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Phil

I breathe rock and roll. And fire.

About Me

I like to play rock music. I like to do creative stuff, like write music and screenplays, animate stuff, make movies, draw stuff. I get paid to do shit like that. It's a really cool way to get cash, if you ask me.

I have a tendency to be immodest, but that's only because I'm such a badass. I'm also my own harshest critic, so I think they might balance each other out.

I have an awesome girlfriend named Liz who is good at everything that I'm no good at. This makes her just about perfect, in my opinion.

Check my band, Hollywood Trash . We kick ass. Seriously.

Also, check out the video below. It's a trailer for my latest short film. My friend & writing partner and I shot it while I was home for Christmas. It's awesome!

My Interests

Movies, Music, Guitar, Rockabilly, Beer, Sex, Directing, Sketching, Strong Bad, AtAT, PVP Online, Long Renders, Anamorphic Lens Flares, Other Nerd Things, BANG!

I'd like to meet:

People who like to rock out.

I like chatting with other songwriters. That's always fun.

Folks who are interested in the mechanisms of film producing and financing, business plans, etc. Business talk is my achilies heel.

People who are from or have been to Bemidji. Hell, even people who have just HEARD of Bemidji get at least one gold star.

Music:

ROCK AND ROLL, Rockabilly, Cracker, Camper Van Bethoven, Johnny Hickman, Hollywood Trash (my band), Drive-By Truckers, Chuck Berry, The F-in Stones, The Bent Scepters, The Monks, The Hives, The White Stripes, Neil Young, Brian Setzer, The Stray Cats, The Reverend Horton Heat (Gotta Love the Rev!), Blew Munday, Live, Bush, The Black Crowes, Richard Thompson, Martin Sexton, Wilco, The Donnas, The Band, The Verve Pipe (listen to an album front-to-back), Counting Crows (are they uncool?), The Wallflowers (shut the fuck up).

Movies:

Akira, Ghost in the Shell, The LOTR Trilogy, The Frighteners, The Indy Trilogy, Almost Famous, Fritz Lang's M, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Anything Pixar, Chasing Amy, Clerks 2, She's Having a Baby, The Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars in general, Ray, anything Steve McQueen (cause he's a badass), Chinatown, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Television:

Battlestar Glactica, Heroes, The Office, Studio 60, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, My Name is Earl, Scrubs.

Books:

Pretty much all of the Sherlock Holmes fiction, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, F 451, Dude Where's My Country?, The Culture of Fear, 1984, The LOTR series

Heroes:

My Folks, My USC Friends, My GF, People who find success on their own terms.

My Blog

Obsessed, Banned

I have forbid myself from surfing the web when I get home from work. Until further notice, I cannot casully click the hours away looking at music gear.I have become fixated on researching micro-watt ...
Posted by Phil on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:40:00 PST

Hitting the Wall

I feel like I'm at a tipping point, creatively. Things are happening everywhere I look, musically, directorially, artistically...So why do I feel like I'm slogging through quicksand? I have the susp...
Posted by Phil on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:26:00 PST

A Chip Off of the Old Block

It was Father's day last Sunday. My dad gave me the gift of a musical life, and for that I am eternally grateful.My father is a bass player, and even though his instruments had always been around gro...
Posted by Phil on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:01:00 PST

I'm Back... For Now

I might put random musings here from time to time. MySpace has an unshakable momentum akin to a terrible avalanche of feces. Best to surf the wave rather than to be buried beneath the greasy froth.H...
Posted by Phil on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:38:00 PST

My blog has moved.

All the cool kids are on Blogger. My writing partner is on Blogger. Now I am too. It's a nice step away from the eye-offending toxicity of myspace.Check it out:http://chaoscowboy.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Phil on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:44:00 PST

ROTS

...is fuckin' sweet! Possibly the second best Star War film ever, certainly the third and rising. My faith is so totally restored. I'm feeling inspired. Gonna try working on my treatment tomorro...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I'm sick

I should be sleeping because I'm really sick, but I'm wide awake. My nose is too stuffed up. I don't have Nyquil, either. I hate this shit. -Phil
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The F'n Band

How cool is "The Band?" Fuckin' cool, that's how cool. How many folks get to say that they backed up Dylan and had their farewell concert documented by Scorsese? No one but The fuckin' Band, man!...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A traitor in the stands...

By total accident, I saw the Wild play on Monday and saw the Timberwolves play tonight. Somehow, being away from home makes rooting for the home team more important.... The Wild tied and the Timbe...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST