Kelly - ProfilesArchive

About Me

A native of Dallas, Texas, Kelly is a sometime actor, a part-time philanthropist, and an aspiring gentleman of leisure. He is the universally underappreciated author of two plays and one partially finished autobiographical novel that has yet to see the exterior of his My Documents folder. Voted by his senior high school class as "Most Likely to Be an Oprah Topic," this plucky vegetarian socialist was a hit on the downtown New York club scene for fifteen minutes back in the late 1990s. He is most probably the illegitimate love child of Allen Ginsberg and Elsa Maxwell. Kelly currently resides in Philadelphia for reasons even he cannot fathom.
To read an excerpt of my play "Beat" about the life of Allen Ginsberg, CLICK HERE
Check out the New York Times review HERE!
And if you're truly desperate to read more about me, you can check out my blog about my adventures living in Central America. There's a lot of diarrhea stories... THE BACKPACKER DIARIES

My Interests

Travel, theatre, politics, chips and salsa, YouTube, reading Lonely Planet guides, cooking, The Beats, passing out, a well-set table, the year 1939, scotch on the rocks, living beyond my means, The Weimar Republic, third world countries, 80s Brit synth/pop, my lanai, ethnic foods, wanderlust

I'd like to meet:

Exiled royalty, horticulturalists, former members of Warhol's Factory, cellists, bored rich kids, passport holders, one-hit wonders, hot messes, rabid socialists, and anyone who can appreciate the joys of discussing Nicaraguan politics in the hazy late afternoon over margaritas.

Music:

Chavela Vargas, Kiki and Herb, Nina Simone, erasure, The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Violent Femmes, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Miss Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Melanie, Dolly Parton, Rufus Wainwright, Mika...

Movies:

Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Color Purple, The Lion in Winter, Farewell My Concubine, Annie Hall (and most of Woody Allen), All About Eve, Clue, Gone With The Wind, Grey Gardens, Mommie Dearest, The Goonies, Waiting For Guffman, Mildred Pierce, Rebecca, The Women, just about every single Almodovar movie, 70s horror films, Superbad...

Television:

Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ab Fab, Project Runway, The Golden Girls

Books:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and everything else Haruki Murakami has written, Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac, On the Road, Geek Love, Tales of the City, Less Than Zero, Glamorama, Graham Greene, Brideshead Revisited, Jane Eyre, Dry, David Foster Wallace, Oscar Wilde, lefty political rants...

Heroes:

"... the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at once, who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."