So, in case you stumbled on this somehow and have no idea WTF all this is about, this is the portion of the site for you. The following is a brief explanation of the whole Jackrabbit thing.

First, my name's Alex Junaid. That's my mug with the spoon over there. I'm presently 23 and a sophomore at the University of Colorado at Denver, majoring in English with an emphasis on creative writing. Hmm, what else? I'm a Virgo, a vegetarian, and a hopeless romantic (with emphasis on the hopeless bit).

To explain how Jackrabbit came about, I have to explain Colemanworld first. In a nutshell, when I was 9, my friend Justin and I created these characters Coleman and Meatereater. They're little alien lunch-box creatures. It's kinda weird -- don't ask. In any case, flash forward to me at 16. I'd done an album of avant garde recordings (entitled Prototaph under the name "The Blender Lizards") and been part of a very unsuccessful band called The Fireside Experience (I think we played one song, ever). So, feeling creatively flustered, I decided to use the Coleman character as a front for making music and the Colemanworld Band was born out of that.

Working under the name Colemanworld, I recorded a dumptruck full of songs, mostly really stupid ones just for the sake of being stupid and funny (think early Ween, sans virtuosity). Some of the best of these are on the Collect Myself record now, incidentally. In any case, Colemanworld lasted from my parents' house in Virginia through me moving to California at 18 and subsequently moving back in with my parents (now in Oregon) at around 20. By that point -- fall of 2004 -- I'd gotten tired of being a musical dipshit all the time and felt like doing something more serious.

I'm not sure where the Jackrabbit name came from, but I first used it on a project I did for a friend's birthday, which became the Songs for the Birthday Girl album. After that, there were a couple more Colemanworld records, but by 2006 I'd pretty much switched over entirely to recording as Jackrabbit.

If there's going to be another evolution of Jackrabbit, it's going to come from working with other people. After coming to Colarado for college in 2006, I met (via a Craigslist ad) a number of musicians here. We're still working out the kinks, but the hope is to form some kind of collective or unit. We shall see what develops there.

As far as the recording goes, this is a kind of one-horse operation here. Up through 2006 I was recording using my old Dell PC and the Audacity program. In spring of '06, I got my iMac and have since been using GarageBand. The bulk of the recording is done with native mics, although I do occasionally employ either a $10 mic from Radio Shack or an old condenser mic that I found in my uncle's garage. The instruments that appear on the records are: a Fender Stratocaster, a black Epiphone of some kind (shaped like a Les Paul), an El Dorado acoustic, a Hohner acoustic, a Yamaha keyboard, my old recorder from fourth grade, a melodica I stole from my mother, my high school trombone, maracas I got for my birthday one year, a harmonica that I don't even remember how I aquired, my mother's violin, an autoharp from a county fair, the synth pads in GarageBand, and various pots/pans/buckets/etc. I think that's it.

I don't think there's anything else of great significance. If there's anything you'd like to know, shoot me an email at foxesareneat@gmail.com.