"The story of how Ponyoak came to be is complex and interesting. Well, not so much complex and interesting as long and uneventful. One day, I was sitting around my house in suburban Downers Grove, reading a book and taking one of their humorous fake personality tests. It asked me to name the first seven-letter word that popped into my head. Having no friends, I was alone at the time, so I triumphantly shouted out "Ponyoak" and laughed at the fact that I had created a word that sounded like a nondescript subdivision. Later that week, in a similarly reclusive fashion, I… read more
"The story of how Ponyoak came to be is complex and interesting. Well, not so much complex and interesting as long and uneventful. One day, I wa… read more
"The story of how Ponyoak came to be is complex and interesting. Well, not so much complex and interesting as long and uneventful. One day, I was sitting around my house in suburban… read more
Graham Smith is the third most famous graduate of Downers Grove North High School; he is slightly less popular than Emo Phillips and Macho Man Randy Savage. Mr. Smith also made some of the most underrated indiepop music of the late 1990s and 2000s, most notably "Ponyoak" (pictured right). Fans of this notable Downers' Grove personality know him as an incredibly talented and prolific artist, albeit with an inflated ego and hampered by the visual aesthetic reflected in self-designed covers such as this one. But see past the half-man, half-wolf that he is and ye will … read more
Graham Smith is the third most famous graduate of Downers Grove North High School; he is slightly less popular than Emo Phillips and Macho Man Randy Savage. Mr. Smith also made some of th… read more
Graham Smith is the third most famous graduate of Downers Grove North High School; he is slightly less popular than Emo Phillips and Macho Man Randy Savage. Mr. Smith also made some of the most underrated indiepop music of the late 1… read more