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Jim Zekis

Give me liberty or give me something of equal or greater value

About Me

Stand-up comic in Chicago. My comedy has been heard on the Dr. Demento Show and I have appeared on WGN Radio. I am also a published poet and writer of fiction. I grew up and went to school in Indiana. Ask me to tell you a crazy but true story and I can probably oblige.

My Interests

Comedy, Writing, Baseball, Football, Chicago, nature, filmmaking, photography, movies, theatre, pirates, crazy tattoos, literature, wit

I'd like to meet:

Everybody at least once. This may take awhile.

Music:

Pulp, Led Zeppelin, REM, Wannadies, Eels, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Moby, Placebo, Madness, Joy Divison, David Bowie, Beastie Boys, Nico, Tenacious D, Iggy Pop, Foo Fighters, Chemical Brothers, Primus, Super Furry Animals, Poster Children, Ben Folds, Guster, Doves, Smashing Pumpkins, Ween, The Flaming Lips, Nerf Herder, Roxy Music, Pavement, Henry Rollins, Beck, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Mitch Hedberg, Steve Martin, Chris Rock

Movies:

Trainspotting, Evil Roy Slade, The Blues Brothers, Blazing Saddles, Love and Death, Save the Green Planet, Bottle Rocket, Royal Tennenbaums, Zero Effect, What's up Tiger Lily?, Stripes, Monty Python, The Kentucky Friend Movie, The Groove Tube, The Producers

Television:

Mythbusters, Intervention, Simpsons, Family Guy, IFC, Conan O'Brien

Books:

Yes Man, Huckleberry Finn, Shiny Adidas Track Suits and the Death of Camp, Catcher in the Rye

Heroes:

I really don't have any heroes. I don't believe in idolizing people you have never met. I like their work but as people I cannot judge they are my heroes. If I had to say I had heroes it would be my parents and my brothers. The funniest people I know.

My Blog

Rambo 4: Who's on first blood?

I just saw the trailer for John Rambo, I thought I would share my idea for a new rambo film.   ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  The film opens on Ra...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:33:00 PST

The archives abound, let's share.

More crap from the past.  I love looking through old stuff.  The following is the first piece of hate mail I ever received.  I got this back in 2002 I believe.  I was the campus fi...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:28:00 PST

Oh what gold can you find in a six year old notebook

In trying to find fodder to post in this myspace blog I've decided to post stuff I found in my World Cultures notebook from my sophomore year of college.  It was the first class in college I rece...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:40:00 PST

Things I saw yesterday

So yesterday I saw three people who peaked my interest. 1. I was driving on 80/94 when I noticed the driver next to me was a guy who very much looked like the stereotypical biker dude.  Scraggly ...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:46:00 PST

VIDEO: Performance of "My Fair Junior" at Cork Lounge

Unbookable to Clean Comic Thang Add to My Profile | More VideosThis was a bit written by myself (and Junior helped with his saganaki material) where I contend that I can make the most un...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:39:00 PST

5 inspirations

OK miranda, 5 things....1. Anger - I have always felt this emotion was the most effective when trying to motivate. Which explains my low output over the last year since I am rarely angry. Anger is rea...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:52:00 PST

Henry David Thoreau, Time Travel, and a monkey wrench

This was an idea that occured to me this morning.  What effect would Playstation have had amongst the Transcendentalist movement. The transcendentalists like Thoreau were advocates of getting bac...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:58:00 PST

Commuter Hell... Deepest Pit

Just thought I would share this.  Mostly for people who wonder why I won't be making it out to cork lounge tonight, even though I really want to go. Last night I finished my second city class aro...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:54:00 PST

Der Kugelschriber macht spass!

Watched TV for the first time really in a week or so last night, Usually I'm running around like an idiot or watching a movie. Caught a few of the political ads.  I have to say I am impressed, th...
Posted by Jim Zekis on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:49:00 PST