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Charley

charleylayton

About Me

IM: chucknaked4711
E-mail: [email protected]

I'm currently writing a post-apocalyptic vaudeville space opera...any suggestions?

Here's my original piece, BRAINFART!

My Interests

Music, Acting, Teaching, Speech and Phonetics, Accents and Dialects, Guitar, Accordion, Bass, Snappy Dressing, Hot Sauce, Measuring Things by Scope and Magnitude, Swimming, Dogs, Sexy Parties, Veganism, Subtext, Dream Interpretation, Failure as Success, Learning French and Spanish, Yoga, Old-School 8-Bit Nintendo, Punk Shows, The Moment Before You Sneeze

Music:

Tom Waits

Also...The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Air, Ben Folds Five, Beck, Cake, Chuck Naked, Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC!, Pink Floyd, Daft Punk, The Strokes, The Prodigy, Gogol Bordello, Foo Fighters, Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement, Tiger Lillies, The Dresden Dolls, The Killers, Danny Elfman, Fischerspooner, Goldfrapp, The Beatles, Gorillaz, The Bravery, Louis XIV, MSI, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Queen, Peelander Z, The Cars, Massive Attack, Jeff Buckley, NIN, whoever, etc.

Movies:

Comedy: Waiting for Guffman, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Super Troopers, Anchorman, Office Space, Top Secret!, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Raising Arizona, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I Heart Huckabees, The Jerk, UHF, etc.
Drama: Happiness, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather I & II, Amelie, Trainspotting, Gandhi, As Good as it Gets, American Beauty, A Streetcar Named Desire, etc.
Sports: SLAP SHOT!, Rocky I-III, Cinderella Man, Breaking Away, The Bad News Bears, etc.
Misc: Donnie Darko, The Neverending Story, The Secret of NIMH, The Hobbit, LOTR, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, BATTLE ROYALE!, The Warriors, Sin City, Goodfellas, Enter the Dragon, The Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo, Scarface, Shaolin Vs. Lama, Casino, etc.
Music/Musical: THE FEARLESS FREAKS (AWESOME!), Meeting People is Easy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, AIR: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing, Willie Wonka, JC Superstar and Godspell (more for the camp value than the actual Jesus stuff), The Compleat Al, Beastie Boys, Detroit Rock City, etc.

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Critic, Chappelle's Show, Drawn Together, Arrested Development, Home Movies, ATHF, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Sealab 2021, The Sopranos, Scrubs, TRAILER PARK BOYS!, The Maxx, Little Britain, Deadwood, The Universe, The Wire, etc.

Books:

All things Chuck Palahniuk. Once a Runner (John L. Parker, Jr.), Flowers for Algernon, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (two journal-style novels where the main character's name is "Charlie"...awwww), Dry (Augusten Burroughs), The Fuck-Up (Arthur Nurserian), The Mole People, Go Ask Alice

Plays: Waiting for Godot (Beckett), No Exit (Sartre), Equus (Peter Shaffer), Chris Durang, David Ives and, if I have to, anything Shakespeare

Heroes:

I don't imagine anyone else is that much better than you or me.

My Blog

STAIRWAY TO HELL!!!

That's the actual title of my next show. =)It's about this 80's heavy metal cover band called Warthög. They all die in a freak pyrotechnic accident onstage. But, much to their overwhelming disappointm...
Posted by Charley on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:13:00 PST

Insomnia

The wind outside my window is wailing like someone's poor, poor mother in mourning.How could anybody sleep at a time like this?Charley
Posted by Charley on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:30:00 PST

My cousin is f@&in CRAZY!!

His name is Andy and he is my cousin. He works for National Geographic and I think he's crazy. Don't believe me? Well here he is, swimming out from his shark-cage to serenade a Great White. Rock on,Ch...
Posted by Charley on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:36:00 PST

A Dilemma?

The city noise drove me to such insanityThat I actually went deaf.But I prefer it because I can finallyHear myself think.Then again, what difference does it make now?Charley...
Posted by Charley on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:46:00 PST

Amnesiphrenia

I didn't forget what I said.At least not all of it.I went off somewhere in my memoryAnd got lost.But I came back and I meant it all(Even the parts I forgot).They just weren't for you.But what differen...
Posted by Charley on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:55:00 PST

MY NEXT SHOW! YAYYY!!!

First off, thanks to all who came out for Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays! So much fun! Now here's the next one:The Ateh Theater Group and The Crown Point Festival proudly present the return ofTHE GIRL DET...
Posted by Charley on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:25:00 PST

Midnight in Hells Kitchen (from the Bottom, Up)

Feelin' low, so I start with my shoes. There they are. What else? Zig-zag patterns from the shadows of meters, street signs and my own elongated legs ("I'm on stilts! Yayy!"). Piss-paths from dark doo...
Posted by Charley on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:57:00 PST

Busy, busy, busy...

Can't stop! Won't stop! Eh-eh, eh-eh. =PFor August, I'm doing a one-act with the Ateh Ladies:collectiveP.A.S.T. @ chashama & The Ateh Theater Group presentLONG DISTANCEThree one act plays adapted by B...
Posted by Charley on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:17:00 PST

A Paradox

Someone once asked me which profession did I prefer more: walking dogs or teaching speech? Honestly, I hadn't given that much thought to comparing the two, but after some careful deliberation between ...
Posted by Charley on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:57:00 PST

"Long Distance" Review- NEIL GENZLINGER, NY TIMES

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/theater/reviews/16dis t.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1187276689-bc5I71yIs5PTTk3dCsByDQUnd erneath the Normal, the NuttyIf yours is a normal family, it probably isn't very...
Posted by Charley on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:12:00 PST