15 thoughts about Sphinxie
1) Sphinxie has a myspace page. You can go there if you want to.
www.myspace.com/youaresphinxie.
2) It doesn't really work as an advertisement. It's more like grafitti. Or an inscrutable billboard.
3) Sphinxie is building a career the way insurgents build their bombs.
4) They don't really belong on Mtv. More like the Discovery Channel, or National Geographic.
5) Here is a picture. It is a picture of a cellphone.
6) Did Patti Smith ever sing with Beat Happening?
7) There are three members of Sphinxie; a person who sings, a person who plays bass, and a person who drums.
8) Maybe the way to make music that is different & unique is to actually be different & unique. I mean as a person, living your day-to-day life in a constant mix of wonder & irritation.
9) Because when their microphone kept crapping out, when the staff at the Rye Bar was hopeless & elsewhere, and the man in the Hawaiian shirt was starting to heckle, they just decided to play louder and sing as a group.
10) Because most bands in this town are no different than the bum on the street begging for some of your change, begging for more of your time, certain in the knowledge that you couldn't have anything more important to do in your life than to listen to them. The only difference is the bands want your attention & money so they can quit their jobs and live in a mansion. The bum just wants some booze, or maybe some crack. Which makes the bum smarter than the bands. Shit, at least he's going to have a good time.
11) Wasn't early Pavement fronted by the Carter Family?
12) Because their set is so short and mysterious that as soon as it's over you want to hear it again, to make sure you really heard what you think you did.
13) Here's another picture. I don't know what it means.
14) Because this show was so transcendent that the next time I see Sphinxie play I wouldn't be shocked in the least if all three members fucking levitated.
15) It's going to take a long time to get bored with Sphinxie.
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