On and for 4/20 for 2023!

Also on Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-cheech-chong-4-20-remix-tribute-project

This project has been under production development for one and a half years.

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DETAILS:

We discovered, while working on another project, a veritable TREASURE trove of rarely-heard, obscure artistic remixes (and some cover) material that we think need to be heard by fans of the perennial stoner comic duo, a crowd which we count ourselves definitely a part of since the 1970's.

But Cheech & Chong sonic world offers a twisted kind of surreal and often hilarious 'Firesign Theatre for Stoners'. The two-man troupe's efforts offered fully stereoscopically-rendered and immersive 'scenes' or 'skits' that have an almost palpable reality to them in all of their richly rendered detail. 

Cheech & Chong are still going STRONG some 50+ YEARS after their FIRST album. Still doing their thing. Now on social media. And thanks to NCN, now here on Bandcamp.

Because now, this show exists. 

And you get to hear it.

These dudes weren't just comedians, they were fucking ARTISTS. 

And they still are.

And so it is a pleasure, and a privilege, with this show, to PLAY with that sonic perfection, that comedic JAZZ (because that's what it was) and to remix it, mutate it creatively and psychedelically. To re-contextualize it, and to show the depth and scope of their influence, as well as their roots and what influenced THEM as we present the works of others who have done just that sort of thing throughout the years along with the exceptional and extraordinary work of Cheech & Chong and have done so in meaningful and beautiful ways. 

Because we love it.

For those who know and love the comedic work of Cheech & Chong and appreciate their indelible cultural contribution, this is Cheech & Chong like you've never heard them before.

Thank you, Cheech and Chong, for the laughs, for the love, for the memories and for the good times.

Back at 'ya!

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Album credits (in order of first instance in overall program--repeat instances not noted. Not absolutely everyone is covered here but most are. Please DM or contact me if you have any specific questions on source material used):

Richard 'Cheech' Marin; Tommy Chong; Ronald Redball; War; Up in Smoke (1978); Johnny Depp; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998); The Groove Tube (1974); 2001: A Space Odyssey; Douglas Wellman (Puzzling Evidence); Harry Scifres Robins (Dr. Hal); Ivan Stang; Joe Rogan; T-Bone; OG3OG; DJ Cum Pitt; Mandela Effect; Max Venus; The Eastwoods; The Simpsons; The National Lampoon Radio Hour; The Hang Lows; Gov't Mule; Rollins Band; Scatterbrain; The Retarded Potentials; Gnarly Slur; KoЯn; Soundgarden; Eminem; Wu-Tang; DJ DML; Cypress Hill; Timothy Lear; Nice Dreams (1981); Jimi Hendrix; Apocalypse Now (1979); Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971); Ogden Edsel; From Dusk Till Dawn (1998): DjZEMan; Khia; Muddy Waters; Mick Jagger; Pink Floyd; Larry King; Leonard Maltin; Bill O'Reilley

Happy Listening!

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The Cheech & Chong 4-20 Remix Tribute Project

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The 'Dave's Not Here' Remix Part 1 (2001 Mashup)

A music/comedy mix for NCN's current project at the beginning of June (Pride Month) 2023 called, 'The Great Big Gay Homosexual (ADULTS ONLY) NCN Comedy Show'.

Listener Advisory: Portions of this audio program may be considered 'Not Safe for Work'; Please use listener discretion.

This starts out as a straight-up dance mix featuring many gay icon female dance club oriented singers (hailed as 'divas') such as Madonna, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. It should be noted that many of the mixes used in this MetaMix were put together by the great remix artist Robin Skouteris. This gradually becomes a mix of PARODIES of these types of songs done by artists such as 'Weird Al' Yankovic and Bart Baker who can be found on Youtube and then ends with a mixture of mashups and some more parodies.

Portions of this mix will also appear in the upcoming NCN album, 'Andrew Tate & His Red-Pilled Fight Club Meet The Matrix'.

This mix is freely streamable (in HD SOUND) and downloadable in .flac lossless format at our SoundCloud

and also freely streamable (in HQ SOUND!) fully searchable and with NO ADS! at our Mixcloud:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-dance-diva-and-parody-mix/

Our Patreon: https://patreon.com/nationalcynical

The Great Big Gay Homosexual (ADULTS ONLY) NCN Comedy Show

Dance Diva and Parody Mix

NCN - Dance Diva and Parody Mix

Our tribute to one of the most hilarious memes ever and some of the best (IMHO) musical remixes that it spawned.

In honor of Pride Month, June 2023: Keep Homophobia Ridiculous!

For more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ssempa

Obviously, listener discretion advised.

Credits (in order of play): The Cumtown Podcast; Poopoophobic Pasta; The General Banter Podcast; JKR; NiewolnicyZieleni; Global Traxxx; TSR; Random Shenanigans; Pasta Senpai; GTJayFive; yahrasta; KingUW; Bart Baker; Kurt Razelli; Publio Delgato; Clair Collective; Colm Lindsay; 6669yourmum; Secular Talk

This mix is also freely streamable (in HQ SOUND!) fully searchable and with NO ADS! at our Mixcloud:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-the-eat-da-poo-poo-metamix/

The 'Eat Da Poo Poo' MetaMix (Pastor Dr. Martin Ssempa)

NCN - The 'Eat Da Poo Poo' MetaMix (Pastor Dr. Martin Ssempa)

This is a tribute mix in remembrance of Paul Reubens, aka 'Pee-Wee Herman', a fellow SubGenius who 'boarded the saucers early' on July 30th, 2023 at the age of 70 from a hitherto undisclosed illness. He leaves behind many fans, and an enormous body of work from a career that spanned 5 decades. 

This is a remix of, and about, the famous and iconic 'Tequila Dance' scene from the 1985 film 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure' by director Tim Burton in which Reubens (as Pee-Wee) dances to The Champs' song, 'Tequila!'. This 'MetaMix' (or 'mix of mixes') consists mostly of mashups utilizing the 'Tequila!' song. 

It also includes audio of the scene in question as well as Pee-Wee and David Letterman discussing the film, and the scene, on the 'Late Night with David Letterman' show in 1985.

This mix is part of NCN's longform program, 'The Pee-Wee Herman / Paul Reubens Memorial Mix' which will be released in its entire by NCN soon.

RIP Pee-Wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens)

Credits in order: David Letterman; Paul Reubens (on Late Night with David Letterman - NBC - 1985); 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure' (1985); The Champs; Mashup with Electric Six by DoM; J. Rabbit; The Sicks; Acapental; Pharrell Williams ('Happy'); DNC Liberty; Joeski Love

This mix is available here as a free 160kbps mp3 download. Special features of the mp3 encoding are: 1. Joint Stereo, 2. Highest Quality Encoding, 3. Mid/Side Stereo, 4. Intensity Stereo, 5. Volume Analysis and Leveling with MediaMonkey.

This mix is also freely playable at Mixcloud in HQ Sound, fully searchable back and forth, with timestamped source titles appearing in player during playback, with NO ADS.:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-tequila-the-champs-pee-wee-herman-memorial-mashup-metamix/

Enjoy!

-=-"pn"

The Pee-Wee Herman / Paul Reubens Memorial Mix

'Tequila!' (The Champs) Pee-Wee Herman Memorial Mashup MetaMix

NCN - 'Tequila!' (The Champs) Pee-Wee Herman Memorial Mashup MetaMix

FUNNY Informative Collage / Mix / Compilation Track About Then-President Donald Trump's Pre-J6 '11,780 Votes' Voter Fraud Call to Georgia's Secretary of State from Our Album 'The Insurrection (The Prequel)' Available on Bandcamp in its entirety at:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-insurrection-the-prequel

This mix covers Trump's phone call to Secretary of State of Georgia Brad Raffensperger in early 2021 whom he pressured to overturn the Georgia election results for him, mere days before Jan6, an action for which he is under indictment at the time of this posting. 

The bulk of this mix is the late-night talk show circuit 'goofing' on the call, and songs that came out about it, along with other comedy and some serious commentary.

There is a lot of comedy.

This is also available at Mixcloud:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-and-yet-another-perfect-phone-call-the-trumpgeorgia-mix/

Free download (in lossless .flac format) on SoundCloud.

Kill mR DJ Mashups; Jimi Hendrix; Linkin Park; Donald Trump; Brad Raffensperger; Stephen Colbert; Seth Meyers; schmoyoho; Founders Sing; Jimmy Fallon; James Corden; J-L Cauvin; Beau of the Fifth Column

The Insurrection (The Prequel)

And Yet... ANOTHER Perfect Phone Call! (The Trump/Georgia Mix)

NCN - And Yet... ANOTHER Perfect Phone Call! (The Trump/Georgia Mix)

Timestamp 3:01:18 <<< BEST SECTION!!!

We noticed that around the time Donald Trump started to publicly compare himself to the late, great 'King of Rock 'n Roll, Elvis Presley in February of 2024... that the legendary underground figure Mojo Nixon passed away.

It was almost as if Trump's comparison was too much for Mojo and he then figured he 'had heard it all' and said 'check, please'.

In all seriousness, Mojo was a beloved and revered figure of underground culture who was a talented musician, singer, songwriter, performer and in later years a radio personality and broadcaster. He is probably best known for his hit song 'Elvis is Everywhere' which broke into the mainstream and was on heavy rotation on MTV.

So around the time of Mojo's passing, we made THIS show to honor him, as well as paying tribute to another two 'passed saints' of the underground (but who also 'performed the miracle' of 'crossing over' into the mainstream) who championed and channeled (and sometimes lampooned) Elvis: the legendary comedians, Andy Kaufman and Bill Hicks.

Also, in this program we deconstruct the Elvis mythos, taking a deep dive and close look at the famed and celebrated performer's years of decline which included shocking levels of pill consumption and drug addiction, cross-referencing these facts with dawning info of a similar nature that were coming to light about what was going on in the 2016-2020 Trump administration around the time of this how's original creation, revealing that Trump's own self/Elvis comparisons may have been more spot-on astute than he had actually realized when he made it.

The climax to this entire program is the track 'EndShow' (which the Bandcamp audio player is cued to). This extensive and complex Metamix is basically a collage of various live Elvis performances (some of which we have done post-production work on) as well as some non-Elvis, yet related songs including Eminem making an appearance in a 'Jailhouse Rock' mashup, with liberal helpings of manipulated excerpts from the 2022 'Elvis' biopic with Austin Butler and Tom Hanks )as the villainous Colonel Tom Parker) depicting the ULTIMATE Elvis concert performance experience and in the climax of THIS track, we depict Elvis finally confronting Trump (as well as Colonel Parker).

The rest of the show after this point is just (IMHO) resplendent and we are very proud of it.

RIP Mojo Nixon. May he live forever.

The entire project  is bookended with an Intro/Outro set using a Brad Pitt AI as his 'Fight Club' character Tyler Durden.

This work is put out under The HOPE Club creative project, started by me, Phineas Narco, in the Fall of 2024.

This program is freely streamable (and downloadable all-as-one-file in a .flac format lossless quality file) here at SoundCloud.

Sections in this all in one program (analogous to the tracks on the Bandcamp Version) which is at:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/donald-trump-is-elvis-mojo-nixon-is-everywhere

The sections for this program occur at these timestamps in the all-in-one program files (which are at our SoundCloud and archive(dot)org site (which is at:

https://archive.org/details/@phineas_narco with the specific program there at: https://archive.org/details/thc-trump-is-elvis-mojo-nixon-is-everywhere) are as follows:

0:00 - Tyler Durden AI Hope Club Intro
2:58 - St. Andrew (Andy Kaufman)
49:23 - St. William (Bill Hicks)
1:19:19 - Too Many Pillz (Elvis)
2:05:33 - Too Many Pillz (Trump)
2:27:31 - Killing Elvis
2:50:46 - Killing Trump
3:01:18 - EndShow <<< BEST!!!
4:04:11 - Leaving the Building
4:31:18 - You Can't Kill Me
5:02:05 - Kleptone Coda (Vote "Bob" Version)
5:05:09 - Tyler Durden AI Hope Club Outro
 
To keep up with what I am doing creatively, you may follow me (IT'S FREE!) at my Patreon at:

https://patreon.com/nationalcyical

You can follow me on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/pnarco

And at Twitter at:

https://x.com/phineas_narco

I hope that you enjoy this program.

-=-"PN"

Donald Trump is Elvis and Mojo Nixon is Everywhere

THC - Donald Trump is Elvis & Mojo Nixon is Everywhere

'SLAPOCALYPSE! (Part III): The Trial'

This is the third and final Part of a longform MetaMix Album project from Phineas Narco's creative project 'The HOPE Club' (THC) via The National Cynical Network all about rap artist and longtime A-list movie star celebrity Will Smith, his tumultuous and controversial relationship with and marriage to his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith, and the infamous 'Oscars Slap' incident when he slapped star Chris Rock at The Oscars on live television on March 27, 2022. This overall project 'SLAPOCALYPSE!' deals with some of the history leading up to the slap incident as well as the aftermath and also how and why it occurred. 

This portion of the program deals with some of the personal biography of Chris Rock, including his history of being brutally and chronically bullied in school, his public approbation for his restraint, maturity, empathy and professionalism during, and in the wake of, the Oscars slap incident and how he 'slapped back' with a Netflix special 'Selective Outrage' (the first of its kind on that platform) where he at last broke his public silence on the matter and roasted Will Smith and his wife with his comedy after a full year after the Oscars incident. This program segment also describes in detail Will Smith's (well-before the 'slap) therapeutic encounter with the drug DMT. 

The main part of this 'Part III' segment (termed 'The Trial' as it is somewhat modeled after the track of the same name from the psychedelic prog rock band Pink Floyd's seminal 1979 rock opera 'The Wall') describes the skeptical and critical media fallout which came from Jada Pinkett-Smith (Will Smith's wife's) media tour (post-Chris Rock Netflix Special) to publicize her post-Oscars slap semi-autobiographical book 'Worthy'. The book was neither critically or commercially well received and was largely seen as a disingenuous, unnecessary and self-serving attempt to regain control of the narrative about the Oscars incident and the nature of her relationship with Will, which she only managed to muddy the waters even more of with her incomprehensible and ambiguous double-speak on the subject. 

The latter end of this 'Trial' sequence gives a different take on the mysterious phrase imparted to Will by fellow actor and Oscar winner and friend Denzel Washington at the Oscars that night (using AI audio technnology), speculates (via information from Will's longtime friend and employee Brother Bilaal) about what (else) Jada might have on Will and after one last 'The Wall' mashup piece actually (believe it or not) this final segment reaches a more uplifting, positive, hopeful and enlightening (we hope) conclusion.

This program contains material and language that may be considered to be explicit and/or Not Safe for Work. Please use listener discretion.

This program is available in 'tracked' form at Bandcamp in the audio file format of your choice (Name-Your-Own-Price):
https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/slapocalypse-part-iii-the-trial

This program is at SoundCloud (Free Download):
https://soundcloud.com/pnarco/slapocalypse-part-iii

Also freely streamable at Mixcloud in HQ Sound at:
https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/thc-slapocalypse-part-iii-the-trial/

It is also up at my archive(dot)org site:
https://archive.org/details/thc-slapocalypse-part-iii-the-trial/

My Patreon is at:
https://patreon.com/nationalcynical and is free to follow.

SLAPOCALYPSE! (Part III): The Trial

From my MetaMix album, 'THE TRIP!! Part I: Wonderland':

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-trip-part-i-wonderland

This track is versions of Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit' (1967) Including the a cappella version with Grace Slick, The Epic 'Matrix Resurrection' Trailer Remix, The Fractal Deepdream Hallucinations Version, The Mojo Filter Wonderland Remix; Pink; and Emiliana Torrini.

For more information on this iconic song see:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(song)

Also, clips from the movies Alice in Wonderland (1951) and 'The Matrix (1999)

THE TRIP!! Part I: Wonderland

Chasing Rabbits

'The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 1): Big Time'
 
I did this because I wanted to communicate and express my experience of, and appreciation for, the veteran musician and artist Peter Gabriel. And also to showcase lesser-known musical works of his and the work of other artists that is based on Peter Gabriel's work.

Part 2 of this 3-Part series is called 'Digging in the Dark' and is available on SoundCloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/pnarco/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-ii-digging-in-the-dark

The third and final (upcoming!) Part of this series will be titled 'Songs of Love and Conscience'.

It was all supposed to be done by FEB. 13 which was Peter's 75th Birthday (Happy Belated Birthday, Peter!) but, like Peter I work slowly and methodically and so I am a little behind schedule.

This Part of the Threesome explores some of Peter Gabriel's 'darker' works, and many variations and versions thereof. But don't worry: on this audio journey you will be led forth slowly but surely into the light.

This is Part 2 of a trilogy of mixes which comprise a very much expanded version of the 3-hour mix called 'The Peter Gabriel Remix Project' released in 2014 under my 'NCN' (National Cynical Network) moniker, which acts as a 'demo' for this overall much more expanded and comprehensive project.

The original 3-hour 'Peter Gabriel Remix Project' may be found on Mixcloud here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-the-peter-gabriel-remix-project/

This NEW EXPANDED THREE-PART VERSION builds on the original and also focuses on musician Peter Gabriel's lesser-known works: his off-album stuff, his B-Sides, his live performances, his early and experimental work, his collaborations and works that are fantastic but just never really saw much or any 'heavy-rotation' airplay. 

We think they deserve more attention.

Part 1 of this expanded 3-Part project is here at Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-1-big-time

The greatest care to use the best possible audio quality source files has been taken in the composition of this MetaMix (a term meaning 'a mix of mixes'). Lossless audio sound files and the most current remasters have been used whenever possible and the audio file that the project has been rendered to is a .flac lossless file which is 48,000hz and 24bit depth.

This expanded version also includes more interview clips, anecdotal and biographical material than the original 3hr. version and has more coverage and representation of remixes, covers, mashups and various 'DIY' and special versions versions and variations of Gabriel's original work as well.

My project's Patreon is at: https://patreon.com/nationalcynical  << FOLLOW FOR FREE! (Or else contribute to help support my work if  you want!) to keep up with my ongoing creative projects.

Thank you for your support!

Stay tuned...

The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix

The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 1): Big Time

New album:

'The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 2): Digging in the Dark' 

I did this because I wanted to communicate and express my experience of, and appreciation for, the veteran musician and artist Peter Gabriel. And also to showcase lesser-known musical works of his and the work of other artists that is based on Peter Gabriel's work.

The third and final (upcoming!) Part of this series will be titled 'Songs of Love and Conscience'.

It was all supposed to be done by FEB. 13 which was Peter's 75th Birthday (Happy Belated Birthday, Peter!) but, like Peter I work slowly and methodically and so I am a little behind schedule.

This Part of the Threesome explores some of Peter Gabriel's 'darker' works, and many variations and versions thereof. But don't worry: on this audio journey you will be led forth slowly but surely into the light.

This is Part 2 of a trilogy of mixes which comprise a very much expanded version of the 3-hour mix called 'The Peter Gabriel Remix Project' released in 2014 under my 'NCN' (National Cynical Network) moniker, which acts as a 'demo' for this overall much more expanded and comprehensive project.

The original 3-hour 'Peter Gabriel Remix Project' may be found on Mixcloud here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-the-peter-gabriel-remix-project/

This NEW EXPANDED THREE-PART VERSION builds on the original and also focuses on musician Peter Gabriel's lesser-known works: his off-album stuff, his B-Sides, his live performances, his early and experimental work, his collaborations and works that are fantastic but just never really saw much or any 'heavy-rotation' airplay. 

We think they deserve more attention.

Part 1 of this expanded 3-Part project is here at Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-1-big-time

Part 1 is also here at SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/pnarco/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-i-big-time

Part 2 is here on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/pnarco/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-ii-digging-in-the-dark

The greatest care to use the best possible audio quality source files has been taken in the composition of this MetaMix (a term meaning 'a mix of mixes'). Lossless audio sound files and the most current remasters have been used whenever possible and the audio file that the project has been rendered to is a .flac lossless file which is 48,000hz and 24bit depth.

This expanded version also includes more interview clips, anecdotal and biographical material than the original 3hr. version and has more coverage and representation of remixes, covers, mashups and various 'DIY' and special versions versions and variations of Gabriel's original work as well.

My project's Patreon is at: https://patreon.com/nationalcynical  << FOLLOW FOR FREE! (Or else contribute to help support my work if  you want!) to keep up with my ongoing creative projects.

Thank you for your support!

Stay tuned...

The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 2): Digging in the Dark

A funny mix I made (under my creative project THC or The HOPE Club) about a recent current event featuring Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's appearance on the Youtube channel 'Jubilee' in which he debated 20 atheists using AI sometimes in the piece as a creative tool. Commentary on the debate is from Twitchstreamer Hasan Piker.

This is a slightly modified version of the original one posted on June 3rd, 2025 which has an AI Jordan Peterson NCN Spot at the very end.

Derived transformed credit to: Man Carrying Thing; Jublee; Hasan Piker; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Brain Drain Media; FatSetGo; Q Lazzarus

Some portions may be NSFW. Please Use Listener Discretion.

TACO Tuesday

Jordan Peterson Jubilee Atheist Debate Remix Mashup

My Patreon

Phineas is the curator and primary creative force behind a multipronged 'Latent-Einstein Outreach Ministry' comprised mostly of 'mutated MetaMedia audio mixes' meant largely to be a therapeutic and sonic REPLACEMENT FOR DRUGS for the Masses and the 'Not-That-Reality-Oriented'. He is a self-styled 'MetaMediagician' in this respect, as well as a formerly official canonized (and carmelized) 'Church of the SubGenius' (lapsed) 'SAINT'.

The neologism (meaning literally a 'new word') 'MetaMediagician' is a 'Pre-Zuckian' use of the prefix 'Meta' (which may be confirmed through 'The Internet Wayback Machine's cached copies of Narco social media accounts so... 'nyyyah') and denotes an artist who utilizes content from the media at large like a 'painter's pallette' in order to make further developed or synthesized 'macro' media work out of that media content in a more or less 'collage'-type format. 

Phineas' efforts in this regard have evolved from the personally expressive to the social therapeutic and have been structured around more and more relatable 'universal themes' with the general goal of attaining a more enlightened understanding of the matter or matters at hand.

Phineas is a very late Baby Boomer (a 'Barely Boomer' as he terms it) and is a 'PROUD MENTAL PATIENT' (since 1984) who has never married and has no kids and who lives alone in Silicon Valley since age 9 after his family moved out to San Jose from the Midwest. He has been creating and distributing Experimental audio artwork of one sort or another SINCE THE 1970s. NOTE that the featured profiled pic is from 1983: the year right before he 'GOT SICK' and became disabled lifelong.

Phineas' birth name is James Scianna (surname is typically pronounced 'SEE-ah-na' although the proper Italian pronunciation is actually: 'SHIAHn-nah').

The alias 'Phineas Narco' was created by Phineas around the time of the onset of his overarching, disabling mental health condition at age 19 (guardedly referred to typically as 'the exact same diagnosis as had by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys') and is serious.

Phineas' condition exists independent of and unrelated to his creative skills, artistic life and efforts although it often inspires the subject matter of those efforts that are about mental illness and its aspects.

The alias name 'Phineas Narco' was created around the time of the onset of Phineas' illness as a 'church name' for his inclusion in 'The Church of The SubGenius' an actual mind control cult that Phineas was involved with for many decades but resigned from in 2024.

The two names refer to figures in Greek mythology. 'Narco' is meant as a contraction of the name 'Narcissus' (in the non-pathological sense) and is not meant as a reference to drugs. The name 'Phineas' refers to an ancillary character in the story of 'Jason and the Argonauts'. In addition to this, there is some identification with the character Phineas from the John Knowles novel 'A Separate Peace' although the significance of this 'referential idea' would not fully blossom until life events from 2021 to 2024 had occured in Phineas' life.

In addition to his involvement in the SubGenius mind control cult, Phineas also had a months-long dalliance with The Church of Scientology in 1991 in San Jose, CA in order to see, from the inside, what it was all about, working for the organization for many months but cleverly 'escaping their clutches' by pre-programming into his brain, in the pre-indoctrination period, a predetermined 'escape response', in other words *Phinny's cue to 'exit stage left* when a Church representative uttered a certain inevitable phrase to him, which of course they DID.

Bye, bye Scientology.
They were NOT PLEASED.

Phineas's current religious identification is Christian. He considers himself to be a Man of God but does not ascribe to any particular 'church' organization, being perfectly comfortable with his own, personal sense, useful understanding and concept of God.

Phineas has had a robust, lifelong interest in Psychology and has earned a trained certificate in Peer Counseling which he has utilized in volunteer efforts in his local community. So he is 'certified and certifiable' simultaneously holding both 'consumer' and 'practitioner' status in the mental health community.

Phineas also has since childhood had a driven natural affinity for, and very keen interest in language and its usages, even studying vocabulary and etymology on his own as a child, long term as an interest. 

 When Phineas was given a standardized IQ test as a child, he was found to have a verbal comprehension score of 139 which is very, very high.

Phineas was also tested positively as being on the 'autism spectrum' in an official capacity much later in life although the severity of this was not deemed to be problematic enough to require treatment.

Phineas' post-Highschool educational efforts can be classified as 'some college' but also as 'MUCH some college' taking many, many courses of interest in a number of local community colleges all with no intention or desire of ever earning any sort of degree during his 20's and 30's. These self-interested,  self-motivated educational efforts typically resulted in high grades and included a number of efforts in artistic, drama, media production, Psychology and English courses and curricula. Otherwise, Phineas has  mostly acted as an 'autodidact' (a term meaning essentially someone who is 'self taught') in his extracurricular learning efforts.

Phineas has worked intensively and creatively with the likes of such groups and artists such as Negativland, Bran Flakes, TradeMark Gunderson of (The Evolution Control Committee), Doktors 4 "Bob" and Big City Orchestra with whom he has collaboratively help create online virtual theatrical video events for his 'musical mashup movies' for the 3-D immersive VR community environment 'Second Life'.

His work has been lauded by the likes of the late comedian George Carlin and mainstream media critics such as Brad Kava (The San Jose Mercury News) and Richard Von Busack (The San Jose Metro).

https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.05.02/midnightvoice-0236.html

Phineas has also worked extensively and creatively, for decades collaboratively, at the Pacifica Radio flagship radio station KPFA in Berkeley, CA as well as the prestigious, exclusive and critically-acclaimed college radio station KFJC located at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA. These former creative efforts were reviewed favorably by the aforementioned mainstream media critics at the time.

Despite all this 'impressive display' of extraordinarily unique talent and brainpower, Phineas frequently has difficulty putting on his own pants.

Phineas notoriously once mailed a package containing one of his radio shows to Ted Kaczynski ('The Unabomber') in the mid-nineties to where the notorious insane criminal resided at the time at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado after having secured the notorious serial bomber's exact mailing address through the help of a local (and quite amused) reference librarian.

The program in question was called 'Bombscare', the result of a year-long creative effort by Phineas and was broadcast mixed live around that time by Phineas and Negativland band member, the late Don Joyce on KPFA. The show was, in part, about Mr. Kaczynski, his schizophrenic illness, and the years-long federal investigation into his serial mailbombing crimes.

The program represented a 'high-watermark' in Phineas' creative efforts and the IRONY of Phineas' sincere (yet arguably more than a little irrational and probably uhm... misguided) motivation in going about MAILING A PACKAGE TO THE *FUCKING UNABOMBER* containing his SHOW which was *ABOUT THE FUCKING GODDAMN UNABOMBER* was eclipsed in Phineas's semi-deranged mind by a literally a genuine and curious desire to 'find out what Ted thought about it'. 

Uhhhh... YEAH.
We *wish* we were kidding about that, but we're actually uhhm... NOT.

The package in question was summarily and promptly returned to Phineas, by Supermax prison authorities via US Mail, unopened and without comment.   Which MAKE SENSE. After all, ANY PRISON which houses the *GODDAMN FUCKING UNABOMBER* that gets... *a package* for... UH...  *HIM*... 

...is CERTAINLY... 
** NOT GONNA FUCKING OPEN IT!!! ***

And so, that... as they say... was THAT.

Around this time as well, Phineas mailed an identical tape copy of the 'Bombscare' show highlights to a very different person: the late iconic and legendary comedian George Carlin under the somewhat disingenuous guise of procuring 'permission' for using a Carlin audio sample in the show. 

However there was, like with Kaczinsky, the somewhat diffuse motivation of 'wanting to know what he thought about it'. 

The somewhat 'ruse' of offering the tape up to Carlin 'for review' to 'get permission' arose when Phineas self-consciously realized Carlin was 'in the show' he wanted to send and was offset by the perceptive comedian 'understanding' most likely that Phineas really just wanted feedback. Also, Phineas too was in fact sincere in that he would have snipped out the Carlin sample if permission was not forthcoming from George. 

With that, Phineas procured permission to send the tape to Carlin through the comedian's publicist and a voicemail message from George. The sequence in the 'Bombscare' program that includes the Carlin sample may be heard here in a track from the album/show's full listing on Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/track/more-fun-for-me

Some weeks after sending that tape of the show to George, Phineas discovered a message response from George in his voice mailbox.

In the voicemail message, Carlin was almost 'beyond enthusiastic' about the tape Phineas had sent to him. His praise of the work was almost uncontainable and Carlin articulately and happily lauded and sang its praises sincerely for over a minute, with all the salty facility of language and attitude he was so well known for in is in his lifetime, waxing eloquent about how great and fabulous he found it, and specifically praising the 'middle ear' range of artistic efficacy in which the sonic power of the program had 'hit'.

The uncut recording of Carlin's enthusiastic voicemail message to Phineas about the show can be heard here:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/track/carlin-voicemail-to-phineas-narco-about-bombscare-c-1997-8

Phineas' immediate reaction to hearing this message of personal endorsement from this hyper-known source there in his own personal voicemail at the time was one not so much of elation, pride and happiness but rather an almost *stunned awe* as if he had thought of one day to get an interesting looking penny assessed by a pawnbroker only to suddenly learn that the coin was in fact worth TEN MILLION DOLLARS.

It is interesting to note in regard this phone call message that George started out his performative career as a radio DJ working at WINO in New York and that his brother the late Patrick Carlin (who George tells Phineas in the message his wants to send the show tape to) also worked in radio and ran a podcast. So, both men would have had a firsthand appreciation of the program as a live-mixed radio effort.

Also, and I have been unable to definitively confirm this, although I seem to recall hearing this from somewhere at one point: Carlin's brother Patrick also kind of lived 'out in the woods' Walden Pond style far away from the mainstream infrastructure of the more developed sections of society. So, if this were in fact true, his 'lifestyle' could be said to be not all that different than that of 'The Unabomber' himself.

Minus the 'exploding' part. *Ahem* 

WELL, A MAN NEEDS A HOBBY!! When he LIVES ALONE so what are you gonna do? Sometimes it's RUNNING A PODCAST and sometimes it's BLOWING PEOPLE UP!!

Further to this: in researching Carlin's life, it became known to Phineas that prior to him becoming the legendary, well-known mainstream comedic show business talent that he turned out to be (which he was rather forced to do in order to raise a family which was expensive to do and also ultimately to pay off his massive tax bills) Carlin originally only had the ambition or 'dream' or intention of being just an obscure artist doing abstract, weird art like in an apartment somewhere on his own merely for his own enjoyment and just living his life like that.

Sort of like... how... Phineas Narco... does.
Go figure.

The phone call from Carlin ultimately motivated and accelerated Phineas' artistic career at a crucial time of growth. It gave Phineas the confidence of knowing that his work had worth and was on the right track with an appeal to an audience, who was like George in terms of sensibility and values, and he was able to rest assured that this endorsement was one HUNDRED PERCENT genuine, no bullshit and SECURE because Phineas knew that Carlin was NOT the kind of guy for Hollywood bullshit. 

So, this ringing endorsement was like a shiny gold coin of the purest stock gifted to him right into his pocket. IT WAS HIS. And he was able to use that currency for capital in the artistic journey to come.

Thanks, George.

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To view, stream or download (at NO required cost) Phineas Narco's mediage artwork which is freely available to everyone online, go to any of the following sites:

YouTube
Mixcloud
SoundCloud
Bandcamp
or
archive.org

...and search for "Phineas Narco" [using quotemarks] and also 'NCN' and/or "National Cynical Network" [with quotes around as well] in combination if need be:

Recent interviews with Phineas on Youtube for 'Innerviews' with former Carlin and Zappa employee Gerry Fialka:     

Part 1: https://youtu.be/AsaZK74Qqu8
Part 2: https://youtu.be/0t9Suf8490o

Phineas Narco's ENTIRE DIGITIZED BODY OF BODY OF WORK (Including much special, rare and heretofore otherwise unreleased, unfinished. upcoming and never-heard before material) termed 'THE VAULT' is now available via DROPBOX in a 1.5TB-sized comprehensive online archive and can be now accessed using THE FOLLOWING LINK:

http://bit.ly/4dllBLQ

Enjoy!g

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