what does dan bejar/destroyer do for a day job?

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i know that a.c. new man used to tune guitars in a music store before he could quit day jobs and make money only from he's music, but what about that other genius?

― mish, Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

he posts to ilm under multiple heteronyms

Destroyer's Rubies!

― zumpano, Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

he strikes me as the kind of guy who doesn't have a day job..

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

seems to cultivate the used bookstore clerk look...

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Thursday, 26 January 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

These days, I would assume he has a business card reading "Wayne Coyne Impersonator" somewhere in his pocket at all times.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Well, my initial thoughts upon purchasing and listening to Streethawk:
"This dude is an underachiver." Judging from the Carl Newman interview I read, he's
quite a drinker, so maybe that explains it, but I think he could really do better.
He's obviously a fantastic songwriter, but I can only chalk up his sometimes-lackluster
singing to sheer laziness. On the Pornographers' stuff he sounds mostly in tune,
but on this album, he just doesn't care. I mean, it's still a great album.
But it took more than a few listens to get past the goat-like bleating sound
that he makes through much of the album. It just sounds bad.

Maybe I'm missing the point; maybe the idiosyncratic delivery is part of the appeal.
But it just doesn't gel for me.

― Squirl Plise, Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

OK, somebody's gotta say it...

This cult of personality shit around here has got to stop. You're all behaving like little girls. NOSY little girls.

Why don't you ask what kind of ice cream he prefers? Better yet, why don't you subpeona his tax returns? Perhaps that'll help you better enjoy the music?

― Work , Baby (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/SPECIALS/2005/back.to.school/interactive/timeline.flashback/images/gallery.13.jpg

― maura (maura), Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)

actually an autographed pillowcase would probably make many of the fanboyz who post stuff like this cream their tighties

― maura (maura), Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

he reads the greasy fanboy postings and pleasures himself.

― nico kase, Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:21 (twenty years ago)

oh, awesome, is this the thread where we can get some sanity regarding beej? the dark underbelly to the "Destroyer's Rubies" thread's teletubby fantasyland? because i am so down.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

I am too, man, and the thing is, I think the record is great. But they're straight up embarrassing themselves over in that other thread.

― Work, Baby (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 26 January 2006 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Can I backtrack for a second? You can get a job as a 'professional guitar tuner' ??

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Wayne Coyne impersonator? That's unjust. He's clearly a Robyn Hitchcock impersonator.

― william fields, Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Ooooooooooooooooooooooh I KNOW I KNOW

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Not once I pour bleach on him.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

He's a late-period Tom Verlaine impersonator. That's a growing cottage industry.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Bejar doesn't need to work. He makes bank on the power of his Destroyer work alone. He's a genius with a purpose. All you haters beware of his super powers...

― jackieslegs, Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Don't hate him cuz he's beautiful!

― jana, Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Boxers or briefs?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

He doesn't sound like any of those people. Reminds me a little of early Bowie.

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Bejar strictly works on his music from what I've heard. Vancouver takes care of its own.

― marybeth, Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I confess I actually *only* know "Your Blues". And I love it, in all of its ridiculous glory. But jesus christ his affectation down to the subtlest turn sounds *exactly* like Robyn Hitchock. Everyone sounds like someone. I read that in a fortune cookie i just ate in my mind.

― william fields, Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Bejar strictly works on his music from what I've heard.

Also, there is drinking.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

the rubies thread seems to be not working -
Just hearing this for the first time and its blowing me away. Consistently weird in a attention-retaining way. And some really nice instrumentatal passages.

― calstars, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

there are a lot of really good songs on that album

Destroye's Rubies

― sleep, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

In what universe is he a Wayne Coyne impersonator, or Robyn Hitchcock for that matter? Those guys have never even occured to me. I always thought he sounded more like early nasal Bowie.

Rubies was pretty good.

― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

bah someone already made that exact comment, but I concur

― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I like this new stuff

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/44013-destroyer-foam-hands-and-rivers

also eager to hear his songs on the New Porns record

― dmr, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

lol, i believe this thread http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6491799#unread suffered the wrath of strongo

i miss wanton thread deletions

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

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