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Jazz

...I did go from wanting to be someone now I'm drunk and wearing flip flops on fifth avenue.....

About Me


A normal supposed aspiring writer/screenwriter, that suffers from a Music/Movie/TV/Comedy addiction......

Really I m just trying to live life to the fullest and have FUN doing it. Hoping people enjoy what I write and think I'm at least partially amusing.

My Interests

Writing, Movies, Comedy,
Music,Traveling, Concerts,
Dancing, reading, Museums,
Film Festivals,Santa Barbara,
Midnight Movies, Drive-Ins,
baking cookies,mixtapes/CDs,
People Watching, The Arclight,
Wandering thru Amoeba Records in awe of all the things I can't afford

Old timey things from the 20s,30s,40s & 50s

Converting my friends to TV shows, comedy & music they don't know but I love.

Watching some laugh out loud comedy on a near daily basis

Sarcasm & Irony...

Art:
Basquiat
Andy Warhol
Degas
Van Gogh ( not the typical stuff)
Rousseau
Toulouse-Lautrec
Renoir
anything art deco
Tamara de Lempicka
many more...

I'd like to meet:


IN GENERAL: Jon Stewart, Joss Whedon, Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch, Steve Martin, David Letterman, Martin Scorcese,David Bowie,Fiona Apple, Winona Ryder, Pete Yorn, Isaac Mizrahi, Todd Oldham, Dylan Moran, the cast of Arrested Development, to be cont....

Music:


The Clash
Rufus Wainwright
Pete Yorn
Fiona Apple
Jamie Cullum
Franz Ferdinand
The Kinks
the ettes
X
Tony Lucca
The Police
Sting
Jeff Buckley
David Bowie
Beck
Foo Fighters
Garbage
Tom Petty
Iggy & the Stooges
Dead boys
Suicide
new york dolls
the Cars
Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Elvis Costello
detroit cobras
Pearl Jam
Chet Baker
Miles Davis
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Parker
Stevie Wonder
50s early rock/rockabilly
60s garage rock
70s "punk"
DJ Richard Blade's Playlist circa the 1980s
et al.... I can pretty much find something I love in all genres.

Movies:


Heathers
Back to the Future
Better off Dead
Say Anything
Grosse Pointe Blank
After Hours
Nightmare Before Christmas
Young Frankenstein
Swingers
Being John Malkovich
Arsenic & Old Lace
Election
My Man Godfrey
The Thin Man
Double Indemnity
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
Sunset Blvd
Decline of Western Civilaztion
Mystery Train
Dead Man Don't Wear Plaid
Night of the Hunter
High Fidelity
American Psycho
The Jerk
Three Amigos
Star Wars ( from fave to least: episode V, IV, VI,III, II, I)
many more that escape me.....
If its funny, classic or film noir chances are I'll love it..

Television:

Arrested Development
Veronica Mars
Home Movies
Black Books
The Office (the original)
Father Ted
Metalocalypse (Dethklok)
Lucky Louie
The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart
Buffy
Lost
Ben Stiller Show
Square Pegs
Strangers With Candy
The State
Mr. Show
Monty Python
It's Always sunny in Philadelphia
Scrubs
It's the garry shandling show
SCTV
SNL (OG cast)
Fawlty Towers
Turner Classic Movies Channel
BBC America channel
...etc......

Books:

Classics, hard boiled fiction, poetry, comedy, music and film history books.

The Great Gatsby
ScrewBall: Carole Lombard Biography
The Catcher in the Rye
The Bell Jar
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Noboby's Perfect: Billy Wilder Biography

I enjoy the works of:
Dorothy Parker
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edgar Allan Poe
Thoreau
Langston Hughes
Raymond Chandler
James M. Cain
Dashiel Hammett
Robert Benchley
Steve Martin

...Yes I'm random like that......

Heroes:

Joe Strummer

Billy Wilder

Passionate writers & songwriters

Comedy geniuses

Dorothy Parker

Gilda Radner

Those who stand up for freedom of speech,and against oppression

My Blog

Self Promotion...Ego Much?...Indeed

So Some of you may know some of you may not and some of you are probably like yeah whatever... So an article was written about me for a very cool  site about comedy et al.  The site is calle...
Posted by Jazz on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:21:00 PST

Embarrassing Dads & child portions, yeah whatever...

Parents are suppose to embarrass you but when it comes to my father and my step mom they have made an art of it. My father had always been slightly embarrassing like that one time we saw screech when ...
Posted by Jazz on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:50:00 PST

Better than Anything? More Like anything is Better than this...

So I was talking to my mom and she made me listen to one of the strangest and weirdest songs that truly don't make any sense. She had found an old Natalie Cole album from  several years ago, on t...
Posted by Jazz on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:03:00 PST

Reflections on quirks or There's Jazz going on again w/ the things & the stuff ( rolls eyes)

  I'm a shy person by nature always have been. I think people I know now don't know that because I'm rather friendly and always up for conversation or just plain ole  riffing for no rea...
Posted by Jazz on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:11:00 PST

Fevers make me ramble, But then again I'm always rambling...

It is past midnight and I really should be sleeping I feel somewhat sick and a lil phlegmy and coughy. I also have  a slight fever which often will initiate these random ramblings.  The ot...
Posted by Jazz on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:24:00 PST

Cingular, Why you gotta mess with my heroes?.....In Memoriam Joe Strummer

I gotta say I can not get away from that new cingular commercial. It is driving me crazy I go in the car its playing on the radio I turn on the TV and its there. It is the commercial where this two gu...
Posted by Jazz on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:48:00 PST

Movie Cliche & Munchies or This is what happens when I think too much....

A random conversation made me think about that cheesy movie cliché. You know the one that usually has a guy and a girl running from the bad guys, the cops or insert oddly named secret organization who...
Posted by Jazz on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:59:00 PST

Let it snow, IHOP and the view, my brain is random...

Maybe I was partially delirious from all the  laughter &Maybe because it was 230 in the morning&But on the way home from a comedy double header last week  I realized the holiday classic song...
Posted by Jazz on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:15:00 PST

Sarcastic Signs, bing crosby & other random quirks mulling about in my noggin....

I often use weird random phrases with my friends that have come from my random observations on life and most often pop culture. I often forget and use them amongst people who don't know them and I oft...
Posted by Jazz on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:59:00 PST

I want my 2 dollars! or Better Off Dead cult comedy at its best..

So I was online late last night, having another bout of insomnia. I was watching one of my favorite 80s comedies "Better off Dead" starring one of my favorite actors John Cusack. I was wondering hmm w...
Posted by Jazz on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:52:00 PST