Bring it on home
Where we gonna be
worth a thousand words
Why we're here
What we did before
How to get a hold of us
Bios Galore

 



Katie was born on the small island of Hawaii (no, not that one, the REALLY small one) and can trace her musical experiences to growing up on the side of a volcano and singing along with the sulfur and methane escaping from cracks in the earth's crust. Found wandering through the dense rainforest by a young Angelina Jolie, Katie was brought to a small east coast town and schooled in the ways of Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Baptism, Pacifism, Fascism, Vegetarianism, Abolitionism, Feminism, and making prisms, resulting mostly in absenteeism. Unable to form a kinship with the small town liberal redneck hippie hick right wing attitudes pervasive there, she realized what her true purpose had been all along: Surfing in Hawaii! What the hell was she doing in some snowbound shithole in Massachusetts?? She had liked Hawaii! the beach, the sun, the sand , the papaya, the fat men in sarongs singing "Somewhere over the Rainbow". Damn that Angelina Jolie! Katie's entire life became one single burning desire for revenge against the ever so meddling actress who had ripped her from paradise and dumped her in Assbackwardsville! Katie needed a cunning plan to attract her erstwhile savior/torturer back to her. Hearing that Angelina enjoyed Rhythm and Blues music, Katie began singing, emulating Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James and Katie Couric (for spunk), she became a great vocalist in search of a band capable of bringing her to the attention of "Little Miss Adopt-O-Matic". While perusing the vast online wasteland she came across an ad looking for a beautiful young woman willing to spend inappropriate amounts of time surrounded by old codgers. Just below that was an ad from The Valves looking for a singer. She chose the latter, and now, day by day, the terror grows as she realizes that all the Valves are likely to attract in the way of movie stars are Loni Anderson and Paul Reiser. Still she hasn't given up and nightly falls asleep to the mantra:
"Put me back in Hawaii, BITCH... Put me back in Hawaii BITCH...".
Katies first musical venture was singing backup for a
band called Rappabilly Roots on an island in the Pacific. it was fronted by an Ukalele-playing beat-boxing rapper called Jo-El who lived on an
extinct volcanic mountain in a tent with his dog Ulu. Jo-El's room was usually cleaner than Katie's...

 

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