection of our essays via email, we're going to let that email mysteriously circulate. |