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Phil Awful

My Indie Band's Publicist is Way More Street than Your Indie Band's Publicist.

About Me

Trapped in a world I didn't create and a prisoner in the one I have! I love and loathe all of you equally. If you happen to be Ann Coulter, a meter maid, or simply not willing to scratch below the surface... I might just loathe you a bit more. I'm fortunate to be blessed with an inordinately large number of great, really fantastic friends, so I save most of my true loathing for people who don't understand that the left lane is for passing and those who talk obliviously on cel phones in the doorways I'm trying to get through.

My Interests

Music, Music, Music. Film, Ice-hockey, Chocolate Croissants, Old Sports Cars, Theatre, Modern Art, Pop Art, Pop Tarts, Pop Culture, Poker, Minimalist Furniture, Travel, Scrabble, but not Travel Scrabble. Strong Coffee, Bad Karaoke, Dive Bars, People Watching, Cooking, Wining & Dining. Vodka.

I'd like to meet:

Those hi brow enough to know and lo brow enough not to care... People who hate Country & Western, and Andrea's hot, swinger friends. I wonder how long it will take for this one to bite me in the ass!

Music:

There's not enough space here. Some perennial faves: Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Bob Mould/Sugar/HuskerfrigginDu, Inspiral Carpets, Joy Division, Juliana Theory, The Negro Problem, Turbo Negro, Beulah, B.R.M.C., Flaming Groovies, Dead Boys, New York Dolls, Luna, Ben Lee, Ben Folds, Nada Surf, Comsat Angels, Old school punk, disco, Hedwig, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, John Coltraine, Miles, Billy Preston, P-Funk, X, The Clash, The Who, The Hottest Band in the land...Kissss, Dandy Warhols, The Replacements, Stone Roses, Spiritualized, New Model Army, Pere Ubu, Jets To Brazil, Bettie Serveert, Catherine Wheel, Pixies, Sahara Hotnights, Smiths, Zero 7, and a bunch of the usual classics that I can't think of at the moment.

Movies:

Christmas In July, The Great McGinty, Diner, Hudsucker Proxy, High Fidelity, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Streets Of Fire, The Idolmaker, Breaker Morant, Cinema Paradiso, The Stepfather, 1941, Finding Nemo.

Television:

I went from not owning a TV to an addict in the blink of an LCD. My favorite programs tend to get cancelled as programmers continue to bow to the lowest common denominator. There's really nothing wrong with a little cultural elitism every now and then, though I doubt the Knights of Prosperity qualifies in that regard. I would like to bitchslap the person who decided to axe Studio 60... what a gret effin show.

Books:

With Charity Toward None- A Fond Look At Misanthropy, Please Kill Me, Green Eggs & Ham, The Kite Runner, Sister Carrie, A Severed Head, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Handling Sin, Catcher In The Rye.

Heroes:

Preston Sturgess, Bobby Orr, Al Pacino, Charles Nelson Riley, Morey Amsterdam