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About Me

I'm a keyboard player. I have played in or am currently playing with An Albatross , The Sw!ms , M-80 , and Lewis & Clarke .

...So was I once myself a swinger of birches
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love;
I don't know where it's likely to go better...

-from Robert Frost's "Birches," Atlantic Monthly, 1915

My Interests

Books, bikes, the Arts, the Humanities, history, politics, Farfisa and Hammond Organs, synthesizers, theremins, dogs - especially Dachshunds, coffee, cups with saucers, oral hygiene, and talking at length about all the aforementioned things.
But mostly books.

I'd like to meet:

Erin McKean, Ladies of Influence, Thomas Frank, Vlanka Blasic, Anna Netrebko, Harry Houdini

Music:

Lately:Sharon Van Etten's EP, New Motels' EP, Sw!ms' Itemlord, various 80's songs
All Time: Dr. Jason Price and an excessively long list of others.

Movies:

Documentaries, WWII films, historic dramas, comedies, science fiction, horror films and films from France.

Television:

Several that are boring, some that are funny.

Books:

Lately: "Live From Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race From Sputnik to Today by Jay Barbree, Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age by Matthew Brzezinski,
,Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres
All Time: A Confederacy of Dunces, Tropic of Cancer, Ham on Rye, Why People Believe Weird Things, The Communist Manifesto, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, Commodify Your Dissent, Six Years, All Over But the Shoutin', America the Broke, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, The Secret History of the American Empire, Federalist Papers, John Keegan's Atlas of World War II, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, House of Leaves, Beyond Beef, The Beauty Myth, Choosing Death, Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Of Mice and Men, Lucky Jim, Silas Marner, The Age of Innocence, The Untied States of America, Common Sense, Losing Our Democracy, War Made New, The Areas of My Expertise, Publick Occurences: Both Foreign and Domestick, The Rights of Man and many others.

Heroes:

Dr. Jason Price, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, my folks, Harry Houdini

My Blog

No Fun

In light of the recent political events I can't imagine why this chestnut hasn't been pulled out of retirement for airplay as bumper music on talk radio.Perhaps it's because people are afraid that if ...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:17:00 PST

Shhh...Your Library is Making You Money...

Today's Times-Leader reports on the results of a study initiated by the Department of Education's Office of Commonwealth Libraries in conjunction with researchers from the University of North Carolina...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:55:00 PST

An Albatross Euro Tour 2007 photos

All my pics from the tour are here:www.flickr.com/photos/phillippix/Hope you enjoy them.The tour was great and we had some incredible times, but for a variety of reasons I don't really feel like discu...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:30:00 PST

An Albatross Euro Tourdates 2007 Part Deux

Brothers and Sisters,Once again we're making the trip across the pond. We hope to see you there!02.05.07 - Jet Lag hang-out in Den Haag, NL03.05.07 Limoges (F) Cafteur w/ Casanova Frankenstein...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:41:00 PST

SXSW 2007, Part I

Rub Some Rope On Your Pussy: My SXSW 2007 Experience, Almost None of Which Was in Austin "Rub some rope on your pussy It's gonna' be a long way home" -Okay Paddy Day One, Part I, In Which Things Run...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:29:00 PST

Rudy & The Blowhards

Facing competition with somewhat more "exotic" candidates like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's handlers are desperate to "spice up" old Rud...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:49:00 PST

Fiddlin' Joe

Somewhat buried behind the disastrous snow storm which recently savaged our area is a report from a Flordia television station that illustrious former 10th Congressional District Representative Joseph...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:10:00 PST

The Final Countdown

So the Atomic Scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock have moved it ahead two minutes. We've now 5 minutes to Midnight (which of course is three more than Iron Maiden gave us). ...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:05:00 PST

Upcoming Tourdates...

Here's what I'm doing for the first few months of 2007... ///AN ALBATROSS - USA FEASTGIVER TOUR/// 01.18.07 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut Street) w/ Stinking Lizav...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:00:00 PST

Science Responds

I forwarded the letter posted below (see "Big Bang Sweet Poontang") to several scientists instrumental in the recent Dover School Board legal battle. Now, I'm an organist - I'm not an attorney a...
Posted by Phillip Reynolds Price on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:16:00 PST