Might as well start this up on the new forum.
I'm Jason, owner of the site. I recently moved to San Francisco's East Bay from San Diego last year with my wife and 3-year-old son.
I've been running this site since the day Ghosts of the Great Highway came out in November 2003. I originally owned sunkilmoon.com because Mark didn't have an Internet presence, but then his lawyer came after me in April 2004 so I gave up the domain and bought sadreminders.com. 
I first heard Red House Painters in 1994 on alternative radio. On a late-night freeform radio show, he played "Medicine Bottle" and I was floored. I've been hooked ever since!
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Hi, I used to be DaveC on the old forum. I've renamed myself Thunderbolt in homage to the sleeve of my favourite Red House Painters album, Rollercoaster. I've had a thing about wooden coasters since I was a kid, so love the artwork, title track and album for that reason too!
I too discovered them around 1999 through Grace Cathedral Park on the Uncut compilation CD already mentioned, and also another free magazine CD from around the same time which had the Bridge version of New Jersey on.
I discovered RHP in 2007 through "24" and fell in love with it instantly.
I've seen Mark live six times now, various Union chapel gigs, whilst on holiday in Spain and the gig in Bristol on a boat (uk blues)
Love all of his work, although the live album releases are becoming a little tiresome now!
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I'm a fan of so much music, going to 70-80 shows a year across all sorts of bands, but MK, Lucinda Williams and Morrissey would be my Desert Island discs (my first ever concert was The Smiths in 1984, when I was 16, and met them back-stage, so I was hooked).
I was BCL on the old Forum but gave up that moniker shortly after joining in favour of this one.
Very excited to see him here in LA in February.
I first became aware of Mark when someone gave me a copy of Ghosts of the Great Highway. Since then I've accrued his whole catalog. I actually much prefer the stuff he's done in the last ten years to the Red House Painters albums, especially the early ones. They're too wispy/ethereal for my tastes.
I've seen him live about a dozen times and each time I tell myself it will be the last time. During his performances my feelings usually vacillate between deep admiration and appreciation to annoyance and anger at his borderline Asperger's-eque interaction with the audience and his seeming contempt for his fans and his apparent lack of appreciation for the rare opportunity that anyone can make a living as a musician.
Dan from Melbourne.
Hello folks. Im derek (27) from some shit town in pennsylvania where they supposedly predict the weather. anywho im also a singer/songwriter and a huge fan of mark kozelek and co. ever since my hipster uncle in LA told me about red house painters in highschool.them and elliott smith. i heard katy song, grace cathedral park and have you forgotten and i was smitten. the voice, the acoustics, the lush major 7 oriented songs..several years ago i had posted a cover of River (my alltime favorite song) and perhaps GCP. RHP are soo great for happy or sad..summer or fall..though songs always seem to evoke an autumn/winter feel and ill always associate marks music with said seasons. as of late i am in love with Sun Kil Moon. i have learned most of and adopted marks tunings. i have a great ear and sun kil moon had a lot to do with my fingerpicking influence. Duk Koo Kim is my current infatuation. I can play alot of their songs.
@bumpyknuckles were you at the June 11 show that's coming out in February?
@oursadescape, "gotta live in shit town..."
I believe Ed Kowalczyk & Co. are from PA as well... fitting coincidence.
@oursadescape I reckon we live in the same place then, unless you're talking about Fort Washington...
Hi folks, Shambino here, 36 years of age and living in Dublin, Ireland for all of those years. Not as long a fan as some guys on here but I will be one day :-)
No one personally recommended Mark to me I just stumbled across him when April was listed in a Top 100 albums of 2008 in some magazine. Later that day in a local second hand music shop, not particularly looking for the album there it was front and centre on a shelf. The best Euro 5 I ever spent. I've often wondered why someone would give the album away, but finally have resigned to the belief of faith. Someone out there meant to pass the word on to me.
I was lucky to see him a couple of months later when he played Dublin in July 2009, my first experience, it was amazing, I was truly blown away by his talents. Subsequently I have seen him twice since, Belfast August 2011 and as recent as Monday night just passed (Nov 2012) Every time I've seen him I've felt the same way.
Every chance I get I'm spreading the word on Marks talents, as no one ever seems to know of him. Each time I've gone to see him I've brought more people with me to see him, there was six of us there on Monday :-)
I can understand peoples gripes about his contempt for his audience, but I can forgive him for that, I'm there to see him play, when he does I soon forget about all that stuff.
Great to see other guys (with tennis shoes) on here too and I look forward to talking all things MK, SKM & RHP
greetings. admiralfell from the old, admiralfell on the new. Current resident of dallas, tx. i'll be catching mark at the Dec gig at the granada theater. anyone else headed that way?
Tommy from Sweden.
Bought down colorfull Hill in 92 after hearing 24 on 120 minutes. The first 4 RHP albums became the soundtrack of my youth. I lost interest after ocean beach though, and have just recently started to listen to everything mr Kozelek have done since. And i am actually going to see him live in Stockholm this friday.
I'm Denis and I'm from Russia and I'm 18
First discovered Mark through some russian article about Jackson C. Frank where the author mentioned that there aren't much singer-songwriters that just come up the stage alone with their guitars and sing. Thus, I checked out Mark's page on last.fm, downloaded Admiral Fell Promises and here I am.