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Inbox(1) ~Mark Browning~

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Mark BrowningMark Browning will be remembered as a Canadian treasure twenty or thirty years from now. I�m so sure of this that if I had a left testicle, it would be up on the table as my wager. As frontman for campus chart-topping band Ox, Browning creates music that could fit easily alongside some classic Crazy Horse on a mix tape for the road. Whatever or whoever is in the Ox collective at the time, they always kick ass and sound like a million free beers. And Mark is always at the helm, molding the sound into a delicious lo-fi indie folk art cow punk rock pie...hahahahaha...

Name: Mark Browning. Some folks call me "Ox" which is ok, as long as they don�t call me on my cell phone, cause i don't know how to use it... damndest thing.

Your defining feature/quirk: I'm a shape-shifter. You can go to our website (www.oxmusic.ws) and see for yourself. Oh, and i'm foul-mouthed as fuck. Seriously, just like a sailor.

Your recent work of genius: It will be a point of contention but, in my own mind... an epic tale of grease-ball sunset-strip cruising, which on a dare, includes the word 'FAG' in a lyric...a word which i think needs to come back in a big way.

Mark BrowningInspirations/Muses: I've love to say something sophisticated and enlightened but... honestly, girls and Alice Cooper records.

Favorite book and why: I like trashy shit novels... involving aliens or super heavy duty disasters like epic plaques and armageddon-esque comets hitting the earth's surface. Like, BIBLICAL man. for me they're all like trash though so i couldn't narrow it down to one- in fact, cant even remember a title to give you- they're like toilet paper: i just wipe my ass with them and move on. I have an intellectual side though... history textbook type stuff... Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock was cool- his thesis is that an earl ier civilization existed before the Mesopotamians & Egyptians- like back to 10,000+BCE -built the great pyramid and sphinx... and that Canada used to be the north pole... gets into precession 'age of aquarius' shit. Real wacko mind boggle- has me totally convinced.

Favorite album and why: Kingsway's Kingsway . It's another of our producer Chôn's projects from a year or so ago... while i was making Dust Bowl Revival they were working on it so, i'd come round the studio and here it progressing... it inspired some of the stuff on dust bowl- songs like �Stolen Car� for example. It's taken me until last month to get my hands on it... Transiberian put it out. It's just right up my alley, so to speak.

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