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About Me

Felix Obelix is the songwriting project of Wendy Spitzer (Lemming Malloy, The Physics of Meaning, The Gates of Beauty, Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra, ex-Eyes to Space). Her music is a jerky blend of rocksy whatnot, avant-garde whosit and old-fashioned multiple-meter mathematical moxie: the twisted hits from unpopular Big-Note piano books that never were. Song topics lie squarely in the land of dread. The inevitable march of time, finding meaning in life before death, the sticky mess of memory -- these are all handled with a wry ear for irony, but with ample heart too. Felix Obelix is the idea that you can't go home again, and wouldn't want to if you could, and if you did, you would find it had been razed to the ground, with a Gulp-and-Go built in its place, where you would buy your slushee and marvel in its sweet goodness, because hey you're thirsty, and you always hated that house anyway. real editor best profile tools real editor best profile tools
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Watch an interview with Wendy about Felix Obelix, on an episode of The Sugarfixmix at the 4:35 minute mark:
Sugarfix Mix Episode 3 from Billy Sugarfix on Vimeo . HTML content to post goes here (e.g. text, images, objects, etc.)" / Share on MySpace!
Felix Obelix SXSW Tour 2009 from Basil Womack on Vimeo .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/07/2007
Band Website: http://myspace.com/felixobelix
Band Members: Wendy Spitzer writes and sings all of the songs, and plays the electrified bass guitar. Jay Cartwright plays the accordion. Lu Lubenstein plays the Fender Rhodes and sings. Bill McCormick (Billy Sugarfix) plays the drums. Dylan Thurston plays the xylophone/marimba hybrid thingy we bought from a nervous couple in Carrboro.
Influences: Lars Hollmer, Raymond Scott, Sufjan Stevens, The Residents, Deerhoof, Talking Heads & Paul Hindemith.
Sounds Like:
Felix Obelix-The Heart Monitor from Billy Sugarfix on Vimeo .The music the pit orchestra plays at the circus that the shackled bears dance to, on the day the bears, finally, after years of gnawing at the metal of the shackles, are able to break free of them, and suddenly experience true freedom for the first time since they were cubs, and this melody of the freewheeling destruction the bears wreak is balanced by the countermelody of the musicians running for their lives, the happy and the sad, the shackled and the free, the home of saved and land of the scream.Or, alternately: some people playin some songs, gettin together to jam out, some originals, you know, original material, I heard about this bar that pays, like, $150 if you cover Sweet Home Alabama, dude, I kinda, thought maybe we could play that, you know, get some real gigs and stuff. Could be sweet, I dunno.
Record Label: note quite

My Blog

South By Southwest Tour

Come see the madness that is Felix Obelix, in a town near you! We're touring to SXSW with The Physics of Meaning! Friday, March 13 - the Pinhook in Durham, with Lemming Malloy and Carol Bui Saturday, ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:51:00 GMT

Press

From The Daily Tar Heel (1/22/09) "It's a record that has more depth and complexities housed in its four tracks than many pack in a full-length...It will draw you in, and the attraction only gets str...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:03:00 GMT

January 23: Felix Obelix EP Release + Time Capsule Show

Felix Obelix debut + EP release show + Time Capsule Stuffing Party earlyish show: Doors at 7pm, show starts promptly at 8pm $5; all ages; alcohol for sale; non-smoking, seated venue Arc...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:36:00 GMT

Orange County Arts Commission grant!!!

Well, Felix Obelix is having a very merry Christmas indeed. I just found out I got a grant from the Orange County Arts Commission to help fund the January 23 time capsule show at ...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:41:00 GMT

Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant!!!

A big thank you to the selection committee of the Durham Arts Council for awarding me a 2008-2009 Emerging Artist Grant! This $$$ is going to help me record the last few Felix Obelix songs to fi...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:35:00 GMT

Heart Monitor Video!

Dear everyone, The new Felix Obelix video for 'The Heart Monitor' is up on the main myspace page!! Billy Sugarfix did a superb job with this, and I'm so happy with how it turned out. If yo...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:47:00 GMT

Blog Press -You Oughta Know theKnowbodies.com

Thanks to the Knowbodies (www.theknowbodies.com), a tasty newish music-lovin' blog based out of Wilmington, for this juicy little bit of F.O. press: http://www.myspace.com/felixobelix Felix Obelix is ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:44:00 GMT

Request Felix Obelix song for 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza

Several months ago, I submitted a piece of music for a project called 60x60 -- sixty one-minute long pieces to be played back to back to back for one solid hour, in all sorts of new music f...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:52:00 GMT

Felix Obelix song used on Independent Weekly slideshow!

Hey you with the face:The Independent Weekly (of Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC) chose a Felix Obelix song for its fashion slideshow! It’ll only be up this week, so go see for yourself.You can v...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:24:00 GMT

Felix Obelix handmade EP / Physics of Meaning Tour

Hey there, children of the netherworld! Two items of interest are these: 1) I am touring with the Physics of Meaning to South by Southwest. I'll be playing bass and some oboe and wearing sailor ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:56:00 GMT