Russell

Acoustic / Indie / Folk Rock

Bellingham, WA

About Russell's Life

A lot of things happened, the Russell was born. He had a childhood. After a while, that ended. He went to schools for quite some time. He is in a school right now. Then he started playing music, so far he still does that. Russell did some other things like writing and going around to other places. Sometimes he has a job. Sometimes he doesn't. He has big plans to make very good things. This will take time. He has some friends and a mom and dad and brother they are all doing well. Right now he is working hard on something or relaxing or sleeping. Russell feels hopeful about making a lot of good things to show other people and also other things too. *Inspired by the works of Demetri Martin

Things That Are Totally Rad

Just hanging out when there’s nothing to do but relax, going for walks, snowboarding when it’s really sunny and crisp out, going out puddle jumping when I should be staying inside and finishing my homework, coffee and tea—especially traditional medicinals throat coat, watching movies, going for a bike ride when I don’t know where the heck I’m going, exploring the woods, taking pictures and messing around with them in photoshop, eating my fruits and veggies, when people get my really obscure jokes, people who aren’t afraid to act silly every once and a while, getting all cozy when it’s cold outside, trying to catch leaves before they touch the ground, cherry trees that snow down pedals when you shake them really hard, learning a bunch of random facts, having conversations with people I don’t’ know very well, getting to know new and interesting people, cereal, when clothes fit just right—even if they are the ugliest clothes in the world, quotes, writing songs on guitar and piano, playing the underground coffee house open mic, frisbee, playing a game of extremely competitive foursquare, fourth grade style hand-ball, taking things apart to try and figure out how they work, going to fancy restaurants when someone else is paying, sushi restaurants with the conveyer belts, taking naps in the shade, climbing up trees, going to dicks at 1am and getting two cheeseburgers and a root beer float, singing outloud in the car even when I’m giving a ride to people who don’t really know me, dancing in the streets, going to little concerts in people’s basements even when the bands kinda suck, having no agenda, walking around barefoot in the summer and sometimes even in the winter, when my parents send me packages, competitive 1m springboard diving, parkour, a really good haircut, google and wikipedia…

Things That Suck

People who try and tell you who you are by analyzing every little thing you do and say, people who are unkind for no reason, people who try and promote something they know very little about, guys who always have to be the tough guy, ridiculously fat people, which goes hand in hand with ridiculously apathetic people, when people are too quick to judge and classify someone, long-lasting injuries or sickness, babysitting people who are way too drunk, people who say “you talkin’ shit” or “wanna’ fight”, which kinda goes along with people who think they’re the shit, being stressed out about anything…

Good Quotes

“It is better to fail at doing something, than to succeed in doing nothing" (Dale Turner, my Grandpa) “The only way to have a friend is to be one" (Dale Turner, my Grandpa) "I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.' Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. (Jack Handey) "The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes of my plate with just a little pieve of meat. And if someone asks me whi I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?" (Jack Handy)