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Phineas Q. Butterfat

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My Interests

lookin for the perfect record store, going to the movies,design blogs, flea markets, walking around the city aimlessly, drawing nonsensical type stuff in my sketchbook, riding the subway,FALAFEL, taking advantage of all the free Happ'Ninz in the cittay (i feel dirty for saying "cittay)

I'd like to meet:

Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Louise Brooks, Anna Karina, Jean Seberg, Liv Ullmann, Setsuko Hara, Ana Torrent, Irene Jacob, Julie Delpy, Claude Jade, Helene Chatelain, Nastasja Kinski, Silvia Pinal, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Falconetti, Audrey Tautou

Music:

It's all about the free jazz which is kicking my ass right now: Albert Ayler,Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy,Peter Brotzmann, but most of all soaking up all the late period John Coltrane. Plus The Velvet Underground (just got the first 2 albums on vinyl..mmmmm Sister Ray!!),Max Roach,Thelonious Monk, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, The National, Camera Obscura, Spoon, Battles, Tribe Called Quest, Tears for Fears (Found Songs from the Big Chair for 5 bucks!!), and who can forget Mr. Tom Waits

Movies:

What I've seen recently: Fallen Angels, Late Autumn, Pandora's Box (Louise Brooks. WOW!), Sansho The Bailiff, Stranger Than Paradise, Army of Shadows, In The Mood For Love, Days Of Being Wild, Cria Cuervos, La Chinoise, Helvetica, 400 Blows (which I enjoyed a lot more once I saw it in the movie theater), La Jetee (waited 2 years for that Criterion but it was oh so worth it), Masculin/Feminin, My Brother's Wedding, Late Spring, 8 1/2, Walkabout, Pierrot Le Fou, Breathless (Finally saw at a movie theater!!), Killer of Sheep, Vengeance Is Mine, The Double Life Of Veronique, Trois Couleurs, Orpheus,That Obscure Object Of Desire, Casablanca, Wild Strawberries

Television:

30 Rock,The Simpsons, How it's made, good eats, dinner impossible, Pushing Daisies, National Geographic Channel (Or as they call themselves now NATGEO lol)and patiently waiting for season 5 of The Wire

Books:

Kafka On The Shore, The Dharma Bums, South Of The Border, West Of the Sun, On The Road, Cat's Cradle, Scribbling The Cat, Frog, High fidelity, the last temptation, graphic style, perks of being a wallflower, flowers for algernon, catcher in the rye, the great gatsby, franny and zooey, 9 stories

Heroes:

The one. The only: HEDONISM BOT!!! Massimo Vignelli (HAHAHAHAHAAH HYEAAAAH RIIIGHT!!!!!),John Zorn, David Simon, The Free Jazz movement: Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Rashied Ali, John Coltrane, Conan O'Brien, El Lissitzky, Louise Brooks, The people that did all the hand painted lettering at Coney Island, Crazy Cat Lady from the Simpsons, Tim Harrington from Les Savy Fav, Chip Kidd, Edward Fella, Doctor Zoidberg, Tom Waits, Jean Luc Godard, Krystof Kieslowski, Yasujiro Ozu, Paula Scher, Stan Brakhage, John Swartzwelder, and of course: John Nikolai Jiao Tibay, Patrick Rudolf Legaspi Ella, Rey Joseph Bosque Ella, Reynalyn Antonette Bosque Ella, and Ramroche Michael Tan

My Blog

Jeepney Ride: Too American?

I was browsing through popmatters.com and stumbled upon this great little article. Just reading the first few sentences, I was like "wow, this is EXACTLY how I feel." Anyway here is the url (cus I don...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:53:00 PST

WEBSITE UP!!

thanks to dot mac i got my site up and running. anyway for whoever's interested ( or interested in seeing a trainwreck in progress...go HERE. It's my student portfolio of various graphic design class ...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:46:00 PST

iiiiiiipooooooddddd

wow..i got an ipod as a collective gift from the family...nuff said.so far in less than a week:1420 songs6.5 gigs of crap100 albums..good god i definitely needed this thing. i'm one of those obsessive...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

semi-productive weekend

semi-productive weekend Current mood: accomplished It feels good to have actually worked on a hard ass design assignment for 3 hours without it seeming like 3 hours. this sounds lame but it was fu...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's a holiday for a hanging, yeah

wow its been more than a month since i last posted on this bizznitch. i think my last blog was about getting new headphones and a list of good headphone albums. unfortunately, those headphones are sho...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

looking for the headphone masterpiece

i just got these new headphones..some maxwell studio headphones, those big ass ones that cover your ears. and for the past 2 days, like such a big loser, i have been scouring my cd collection for musi...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

80-37

man i am so not used to posting on a blog. my cousin told me to make a xanga last year, and that lasted like 3 posts. so i hope second time's a charm. anyways i'm just gonna use this to post little mo...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

l'anniversaire triste

lol. that's just a gloria record (RIP) song. it was actually a pretty good day. first i went to this flea market in midtown on 26th & broadway. got some pretty good deals on some stuff: (a) 6 comi...
Posted by Phineas Q. Butterfat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST