The Fever of Phineas » Music http://phineas.kimbo.org Let's all drink to the death of a clown Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:08:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Life’s Little Lessons http://phineas.kimbo.org/2010/11/03/lifes-little-lessons/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2010/11/03/lifes-little-lessons/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:27:35 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/?p=621 So here’s my latest song, sort of a B side to Mr. Universe. Like Mr. Universe, this also drags up some old Hootenanny tapes. This time Terence McKenna is lending his naturally musical voice. For the rest of it, it’s just me in my office with a vanilla Dell PC, Adobe Audition recording software, some drum clips, a Yamaha keyboard providing the brass and bass, and a couple guitars. Lyrics are just a mish mash of phrases and thoughts and plagiarized Facebook statuses. The song means whatever its elements seem to add up to when you listen to it. And I mean whatever that is very passionately, I want you to know. If it helps any, think of it as a protest song.

]]> http://phineas.kimbo.org/2010/11/03/lifes-little-lessons/feed/ 0 Music Re-org http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/03/30/music-re-org/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/03/30/music-re-org/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:40:14 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/?p=457 I’m re-organizing my music a little bit. I dropped my “Cowboy of Hope” blog and plan to just drop my tunes here as “Pages”. For now the “Music” tab above gives the playlist with everything. I’ll create a dedicated page for each song with liner notes eventually. Here’s the starter page, for my new song “Mr. Universe“. Again, I’ll add liner notes soon.

]]> http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/03/30/music-re-org/feed/ 0 I Was Dancing in an Irish Bar http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/01/26/i-was-dancing-in-an-irish-bar/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/01/26/i-was-dancing-in-an-irish-bar/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:18:29 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/?p=411 Saw Jonathan the other night at the Starry Plough. He rocked the house with his classical guitar and his silly songs. I was happy to see a full house this time. The last time we saw him was in Dallas, right after “Something About Mary” came out and there were like 30 or so painfully shy wallflowers making up the audience and a big empty gap in the center. Eventually after much coaxing folks loosened up and sort of half-danced. This time was full enthusiastic house. The peoples was a swaying and the Liberty was a-flowin’.

]]> http://phineas.kimbo.org/2009/01/26/i-was-dancing-in-an-irish-bar/feed/ 0 Why I love Rock and Roll http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/05/09/why-i-love-rock-and-roll/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/05/09/why-i-love-rock-and-roll/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 18:21:59 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/why-i-love-rock-and-roll/ The other night we went out to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant. They were playing these mournful Mexican ballads and the service was really slow. The music was endless moaning and wailing, it started to seem like a ghost in a haunted house. We came home and put on rock and roll and played scrabble.

You see, rock and roll just doesn’t fuck with you like those Mexican ballads do. Rock and roll is there for you. It’s like your bad friend who mocks your soft middle class ways and takes you out on an adventure. Before your night is through, you look like Frankenfurter and the cops and the mafia are after you.

This is why I love Rock and Roll.

Phineas Foo, Age 45.

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]]> http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/05/01/day-of-the-international-solidarity-of-workers/feed/ 0 Der Golem http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/04/26/der-golem/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/04/26/der-golem/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:18:34 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/der-golem/ Last night I saw the great film The Golem: How He Came Into the World at the Castro Theater in SF. It was scored by Black Francis which made it all the more amazing. The film is incredible — the set designs, the costumes, every visual aspect was just memerizing. Frank Black’s original songs and live performance were awesome. The emcee felt obliged/permitted to make what he must have thought were clever witticisms throughout the film. Really lame, un-comic material like “this scene is on youtube — heh heh.” Really stupid and annoying. That created this goofy atmosphere of incessant chuckling. This being the San Francisco International Film Festival, I would have expected a more reverent tone. We’re here to celebrate cinema, not make fun of things which are unfamiliar to us. OK, maybe the Castro is not where you go to be reverent, but still laughing at an outmoded style of acting, treating everything as camp is so missing the point of that specific movie. It’s an intelligent, thoughtful, beautiful film, not some silly relic from Grandma’s memento chest.

But all in all it was a really cool venue and great film and a fun way to see it. This makes the fourth time I’ve seen Mr. Black perform, I’m slightly embarassed to say.

]]> http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/04/26/der-golem/feed/ 0 Paris 1991 http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/04/20/paris-1991/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/04/20/paris-1991/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:36:09 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/paris-1991/ Rain drops smack upon the boulevard
roof tiles crackle in the sun
I don’t think I’ll ever go so far
as I did in Paris in 1991

I don’t know who was President
I don’t know what war we were in
but it was all going on
in Paris in 1991

The Parisians were so busy
and the tourists were so busy
and the immigrants were so busy
but me I had a revelation
in Paris in 1991

You ain’t seen Paris
unless you saw Paris
in 1991

]]> http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/04/20/paris-1991/feed/ 0 The Thrill Of It All http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/03/22/the-thrill-of-it-all/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/03/22/the-thrill-of-it-all/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:30:51 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/the-thrill-of-it-all/ I’m enjoying the heck out of the Roxy Music DVD “Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982″

I read about it in The New Yorker and don’t have a whole lot to add to that. But it’s just beautiful. I love Eno’s various machines, hairstyles and blouses. I also enjoy how incongruous the low-tech video production quality is juxtaposed with these energetic, brilliant, outrageous musical compositions and performances. The songs all rock. Plus I think Bryan Ferry is flirting with me.

]]> http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/03/22/the-thrill-of-it-all/feed/ 0 Children of Men http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/01/08/children-of-men/ http://phineas.kimbo.org/2008/01/08/children-of-men/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:39:22 +0000 admin http://phineas.kimbo.org/children-of-men/ I watched this film on cable the other day. It was enjoyable. I always enjoy the bleak, near future sci-fi stories. But the main thing that thrilled me was a long sequence featuring King Crimson’s “In The Court Of The Crimson King” for no obvious reason other than it sounded cool.

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