Rich Dauer
Colorado Rockies – No. 25
Second baseman/Third Base Coach
Born: (1952-07-27) July 27, 1952 (age 59) San Bernardino, California
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 11, 1976 for the Baltimore Orioles
Last MLB appearance
September 29, 1985 for the Baltimore Orioles
Career statistics
Batting average	.257
Hits	984
RBI	372
Teams
Baltimore Orioles (1976-1985)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (1983)

Richard Fremont Dauer (born July 27, 1952 in San Bernardino, California), is a former professional baseball player who played with the Baltimore Orioles primarily as an infielder from 1976-85. He played in two World Series with the Orioles.

After high school, Dauer went to community college and played for the Indians of San Bernardino Valley College. Later, he transferred to the University of Southern California, where he was an All-American and helped the Trojans win the 1974 College World Series.

He is currently the third base coach for the Colorado Rockies.

Dauer participated in the 1979 World Series, when his Orioles, after defeating the California Angels in four games, 3-1, in the 1979 American League Championship Series, lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games.

He also participated in the 1983 World Series, also known as the "The I-95 Series."

Rich Dauer holds two American League single season fielding records for a second baseman, including 86 consecutive errorless games and 425 straight errorless chances, both set in 1978.

Dauer is one of the few baseball players to have won a College World Series and an MLB World Series. In addition, he is also one of the few players to have participated in a MLB World Series as both a player and as a coach.

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
• BR Bullpen (More biography)

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Richard David Precht

Richard David Precht in 2009
Born	(1964-12-08) December 8, 1964 (age 47) Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Influenced by Musil · Grün · Sandel

Richard David Precht (born December 8, 1964 in Solingen) is a German writer and philosopher who has become especially well known as an author of successful popular science books about philosophical issues.^[1][2][3]

Life[link]

Richard David Precht was born as a son of a married couple (Hans-Jürgen Precht, 30 April 1933 in Hannover; Mother 1 August 1938 in Neuhof bei Berlin). He grew up in an alternative and unconventional-bourgeois family with five children including two Vietnamese adoptees whom the parents adopted in 1969 and 1972 symbolically against the Vietnam War. His father, a formal industrial designer, dealt with literature and also the setup and care of a larger private library. His mother was a housewife and very involved in Terre des hommes. The children grew up in an intellectual and idealistic left wing milieu. Having completed his higher secondary schooling Abitur at the Gymnasium Schwertstraße in Solingen, Precht did his alternative service as a parish worker. After this he studied philosophy, German studies and history of art at the University of Cologne. In 1994, he obtained a doctorate (Dr. phil.) in German studies. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a scientific assistant in a cognitive science research project.

In 1997, Precht was Arthur F. Burns Fellow at Chicago Tribune. Two years later Precht received the Heinz-Kühn-Scholarship. In 2000-01, he was Fellow at the European College of Journalism and in 2001 he was awarded for journalism in the field of biomedical studies.

As an essayist Precht has written for German newspaper and magazines. From 2002 to 2004 he was columnist of Literaturen, a sophisticated intellectual literary magazine, and from 2005 to 2008 was freelance moderator of Tageszeichen, a broadcast program of WDR.

Precht today gives many lectures at universities and science congresses. In the 2008-09 Wintersemester, he gave a lecture series about the most important topics in philosophy at the University of Luxembourg.

Precht lives with his wife Caroline Mart, a television journalist and vice-chief editor of RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg, his son and three stepchildren in Luxembourg and Cologne.

Works[link]

Precht is successful with literary works as well as non-fiction.

Dissertation[link]

Precht's dissertation from 1994 has the title "Die gleitende Logik der Seele. Ästhetische Selbstreflexivität in Robert Musil's „Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften", a phenomenological analysis which works out the effective structures of Musil's book.

Fiction books[link]

In 1999, Precht together with his brother Georg Jonathan wrote the detective Bildungsroman Das Schiff im Noor. The novel opens in year 1985 and uses the Danish island Lilleö (in reality: Ærø) as a backdrop for a complicated web of analogies and motives, for example the relation between theology and policework. On the surface, the novel is a detective story about a sunken ship and a homicide from a long time ago. The novel deals in its more profound significance with the order of things. Even the philosopher Michel Foucalt appears in the shape of the conservator Mikkel Folket. The novel was republished in 2009 with the original planned name Die Instrumente des Herrn Jörgensen.

The novel Die Kosmonauten from 2002 deals with the love story and finding of identity of Georg and Rosalie in their late twenties where they had got to know each other in Cologne and shortly afterwards moved together to Berlin in the post-reunification period 1990-91. They first live the life of Bohemians in Berlin-Mitte from which Rosalie increasingly distances herself over the course of the story. She changes her mindset, falls in love with another man and parts from Georg to have a bourgeois lifestyle. At the end of the novel their common friend Leonhard is killed in a tragic accident. Parallel to this story, Precht recounts in short the tragic destiny of Sergei Krikalev, the last cosmonaut of the Soviet Union.

In 2005, he published his autobiographical book Lenin kam nur bis zum Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution where he recalls from a child's perspective his childhood in the 1970s within a leftwing family who stands close to the party DCP. Simultaneously, he reviews the global political events in West Germany and East Germany in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and describes political attitudes, ideological mindsets as well as details of an everyday life in this era. The book received numerously positive critics and it was filmed with the support of WDR, SWR and the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 2008, the film came out in many German repertory cinemas and reached 20,000 viewers.

Philosophical non-fictional[link]

In 1997, his book Noahs Erbe was published where Precht deals with the ethical question in relation between humans and animals as well as their social consequences. As a result, he pleads for a change in the treatment of animals on the basis of a "ethic of nescience".

Originally planned as an introduction to philosophy for young people, his most successful work, the non-fiction Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele? (English: "Who Am I – And If So, How Many?"; release of the English version in April 2011) was published in 2007. It is an introduction to philosophy linking the results of brain research, psychology, behaviour research and other sciences. The book is regarded as an introduction to the great matter of being human and mankind, structured in Kant's classification: What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope? After a recommendation by Elke Heidenreich, the book occupied first place in the Spiegel bestseller list. It sold yet over 1,000,000 copies and was translated into 32 languages. According to non-fiction bestseller list of Spiegel, it was the most successful hardcover non-fiction of the year 2008 and achieved third place in the bestseller of the decade.

In 2009, the non-fiction Liebe - ein unordentliches Gefühl links the scientific-biological view of sexuality and love with the psychological and social-cultural circumstances of our comprehension and behaviour in love. Precht's main thesis is that sexual love doesn't come from sexuality but from the parent-child relationship. The need for attachment and closeness comes from the childhood relationship to the parents and it later searches in the sexual partner an equivalent. Thus, love is a projection of (early-)childhood needs and experiences in love. From March 2009 to December 2009 it was on the Spiegel bestseller list.

The non-fiction Die Kunst kein Egoist zu sein was published in 2010. The book is structured in three parts: "good and evil", "willing and doing" and "moral and society". Precht deals with the question of moral at first (philosophical and evolutionary) and comes to the conclusion that humans have a relatively high need to be in tune with themselves and also to consider themselves well. In the second moral-psychological part however, he examines numerous strategies by which people trick themselves by repressing, replacing, comparing or feeling not to be responsible. In the third part, he reflects about consequences for our present society. He criticizes the renunciation of politics to the regulatory policy in the economy, pleads for more civic commitment and for a transformation of democracy by new forms of citizen participation and co-partnership.

Publishing[link]

Precht has been co-publisher of the magazine agora42 since December 2010. It is a social fiasco that "economists are hardly interested in philosophy and philosophers are hardly interested in economics," Precht says .^[4]

Position[link]

Precht is an advocate of a new civil society. He stands philosophically close to the American Communitarianism, the idea to democratise the society with higher civic sense of community. He considers the obligation of economy and politics for constant economic growth as damaging.^[5] In the debate about the thesis of Thilo Sarrazin Precht views the accusations toward the migrants as a diversion with regard to the more fundamentally question about the distribution, the growing gap between rich and poor and the establishment of moral-distant settings in the upper class as well as the under class.^[6] Precht is a severe critic of the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan.^[7]

References[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Richard David Precht

Richard David (born April 8, 1958 in Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Quebec) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger. He played in the NHL and the WHA for the Quebec Nordiques.

External links[link]

• Richard David's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

Minnie Driver
Driver at the premiere of Barney's Version in January 2011
Born	Amelia Fiona J. Driver (1970-01-31) 31 January 1970 (age 42) London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1990–present
Awards	Emmy, Golden Globe
Website
http://www.minniedriver.com/

Minnie Driver (born Amelia Fiona J. Driver; 31 January 1970) is an English actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, as well as for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for her work in the television series The Riches.

Early life[link]

Driver was born Amelia Fiona J. Driver^[1] in Finsbury Park, London, the daughter of Gaynor Churchward (née Millington), a designer and former couture model, and Ronnie Driver, a Welsh businessman and financial adviser from Swansea.^[2][3][4] Her mother was her father's mistress, and her father's wife was not aware of his other family.^[5] Driver has Italian , Irish, Welsh, Scottish and French ancestry.^[2][6] Her sister, Kate, is a model and producer.^{[citation needed]} Driver was brought up in Barbados and educated at Bedales, an independent school near Petersfield, Hampshire, England, and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.^{[citation needed]}

Acting career[link]

Driver's television debut was in a 1991 UK TV advert for Right Guard deodorant.^[7] Driver also made her stage debut in 1991,^[8] supplementing her income by performing as a jazz vocalist and guitarist.^[9] She appeared on British television with comedians such as Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci and had small parts in such shows as Casualty, The House of Eliott, Lovejoy and Peak Practice. Driver first came to broad public attention when she played the lead role in Circle of Friends in 1995. She followed this with a string of supporting roles in big studio films like the 17th James Bond installment GoldenEye (1995), Sleepers (1996) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). She achieved greater recognition playing opposite Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997), a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among others. In 2003 and 2004, she had a noted recurring role on Will & Grace as Lorraine Finster, the nemesis of Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) and daughter of Karen's lover, Lyle Finster (John Cleese). Driver has also worked on several animated features, voicing Jane in Disney's 1999 version of Tarzan, and Lady Eboshi in the 1999 English dubbed release of the Japanese film Princess Mononoke.

On 12 March 2007, Driver made her return to television starring alongside Eddie Izzard on the FX Network show The Riches, a series about a family of Travellers living in an upscale gated community in the suburbs. She was nominated for an Emmy Award^[10] and a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007 and 2008, respectively.^[11]

Driver at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

Driver guest-starred in the January 2010 episode of Modern Family entitled "Moon Landing". Her role was that of Claire's friend and former co-worker whom she hasn't seen in years.^[12] She also starred alongside James Nesbitt and Goran Visnjic in the British series The Deep, which was shown on BBC One over the summer of 2010.^[13]

In 2010, Driver appeared in Conviction, a film depicting the real-life story of Betty Ann Waters (Hilary Swank), a single mother who spends a decade pursuing a law degree so she can represent her wrongfully convicted brother (played by Sam Rockwell) at court. Driver plays a fellow law student and friend of Swank's character who helps her with the case. The film received generally positive reviews according to the review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes listing an average score of 6.3/10 and a 68% of approval from critics.^[14] Also in 2010, Driver starred alongside Paul Giamatti in the comedy-drama Barney's Version. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an 80% of positive reviews from critics^[15] and Driver herself went on to win a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[15]

In 2011, Driver appeared alongside Vera Farmiga, David Duchovny, Will Arnett and Keri Russell in the comedy Goats.^[16]

Music career[link]

Early in her career, Driver was a member of a band called "Puff, Rocks and Brown"; the band was signed to a development deal with Island Records, which ended without a release.^{[citation needed]}

She began a low-profile return to music in 2000; the following year, she signed with EMI and Rounder Records and performed at SXSW.^{[citation needed]} Canadian music producer Colin Craig assisted in the eventual release of Everything I've Got in My Pocket, which reached No. 34^[17] in the UK, and a second single, "Invisible Girl" peaking at No. 68. The album was backed by a group including members of the Wallflowers and Pete Yorn's band. Driver wrote 10 of the 11 songs on the album and also covered "Hungry Heart" from Bruce Springsteen's The River. In 2004, Driver was the support act for the Finn Brothers on the UK portion of their world tour.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, Driver played Carlotta Giudicelli in Joel Schumacher's film of The Phantom of the Opera. Because of the vocal requirements of the role, Driver was the sole cast member to have her voice dubbed. However, she did lend her own voice to Learn to be Lonely, a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber specifically for the film version of his musical (it plays over the closing credits of the movie). Driver released her second album entitled Seastories on 17 July 2007. The 12-track set is produced by Marc "Doc" Dauer, who also produced Everything I've Got in My Pocket. Ryan Adams and his band the Cardinals and Liz Phair are among the list of collaborators for the album.^[18]

Personal life[link]

On 5 September 2008, Driver gave birth to a boy named Henry Story Driver. She did not then reveal the identity of the father.^[19] In February 2012, she said her son's father was a writer on her television show "The Riches."^[20]

She was once engaged to Josh Brolin but the pair amicably split.^[21]

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

Television series[link]

Other[link]

• Driver provided the voice of Anne in the videogame Jurassic Park: Trespasser.
• She was the subject of a cut-away gag in Family Guy's "Saving Private Brian" as having a big head, and the director had difficulty fitting it on the screen.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

	England portal
	Biography portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Minnie Driver

• Official website
• Minnie Driver at the Internet Movie Database
• September 2004 interview from The Guardian
• Minnie Driver at Emmys.com

Liz Phair
Phair performing in October 2008
Background information
Birth name	Elizabeth Clark Phair
Born	(1967-04-17) April 17, 1967 (age 45) New Haven, Connecticut[1]
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres	Alternative rock, indie rock, lo-fi, pop rock
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Matador, Capitol, ATO Records
Website	www.lizphair.com
Notable instruments
Fender Duo-Sonic II

Elizabeth Clark "Liz" Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Phair began her career in the early 1990s by self-releasing audio cassettes under the moniker Girly Sound, before signing with the independent record label Matador Records. Her 1993 debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to acclaim: by the turn of the 21st century, it had been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Ten years after the release of her debut, Phair's fourth album, Liz Phair, was released on Capitol Records and her music began to move in a more pop rock-oriented approach. Phair has sold nearly three million records worldwide. Her latest album, Funstyle, was released on July 3, 2010.

Life and career[link]

1967–1992: Early life and career beginnings[link]

Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but was raised in Winnetka, Illinois, by wealthy adoptive parents.^[1] She graduated from New Trier High School in 1985. During high school, Phair was involved in student government, yearbook, and the cross country team, and took AP Studio Art her senior year, among many other advanced-level classes.^[2] She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and majored in art history.^[3][4]

	"Don't Hold Your Breath" noicon from Yo Yo Buddy Yup Yup Word To Ya Muthuh (1991)
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Phair's entry into the music industry began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a member of the band Come. Brokaw and Phair moved to San Francisco together, and Phair tried to become an artist there. After being unsuccessful as an artist in San Francisco and moving back to Chicago, Phair began writing songs and recording homemade tapes under the name Girly Sound,^[4] and supported herself by selling her charcoal drawings on the streets of Wicker Park^{[citation needed]}. She became part of the alternative music scene in Chicago and became friends with Material Issue and Urge Overkill, two of Chicago's upstart bands to go national in the early 1990s, as well as Brad Wood and John Henderson, head of Feel Good All Over, an independent label in Chicago.^[1] (A later attempt at re-recording the Girly Sound tapes failed after arguments between Henderson and Phair.)

[edit] 1992–2003: Exile in Guyville, Whip-Smart & Whitechocolatespaceegg

After asking Wood who the "coolest" indie label was, Phair called up Gerard Cosloy, co-president of Matador Records, in 1992 and asked him if he would put out her record. Coincidentally, Cosloy had just read a review of Girly Sound in Chemical Imbalance that very day and told Phair to send him a tape. Phair sent him a tape of six Girly Sound songs. Cosloy recalls: "The songs were amazing. It was a fairly primitive recording, especially compared to the resulting album. The songs were really smart, really funny, and really harrowing, sometimes all at the same time. . . . I liked it a lot and played it for everybody else. We usually don't sign people we haven't met, or heard other records by, or seen as performers. But I had a hunch, and I called her back and said O.K."

Cosloy offered a $3,000 advance, and Phair began working on a single, which turned into the eighteen songs of Exile in Guyville.

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Exile in Guyville was produced by Phair and Brad Wood, and released in 1993.^[4] The album received uniformly excellent reviews. The album received significant critical acclaim for its very blunt, honest lyrics and for the music itself, a hybrid of indie rock and pop. The album established Phair's penchant for exploring sexually explicit lyrics such as in the song "Flower": "I want to be your blow job queen/...I'll fuck you and your minions too." By contrast, her trademark low, vibrato-less monotone voice ^[5] gave many of her songs a slightly detached, almost deadpan character. Most notable among her detractors, producer Steve Albini was involved in a public flamewar printed in Chicago's free art and culture weekly, the Chicago Reader. Albini wrote an angry response to an article by Billy Wyman (Hitsville), entitled "Not From the Underground: 1993 in Review", stating his belief that Phair and several other artists had shown an "explicit rejection of much of the insularity that increasingly characterizes underground music". Albini identified the aforementioned artists as "pandering sluts" and said Phair was the modern Rickie Lee Jones, "more talked about than heard, a persona completely unrooted in substance, and a [expletive] chore to listen to".^[6] Humanities professor Camille Paglia chimed in on Phair's Guyville era, stating, "I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the [Rolling] Stones. Dream on."^[7]

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The release of Phair's second album received substantial media attention and an advertising blitz. Whip-Smart debuted at #27 in 1994 and "Supernova", the first single, became a Top Ten modern rock hit, and the video was frequently featured on MTV. Phair also landed the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine with the headline "A Rock Star is Born." Nonetheless, the album received mixed reviews^{[citation needed]}, and although it was certified Gold (shipments of at least 500,000 units), it ultimately did not sell as well as expected, as it was hoped the album would introduce Phair to a wider, more mainstream audience^{[citation needed]}. Following Whip-Smart, Phair released Juvenilia, a collection of some early Girly Sound tracks and several B-sides, including her cover of the 1980s song by The Vapors, "Turning Japanese".

In 1994, Phair made several live television and radio appearances in an effort to promote Exile in Guyville and Whip-Smart, including David Letterman performing "Never Said" and "Supernova" and Jay Leno performing an acoustic version of "Whip-Smart". She even performed "Alice Springs" live on 'Good Morning America.

She also appeared on the MTV alternative rock show 120 Minutes performing "Never Said", "6'1", "Cinco de Mayo" and "Supernova" live at various times during 1994 and early 1995.

In 1995, Phair married Jim Staskauskas, a film editor who had worked on her videos. They had one child, James Nicholas Staskauskas, on December 21, 1996.^[1] The couple divorced in 2001. Phair recorded a song called "Down" in response to her divorce^{[citation needed]}. A quasi-stop-motion animation video using photographs was created for it by filmmaker Rodney Ascher (he shot fifty rolls of still photographs in L.A.'s Chinatown), and posted on her official website LizPhair.com. The song was never officially released on any of her albums.

Phair's third album, entitled Whitechocolatespaceegg, was finally released in 1998 after some delays, which included a disagreement about content; at one point, the label rejected the album as submitted, and asked Phair to write a few additional radio-friendly songs for the set.^[8] The album displayed a more mature Phair, and reflected some of the ways marriage and motherhood affected her. The single "Polyester Bride" received some airplay, but the album was no more successful than her previous records. To promote the record Phair joined Lilith Fair. Phair performed on the main stage along with acts like Sarah McLachlan, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott. She also opened for Alanis Morissette on her 1999 Junkie Tour.

She portrayed the role of Brynn Allen, opposite her good friend Robin Tunney, in the film Cherish.^[4][9]

[edit] 2003–2008: Liz Phair & Somebody's Miracle

Liz Phair in concert, October 26, 2005
Photo: Melanie Vyvyan

In 2003, her self-titled fourth album was released on her new label, Capitol Records. Phair had not released an album in several years; she had been working on her record, as well as making guest appearances on other tracks (she lent backing vocals to the Sheryl Crow hit "Soak Up the Sun").^[10]

Initially, Phair worked on several album tracks with songwriter Michael Penn as the producer. When she submitted the finished Penn-produced album to Capitol, the label gave it a lukewarm reception and was unwilling to release it as submitted. Having already exhausted her recording budget, label president Andy Slater offered Phair more money to record only if Phair agreed to work with the production team known as The Matrix (best known as songwriters for Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne) to come up with some singles for the album. Phair's collaboration with the Matrix resulted in only four songs, but much of the media attention focused solely on the Matrix-produced tracks, which were a departure from her earlier work.^{[citation needed]} The album received many negative reviews, especially from the independent music press, who accused Phair of "selling out" by making the record very pop-oriented.^[11]

Liz Phair provoked a strong backlash from critics and disappointed fans of her earlier work. Many decried her for "selling out", and she became a "piñata for critics."^[12] The New York Times' Meghan O'Rourke's review, titled "Liz Phair's Exile in Avril-ville", said that Phair "gushes like a teenager" and had "committed an embarrassing form of career suicide."^[13]

The debut single "Why Can't I?", co-written by The Matrix, did reach the Top 40 charts in North America, and its follow-up, "Extraordinary," was also somewhat successful: it appeared on the soundtrack to the 2004 movie Raising Helen and was the promotional theme for the 2004 Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament; in March 2007, the song began appearing in Gatorade television advertisements. Phair continued to flirt with sexually explicit themes, however, as was most evident in a track called "H.W.C.", standing for "Hot White Cum". Phair also offered backing vocals on Jimmy Eat World's "Work" track on their Futures album.

Somebody's Miracle, Phair's fifth album (and final album with Capitol Records), was released on October 4, 2005. The album returned to a more traditional rock sound, mixing the mood of Phair's earlier work with a more mellow sound.^[14] The album received mixed reviews and was not a chart success.

[edit] 2008–2010: Exile in Guyville reissue & career as TV composer

Phair signed with ATO Records in early 2008 and re-released Exile in Guyville on June 24, 2008.^[15] Exile in Guyville was reissued on CD, vinyl, and in digital format. The special reissue package includes three never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions: "Ant in Alaska," "Say You," and an untitled instrumental. Phair has also completed a new documentary DVD, "Guyville Redux." ^[16] This DVD features an introduction by Dave Matthews, founder/co-owner of ATO Records, and describes the making of the album, in the male-dominated, Chicago independent music scene of the early 1990s (which included Urge Overkill, Material Issue, and Smashing Pumpkins), associated with the Wicker Park neighborhood where many of these bands often performed.

"Exile in Guyville is miles more complex than the porn-star manifesto it was often considered," said Alan Light (former editor-in-chief of Spin, Vibe, and Tracks) in an essay written for the reissue. "Phair spoke for the uncertainties facing a new generation of women, struggling to find a balance between sexual confidence and romance, between independence and isolation. . . . Exile in Guyville sat at the center of a culture in transition."^[17]

In May 2009, Phair released a new song "Faith and Tenderness," sold exclusively at Banana Republic.

In recent years Phair has broadened her career by serving as a composer for television dramas. Beginning with the theme song for NBC's The Weber Show she has also worked on the CBS show Swingtown, the CW reboot of 90210, for which she won the 2009 ASCAP award for Top Television Composer, and most recently has been hired on as composer for the USA Network show In Plain Sight.

[edit] 2010–Present: Funstyle

Phair said in an interview that she is writing a book and working on a new album.^[18] On July 3, 2010, her official website announced a surprise link to download her new album Funstyle. It contains 11 songs, many of which are experimental or at least unorthodox, compared to most of her earlier songs. The song "Bollywood" was available to stream from the site for a limited time, before Phair took it down. The album download is available for $5.99 in three different electronic forms and with cover art.

A note from Phair to her fans posted on her official website explained why the songs were problematic:

How To Like It. You were never supposed to hear these songs. These songs lost me my management, my record deal and a lot of nights of sleep. Yes, I rapped one of them. Im as surprised as you are. But here is the thing you need to know about these songs and the ones coming next: These are all me. Love them, or hate them, but dont mistake them for anything other than an entirely personal, un-tethered-from-the-machine, free for all view of the world, refracted through my own crazy lens. This is my journey. Ill keep sending you postcards. -Liz

Phair revealed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that the falling out with her record label, ATO, occurred after a change in management. She explained, "The people who were still there didn’t like, or didn’t know what to do with, the music I was making, so we just stalled out and I asked to leave."^[19]

Phair went on tour to promote the album, playing many songs from Guyville and Whip-Smart, along with songs from all throughout her repertoire. The Funstyle Tour ran from October 2010 to March 2011. The tour's last show took place at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

Phair also reviews books, including Keith Richards' Life.^[20] Phair is in the process of writing a new album and a novel, as well as continuing TV scoring.

Discography[link]

• Exile in Guyville (1993)
• Whip-Smart (1994)
• Juvenilia (1995)
• Whitechocolatespaceegg (1998)
• Liz Phair (2003)
• Somebody's Miracle (2005)
• Funstyle (2010)

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Liz Phair

• Liz Phair — official site.
• Liz Phair — official Facebook.