Pheroze

Well, this sucks a fat kong-sized dongo. Looks like The Cutting Room is closing down.

Joan Rivers will be singing the club’s swan song on January 13th, 2009.

I love The Cutting Room. I played there 4 times in 2008 and it was a blast each and every time. The staff there are great to work to with and the sound there was consistently amongst the best of any club I’ve played in my career.

Seriously, this is really disappointing. There aren’t many quality cabaret style venues left in NYC with the intimacy and professionalism that The Cutting Room possessed.

So a shout out to Steve, Pete, and the rest of the crew at The Cutting Room: Thanks for the great times and I look forward to seeing what you are all up to in the New Year.

Thanks Erik for the tip!

I’ve posted the entire interview in the Press section. Click here to read the full interview.

IRT Mag Fall 2008 featuring Pheroze

Here’s an excerpt:

IRT: I hear a lot of Jeff Buckley in your music. How did you discover his music?

Pheroze: Thanks. Jeff Buckley is definitely an influence of mine. It always seemed that his voice was on the edge of breaking, like at any minute he could totally lose control over it. I love that in a musician. The summer, before I moved to New York, I took a few classes at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. One day when I went into class, my teacher told us that Jeff Buckley’s body had just been found in the Mississippi river. I had never heard his music before then, but I saw the album Grace in a used CD store a few days later and picked it up. Because I’m lazy it took me four years to get around to listening to it, but as soon as I put it on I was mesmerized! Unfortunately I never had a chance to see him play. At least not physically. In spirit, I think I see him play all the time.

IRT: Being of the same denomination as Freddie Mercury, I am sure you are a fan of Queen. Do you have a favorite album of theirs? Which one is it and why?

Pheroze: Oh man. Would it be truly awful to say that I like their Greatest Hits CD’s the best? Yeah it would. So I won’t say that!…

IRT: On your album, you incorporate a few instruments native to your Indo/Persian heritage. How did you choose which instruments to use and the way in which you use them on Driftwood?

Pheroze: Growing up, I spent a lot of time in India and was surrounded by all sorts of Eastern styles of music. My ears are used to hearing the quartertones used in the Indian tonal system and it affected my natural voicing early on. So it’s ingrained in me. I had a lot of different Indian percussion lying around so if it made sense to use a certain instrument within a song then I put it to use, not always in the most traditional of ways…

Read the full interview here.

I’m a sucker for this stuff. National Geographic has put up their top ten photos of the year and they’re all amazing.

Here’s my favorite:

Venus, Jupiter, and Moon Smiley Face

If only it would have had a wisp of the Milky Way visible as a mustache…

Check out the rest here.

And I’m only a tad disappointed that none of my shots with Gnomeboy made it. Both our smiles are at least as big as the moon’s.

Pheroze and Gnomeboy sitting in a tree...

Hands down my favorite movie of the year was Rambo. It was amazing. When someone asks me to describe it, I can only relate the experience of watching Rambo for the first time to punching yourself in the face with a unicorn horn that’s been shaped into the form of Sylvester Stallone’s fist dipped in chocolate and breast milk.

Seriously, it’s that good.

Dolph Lundgren Throws Down

I’ve been wondering how Stallone could top Rambo (Rambo 4 for the uninitiated). And when I first heard news of his next project, The Expendables, I thought it was a good step towards the unconquerable, but not quite there. Even if he is directing, starring and bringing on Jason Statham and Jet Li. Good, but not Rambo good. Not “rip your throat out with my bare hands” good.

Then I read this today. Wow. Having Lundgren in there changes the game. Look at him about throw down in his suit. He’s smiling. An evil maniacal smile. While wearing a bracelet made of beads. Lundgren is into bead work?

So… who’s next? Schwarzenegger and Van Damme?

Alright, I gotta go drink milk before this movie comes out.

The first track off of Driftwood is now available for free download.
Click here to download Never Lie to the Pavement.
I’ll be rotating a few songs for free download in the coming weeks so stay tuned. Unless of course you already bought the album, which means you’re swell and you get hugs from the person directly to your left.

Known fact: I like to write
Sometimes known fact: Pig’s penises are shaped like a corkscrew
Little known fact: Pigs hate wine
Conclusion: Pigs are delicious

Welcome to Pheroze’s blog!

Or maybe I should say welcome to my blog, since I’m writing it. But Pheroze likes referring to himself in the 3rd person because Pheroze is awesome.

If you’ve been to pheroze.com before you’re probably asking where’s the playful little gnome that slaps things? Well, I’m in the process of redesigning the site so in the meantime I’ve decided to put up a blog site until I’m able to wrangle a site with the old visual pizazz. Go explore this blog, it’s got some stuff that isn’t on any of my various internet wins. If you want to check out the old site it’s here.

Be my dawg

This also means that I don’t have to bug you via newsletter as often! Hooray for anti spams! Seriously I’ll only send show announcements and big news deals (and free penis enlargement offers! Ladies beware!) to your email inbox, so sign up! Also those who sign up for my newsletter will receive offers like exclusive downloads only available through my fan list. So sign that ass up!

Add my blog to your RSS feed or subscribe via email so you can feel my tender typing nourishment. You’ll like it! I promise I won’t link to Lolcats (even teh epic lolz) or anything that is crap (literally: no tubgirl).

love
-pheroze