PhilKMills

PhilKMills

JOINED:1 year ago
PROGRESS:32

LOCATION:Toronto, Canada
WEBSITE:http://filk.philmills.ca/
INFLUENCES:50s, 60s & 70s folk, country, pop, and rock.

BIO:

I was the typical consumer-only music fan until getting involved with the filk* community about seven years ago. Since then, I've spent a lot of time on original music, writing and performing.

*( http://debbieohi.com/filkfaq/2007/4/7/what-is-filk.html (OK...that should work. Debbie, stop changing your links! :) ))

Outside of music, my work and play involves computers, cats, cameras, and science fiction and fantasy literature.

I can also be found on Twitter as @PhilKMills, on LiveJournal at http://phillip2637.livejournal.com/, and on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_mills/. There are others, but those are the ones I'm admitting to just now.

Songs: 32 ( + = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

		Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1		May I Be		2	46 weeks 7 hours
2		BBW Blues		8	45 weeks 5 days
3		Take Me Back		3	45 weeks 4 days
4		Half-Baked Sister Blues		6	45 weeks 4 days
5		There For You		4	45 weeks 3 days
6		Somebody's World		13	45 weeks 2 days
7		Pinocchio's Brain		3	45 weeks 1 day
8		You Might Be Right		2	45 weeks 23 hours
9		My Own Space		4	44 weeks 5 days
10		How Long Did It Take		2	44 weeks 3 days
11		Girls And Boys		2	44 weeks 2 days
12		Aliens		3	44 weeks 2 days
13		Nameless Woman		7	44 weeks 2 days
14		Paradiso		3	44 weeks 11 hours
15		Realization		2	43 weeks 6 days
16		It's Time		3	43 weeks 4 days
17		She Bleeds For Roses		8	43 weeks 3 days
18		Unfamiliar And Unforgiving		5	43 weeks 2 days
19		Half-Finished		7	43 weeks 11 hours
20		Christmas Time In Middle Earth		2	42 weeks 4 days
21		Tweedledee		9	42 weeks 3 days
22		Instrument Of Wind		3	40 weeks 5 days
23		Considering Religions		4	40 weeks 3 days
24		Akdor		2	40 weeks 1 day
25		Queen Alice		2	39 weeks 4 days
26		Sir William		2	39 weeks 4 days
27	+	Everything is wonderful	PhilKMills Quasar T	4	38 weeks 4 days
28		Blue Fairy Hotline		2	37 weeks 3 days
29		Her World		2	37 weeks 1 day
30		Turning A Page		3	36 weeks 3 days
31		In Code		0	35 weeks 4 days
32		Stealing The Sky		3	35 weeks 2 days

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It's 2011, FAWM was great, I wonder what happens next.

July 4 update: There will be a delay in uploading anything until I stop coughing long enough to record even *bad* demos.
July 7 update: I think I'm over it. Still coughing more that I should but feeling a bit more alive.
August 3 update: I may have a few minutes in the upcoming days to see what everyone's talking about on the forums, but real participation won't be an option until at least August 9. Here's hoping that my ambition comes back when I do. :)
August 9 update: Back from having a good time at MuseCon in Chicago. I'm still processing all that happened. I hope to be back in 50/90 mood by tonight.
September 1 update: I'm on the Pegasus Awards ballot in the songwriter/composer category. Whee!

Quasar T

37 weeks 13 hours ago

COngrats on the Pegasus nomination Phil! That is very cool.

Catmagnet

37 weeks 2 days ago

I've put up a demo for my song "Upgrades" in case you have time to listen to it (you said you were interested in hearing it with the tune).

Catmagnet

37 weeks 2 days ago

Phil, congratulations on your getting on the Pegasus ballot for best writer/composer! From the things I've listened to here (and on FilkArchive), I say WELL DESERVED!

Quasar T

38 weeks 23 hours ago

Thank you so much for the Demo and tune for Everything is Wonderful! The demo is up and collaboration has commenced. I love how it came out. You sir rock!

downburst

39 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for the comment on the eohippus song. It's funny, I threw that together as a total throwaway on a challenge from toms, and I think it may be my favorite song so far.

ultravioleteyejeff

41 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for your forum post on how to not get comments. I did the one about posting 26 lyrics as I finished each recording, and then uploading the demos at the beginning of the second month, all at once. Epic fail. Live and learn, right?

blindkiwi

42 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for the comments on my nowhere song Phil, You are right with the traders line, it almost tripped me up when I was singing it, I should fix it ;)

Arthur Rossi

42 weeks 3 days ago

I would like to thank you for your detailed comment(s) and for having taken the time... keep up the good work!

Arthur Rossi

42 weeks 3 days ago

Hey Phil, I have been enjoying in listening to your songs, occasionally also commenting on them. Got some lyrics that could eventually suit your style. If you should contemplate on a collaboration in general and if you have the time, I`d love to invite you to have a (short) look on some of them and I`d look very forward to a possible collab in the case you find anything you could eventually use...
kind regards

wyatt

42 weeks 6 days ago

""""""""Usually mystical lovers have some sinister aspect, so this makes an interesting twist.""""
Yep, that's what I had in mind--These night time visitors are almost always evil, so I wanted to try something a little different. Darci is interested in trying to do something with it
Thanks for the comments

barbara

43 weeks 2 hours ago

Phil, your soundboard message had me chuckling out loud, and I still have smiling round cherry cheeks of delight leftover. Reality certainly may be the final frontier! I think the cool thing about FILK must be having people that share such a deep, rich storyline with you, have knowledge of all the nuances that you want to refer to, so it's a more particularly shared universe than the 'universality' we have to try to find in each other's idiosyncratice stories from 'real life.' But then, I haven't done any FILK writing to know what I'm talking about...YET!

Vom Vorton

43 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks! That's a pleasing comparison :)

I'm using "hot under the collar" in the distressed / embarrassed / bothered sense (and because it fits with the theme)... hopefully that doesn't cause too much confusion!

Jane_ukey

43 weeks 1 day ago

Hi Phil, thanks for your lovely feedback on She Says He Says :)

wyatt

43 weeks 2 days ago

Oh yeah, I should mention , well, to anybody, that on 50/90, these are pulled pretty green and probably in need of some adjustment

wyatt

43 weeks 2 days ago

All is well Phil.
Collabs can be a joy or a pain--I suppose that's true of a lot of things though.
If you get something though, E me

wyatt

43 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for the comments on "Still Will The Flowers Bloom"----On your comments on the way you'd hear the music,Yeah, that's about the way I'd hear it. Welcome to have a crack at the music if you want, we usually seem to be on about the same page but running through your posts, I see you haven't done any collabs. You seem quite capable of doing the whole thing yourself

Dan Vaillancourt

43 weeks 3 days ago

Thanks Phil for the comments... and yes if you ever make it through Michigan... let me know and we'll hook up a guitar lesson. ;)

wyatt

43 weeks 6 days ago

""I wonder if there are ways to put more of the game/score metaphor into the verses to tie it all together.""

On Heart wasn't keeping score--A good thought--I will ponder on that

Leslie

44 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks for the comment on Betwixt and Between, Phil. Glad you enjoyed it!

wyatt

44 weeks 2 days ago

"". Sort of John Denver gone wrong.""" There you go on John Denver Phil--John Denver jumps the track :)

Billy Sea

44 weeks 4 days ago

LOL, it didn't start off as a tip of the hat to Arlo, but once I wrote the first line, that was the first rhyme that came to me and I just let the song go where it wanted. Glad someone picked it up :D

wyatt

45 weeks 11 hours ago

"" " You can follow it up with a song about what happens when the singer encounters the fiddle, but that's a different subject""
The muse was listening and is already working on it. She won't tell me anything yet though ---For some reason she's about as contrary as they get :)

Dreamscuba

45 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks very much for your comments on "Still in love with you". Much appreciated.

FenderTele71

45 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks for listeneing to Curtain Call and thanks for the comment. Hope it brightened up your day ;-).

talking dogs

45 weeks 1 day ago

Hey Phil, I added the lyrics to "First Song" as well as all of my others, as you're weren't the only one to request me to post them. Thanks for the kind comment. I'll check out some of your songs here shortly!

Number Six

45 weeks 2 days ago

Hello. Thank you for the listen and for the comment. :)

wyatt

45 weeks 3 days ago

Yeah.On download it says "Not found"
Tried a different song and it played ok. I don't understand it since it plays for you-Not a big deal unless others have trouble

wyatt

46 weeks 6 hours ago

""Well done. That's a good description of an affliction many of us endure."""" Ain't it the truth! :)

heavy hedonist

47 weeks 5 days ago

Phil the Filkman! good to see ya again. i'll definitely be doing some material that is Filky natured.

Errol

49 weeks 5 days ago

Wait, what is debs promising?? Alllooo! Are you coming to my birthday concert?

Debs

49 weeks 5 days ago

It's safe to say that there will definitely be some new Debs & Errol stuff written during the challenge. We have to make good on our donation promises, you know ;)

Rob From Amersfoort

49 weeks 5 days ago

I do like SF, I definitely will try my hands on writing some SF inspired songs this 50/90.

PhilKMills

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