May 2009
77 posts
hipsters.
Untitled from lookatthisfuckinghipster on Vimeo. “some people say hip-hop is dead. we just do this to make sure.” via look at this fucking hipster via the recommendation of allison.
eric whitacre.
here’s a world premiere of a new eric whitacre song. prepare to get your mind blown. but only if you like choral music. EPIC SHIT. make sure you click the “HQ” button to get that shit in high-quality.
skeptical kermit is skeptical.
if you ever wondered what kermit’s thoughts are about my blog, the evidence is clear:
April 2009
49 posts
maru blog
karen showed me what is quickly turning into my favorite blog in the world. MARU BLOG! maru is an amazing little cat. he loves boxes and packaging, much like my old childhood cat. actually, also like my cat, he is also not very little. treat yourself to a few minutes on maru’s blog and if you don’t have a huge smile after a few minutes, something is wrong with you.
sorry blogworld
hey blogtown, sorry - i’ve been a bit of a neglectful blogger these past few days. the new job has sorta taken over my brain. during the workday i try to be a sponge and absorb as much information as possible, so by the time i get home, i’m so oversaturated that my brain can’t possibly do any more. this is evidenced primarily by the fact that i’ve spent the last three...
slipknot shreds / nin shreds
i hope some of you are familiar with the “shreds” videos on youtube. they’re one of my favorite ridiculous things on the internet. some dude decided to take actual live videos of bands and then replace the audio with him playing ridiculously awful shit. however, it’s so well done it actually LOOKS like what they’re playing. the amount of TIME it must have taken for...
cubicle life.
i know the title of this thread may leave a bad taste in your mouth, but i promise.. it’s a good thing. at my old agency, our headquarters was a bit of a graveyard. years earlier, the hub of activity at the agency sorta shifted from richmond to dallas, so what was once a bustling headquarters pretty much just housed our finance department and the senior officers. the rest of us were just...
freedom week finale
hey gang. sorry for the severe lack of blog entertainment. i’ve been out “livin’ the dream!” okay, not so much really. but i have been having fun. my past few days have been the “party days” of freedom week. opting to stay in the first half of the week, the last days can be summed up with rooftop beers, porch beers, bar beers, and every once in a while, a...
free throw LOLs
it's too nice to blog.
i was gonna blog this epic recap of my trip to the petersburg national battlefield, but it’s too goddamn nice outside to be stuck in here blogging, so.. i’ll just say this. watch the videos in the post below. imagine the intensity of what that must have been like. now imagine yourself in 2009 in a field that barely resembles anything you just watched. imagine some signs that tell you...
today i saw THIS
and by THIS, i mean the battlefield where all this shit went down:
yes yes, it’s the petersburg national battlefield. i saw some totally awesome shit, including this GIGANTIC crater that they blew up during the siege. unfortunately, the crater is barely a crater anymore, but that’s what 144 years will do to a giant hole in the ground. pics and details to come!
auto-tune the news.
i suppose this was inevitable. the guy who did this lives in radford, va. it’s good to see VA represent in the weird-ass-random-internet-stuff game. also, KATIE COURIC. DAMN GIRL!
more freedom week
this wasn’t me.. but it SHOULD have been. this is a person who understands the meaning of freedom week: http://richmond.craigslist.org/mis/1134093781.html thanks to tess, who e-mailed asking if it was me.
even mother nature loves freedom week
check out the most insane rainbow i’ve ever seen in my life. i was in my room and i heard bill running up the stairs shouting “INSANE RAINBOW!” we took some pics. i took a video. we laughed, held hands, and now we’re cuddling. YAY RAINBOW!
Crazy Richmond Rainbow from Phil Williams on Vimeo.
freedom week topic: down time
a reader submitted the following question:
dear phil, the idea of freedom week is brilliant. but surely, there are hours which you are not spent doing epic things. how do you fill the downtime in between epic freedom week activities?
i’m so glad you asked. one of freedom week’s first to-do list items was the acquisition of a richmond public library card. once that was acquired, i...
attention VCU rec sports department
if you’re going to make me get a photo ID to go to your gym, i’m going to be an idiot about it. here is my stunningly creepy ID photo:
hell or high water
some of my best memories of my time in olympia are directly related to another band, who became close friends, called as cities burn. i wrote about this a few months ago but they’ve become fresh on my mind again with the release of their new album “hell or high water”. i pre-ordered the album a few weeks ago and it just arrived in the mail today, and i’ve been listening...
i REALLY loved ipanema's brunch.
i mentioned it briefly in my recap, but seriously, i want to sing ipanema’s brunch praises a little more. i don’t know if anyone from ipanema reads my blog. this is highly doubtful. but anyway, i totally want to use ipanema as a place to unleash my epic idea - breakfast DJing. i love to DJ, but all my music LOVES lean towards the mellow and introspective and quiet. what if i could...
this kid rules
there are a lot of reasons i eventually want to be a dad. this video is totally one of them:
if i have a son and i can somehow make him 1/3 as cool as this kid, i will have succeeded in life. thanks to christina for sending me this.
freedom week has begun!
sorry for the delay on the freedom week update. obviously, i’ve been busy being so FREE. i finally found myself with some time to kill. i’m in a strangely weird introspective mood. brandi has tasked me with putting together some SUPER MELLOW music for her new job at the spa. she can’t handle the nature zen sounds, etc. so i told her i’d put together some stuff i had. ...
weirdness.
so.. i knew there would be some weirdness and mixed feelings about leaving the job i’ve called home for the past 3-4 years, not counting my year-long touring stint with olympia. i’ve learned so much here. this job was the official start of my career. i walked in here with a shoddy resume and a story about being a touring musician and they bought it (thank god!) and over the course of...
myspace vs. facebook
i was bouncing around the internet and came across this myspace comment someone left. it perfectly sums up my feelings on the issue of facebook and myspace.
I miss Myspace. It’s like the party spot from a few years ago that’s not as happenin now because a new joint down the street opened up. But the new joint isn’t even better, it’s just new. So everyone’s over...
website, the magazine.
we just got this in the mail. does this strike anyone else as somewhat counterintuitive?
to-do list: life version
this list is circulating blog world, so i thought i’d play along. turns out i’ve done a lot of cool shit! i still have more to go though.. but, i’ve got time. 1. Started your own blog 2. Slept under the stars 3. Played in a band 4. Visited Hawaii 5. Watched a meteor shower 6. Given more than you can afford to charity 7. Been to Disneyworld/Disneyland 8. Climbed a mountain 9....
that's an electric autoharp, y'all.
i heard you guys like dance parties.
if that is the case, this one might just kill you:
one-year anniversary
well, gang. it’s a bit of a landmark date here in the life of phil. exactly one year ago today, later tonight to be specific, it will be exactly one year since i had my ridiculous bike accident and smashed my face up. hard to believe, right? i spent about a week in the hospital, four weeks at home recovering, and about eight weeks with my jaw wired shut. i broke pretty much every bone in...
the stairs of my apartment building.
of all the things i remember about the last time you were here, things that are now growing blurry even as we speak, i remember us walking down the stairs of my apartment building. the longest stairs ever. we were two-thirds of the way down and you exclaimed “god, i’m so bored!” as if we’d been walking down the stairs for hours. it was a nothing throw-away line. ...
rock band 2.
sometimes when i play rock band, i feel just like this:
trent reznor vs. the music industry
one thing is clear. trent reznor is a fucking smart dude. and it’s really awesome to hear him talk about the music industry and how to market and make music in the current climate. the dude clearly GETS it. i’ve been making music and working in the industry in some capacity for almost eight years now. as i’m about to take this next step by creating this record label, i am...
stonewall jackson
in anticipation of the excitement of freedom week and in honor of my continuing civil war history nerdiness, i decided to finally stop by at something i’d driven by for the past few years. the stonewall jackson shrine. the shrine is located at guinea station, located right off exit 118 on I-95 in virginia. you drive about 5 miles off the interstate, and you find yourself pulling up to a...
DAMN THIS SIDEWAYS HOUSE!
i cannot believe i’m actually typing this on my blog. i can’t believe it’s real enough to type. holy shit. THE STATE IS FINALLY GOING TO BE RELEASED ON DVD. JULY 14TH. AT LAST, COMEDY IS SAVED. joy joy joy joy joy!
PROJECT ROBOT
the project robot story has reached its startling climax. go play, if you want.
G.P.O.Y.W.
away we go
this movie looks great. it’s kinda hilarious. totally reminds me of the movie garden state in a weird way. in 2004, when we were all in our early 20’s, garden state totally spoke to us. now it’s 2009 and we’re in our late 20’s / early 30’s and look at how the topics have all changed.
another thing i totally support about this movie: jim halpert with a...
perfect.
sometimes the internet blows my mind. it’s SCARY, man. anything you would ever want. ANYTHING. it’s out there on the internet. like it’s made just for you. endless niche possibilities. so, let’s say, for instance.. you like it when people cover old pop songs in a really sad way. let’s say that’s one of your favorite things. for the purposes of this...
more courage wolf!
freedom week 2009
one of the greatest decisions i made in my life was to indulge in FREEDOM WEEK. if you were a blog reader here from the very beginning, you will remember freedom week 2008 as one of the first things that ever happened on this blog. freedom week kicked off in february of 2008 when i forever left behind the world of temping and my boring wachovia temp job, and started working at my real job. the...
new job town.
well guys, sorry if i’d been acting vague the past few weeks. i have been keeping something hidden from the internet for the past few weeks and it was definitely a challenge not to talk about it, because it’s such a huge deal for me. well, now i’m letting the cat out of the bag. friday of last week, i got a job offer from a really great agency here in richmond and i accepted. i...
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are you there, god? it's me, cookie monster.
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macrock, you are a BEAST!
this weekend was the epic musical event known as MACROCK. each year, a ton of bands descend on harrisonburg in our tiny little virginia version of SXSW. i hadn’t been in a few years, so with some convincing from kenny, i decided it would be a worthwhile adventure and a chance to get out of town. the day started roughly. friday night’s late night shenanigans on the rooftop resulted...
quotes.
i apologize if this is a little on the inside, but i wanted to remember these quotes from last night for the rest of my life, so i’m blogging them here to remind me: “double fuck you, george washington.” - liz “i will bury your gross face under the ground.” - bill chubb “i wish i was a turtle!” - krysta
oh facebook.
not sure why i found this as funny as i did, but this made me laugh harder than anything has all day. this was all in reply to our neighbor david who posted the same status message about 15 minutes prior.
punisher vs. batman
man, here i was talking at length in my blog about PUNISHER vs. BATMAN and acting like it was a hypothetical scenario. little did i know, they already made a MOVIE about that shit! i can’t believe i missed this when it was in theatres. the special effects are stunning.
more nerd confessions.
if you’re someone who hangs out with me on a semi-regular basis, you probably also hang out with my pal ian. ian is an awesome dude. he is also the world’s deadliest bike polo player. ian also works in a comic book shop, so he is super knowledgeable about all things comic book related. during drunk late night hang outs with ian, i would usually talk to him at length about my...
pixar vs. dreamworks
i don’t watch a lot of computer-animated movies, but this made me laugh because it’s totally true: from slashfilm.com.