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Flipping the Pig

Portly middle-aged imp/aspiring dandy

About Me

THE 2006 CD, POUT, IS AVAILABLE AT:
www.cdbaby.com
www.flippingthepig.com (mail-order and Paypal)
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD:
iTunes
mp3-extension.com
Rhapsody
and many others!
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"While Flipping the Pig might only consist of Jeff Mansk and his eclectic and oft funny side, there are times when you feel almost reassured that there's more than one person behind this madness; perhaps he's suffering from a mental disorder..." - Smother.net
"This act's sound is tough to neatly summarize. But Pout will likely make you smile, although you may not know exactly why." - Indie-Music.com - Dan MacIntosh (2006)
"It's a mixed bag of anything a little heady, mystifying, or all out strange and eerie." - Muen Magazine.
"Your one-stop-pop-shop-songster." - Mike, St. Louis
It's the culmination of a lifetime spent listening to a wide variety of music as filtered through a chunky guy sitting in his underwear and doing whatever comes to him.
Buy music! Now! Then make copies and hand them out to your friends. See if I care.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/3/2005
Band Website: flippingthepig.com
Band Members: Jeff Mansk
Influences: Chuck Barris, Queen, Harry Nilsson, Hoyt Axton, Blossom Dearie, Foetus, Monty Python, The Fifth Dimension, Yes, Charles Ives, Chicago, Faith No More, Oingo Boingo, The Monkees, fIREHOSE, Prince, Jaye P. Morgan, Peter Himmelman, Sweet, Joni Mitchell, Eleven, Sam Cooke, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Devo, Jonathan Winters, Van Morrison, Judee Sill, Split Enz (and everything after), TV theme songs, commercial jingles, and so on.....
Sounds Like: Luv.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Crap’s Brewed

Album's done.  All new songs are at www.flippingthepig.com.  It's free.  Download away. Time for a nap.
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:26:00 PST

Crap’s A-Brewin’

Eleven new tunes. Soon. Like, real soon. Some minor tweaking on a couple and then all that mixing down-type stuff and then the real soon part. The new album will be of the "download it off the website...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:44:00 PST

FREE CD

One free CD of the latest Flipping The Pig album, Pout, will be sent to the first 50 people who send me their name and mailing address. Unless I run out of envelopes before then. I think I have about...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:33:00 PST

Smilies and Winks and Wes Farrell

I have a degree in writing.  Well, a minor.  A minor in English. Actually, I realized after the fact that I already had qualified for status as an English minor, with all the writing courses...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:00:00 PST

Cleavage Disclaimer

I'm not looking at your cleavage, whoever you might be -- standing or sitting there with your chest doing all sorts of cleavage-like things.  Please trust me on this.  Okay, fine, I might lo...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:47:00 PST

Music Theory

There's a scene in the Beatles parody, 'The Rutles,' in which Eric Idle's character is demonstrating his songwriting process.  He sings part of a lyric and then hits random keys on the piano unti...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:25:00 PST

Nothing musical

Profile views: 333!  The number of the Bea! I momentarily nod somewhat in the direction of Iron Maiden. And the Andy Griffith show.  That is all.  Run to the hills, Barney.
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Thu, 18 May 2006 09:03:00 PST

Ear-based sounds

It's amazing how many of my lyrics are written in the bathroom.  It's a good place to think.There's at least two albums' worth of new material to record so far, with some other straggling bits he...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Tue, 09 May 2006 09:33:00 PST

On lazy

Perhaps you've stumbled upon a copy of the latest album, and perhaps you opened it up and thought to yourself, "My, what a lackluster piece of shit job he did with the layout on the CD itself."  ...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:32:00 PST

Smother.net Review of 'Pout'!

EDITOR'S PICK: (January 2006) Ive reviewed Flipping the Pigs previous albums Giving It to Myself and the self-titled joint. I loved them both. Now heres the third installment, independently relea...
Posted by Flipping the Pig on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:55:00 PST