*I am interested in content--how it is produced, enjoyed, and consumed.
*I am interested in books as an effective form of content delivery.
*I am interested in the internet as an effective form of content delivery.
*I am interested in mental health.
*I am interested in contemporary authors and what they are able to produce.
*I am interested in continuing to produce content that interests people and in living off the products of my mind to the age of 100.
*I'm interested in meeting talented writers, visual artists, and musicians.
*I'm interested in meeting people who will buy my books.
*I'm interested in meeting people who want to start crazy businesses (although I don't really have time anymore).
*I'm interested in meeting people who want to bring me to speak at their schools.
*I'm interested in meeting people who will make me feel better when I am down.
*I'm interested in ::hugs::
Survey
Name: Ned (Edison) Price Vizzini
Birthday: 4/4/81
Birthplace: New York NY
Current Location: New York NY
Eye Color:
Hair Color: brown
Height: 6'
Right Handed or Left Handed: rt
Your Heritage: italian/just plain white (wasp)
The Shoes You Wore Today: prada velcro dress shoes
Your Weakness: NO ability to prioritize. It's all just a buzz of need...
Your Fears: failure, inability to live a sustainable life
Your Perfect Pizza: fresh moz. slice at Roma on 7th Ave. in Park Slope
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: write full-on, balls-out, unquestionably adult novel
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: wait
Thoughts First Waking Up: it's hold/cold. get up!
Your Best Physical Feature: strong hands
Your Bedtime: never believed in this concept, but it has settled to be 12 on avg.
Your Most Missed Memory: coke in the snow, 1993
Pepsi or Coke: see above
MacDonalds or Burger King: burger king pref.
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: cappuccino
Do you Smoke: i don't understand what this question is referring to
Do you Swear: can't think of a clever way to answer this: yes
Do you Sing: yes
Do you Shower Daily: twice every three days
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: did it
Do you want to get Married: yes
Do you belive in yourself: dependent upon fickle brain activity i am still mastering
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: let's try this: yes
Are you a Health Freak: no
Do you get along with your Parents: yes, maybe too much
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes
Do you play an Instrument: yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: no, too cheap
In the past month have you Smoked: i am not sure what activity this refers to
In the past month have you been on Drugs: i am not sure what activity this refers to
In the past month have you gone on a Date: i am not sure what activity this refers to
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: yes: a laptop power cable from that sneaky Praveen
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: no...um is this whole test for girls?
Ever been Beaten up: no, battered often in karate though and occasionally hit by women
Ever Shoplifted: no
How do you want to Die: heart attack
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: professor
What country would you most like to Visit: australia again
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: varies
Favourite Hair Color: varies
Short or Long Hair: varies
Height: generally 5'5" or under
Weight: varies
Best Clothing Style: punk rock goth fashonista chicks with bad attitudes OR emo chicks with green hats and glasses
Number of Drugs I have taken: um. including prescribed drugs, 7.
Number of CDs I own: probably 300
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 78382091
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!
*Moxy Fruvous [still!]
*Miles Davis
*Joe Bendik
*AC/DC
*Wanted Dead [Staten Island Hardcore!]
*Environments 1: Psychologically Ultimate Seashore
*KJAZZ in LA.
*Queens of the Stone Age/Kyuss/Desert Sessions/Eagles of Death Metal/that whole deal
*Drunk Horse
*System of a Down
*Sublime
*NIRVANA [ain't it a shame to beat your wife on the Sunday]
*Captured By Robots!
*Sabers & Roses
*Guns N' Roses
*[the] Rolling Stones
*[the] Strokes
*[the] Harlem Shakes
*Consider the Source
*[the] Vitamen
*Korn [1st record]
*Limp Bizkit [Chocolate Starfish record]*many, many others...
*No Man's Land
*Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
*Pulp Fiction
*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
*L'Atalante
*pretty much don't care
*Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
*James Frey A Million Little Pieces [yeah]
*Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
*Jim Goad Shit Magnet
*George Orwell "Such, Such Were the Joys" [essay]
*Garth Ennis Preacher
*Art Spiegelman Maus
*Jonathan Ames What's Not to Love?
*Marty Beckerman Generation S.L.U.T.
*Nick Antosca Fires
*Nick McDonnel Twelve
*Don DeLillo White Noise
*Jay MacInerney Story of my Life
*Shel Silverstein Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book
*Gary Paulsen Hatchet
*and yes, Perks of Being a Wallflower
*many, many others...[I also think my books are "okay"]
*anyone who has overcome horror in their lives
*Bill Hicks
*my psychopharmacologist Dr. Booth
*George Orwell
*my Mom
*my Dad
*Jello Biafra
*John Strausbaugh
*Jonathan Ames
*Jim Knipfel
*many others...