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Guitar, Bass, Drums, Voice, Other

About Me

I was at IU in Bloomington in the mid 80s, got a BFA in Painting. Then I went to Oxford. Mississippi for my MFA (worthless), and after a few years in Prague, CZ, came back and eventually moved to New Orleans. Spent two years there and moved to New York City where I had various web coding temp jobs. After four years, the IT bubble burst, I got sick of New York and moved back to Prague, where I teach English though I'm sick of it. Got married two years ago to an art historian and I have a son, Dominik, 1 1/2 yrs old.
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Some of my recent artwork

What bands are you or have you been in?

My first band was The Bloks, a high school new wave thing in Lexington, KY with Joey Ketron. At IU I was in the short-lived Figments with James Combs. For a long time after that I just hung out with bands, but in Prague I sang in Vavřinec Studnička (which is my name somewhat in Czech). More recently I have an industrial computer music project called Monolithic Dome and a Deerhoofish noise thing with my son called Boar Drool.

What city are you from?

Lexington, KY basically

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http://www.myspace.com/boardrool

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Ever since I found this site I've had Jack and Diane running though my head. Well not incessantly, that would drive me mad, but I heard it recently when I was in the States a few weeks ago. Its a catchy song .. all that hard-luck small town Americana with big guitars, hand claps and Phil Collinsish multitrack drums, very 80s and very Indiana. And John Cougar Mellencamp made a career after that on the same theme .. but his heart is in the right place, with the little man, the rabble rouser who ge… Continue

Posted on July 17, 2008 at 5:22pm — 2 Comments

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At 8:26pm on July 17, 2008, DBJ said…: Yeah, like on the second-story porch at the house next to the Spoon, listening to Sonic Youth's SISTER over and over again. ;)

Hey, you still have a tape of that Figments tune with Peter Buck sitting in? Cuya-fuckin'-hoga, dude!

At 5:04pm on July 16, 2008, Ra Bob said…: Ahoj, neighbor! L.L.L.L.L.L

(Letna Lovers - Love Letna - Letna Love)

At 4:50pm on July 16, 2008, Clark Starr said…: Mr. Wells... nice to see/catch-up (figuratively) with you. I like the links to the photos. You have a lovely family. Interestingly enough, looking at pictures of you in the CR, it occurs to me you look a little eastern European yerself! What's up with that? I'm digging the links to your artistic endeavors as well.

At 10:59am on July 15, 2008, James Combs said…: oh, lawrence, you know i'm mr. "bleak foreboding"... actually its funny that he wrote that because i always thought this was the most upbeat of my records! always good to hear from you. you should post some of your paintings for us all to see!

At 7:19pm on July 14, 2008, Lisa Sorg said…: Lawrence, Funny, I was thinking of you a few weeks ago when I went to see REM and wished you were dancing in the aisles. People would not have known what to make of it, now in these uptight times. I have a cousin living in Prague teaching English as well. Prague's a big city with a lot of language schools, I imagine, but her name is Bethany Scharnowske. Hard name to forget.
Take care, lrs

At 2:03pm on July 14, 2008, John P. Strohm said…: Good to see you, Lawrence. Yeah, I seem to be able to recall a thing or two, but there are big pieces missing. I had to fudge it a bit between 1991 and 1993 because I obliterated large parts of my cerebral cortex during those years. I try to think about something that happened during that time, and all I can see is a sort of emerald green mist accompanied by the sound generated by a T.V. test pattern. Some good shit lost in there too!

Glad you're well, and glad you're here.

JPS

At 1:20am on July 14, 2008, James Combs said…: ha - SPYTOWWWWWN!!! (spy-town)

how funny. i guess it was fated that you, me, and peter buck were going to cross paths seeing how into that band we were in 1986. its good to hear from you - would love to hear a little more about what you're up to. any plans to be back in the states anytime soon? did i tell you i got married last year?

At 12:50am on July 14, 2008, Joby Barnett said…: Hey Lawrence! It's so good to hear from you and see that you've found this community/reunion thingy. I haven't seen you since AG played in Oxford and held a marathon wiffle ball tournament on your front lawn. Sounds like you have had many adventures since we last spoke. What did you think of New Orleans? I am down there from time to time to be with family. I can't however, picture ever living there again, too much creepy personal history I guess. Were you there for Katrina? Hopefully the city will come back, yet I still have my doubts. I love the people of New Orleans but they are a quite dysfunctional lot. Re-electing Nagen, for me seemed like strike one. Glad to hear that you a married and with child, sounds blissful. Congratulations my friend. Let me know if you are ever in my neck of the woods. I would love to see you and I don't make it to Prague very often.

At 7:35pm on July 13, 2008, John Terrill said…: Hi Lawrence, good to hear from you. Sounds like life is treating you well. Lots of great Rosebloods downloads on this site so go for it. My solo CD is being released on July 22. Look for it in a store near you. All my best...

At 5:20pm on July 13, 2008, Matt Uhlman said…: it's good to see that you are doing well! I wish I could come to Praha, but I think time is going to be tight on this trip. but, next time for sure! things going pretty good in New Orleans.

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