One of the things I learned in from my recent survey results is that people have trouble getting to shows either because of the time and hassle involved with getting there, or that there just aren’t any shows coming to their town. So as promised, I’m starting a weekly 15-minute live streaming concert series called…
Whenever my brain isn’t occupied with creating something, it’s usually busy consuming someone else’s creation. I read and listen to stuff constantly because it spurs my brain into new creations of my own. Often a theme will develop in my reading and listening that I didn’t expect. I was out on tour recently and here’s…
Alrighty, here’s the second “name your own price” release, “I Know I Shouldn’t Say This, But…” This album includes some of my most popular songs: “LCW”, “Asshole”, and “Hey Little Goth Girl”, plus a couple live tracks and 30 minutes of bonus video footage. You name the price for it and it’s all yours! Yes,…
I finally had a chance to watch Henry Phillips’ film “Punching The Clown” yesterday and I highly recommend it. In the film Henry plays himself moving to Los Angeles after years of battling it out on the road for small collections of drunks at various off-the-beaten path venues. LA then smacks him across the back…
As promised in my recent survey results, I’m going to be switching over to a NYOP price model for downloading my comedy and music from my website. And yep, that includes free if you want to be cheap like that. Having as many people as possible seeing and hearing my work is the important thing. …
With today’s much-hyped IPO of Facebook, U2’s Bono stands to make a couple billion dollars through his investment company Elevation. That will be more money than he’s made with U2 in the last 30 years and, depending on his personal cut, could make him the world’s richest musician. Paul McCartney has had that distinction until…
I was reading recently about a mentally challenged child. He’s only two year old but already exhibiting aggressiveness issues of control and greed. And I really feel sorry for the kid because he’s going to grow up to be a politician. I’ve been reading candidate statements for the upcoming primary elections and I’m always astounded…
I thought today I’d continue my series of “Boobs I Haven’t Seen” after my recent post about the lady who only wanted me to lie about showing me her boobs. Years ago, I used to play the Borders Books circuit. They used to have indie artists perform in their cafes. It was a nice gesture…
I finally had a chance to dive into Pinterest yesterday. My profile is at http://www.pinterest.com/philcomedy/ if you’d like to come and check it out. I’ve never claimed to be an early adopter with this stuff. Apparently I had to wait until Pinterest became the 3rd most trafficked social media site on the net. That…
This happened at one of my shows recently. A lady comes to my merchandise table outside the showroom while the other comic is on stage. She hands me a $10 bill and said she wants a CD. Then she tells me that her husband doesn’t want her to spend the money. So if he asks…
I recently released a survey to mailing list to get some feedback on possible models for future distribution of my music and comedy. Quite a few other artists were interested in seeing the results as well, so I thought I’d post them here. Now, I would not hold this up to any sort of strict…
As a comedian, I spend a lot of time traveling, particularly by car. I often tell people they pay us to drive and we do comedy for free. Since I’m in the middle of a tour right now and thinking about all this stuff, I thought I’d impart a little wisdom on how to travel…
There’s been plenty of news coming out of Coachella over the weekend. And if the outrageous success of acts like The Swedish House Mafia or the appearance by a long-dead Tupac Shakur is any sign, our business of show is in for more groundbreaking changes. Strangely, the hologram stuff is exciting to me. Not because…
One of the major problems with having so much media at our fingertips constantly is that those media outlets have to often really stretch to find something worthwhile to talk about. There really isn’t THAT much going on in the world. So media outlets will usually opt for fear mongering of some sort to earn…
So, it’s Good Friday, the day Jesus died. What’s good about it, I have no idea. If I were dragged through the streets then hung from a cross, that’s gotta be the definition of a bad day. I won’t say it’s THE bad day. My internet was out for a whole day once last year…
I’ve done a lot of awesome shows. I’ve done a lot of really bad shows. This particular one was a really awesome bad show. It was February 10th, 1997. I only know that because I googled the bill and someone actually has it listed on a webpage. That makes me think that person doesn’t get…
It seems like every day there’s some new political scandal. Some guy mismanaged funds. Another guy waggled his willy at an intern. It’s tempting to think that the world is just going downhill and politicians are getting worse all the time. Not true… Here’s a few tidbits of political intrigue and scandal from long before…
Such a fine line between A bomb and THE bomb, isn’t it? I almost called this post “Why John Carter Sucks”, but I don’t know if it does or not. I haven’t seen it. And actually, I’ve heard it’s a pretty good film. So where did Disney go wrong in this, one of their biggest…
So I’m flipping through TV channels this morning in my hotel room while packing. Normally I wouldn’t stop on Family Feud, but as the picture came on I saw that “Vibrator” was the number 1 answer for whatever question they were on. And I though, “That can’t possibly be what I think it is. On…
It must have been 1996 or 1997. I’m a little hazy on the date now. When you’re in a young band, out of town gigs are a huge deal. It feels like you’re going somewhere, doing something big. Or it can make reconsider your life choices. We were booked to play The Zephyr in Reno,…
I was saddened to hear of Robert Sherman’s passing today. For someone who’s a Disney nut and a songwriter, you can’t help but be influenced by the Sherman Brothers catalog. And personally, I think it’s a huge achievement to written one of the most loved and most hated songs of all time, “It’s A Small…
The first show of my Comedy Lab series in Santa Clara, CA is coming up on Saturday March 10th. If you’re in the area, make sure to come by for a great evening of comedy and music. The purpose of the show is to give performers and place to try material and performance styles they…
I’ll probably be watching the Oscars this weekend. But on at least a 20 minute delay because my girlfriend can’t sit through commercials. Yay DVR. Like every awards show, they often seem a little arbitrary. So today I’m presenting my own awards to movies that should have won something, at some point, somewhere. Eddie and…
Religious adherents like to believe that their faith brings people together. And it does, as long as it’s the same faith. I’m not even really talking about something like Islam vs. Christianity here. Even within one faith, there’s a zillion branches and denominations.. Let’s take Christianity for example… Roman Catholic Protestant Lutheran Episcopalian Anglican Baptist…
