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Captain Phil Evans

Everyone danced and had a good time

About Me

I had a job. Then I didn't. Then I got another one. Life is good

My Interests

I can play guitar and sing in your company band.

I'd like to meet:

for lunch? People who like food at lunch time.

Music:

Elvis Costello, The Clash, Rheostatics, Belle and Sebastian, Velvet Underground, Doors, Stompin' Tom Connors, Billy Talent, Stone Roses, Killers, New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Arctic Monkeys, Buddy Holly, and I've recently discovered the Power Pop section at Iceberg radio - which plays The Records.

Movies:

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Pulp Fiction, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Brazil, The Party, The Meaning of Life, Team America.

Television:

Scrubs, 24, Lost, The Office (BBC), Anything on CNN, South Park, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Family Guy, Ali G., Lost

Books:

Pacific Gardening, Taxidermy for Profit, A Users Guide to the 2200XB Titration Spectrometer, Ferrets - Better Than Rats.

Heroes:

Billy (Don't be A)
Sandwich
American, Greatest

My Blog

Some Things and Others

MySpace Oh,  how soon the novelty fades.  I signed up on MySpace a year ago April and now, oh now, it's like the hamster when you get a dog.  You still know it's there, and you check up...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:56:00 PST

APPEARING THIS WEEK AT YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE!

Over the past few weeks, there's been a bit of controversy over Avril Lavigne allegedly stealing The Rubinoos I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and using it as the basis of her hit, I Wanna Be your Girlf...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:54:00 PST

Music

The radio station I work at just switched from being a straight ahead Hit Radio station to a combo Hit/Classic Hits station. Not before time as we had lost the "au courant" hit radio station position ...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:23:00 PST

Doing the Right Thing

Sometimes when I think of things, I think about one time when I was at a party with my friends.  One of them was a paramedic, and I always thought that was a very honourable profession - unlike g...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:17:00 PST

Our Culture is Obsessed

With liquids.  We are a drink (sorry, beverage) obsessed culture. You get one beverage at the beginning of a journey - whether by bus, car or walking -  drink  it during the trip and th...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Thu, 31 May 2007 04:48:00 PST

On Sucking and Not Sucking

On the advice of a good friend and trusted reader of magazines, I read an op/ed piece by Chuck Klosterman yesterday in Esquire entitled "Radio is History."  I use the diminutive op/ed to make it ...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Sat, 19 May 2007 10:07:00 PST

Another Girl, Another Planet

Just over a year ago, I was reorganized out of the company I had worked for for 20 years.  Luckily, it happened the week after I got my 20 year anniversary present from them and no one came to ta...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:16:00 PST

Random

Mind how you go with this one - more serious than usual... APRIL April is a bad month for violent episodes.  I know it is because my birthday is in April and I tend to remember.  The seige a...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:06:00 PST

When I Get Fully Mobile WiFi

* For regular driving around town - I'll tune into one of my Quick Mix channels on Pandora - maybe the Springsteen, Arcade Fire, Monkees, Killers, Xtina channel.  * For going to work, I'll tune i...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:23:00 PST

Now I'm Being Self Indulgent

Sometimes I enjoy my own writing so much.  In the old days they called self publishing  the Vanity Press - now they're called blogs.   Here's an e-mail to a friend I...
Posted by Captain Phil Evans on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:28:00 PST