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Ben

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About Me

My 2007 Cardinals Record: 9-3
I like: peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches – Blueberry Hill burgers – steak fries – broccoli – my grandma’s chocolate chip cookies – Ted Drewes – Cardinals Baseball (but I miss old Busch) – Mythbusters Marathons – having dinner on a warm summer evening outside - St. Louis – Fiji apples – going on walks – riding my bike – driving a stick – cool pillows - organic food - people with a sense of global responsibilty -
I don’t like: litter bugs – mushrooms (but I’ll eat them) – SUVs – people who thank God when they win the Super Bowl or an Oscar – liars, bigots, and generally mean people – when people say something is “gay” meaning bad – working long hours (but I do) – high ticket prices at baseball games - when religion is used to justify politcal policy
Other random tidbits: John Williams theme music to Superman gives me goose bumps - I think The Da Vinci Code is to religion what Jurassic Park is to genetics and cloning (try not to take it too seriously) – the smell of carmex and leather jackets makes me think of high school - I think cotton underwear is sexy – Thin Mints are best when you freeze them – I treat servers in restaurants well and so should you - I'm a bad speller and I'm ashamed of it - mega churches scare me
And if you're from St. Louis. I went to Clayton. Class of '94.
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My Interests


watching and making movies... reading and writing scripts... Cardinals baseball... riding my bike... playing catch... having dinner outside on warm summer afternoons... the environment

I'd like to meet:

Cookie Monster.

What I'm not interested in is having hundreds of "friends" on this thing. DON'T SEND ME A FRIEND REQUEST WITHOUT A MESSAGE FIRST... unless I know you already, that's okay.

Movies:

Harold & Kumar 2

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I was the 2nd AD on Harold and Kumar 2... I gotta tell ya, I can't friggin' wait for it to come out.

A few of my favorite films: Jaws, Close Encounters, ET, American Beauty, Goonies, Donnie Darko, Rushmore, Dumb and Dumber, Crash, The Bourne Trilogy, You Can Count On Me, Traffic, Out of Sight, 28 Days Later, Young Frankenstein, About A Boy, Punch Drunk Love, Amelie, In America, Shawshank Redemption, October Sky, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The Princess Bride, Dog Day Afternoon, Clue, just about any Pixar Short... and a whole lot more.

Television:

I go through phases with TV. I don't think there is one show that I regularly watch... for example, I've only seen Lost on DVD (so don't tell me anyhting about season 3 cause it's not out yet)

I've been know to waste countless hours watching Adam and Jamie blow shit up on Mythbusters and I can honestly say I have a man crush on Mike Rowe.

Books:

Like TV, I also go through phases with books... but here's a few that I like.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Naked by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Michael Moore books (taken with a grain of salt)
The Dan Brown Books (it's ENTERTAINMENT people!)

Heroes:

People who commit selfless acts of goodness on a regluar basis.
... and Calvin, Superman, Ralph Wiggum, and Abe Froman.

My Blog

Where The Heck Am I? (Part 2)

For those of you keeping track&   I am not in Chicago. As to be expected, about a week after I booked the job in Chicago the TV series in Shreveport got their funding. I'm still in St. Louis but ...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:47:00 PST

Where the heck am I?

For those of you keeping track&   I am not in Shreveport. The TV series I've been on hold for for the last two months is not gonna happen anytime soon. Hopefully the producers will get the finan...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:42:00 PST

Bachelor Party Photo!

So my friend Ryan had his Bachelor Party on Saturday night. It was fun. We had dinner in the Hancock Building in Chicago and then chartered a small sailboat to watch the fireworks on Lake Michigan. Af...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:02:00 PST

Flowers to Brighten Your Day

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Posted by Ben on Wed, 17 May 2006 02:44:00 PST

Silver Lining

I went to bed at 10:30 tonight and woke up at 1 am and now I can't sleep. So I figured I'd blog a little. I had a doctors appointment a week ago... I found out that I've got some serious bone density ...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:44:00 PST

Why we can't find Bin Ladin...

He's been right under our noses this whole time!
Posted by Ben on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:59:00 PST

Parallel Parking

One of the things I wont miss about Chicago is parking. After five years of circling my neighborhood at 2 AM, exhausted after a 16 hour day on set and ultimately parking 2 blocks away at a meter (pis...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:40:00 PST

My Grandma can beat up your Grandma

Catastrophe loomed before Thanksgiving Dinner when my aunts Boston Terrier, Sophie, tic-tac'd across the linoleum of Grandmas kitchen, my step-dads Christmas list clutched tightly under h...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:50:00 PST

You Complete Me?

This is something Ive been thinking about and a conversation with a friend recently (you know who you are ST) and an e-mail to a stranger helped to articulate it further:   I think movies and ou...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:41:00 PST

Big Idea?

Heres a random thought I had a few years ago that I recently revisited.   I have a little trouble with the notion of the beginning of time. Why does time have to have a beginning? Since the wo...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:29:00 PST