America's Next Top Socialist

About Me

I really don't live anywhere.
I moved there from New Orleans.

I floss daily. I clean up after myself. I can fold laundry. I am well-groomed, but you might write that off to my vanity.

Hey man, don't think that just because I'm not a werewolf that I don't have problems. Just because I'm good looking, funny, brilliant, admired by millions, famous, a broker of deals, loved by women from every continent...well, hell. I mean, I DO have a rather comical amount of debt.
But I mean, come on, I'm extremely well educated, I'm a snappy dresser, and I have killer green eyes. My girlfriend is hot, smart, funny, and better than yours in every way. Let's face it--life couldn't possibly be better.

My Interests

Socialism; European football; subsidised housing and healthcare; free public parking and free education; bars; travel; women (not necessarily in that order).

I'd like to meet:

Curious people with a strong conviction that working to lessen the evil of poverty should be a national and personal priority.
One word: Rihanna.
One person who, when I tell them I advocate for workers organising, doesn't say "But unions are corrupt!" 'Cause, you know, big corporations are so HONEST and would NEVER cheat, lie, or try to grind our bones to bake their bread. Are you out there, person-as-dumb-as-I-am?
But most of all, if you'd like to buy me a drink, then I'd like to meet you, too, you cheeky little bastard.
(This profile updated using Laura's youroldprofilewasdepressing.com's editor.)

Music:

Music Video: PUSH THE BUTTON (by Sugababes)

Beyonce who? It's all about Keisha Buchanan!Troy Andrews; Kermit Ruffins; Louis Armstrong; Soul Rebels; Shannon Powell; Steel Pulse; The Clash; Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros; Aswad; Crowded House; Squeeze; The Pogues; Van Morrison; The Waterboys; Ozomatli; Karen Mok; Sugababes; Shonen Knife; Stiff Little Fingers; Dead Kennedys; Teenage Fanclub; Frank Sinatra; Dean Martin; Toots and the Maytals; Modest Mouse; The Sundays; and my future ex-wife, Rihanna.

Movies:

Metropolitan; Neighbors; Barcelona; Kicking and Screaming (not the Will Ferrell one); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Josie & The Pussycats; Drumline; The Commitments; Drugstore Cowboy; Glengarry Glen Ross; American Splendour; Chungking Express; Fallen Angels; The Great Escape; Tommy Boy; Gladiator; Fever Pitch (the original, not the remake); 24 Hour Party People; Bend It Like Beckham; Fight Club; The Virgin Suicides; Lost in Translation; Rude Boy; Days of Being Wild; Irma Vep; Last Tango in Paris; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Lawrence of Arabia; Trees Lounge; Office Space; Henry V; Dead Poets Society; Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion; The Big Lebowski; Matewan; Eight Men Out; The Replacement Killers; Thunder Road; Casablanca; Duck Soup; Horse Feathers; Animal Crackers; School of Rock; Bottle Rocket; Rushmore; The Girl Next Door; Bob Roberts; Election; Chasing Liberty
Also I like to watch movies starring Hillary Duff with the sound off.

Television:

Deadwood; Heroes; Lost; No Reservations; shows where Mexicans jump around; shows where monkeys throw things at people or other animals; shows where women dress in snappy outfits; shows where Indian people haggle in open-air markets

Books:

Emma Who Saved My Life; Et Tu, Babe?; The Tetherballs of Bougainville; 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea; Origins of the New South; Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; In a Sunburned Country; A Walk in the Woods; The IRA; London; Wild Swans; King Leopold's Ghost; A Nervous Splendour; Guns, Germs, and Steel

Heroes:

Eugene V. Debs; Leon Czolgosz; Ian Wright; John Sayles; Antonio Gramsci; Lucy Parsons; Mother Jones; Ernesto Guevara; Jose Marti; Paul Wellstone; My Dad; Franklin Roosevelt; Julius Nyerere; The Marx Brothers; Jack Leaman; Henry Aaron

My Blog

Dumptrucks, dirt, little girls, flowers

I have been reading Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is Illuminated." I liked it at times and at other times I didn't like it. At the end it made me very angry and held some resentment i...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:24:00 PST

Candles in bushel baskets

I am thinking of things that I know or wish I knew, wish I knew all the time and before I assume the consequences and only knew in retrospect. I think the most elemental truth I know is that the Buddh...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:04:00 PST

"The Last Kiss Is Like A Punch In The Baby Maker"

Okay, look. I am not trying to tell you what you should or shouldn't do.But, let's just say you "like movies." And fuck, who doesn't?And let's say that, at this moment, you just might be "...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:00:00 PST

The bulletin thing doesn't work

I Can See Cleary Now Henry and Ramona opens at the CTC by Vincent Howard February 21, 2007 Few American children's stories ar...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:39:00 PST

Big Ups Yaself Saint Valentino

I don't know how to put this, so here we go:For most of my life, and I do mean most of it, I have HATED this fucking bullshit day. Because, for most of my life, I have been sans "love" or whatev...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:41:00 PST

you don't even know what you don't know

The neighbours argue.The wine still pours.They shout.I can't help but hear them because I do not like the television anymore.I cleaned off the stove. It wasn't that dirty but I did it anyway.I t...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:28:00 PST

Don't do it!!!!

I've been doing some investigative bloggerism.Isn't it interesting to read people's confessions here? Sometimes it's just a sentence and sometimes its verbose to the point of tedium, but really,...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:46:00 PST

If everything is an end, why do we even try?

If you could euthanise everyone who you knew was going to suffer an horrible end, would you do it? This is assuming that there is no other way to save or restore that person. Just saying, ...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:27:00 PST

Diet Rockstar will fuck you up

Tonight's entry is a throwback to that old bebop style that you knew and loved when I first began exposing myself here. I recommend holding up an amber-coloured glass and looking at the blog thr...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:49:00 PST

That didn't take long

I broke my New Year's resolution last night.It took me 29 days.I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or congratulate myself for such amazing restraint.If it's any consolation to myself, I started readin...
Posted by America's Next Top Socialist on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:38:00 PST