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Ned Vizzini

It's Kind of a Funny Story... (Paperback out 5/1/07 )

About Me

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My Interests

*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'd like to meet:

*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

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Music:

*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...

Movies:

*No Man's Land

*Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me

*Pulp Fiction

*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

*L'Atalante

Television:

*pretty much don't care

Books:

*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"]

Heroes:

*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...

My Blog

IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR ME

DO NOT ASK ME ANY QUESTIONS IN YOUR COMMENTS--ASK THEM IN MESSAGES SO THAT I CAN RESPOND!
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST

20000 PROFILE VIEWS

THANK YOU!
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:47:00 PST

10000 MYSPACE BLOG VIEWS!

PRETTY GOOD CONSIDERING I DON'T EVEN BLOG HERE!
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:47:00 PST

TO READ MY BLOG: SHOOT ROCKETS INTO THE NIGHT

My blog has moved to http://rocketsinthenight.blogspot.com. Read it there!
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:06:00 PST

TO READ MY BLOG, GO TO NED-VIZZINI.LIVEJOURNAL.COM

    http://ned-vizzini.livejournal.com
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:23:00 PST

IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE COMMENTING

I can't post any comments that say "I love you" or "You're cute." Thanks for understanding.
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:06:00 PST

1500 FRIENDS!

THANK YOU!
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:04:00 PST

IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COMMENT

Hi, I CAN NOT answer personal questions in my comments. If you have a personal question, I am totally cool with that, just MSG it to me instead. Thank you.
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:19:00 PST

MY TOP FRIENDS

    Please note: my Top Friends are no longer social experiment.
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:00:00 PST

My Top Friends

Please note: my Top Friends are a social experiment.
Posted by Ned Vizzini on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:38:00 PST