Kind of Like Spitting is an American indie rock band. They formed in 1996 in Portland, Oregon. The band is led by prolific singer-songwriter Ben Barnett, whose work has drawn comparisons to Elliott Smith, Mark Eitzel, Billy Bragg, and Robert Pollard.
Over the next decade, Kind of Like Spitting regularly toured in the US, sometimes with David J. or a backing band.
In the UK, the track "Birds of a Feather" was picked up and played by John Peel but didn't get regular airplay.
The band released twelve albums in seven years.
Kind of Like Spitting announced a break-up in 2006 for personal reasons.
Since 2007, Barnett has been teaching music at the Paul Green School of Rock in Seattle.
In 2011, Kind Of Like Spitting played a reunion set at Brootal Sun Fest in Tucson, Arizona.
Barnett has been involved in other musical projects, including The Thermals in 2003.
Barnett was part of the band Blunt Mechanic, which released the album world record in 2010 After Blunt Mechanic's dissolution, Barnett reunited Kind of Like Spitting with a new lineup for a tour during spring of 2012. Barnett also released a new song entitled "11th and Hawthorne" on his Tumblr account, verifying that Kind of Like Spitting is to release new music.
Famous quotes containing the words kind of, kind and/or spitting:
“Maybe now you, you don’t want to believe it. Maybe you’d like to tell yourself it didn’t happen. But Steve, you’re not the kind of person that can turn your back on something you know is true.”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jane Martin (Aneta Corseaut)
“If in the opinion of the Tsars authors were to be the servants of the state, in the opinion of the radical critics writers were to be the servants of the masses. The two lines of thought were bound to meet and join forces when at last, in our times, a new kind of regime the synthesis of a Hegelian triad, combined the idea of the masses with the idea of the state.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.”
—Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)