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Ed

Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them m

About Me

Movie snob. Art snob. Music snob.I write and perform comedy. Sometimes I direct comedy. Still other times I watch comedy. Comedy needs to be watched. Comedy is not to be trusted. Sometimes comedy needs to be taught a thing or two. Once in a while I have to rough comedy up a little bit to keep it in line, but it's only because I love it.Comedy's life is a tragedy. But ultimately a hopeful one.

My Interests

Traveling, art, acting, writing, improvising, comedy, insane conspiracy theories, photographing, walking, warm climes, getting well, Mexico (my home), Spain, Argentina, Indochina.Possibly the best commercial ever made.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can sincerely revel in the beauty of it all and then laugh at the utter gayness of reveling in the beauty of it all.

Music:

TALKING HEADS!!!! Stevie Wonder, Wilson Pickett, Ornette Coleman, Townes Van Zandt, Roky Erickson, Ennio Morricone, Juana Molina, M83, X Ray Spex, Bonnie Prince Billy, Sonic Youth, As Mercenarias, Karen Dalton, Nick Cave, Willie Nelson, Erase Errata, Devo, Mothers of Invention, Eno, Bowie, Hot Machines, MAWATRO, Los Blackos Lipos, The Slits, Captain Beefheart, Vicente Fernandez, Galaxie 500, Blonde Redhead, Prefuse, Animal Collective, The Kinks, Bongwater, Los Tigres Del Norte, Bo Diddley, Ike and Tina Turner, Otis Fucking Redding, The Breeders, Nick Drake, Television, Pavement, Sun City Girls, Lightning Bolt, Chavela Vargas, Los Panchos, Melt Banana, Elvis Costello, Wu Tang, Edan, Sugarcubes, The Scissor Girls, SPIDER, At The Altar of the Cosmic Unicorn

Movies:

Oh, you've opened up a can of worms here, friend: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Cache, Funny Games, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, Dead Man, The Squid and the Whale, The Exterminating Angel, Mon Oncle, Pierrot Le Fou, Alien, Modern Romance, Three Women, Two Lane Blacktop, Barry Lyndon, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, My Best Fiend, The Conversation, Bullitt, Dog Day Afternoon, Harold & Maude, The Sting, Chinatown, The Long Goodbye, California Split, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Minnie and Moskowitz, Opening Night, Chinese Roulette, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween, The Shining, Days of Heaven, Badlands, Paper Moon, Key Largo, Paris Texas, Out of the Past, The (original) Bad News Bears, A Picnic at Hanging Rock, Videodrome, Scanners, The Hidden, Morvern Callar, Mulholland Drive, Dr. Strangelove, The President's Analyst, Wet Hot American Summer, The Third Man, Some Like It Hot, Duck Soup, Love and Death, Talk To Her, Law of Desire, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, Volver, Repo Man, The Highway Patrolman, Blue Demon y Los Campeones Justicieros

Television:

League of Gentlemen, The Wire, Snuff Box, The Mighty Boosh, The Office, Six Feet Under, I Shouldn't Be Alive, Voyagers, Frontline, Daily Show, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Books:

Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor is one of the best writers I've ever read), Helter Skelter, La Reina Del Sur, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Psychotic Reactions & Carburator Dung, Tropic of Capricorn, A Void, Chicago: City on the Make, Never Let Me Go, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller. Also The Believer Magazine and Harper's on a regular basis.

Heroes:

Anyone who can guide me into a more organized existence.

My Blog

I shouldnt have to have a job.

I'm sitting here at my job, watching the work pile up, refusing to put a dent in it (because I don't feel like it), and it suddenly occurs to me "Hey, why am I here? I shouldn't have to have a job at...
Posted by Ed on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:00:00 PST

Dear Hot Chick Trying To Be My Myspace Friend

Dear HCTTBMMF,Boy was I surprised to hear from you. I really never thought you even knew I existed. I mean, let's face it, you haven't typically paid a whole lot of attention to me. It's fine, I re...
Posted by Ed on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:08:00 PST

I never was good with journals.

I must have started 5 journals in my life. None of them got past the third entry before I just stopped. I started a blog about two, two and a half years ago and I think there's one entry on it. I c...
Posted by Ed on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST