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About Me

This is some of my work with the band Letterday - I produced and mixed all three tracks - let me know what you think:
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you are uncool." (Lester Bangs - Almost Famous)To make a mountain of your life is just a choice, but I never learned enough to listen to the voice that told me: 'Always love - hate will get you every time. Always love - don't wait till the finish line.' (Nada Surf - Always Love)It was the suit that got me the gig, it was the tear that got me the girl, I'm a sheep in this wolf's clothing, I'm a picture that I'm holding of someone who is cool. - (The Odds - Someone Who Is Cool)"The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you." (Bob - Lost In Translation)There is plenty to criticize. It gets so easy to narrow these eyes. But these eyes will stay wide. I will stay young. Young and dumb inside. I have just begun to forget my lines. (Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation)Your leap of faith could be a well-timed smile - survival never goes out of style. (Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation)Our youth is fleeting, old age is just around the bend - I can't wait till I go grey. I'll sit and wonder of every love that could have been if I'd only thought of something charming to say. (Death Cab For Cutie - The Sound Of Settling)There's a point to this, a point I think I often miss - oh clever, clever, where's your heart? You can turn a phrase until it reads a million ways - it makes no sense, but it's as good as it is sad. (Jawbreaker - Million)They offered me a million bucks, all I want's a steady fuck - oh steady, steady, where were you? (Jawbreaker - Million)I don't want you thinking I'm unhappy - what is closer to the truth is that, if I lived till I was a hundred and two, I just don't think I'll ever get over you. (Colin Hay - I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You)Wake me up when your through being cool cause I'm snoring (Jawbreaker - Untitiled)Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief - they all kill their inspiration and sing about their grief (U2 - The Fly)"I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I just thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd." (Jules- Pulp Fiction)"You are what you love, not what loves you." - (Donald Kaufman - Adaptation)
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My Interests

Movies, the creative process, learning stuff, making records, philosophy, psychology, sex, math. Also, I don't know if this qualifies as any sort of "interest" but I'm a big fan of Howard Stern and National Public Radio, particularly This American Life and Fresh Air.

I'd like to meet:

As far as everyone else, I like people who are cool with who they are and are into learning about themselves and others. Bonus points for people who enjoy the creative proccess. Niiiiiiiice.

Music:

This is gonna be a ridiculously long list cause I like a lot of bands and don't really have a set go-to list, so here's a start: Jimi Hendrix, Kill Creek, The Beatles, That Dog, Weezer, Led Zep, Hum, Jawbreaker, Jay-Z, Stones (Mick Taylor-era), Lifetime, Counting Crows, Foo Fighters, Gorilla Bisquits, Quicksand, Jimmy Eat World, Jellyfish, Fountains Of Wayne, Deftones, Ben Arnold, Black Sabbath, The Odds, Johnny Cash, Rhett Miller, I'll add thousands more, I'm sure.

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Broken Flowers, Inside Man, Lonesome Jim, Friends With Money, The Squid And The Whale, Cashback, Casino, Superbad, Garden State, Adaptation, I Heart Huckabees, United 93, Inside Deep Throat, Shortbus, Sin City, The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Punch Drunk Love, New York Doll, Street Fight (Documentary), Overnight, What The &%$.. Do We Know?, The Weather Man, Boogie Nights, Spanglish, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Napolean Dynamite, Wonderland, Almost Famous, Office Space, The Mayor Of Sunset Strip, True Romance, Waiting For Guffman, Goodfellas, Death Of A Salesman, Il Postino, Harold And Maude, American Movie, American Beauty, Taxi Driver, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Spun, The Royal Tenenbaums, Kill Bill 2, Clerks, Secretary, Lost Highway, Putty Tang, 25th Hour, Clockers, The Fisher King, Heavy, Safe Men, Made, Traffic, What Happened Was, The Break Up, Fight Club, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Breach, The Zodiac, The Swimming Pool, Better Luck Tomorrow, Under The Sun, Deconstructing Harry, Happiness, Annie Hall, Chasing Amy, A Belle De Soufle, Palookaville, Hated: The GG Allin Story, Old School, Dodgeball, Kingpin, Something About Mary, Eyes Wide Shut, The Good Girl, Lovely And Amazing, American Splendor, Once, Overnight and many quality adult films (porn), gonna add more soon.

Television:

Sopranos, The Wire, Sienfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Big Love. The Larry Sanders Show, Freaks And Geeks, Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization, The Chris Rock Show, The Chappelle Show, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Office, Six Feet Under, The Shield, 24 (first two seasons), CSI (It's pretty bad, but addictive in a Murder She Wrote kinda way), The Apprentice, Bands On The Run, Making The Band II (the Puff Daddy One), Taxi Cab Confessions, America Undercover: High On Crack Street, MI-5 (First Couple Seasons), Rescue Me, Howard TV, Dexter, Weeds, This American Life (TV version).

Books:

The Pleasure Of My Company, Shopgirl, Catcher In The Rye, Where The Truth Lies, On Writing, The Sopranos On The Couch, Stranger Than Fiction, Bird By Bird, The Orchid Thief, The Sexual Life Of Catherine M, The Four Agreements, The Secret Man: The Story Of Watergate's Deep Throat, State Of Denial, The Looming Tower, Zen Mind Beginners Mind, The One Percent Doctrine, Blow The House Down, Killing Pablo, See No Evil, Story (Robert McKee), The Other Hollywood: The Oral History Of The Adult Film Industry, The Cell, Sleeping With The Devil, Under The Banner Of Heaven, The Dirt, House Of Bush House Of Saud, Slaughterhouse Five, Mother Night, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The Kid Stays In The Picture, The Second Coming Of Steve Jobs, Wiseguy, Have Gun Will Travel, LAbrynth, Unbelievable: The Life And Times Of The Notorious B.I.G., House Of Secrets, The Stranger Beside Me, Da Vinci Code, So You Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll A Star: How I Machine Gunned A Room Full Of Record Executives And Other Stories, The Most Beautiful Girl In Town And Other Stories (Bukowski), A&R, Takedown, Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right, Sex Lies & Politics: The Naked Truth, Dirty Jokes And Beer, The Tipping Point, Blink, Stumbling On Happiness, Triplecross, and I'm gonna add more soon.

Heroes:

My Mom, Albert Einstein, The Beatles, Ahmet Ertegun, MLK

My Blog

Holy Shit

This is pretty fucking bad-ass: So is this: That is all I have to say about that...
Posted by Phil on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:13:00 PST

The Wire

Now that Curb Your Enthusiasm is done for the season and Weeds and Dexter are nearing the end of thier seasons, I'm bumming out a little that the next season of The Wire doesn't start till January of ...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:59:00 PST

Insomniac’s Dream?

First of all, why is the category choice "Dreams and the Supernatural" and not, I don't know, "Dreams and Sleep"? I guess that's a boring category, but hey, I'm a boring guy. I drink a lot of water ...
Posted by Phil on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:32:00 PST

Revisiting the final season of The Sopranos...

So I've been getting the final season DVDs via Netflix, and re-watching the last episodes only re-confirms, for me, that The Sopranos is perhaps best show ever made (ok, maybe a tie with The Wire) and...
Posted by Phil on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:12:00 PST

Return Of The Boringest Blog Ever - Hating Vocal Rides

Warning: this blog entry will bore you to tears if you have anything resembling a life/personality. That having been said: I hate doing vocal rides. It brings out the worst, overly-anal o.c.d. qual...
Posted by Phil on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:23:00 PST

Is Jay-Z a Family Guy fan?

Anyone else ever notice that the Cop's voice Mr. Carter uses in the second verse of 99 Problems sounds exactly like Cleveland from Family Guy, down to the way he says "lawyer"? I don't know why I fin...
Posted by Phil on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:55:00 PST

Because I am a prematurely old man...

Because I am a prematurely old man, when the weather gets a colder, I mall walk for excersize and whatnot. Anyhow, the last couple times I've been mall walking at the North Shore Mall, I've noticed t...
Posted by Phil on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:48:00 PST

When I was in high school...

When I was in high school I worked in the food court of one of local malls in my area of Jersey. Technically, it was more like a food strip, cause there was only one side to it, and all the restaraun...
Posted by Phil on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:00:00 PST

Re-Airing of The Sopranos Season 6B starts tonight too...

I'm going to sound like even more of a loser/HBO shill, but the re-airing of the last half of the last season of the Sopranos is starting tonight and if you watch "Home Movies" more than once you catc...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:00:00 PST

Clark And Michael

I realize that at this point, I'm probably the last person on to have seen Clark and Michael, but man does it rule:http://www.clarkandmichael.comAlso, I hope "Someone To Eat Cheese With" plays at the ...
Posted by Phil on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:10:00 PST