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You Damn Dirty Ape!

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About Me

Living in New York
Check my blog:
ComicByComic - where I talk a lot about comics and stuff.. width="425" height="350" ....
Your results:
You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 100% Superman 75% Iron Man 70% Hulk 60% The Flash 60% Green Lantern 60% Robin 55% Supergirl 45% Catwoman 40% Batman 35% Wonder Woman 30% You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
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Which Firefly character are you?
You are Jayne, the bravo of the group. You may not be too bright, but you got muscles and can hit a man in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope. You send money to your mother and as much has you may dislike it, you're a hero.
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My Interests

Writing, screenwriting, comics, movies, books, music

I'd like to meet:

Many, many, many people. Including Bruce Campbell and Jessica Alba. Yep, that'll do for a start.

Music:

Ben Folds, The Feeling, Gemma Hayes, Feeder, Orson, Snow Patrol, Athlete, U2, LL Cool J, Johnny Cash, Jack Johnson, Eminem, Dr Dre, Jay Z, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dido, Garbage, Natalie Imbruglia, Busta Rhymes, Black Eyed Peas, Aerosmith, Alabama 3, Badly Drawn Boy, Barenaked Ladies, The Beautiful South, Billy Joel, The Coral, Daniel Powter, D12, Twista, Franz Ferdinand, Gwen Stefani, INXS, The Beatles, Kanye West, Guns'n'Roses, The Killers, Madness, Meatloaf, The Magic Numbers, N.E.R.D., Oasis, Blur, Outkast, P. Diddy, Prince, Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rilo Kiley, Jem, Robert Palmer, The Dandy Warhols, Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Tenacious D, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, The Who, Finley Quayle, Death Cab for Cutie, The Thrills, Imogen Heap, ...and probably more...

Movies:

Star Wars, Jaws, Casablanca, Lord of the Rings, Memento, Spider-Man, Collateral, Superman, Star Trek, Serenity, Very Bad Things, Bubba Ho Tep, Batman Begins, Sin City, Highlander, The Running Man, Predator, A Simple Plan, Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Grosse Point Blank, Swingers, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, Zoolander, Pieces of April, Face/Off, Con Air, The Rock, It's A Wonderful Life, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou, Gremlins, Goonies, Shawshank Redemption, Clerks, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Seven Samurai, Mississippi Burning, Best Men, Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Mystic River, Evil Dead, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman

Television:

Lost, Veronica Mars, West Wing, Buffy, Angel, Star Trek, Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural, Smallville, Firefly, Cheers, Friends, ER, Seinfeld, Spaced, Alias, 24, Sliders, Blackadder, X-Files, Quantum Leap, Blade, Prison Break

Books:

Stephen King, Lee Child, Terry Pratchett, Robert Howard, John Grisham, Carol O'Connell, Robert E Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Chabon, James Patterson, Donna Tartt,

Heroes:

Lots, just none I can think of right now. Except the parentals, of course. And my wife, for putting up with me.

My Blog

Snoopy Dance!

Been a while since I posted so thought I'd just share an old favorite... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xCLC3TKeQ
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:03:00 PST

Neil Gaiman

I already posted this over here but thought I'd do it here too.. Anyway, last night I was fortunate enough to attend a book signing by Neil Gaiman at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New Yo...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:03:00 PST

The Illusionist

No film with Jessica Biel can be all bad. I think that's a pretty safe bet. Add in Best Actor of His GenerationTM Ed Norton and the incomparable Paul Giammatti and I think it's safe to say that I was ...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:35:00 PST

Steve Irwin and very bad taste

Steve Irwin's death over the weekend struck me as both really sad and horribly, tragically funny. First, I think it's terrible when someone as talented, committed and passionate as he was dies, e...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:11:00 PST

This week's new story is up at my writing blog

So this week's entry in my 52 week writing project is up online. I'm actually not very happy with it since it features something that I don't particularly like - present tense - and I'm not happy...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:39:00 PST

Kryptonite...

Secret weaknesses: 1) Bad films 2) Comics 3) Various other geeky stuff 4) Pretty smiling ladies 5) American TV shows 6) Conan 7) Oddly compelling guitar-based music 8) Not working 9) Spider solitaire ...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:51:00 PST

Urk! My secret weakness...

Well, I wish there was just one. Judging by this morning, I'm adding really really bad films to the list. I mean, take CRANK. In no way is Crank a good film. It's everything that bad eighties action m...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:46:00 PST

So, just saw PULSE...

I went to see Pulse this morning (didn't want to pay full price for a ticket, which kind of shows you my expectation there, plus my wife's back in the UK so I'm on my tod) - and I was the only person ...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:55:00 PST

There are some characters I just don't get....

I'm a comics reader from waaay back, and still am to this day, but there are some characters I just don't get. They just don't click for whatever reason, and I can't do anything about it. Anyway,...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:02:00 PST

Snakes on a motherf...you know the rest

I caught Snakes On A Plane last night at the AMC/Loews on 68th/Broadway - my wife is away on business and she didn't want to see it that much, so that worked out pretty well. So did it live up to the ...
Posted by You Damn Dirty Ape! on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:53:00 PST