Daily Discovery: Buffalo Clover, “Hey Child”

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ARTIST: Buffalo Clover

SONG: “Hey Child”

BIRTHDATE: I’m a tax day baby — Aries.

BIRTHPLACE: Somewhere in the midwest, otherwise known as Bumf*ck Egypt.

AMBITIONS: To canoe down the length of the Mississippi river, while reading Tolstoy.

TURN-OFFS: Weak coffee, Mormonism, video games, people who talk about themselves in the third person, Donald Trump’s hairpiece.

TURN-ONS: Guys with long hair, Mikhail Baryshnikov (circa 1974), bell-bottoms, anarchy, bebop jazz, marijuana.

DREAM GIG: A tour by train across Europe with The Lonely H and a strong sponsorship from Evan Williams.

CELEBRITY CRUSH: Joaquin Phoenix, post beard.

PETS: I have an Australian Shepherd named Annabella and a one eyed mountain cat, Edith Piaf.

BEST WAY TO GET A MAN’S ATTENTION: Sing to him.

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Hmmm… People still alive? Leonard Cohen, Marion Cotillard, Father John Misty, Jean Paul Belmondo and Keith Richards.

Dinner with the dead… Arthur Rimbaud, Billie Holiday, Niccolo Machiavelli, Queen Victoria and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.

WORDS TO LIVE BY: Never take yourself too seriously.

I WROTE THIS SONG: with Jeremy and a bad head cold.

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