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Paul

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who buy Englebert Humperdink records. People who like Wu Tang AND Seinfeld. People who like Depeche Mode as much as Slayer. And this man:

Music:

what Creation Records band are you?

You Are... Slowdive.You are very comfortable with the person that you are. You are pretty traditional in a classical sort of way. You relate most to things of a darker, more mysterious nature. You tend to be quiet and shy but you still manage to make friends pretty easilly. Though your ambition is bigger than your talents, your perseverance will always lead you to bigger and greater things.
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Movies:

Anything by Paul Verhoeven and Jim Jarmusch. Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia, Ed Wood, North by Northwest, The Mother and The Whore, Boogie Nights, Almost Famous, New York Ripper, The Wild Bunch, Rio Bravo, Ghostbusters, Happiness, Annie Hall, Blue Velvet, Taxi Driver, Cruising, Heat, Mysterious Skin, Parallax View, DiG, Eraserhead, Two-Lane Black Top, Vanishing Point, Born Into This, Point Blank, Beverly Hills Cop, Johnny Guitar, Kiss Me Deadly, Detour, Return Of The Living Dead, Body Double, Beyond The Valley of The Dolls...

Television:

COPS, Seinfeld, X-Files, the first nine seasons of The Simpsons.

Books:

Women by Charles Bukowski, Animal Factory by Edward Bunker, Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Anything by HST. I'm also obsessed with books that write about rock n roll hedonism--The Music, Myths, and Misbehavior of Primal Scream was a good one. Legs McNeil's "Please Kill Me" should be one of the gospels too.

Heroes:

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My Blog

Update from Mississippi

It's around 10 am on a Saturday morning in Mississippi.  God, even shitholes have their charm. I only have a few minutes, and I'll write something a bit more in depth later, but for the first tim...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:01:00 PST

More like Super...RAD

If you haven't seen SuperBad yet, you're missing out. I go to the theater maybe once a month these days, so I'm impressed enough with this film to actually feel like talking about cinema for a change...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:03:00 PST

Positive and Negative Thinking

Since I just deconstructed the notion of happiness, I thought I'd loosen my belt a bit and tackle "positive" thinking. Here we go for Round 2!I talked to a friend over the phone recently and she ment...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:30:00 PST

Un-natural Happiness

Probably the best radio show I've heard in my life comes on KLOS Los Angeles on Monday mornings between 12 and 5 am; it's called the Impact program with Frank Sontag. A big topic on the last show was...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:40:00 PST

something called Sike Trike

Sometime around the year 2000 I saw a series of short films made by a collective of Baltimore filmmakers called "Sike Trike." Most of the members were hipster douchebags, and some wouldn't even assoc...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:09:00 PST

LA one year later

This blog is somewhat overdue (32 days exactly, I think) but I felt there was something to be said about my 1-year anniversary since first setting foot in the desert sands of Los Angeles. I made it a...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:17:00 PST

more music

Lately I'm way more interested in writing about a rock record than what's happening in my life, and today is no different because I feel the need to spread the word on a now overlooked classic live al...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:58:00 PST

Published...somewhere else on the internet.

I wrote a review for the Jesus & Mary Chain re-union in Pomona for LA2DAY.com, a new Los Angeles zine about our "far fuckin' out" culture. It's still growing, but I'm pretty excited about it. See my...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 04 May 2007 04:38:00 PST

A new love for sleep

I don't have a really long-winded story about film production today, but I feel like writing something so I'll talk about the REAL excitement in my life right now: my new queen-sized bed.It took nine ...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:50:00 PST

LA BURNS TO GROUND

Taken from my neighborhood....
Posted by Paul on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:23:00 PST