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About Me

I earned my first paycheck at the age of ten, singing the themesong for a Japanese amusement park ride. I was hand picked for this job out of a choir I sang in. The song I sang was called "We Are the Children of the World." This is not a joke. My pops even kept a xerox of the check. Evidence presented upon request.//////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////Five years ago, in the southside of Chicago, I helped aprehend a notorious criminal known as "Handy Andy." He was hiding in a dark crevice under my building at 2am, and I found him. I kept him distracted with a flashlight, crobar, and a phony scheme about a lost cat, until some undercover Chicago PD's arrived. He put up a good fight. They ultimately even brought a paddy wagon. This is also not a joke. Ask me, and I'll tell you the rest of the story.

My Interests

boxing, Margie's Candies and Gibson's Steak House in Chicago, trekking the world, film, theater, basketball, chess, black magic, middle eastern politics, photography, The Economist, military history, russian literature, russian roulette, Vodka (Russkii Standart) hanky-panky, Zip Guns

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Sly&the Family Stone, Blind Willie McTell, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Serge Gainsbourg, The Cramps, Lonnie Donegan, Arthur Lee & Love, STAX rekkids, Shostakovich (the waltzes especially), SYD BARRETT, anything on CHESS BLUES label, , SUEDE, Public Enemy, Elmore James, Schubert, The Dirtbombs, KISS, The Muffs, The Ronettes, and anything Phil Spector produced for that matter, Cheap Trick, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Chopin, gypsy music, New York Dolls, T.REX, Bowie, The Sonics, Them, Ennio Morricone, Johnny Cash, Rachmaninoff, M. Ward, Os Mutantes, The Pixies, The Shangri-Las, Prince, Redd Kross, Manu Chao, Funkadelic, Link Wray, Belle & Sebastian, Johnny Thunders, Verdi, Blonde Redhead, Desmond Dekker, James Brown, Jesse Malin, The Meters, Howlin' Wolf, Scott Joplin, Bo Diddley, Hound Dog Taylor, Nino Rota, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Mungo Jerry, The Beatles, GENE VINCENT, Blue Cheer, Dylan, The White Stripes,The Misfits, The Ramones, The Gun Club, THE KINKS, Ministry

Movies:

There Will Be Blood, Dr. Strangelove, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, A Woman Under the Influence, Raging Bull, Rocco and his Brothers, Ashes and Diamonds, Lawrence of Arabia, Down By Law, Oldboy, On the Waterfront, Blow Up, Do the Right Thing, Black Cat/White Cat, Once Upon a Time in West, anything Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd (silent movie freak, that I am), The Bicylce Thief, Dog Day Afternoon, L'Avventura, Jules &Jim, 400 Blows, A Clockwork Orange, Chunking Express, Kieslowski, Man with the Movie Camera, City of Los Children, One Day in September, Pulp Fiction, Battle of Algiers, Frederick Wiseman and Maysle Brother Documentaries, City of God, I AM CUBA, The Elephant Man, The King of Comedy, La Jette, Angels with Dirty Faces (Jimmy Cagney is the man, and don't let anyone else tell you no different), anything Werner Herzog, The Long Goodbye, Minnie and Moskowitz, Blow Up, Blue Velvet, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes, The Conversation, Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Badlands, Boogie Nights, Citizen Kane, F is for Fake, Hoop Dreams, Zelig, Sweet and Lowdown, damnint I can't stop...stop me....stop...me.

Television:

Chic-a-go-go (The greatest TV show of all time. Unfortunately it's only on Chicago public access) Sopranos, Good Times, the Jeffersons, Threes Company, Fat Albert, Ali G, Curb yr Enthusiasm, The Office, Twin Peaks, Different Strokes, Silver Spoons, Punky Brewster, Sanford&Son

Books:

The Master and Margarita, From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Adventures of Augie March, Man with the Golden Arm (Nelson Algren), Kundera, Lenin's Tomb, Studs Terkel, Gogol, Mayakovsky, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Trick Baby (Iceberg Slim), Aesop's Fables, Of Mice and Men, Devil in the White City, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. DON QUIXOTE.