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James Adomian

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

About Me

I do impressions of friends, teachers and famous people. I'm in love with the stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VVAfnS1PqY

My Interests

Full moons, hiking, chess, public transit, fossils, independent media, alternative news, Joe Frank , 88.5 KCSN, New Beverly Cinema , The Onion , Underground Literary Alliance & Free Will Astrology .

More Drunk Orson Welles Commercial Outtakes
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0a8c6058cb

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Orson Welles (played by James Adomian) is drunk on the set of a Paul Masson Commercial. From The MIdnight Show at UCB! Original outtakes: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c9d98cd989

I'd like to meet:

Confirmed bachelors & media gatekeepers.

Music:

Johnny Cash , Rufus Wainwright , The Beatles, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode, Beach Boys, Django Reinhardt, Arcade Fire, White Stripes, Muse, Modest Mouse, Otis Redding, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Frank Sinatra, Gilbert & Sullivan, Beethoven, The Doors, The Ventures, Moody Blues, Cole Porter, George Gershwin & Tchaikovsky

Crosby, Stills & Nash, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Woodstock 1969)

Mamas & the Papas, "Straight Shooter" (Monterey Pop Festival 1967)

Movies:

The Third Man , The Big Lebowski , Koyaanisqatsi , Children of Men

Television:

The Prisoner , Mr. Show , Futurama, Freakazoid, Spongebob Squarepants, The Office, Upright Citizens Brigade, Andy Richter Controls the Universe & Look Around You

New Futurama trailer

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Hunter S. Thompson), The Bhagavad-Gita , The Book of Job , Masters of Atlantis (Charles Portis), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), and those written by Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Soren Kierkegaard, David Sedaris, Woody Allen, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Thomas Paine, Neal Pollack, Graham Hancock, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Mark Twain and J.R.R. Tolkein.

My favorite playwrights are "Shakespeare" ( Edward de Vere ) and Aristophanes.

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Alan Watts, Russ Feingold, Thomas Jefferson, William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Feynman, Jim Garrison & Robin Hood

Hugo Chavez slams George W. Bush

My Blog

Apocalypse John

See more funny videos at Funny or Die From The Midnight Show at UCB Theatre!...
Posted by James Adomian on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:06:00 PST

More Drunk Orson Welles Commercial Outtakes

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0a8c6058cb See more funny videos at Funny or Die Orson Welles (played by James Adomian) is drunk on the set of a Paul Masson Commercial. From The MIdnig...
Posted by James Adomian on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:39:00 PST

Omnibus Globes

..>See Omnibus Globes and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com..>See more funny videos at Funny or Die...
Posted by James Adomian on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:10:00 PST

Concession Speech Meltdown

My video Concession Speech Meltdown is featured today on both UCBcomedy.com and Funnyordie.com. Check it out:Candidate Ron Brachman FLIPS OUT during his concession speech, threatens the winner and cur...
Posted by James Adomian on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:44:00 PST

Judge Orders YouTube to Give User Data to Viacom

Judge Orders YouTube to Give User Data to ViacomViacom won a court order for YouTube to turn over data on every video viewed by registered users. Their goal is clearly to sue and/or intimidate users o...
Posted by James Adomian on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:45:00 PST

AFTRA vs. SAG

This is a comment I left on Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily blog, regarding the current AFTRA-SAG conflict and recent Hollywood labor politics in general (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/...
Posted by James Adomian on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:32:00 PST

Assassination Is Not a Valid Path to the Presidency!

Assassination Is Not a Valid Path to the Presidency!by James AdomianFor months now, over and over again, you would hear people whisper inprivate, "I like Obama, but I'm afraid they'll shoot him." Parn...
Posted by James Adomian on Sat, 24 May 2008 05:07:00 PST

Hillary’s Downfall

Hillary Clinton explodes at the news of her imminent Downfall -- fromdeep within her underground bunker! (Mature dialogue.)http://www. funnyordie. com/videos/d0a842c3d2 .. Hillary's Dow...
Posted by James Adomian on Wed, 07 May 2008 08:40:00 PST

Ways for Hillary to Identify with the Working Class

Hillary Clinton has gone to great lengths in the last week to show that she is more in touch with working class voters than rival Barack Obama. Cameras recently caught her enjoying a few beers with a ...
Posted by James Adomian on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:28:00 PST

The Third Man

Opening to the best movie ever made ......
Posted by James Adomian on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:44:00 PST