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Ben McCool

I am, of course, a Sex God. But only in Mongolia.

About Me

Artfully atypical 27-year-old. Writes strange stories. Likes movies directed by Park Chan Wook.

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My Interests

Weird movies, comic books, drinking (ouch), traveling, Brazilian Vale Tudo combat (IVT, WVT, EVT), UFC, MMA, Pro-Wrestling (the independent stuff, anyway -- CZW, IWA Mid-South, FMW, ROH), music, sports (soccer, boxing, baseball, NFL football, NHL hockey) classic literature.And meeting new people's kinda fun, too. As long as they like to drink, that is.

I'd like to meet:

Would you consider yourself to be interesting? Intriguing, perhaps? A little exuberant? Stimulating? Captivating? Ingenious? Creative? Idiosyncratic? Peculiar? Inimitable? Or just downright weird?If so, drop me a line. Those who cherish their sanity need not apply.

Music:

At the moment? Squarepusher, Beatles, Simian Mobile Disco, Boards of Canada, Johnny Cash, Muse, John Zorn, The Smiths, Aphex Twin, The Clash, Biosphere, old skool hip-hop

Movies:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Taxi Driver, Apocolypse Now, The Shawshank Redemption, Raging Bull, The Dollars Trilogy, Memento, Sunset Boulevard, It's A Wonderful Life, High Noon, The Shining. Hal Hartley, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam.I also adore crazy Japanese movies (Ichi The Killer, Audition, Duggan Runner), Independant US cinema (The Theory Of Achievement, Clerks, Buffalo 66) and Hong Kong category III flicks (Ebola Virus Syndrome, The Story Of Ricky, Underground Taxi Hunter, Bunman: The Untold Story).The Breakfast Club is pretty damn cool, too.

Television:

Simpsons, Blackadder, Lost, Office (UK and US), Heroes, Look Around You, Family Guy, South Park, IT Crowd, 24, Sopranos, Deadwood, Little Britain, The Contender, The Ultimate Fighter

Books:

Vonnegut, Phaliniuk, Iain Banks, Alan Moore, Haruki Murakami, James Ellroy, Grant Morrison, Bret Easton Ellis, Garth Ennis, George Orwell, Bill Bryson.

Heroes:

John Lennon, Stanley Kubrick, Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Martin Scorsese, Hayou Miyazaki, Stan Lee, Johnny Cash, Bill Hicks, Frank Sinatra, George Best (for the football, not the drinking himself to death!), Sergio Leone, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell. Oh, and my mum's pretty damn sweet, too.

My Blog

Justice League Unlimited 40...out on Wednesday!

Yep, finally, Justice League Unlimited 40, scripted by my humble self, ships on Wednesday. (Or Thursday in good ol' Blighty.) Check out its nifty cover by the stupendously talented Zach Howard here:ht...
Posted by Ben McCool on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:39:00 PST

Future blog postings

From now on, I'm gonna start posting my arbitrary ramblings on my Live Journal account, which *should* be accessible via the link below. http://benmccool.livejournal.com/ Check it out, peeps....
Posted by Ben McCool on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:52:00 PST

Christmas bloody day

Christ, I can't believe that The Big Day is almost behind us. Where has this year gone to?! It truly is frightening...Still, I've had a cracking time so far, ate too much, drank too much (no surp...
Posted by Ben McCool on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:15:00 PST

Evil, evil computer...

To make a mistake is human, but to REALLY fuck things up you need a computer. As some of you may already know, my PC decided to perish in the most horrendous of circumstances this week, and I am now ...
Posted by Ben McCool on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:57:00 PST

Technologically acute female hobo...

I today saw a lady tramp (hobo) wearing a cell phone hands-free headset.Can anybody tell me what the bloody hell she could have been doing which meant she was too busy to take a call?!This is a weird ...
Posted by Ben McCool on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:21:00 PST

Ben's mate? A beer? NO BOTTLE OPENER? Here comes the pain...

You just KNOW that this is gonna be nasty.A pal of mine last night inflicted upon himself one of the most hilarious/appalling/downright bloody painful injuries I have EVER seen. And sadly for him, he ...
Posted by Ben McCool on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:47:00 PST