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MC 900ft Jesus is Mark Griffith, a versatile musician who made a name for himself in the club/alternative/indie scene in the late 80's through mid 90's. His music style ranged from electronic house to jazz to spoken word. He was beck before Beck, orbital before Orbital, portishead before Portishead.
This web site was created because my roommate at the time and I felt that a song of his, "Born With Monkey Asses" was so ****ed up that it deserved a web site of its own.
The moniker comes from a vision the evangelist Oral Roberts claims to have seen. A giant 900 foot jesus spoke to him and told him not to worry about being broke. (If only we all were so lucky to have a 900 foot personal accountant who moonlights as the Son of God). More details here.
Not much is known about Griffith as he never attained superstardom. He is a classically trained musician from Dallas who at one point attended the University of North Texas graduate music school. I think most of what we know of him comes from the music. Check out the discography for some samples into the weirdness that is MC 900ft Jesus.
Mon Jun 6 23:07:33 EST 2005
An e-mail from Doug M.: "I couldn't find any mention of this on the site, or indeed at any other, so you may like to know that the video of "if i only had a brain", directed by spike jonze, is available as part of the dvd "director's series, vol. 1 - the work of director spike jonze". available as both region 1 (usa) and region 2 (europe) from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk"
Sun Feb 27 21:07:35 EST 2005
Nothing to report, except to say that MC 900's songs
hold up pretty darn well to the test of time. I love
putting them on the iPod in shuffle mode. Speaking
of ipods, while we're waiting for any news from
Mark check out my new astronomy podcast: Slacker Astronomy.
Sun Nov 28 21:12:57 EST 2004
Hell With the Lid Off is now available on iTunes along with
an additional mix of UFO's Are Real annd Truth Is Out of Style
(the same mixes on the bonus track version of the CD) and
also Welcome To My Dream with 2 mixes of Killer Inside Me.
Search for the album names as iTunes gives them different
artist names.
Also, new Killer Inside Me lyrics here.
Oct 17 23:01:14 EDT 2003
Someone posted to the LJ thread lyrics to I'm Going Straight To Heaven.
Mon Aug 11 01:29:57 EDT 2003
Sorry but the rumours seems to be untrue. We may have a
real message from the man himself.. you can see the entire thread here.
Here is the msg itself:
Glad someone remembers me. Still living in Dallas. Not doing any music at the moment. Actually I've been working on getting my flight instructor certificate. Aviation is a very cool antidote to the frustrations of the music biz. I guess one of these days I'll get some more music together, just can't say when yet. Take care, -Mark G. a/k/a mc 900 ft jesus
Mon Apr 21 23:28:36 EDT 2003
A cool interview from 1994 sent in by padraig:
http://www.radcyberzine.com/text/interviews/mc900.html
Fri Apr 18 21:46:10 EDT 2003
Added the track from Tosca that sounds like a
ripoff of/homage to (whats the difference these days?) I'm Going Straight To Heaven.
There is a god...
Updated Thu Apr 3 19:26:30 EST 2003
Someone posted this to my blog:
I just want you to know, and everyone else out there.....Mark's new
album will be out in July....... Long live the old school funk.
Updated Wed Dec 4 16:19:30 EST 2002 Added lyrics to Killer Inside Me and Hearing Voices In One's Head kindly contributed by Josh Derksen.
Updated Sun Sep 29 01:41:30 EDT 2002
Updated lots of parts of the site. Too much to list it all so just surf around.
Added more samples, lots of images (cover of City Sleeps EP and original EP), made
20 still images of the If I Only Had A Brain video, links, lyrics, remix info, etc.
Read the interview below for lots of news as of last October. He talks about a new album, meaning behind the old ones, and getting chicks in Texas. :)
