Music, family, cheese, chocolate, (okay, all food really), broadcasting, genealogy, general verbosity
Music
Literate singer-songwriters; powerpop; hook-laden eclectic... Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Elvis Costello, Fountains of Wayne, Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies, Beatles, Beach Boys, Pugwash, Jellyfish, Crowded House, Marshall Crenshaw, Squeeze, Matthew Sweet, Randy Newman, Rhett Miller, Jackdaw4, ike, Duane Dolieslager, Getaway Car, Mayflies USA, Smithereens, Jim Boggia, Jonathan Coulton, David Mead, Lisa Loeb, John Wesley Harding, Fastball, Electric Light Orchestra, Cars, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, on and on it goes...
Movies
Stardust Memories and other Woody Allen; Dogma and other Kevin Smith; Magnolia and other P.T. Anderson; Being John Malkovich and other Spike Jonze; on and on it goes...
Television
30 Rock, The Office (both US and UK), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Pushing Daisies, My Name Is Earl, Reaper, 24, Amazing Race, Survivor, attempting to remember to tape Letterman or Conan whenever cool musical guests are on, rediscovering all of the great Seinfeld episodes on DVD...
My dense and conflicted life tries, and largely fails, to successfully maintain concurrent careers as an attemptedly-thoughtful pop singer-songwriter, an appropriately-participatory father and husband, and as a musically-savvy-yet-goofy radio traffic reporter guy, complete with pretentious title "Senior Anchor / Director of Programming", for Metro Networks, A Westwood One Company, in Philadelphia. (The "senior" part is just to remind me in case I don't feel quite old and decrepit enough.)
Been on almost all of the Philly radio stations over 27+ years, but I currently babble incessant traffic every weekday afternoon on public radio WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, classical WRTI 90.1 FM Philadelphia, top 40/rhythmic WPHI 100.3 FM Philadelphia ("100.3 The Beat, Interactive Hip-Hop and R&B"), hot a/c WSJO 104.9 FM South Jersey ("South Jersey's Own, SoJO 104-9"), urban talk WURD 900 AM Philadelphia ("Your Information Station, Committed To Solutions"), SIRIUS/XM Channel 149 ("First Traffic for Philadelphia"), classic rock WEZX 106.9 FM Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ("Rock 107") and country WSJR 93.7 FM Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ("J.R. 93-7") -- and continue to merely grouse about management duties the rest of each work day.
Played and recorded with lots o' bands between ages 15 and 35ish, then stopped playing in public to devote time to all of the above, and to occasionally lock myself into small rooms to keep writing and recording. A few recent resulting tracks from such pointless endeavors are posted and available for purchase on my MySpace Music page --
-- with additional tracks added as they become available. All such silliness may simply be released as individual downloads, or may eventually find its way onto a CD or EP entitled "Delays Major and Minor", sometime in the next few years if all goes well... and really, when has all gone well? Also some various more-music-oriented blog ramblings at the music page. So please stop by there, leave a friend request or comment, etc. Thanks!
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Who I'd like to meet:
Oh, now I feel some kind of obligation to answer this just because MySpace deems it necessary to display this line on the page regardless. Um, yeah, just like everyone else says, people with similar musical interests... Y'know, I mean virtually. Who has time to meet anyone in real life anymore?
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
Good to have you as a friend! So great to see the internet in action this way, shortening distances between people.
I hope all's well with you and that you enjoy checking out my web site some time.
For occasional, new, refreshing, insightful and (possibly?!) valuable content, I encourage you to sign up for my free newsfeed/email newsletter (using the form on site at page right - high quality, low quantity, no spam!).
Take care and keep in touch.
Best, Faber.
"Just a guy trying to make the world a better place. "
Hi Ran, time for a comment from your fellow Simpsonite. Hope you guys are enjoying the summer and that you have a very happy birthday! I know you will enjoy your babysitting gift!
If you would like an e-invite to our cd release party at Stubbs please send us your e-mail! Your printed invite will get you 2 dollars of a 5 dollar E.P. as well as enter you in a raffle to win cds and t-shirts. Don't worry, it will just be the one e-mail, we won't continually harrass you. Thanks!
"well hello there,"
said randi with an i the one who's not a guy ;-) "i'm on the mend
so i thought i'd send
you all my best
before i lie down and rest."
Hi,
How's it going? Another beautiful hot day here in London and hard to do anything, so we thought we would stop by and say hello as we are lazing around ;-)
We have a wicked new remix on our page by a guy called Mr. Bird. We'd love you opinion. also, we put some links in our latest blog to a few other remixes by other great Myspace people. Hope you like them!
it's good to know there are others with the same great musical taste. Last show I saw was Glenn Tilbrook in Austin, Tx. It seems that each time I see him, it just keeps getting better. It's also refreshing to see him playing again with another talented group of musicians. I'm looking forward to getting the new Aimee Mann cd, but it still hasn't showed up. I'm always up for hearing other peoples "finds" of music worth listening to. Feel free to drop me some tips. Ta
Out to prove that tired-and-bitter can be fun!!!
