Daily Discovery: Kevin Andrew Prchal, “Everything Kills”

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ARTIST: Kevin Andrew Prchal

SONG: Everything Kills

BIRTHDATE: 5/8/84

HOMETOWN: Lisle, Illinois

CURRENT LOCATION: Green Trails, USA

AMBITIONS: Big answer: To end each day with my wife-to-be feeling some degree of accomplishment.

Little answer: To buy some groceries and put away my laundry.

TURN-OFFS: Gossip.

TURN-ONS: Jack’s Frozen Pizza

DREAM GIG: On a very large farmhouse porch in the middle of nowhere playing for all of my nearest and dearest.

FAVORITE LYRIC: “No one puts flowers on a flower’s grave.” – Tom Waits

CRAZIEST PERSON I KNOW: That one guy I met who thought it was 8:00 AM when it was really 8:00 PM.  He was on his way to work.

SONG I WISH I WROTE: “Long Black Veil” by Lefty Frizzell

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Tom Waits, Hershel Greene, Neko Case, Walter Matthau, and Aretha Franklin.

MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: When I poured an entire Yoo-hoo down my pants in exchange for a free The Mighty Mighty Bosstones t-shirt at Warped Tour ’98.

I WROTE THIS SONG: After two people in my life got sick and died within a week.  Writing this song was the only way I knew how to catch my breath, really.

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