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Jean Genet Ramsey

I am the super motherbug!

About Me

opinionated, loyal, provocative, creature of routine when it comes to sauces and driving, fun, presumptuous, overly analytical, a tireless champion of the serial comma, Lovecraftian in build, fond of public speaking, Cronenbergian, naughty, generous in unconventional ways, helpful, capable of making love out of nothing at all, gregarious, almost always fearful of being alone, sensual (in a decadent Roman emperor/Charles Laughton kind of way), low-level Trekkie, a good conversationalist, paranoid, libidinous, distracted by good use of color, complimentary, randy, an occasional babbler, generally a very good speller, hater of mayonnaise, not very good with cars, unafraid of sex, poptastic, teleological, somehow possessed of great hair, bootytronic, appreciative, reliable when necessary, devoted, a baddy daddy lamatai tebby-chai, sassy, insecure, sensitive, foreign language dilettante, prone to overreacting, hopeless romantic...

My Interests

film, literature, sillyfood, art, things that are unrequited, music, orange sherbert, David Tennant/Alan Tudyk sandwiches, drum machines, ribaldry, maraschino cherries, experimental theology, cheap champagne, expensive champagne.

I'd like to meet:

People who are smart, funny, and unafraid of subtitles in a haze... Low standards don't hurt, either. David Cronenberg. Scruffy librarians. Pau Gasol. Wendy and Lisa. Dracula Gottfried. Peter Forsberg. People who like to do the huck-a-buck and pass out in their own juices. Paul Verhoeven. Marine biologists who focus on octopus and/or manta rays. Generous sexual adventurers. Danny Williams. The Doctor. Grant Wistrom. Quasismartass intellectual guys with flat drinker's asses who don't shave their chests.

Music:

Acid house as a genre ('88-'89), The Arcade Fire, Bardeux, Jacques Brel, BWP, Camille, Daisy Chainsaw, Paul Dakeyne, Hazell Dean (up until 1989), Dezrok, Dr. Obviously, Dump, Falconetti's Face, Fire Inc., The Five DuTones, Sadie Flood, Fluxuation, Hi-NRG as a genre ('80-'88), House of Gypsies, Italo as a genre ('81-'89),MC Chris, Miss Ms. Ruby, Rapemaster Tron, Roxy Music, Stock Aitken Waterman, The Supreme Music Program

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Movies:

Accident, Big Time, Blue ('93), Boom!, Brewster McCloud, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, The 4th Man, Grace Jones: A One Man Show, The Gong Show Movie, Hard to Die, The House of Dies Drear, Doc, Groundhog Day, Husbands, In Dreams, Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2, The Keep, Last Summer, Luster, Monstrosity, Night of the Creeps, OUT 1: Noli Me Tangere, The Peanut Butter Solution, Rockula, Secret Ceremony, Songwriter, Trouble Every Day, Waydowntown, Wittgenstein, The World's Greatest Sinner, Zeder

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Television:

Absolutely Fabulous, Action, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, American Dad, Arrested Development, Black Barbie's Playhouse, Black Books, The Boondocks, The Brak Show, The Brini Maxwell Show, Chappelle's Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Doctor Who, Drawn Together, Entourage, Everyone Loves Hypnotoad, Extras, Family Guy, Father Ted, Filthy Rich, Firefly, Flight of the Conchords, Freaks and Geeks, Friday the 13th: The Series, Futurama, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Greg The Bunny, Heroes, Hey Monie, Home Movies, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jackass, Kenny vs Spenny, The Kids in The Hall, The Kingdom, Lost, Lovey TV, Mr. Show, My Name is Earl, NewsRadio, The Office (UK and US), On The Air, Oz, Robot Chicken, The Simpsons, South Park, Spaced, Square Pegs, The State, Strangers With Candy, The Tick, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Torchwood, 24, Twin Peaks, V, The Venture Brothers, War of The Worlds (Season One only), The Whitest Kids U'Know, Wonder Showzen, Yacht Rock, You Can't Do That On Television, The Young Ones.

Books:

The Aeneid (Vergil), Aliada Ansata, The al-Azif (al-Hazred), American Tabloid (Ellroy), Another Roadside Attraction (Robbins), The Answer Tree (Boyett), The Basic Eight (Handler), Beloved (Morrison), The Big Nowhere (Ellroy), The Black God of Madness (Carson), City of Glass (Auster), Closer (Cooper), Collected Short Stories (O'Connor), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Barris), Crackpot (Waters), Crash (Ballard), Cruddy (Barry), Cthaat Aquadingen, Cultes des Goules (d'Erlette), Danse Macabre (King), Dnevnoy Dozor (Lukyanenko/Vasilyev), Dreams Die First (Robbins), Dune (Herbert), Elektra: Assassin (Miller/Sienkiewicz), The Erotism of Death (Bataille), Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Robbins), Flicker (Roszak), Fuaran, The Ganzfeld, Girl in Landscape (Lethem), God-Emperor of Dune (Herbert), Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (Rowling), Heartbroken Angels (Kikuni), Hollywood Babylon (Anger), Hydrophinnae (Gantley), If You Ask Me (Gelman-Waxner), I'll Take It (Rudnick), Kassagar Garsarra, La-Bas (Huysman), The Lake (Cooke), Lifeforce (Wilson), Lips Together Teeth Apart (McNally), The Lover (Duras), The Magic and The Madness (Taraborelli), mass-market horror from '83-'94, Men Women and Chainsaws (Clover), Modern Manners (O'Rourke), The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Chabon), The Navidson Record (Danielewski), Night Shift (King), Nochnoi Dozor (Lukyanenko), Northern Lights/The Golden Compass (Pullman), Not Since Carrie (Mandelbaum), The Occult (Wilson), The Pedestrian (Blevgad), The People of The Monolith (Geoffrey), The Pnakotic Manuscripts, The Poems of Catullus, Radio Free Albemuth (Dick), The Resistance (White), The Revelations of Glaaki, The Rules of Attraction (Ellis), The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Lynch), Sexual Personae (Paglia), Shock Value (Waters), Skeleton Crew (King), Skibber Bee Bye (Rege), Skinny Legs and All (Robbins), Skipping Towards Gomorrah (Savage), The Snarkout Boys and The Avocado of Death (Pinkwater), Still Life with Woodpecker (Robbins), The Subtle Knife (Pullman), Sumerechniy Dozor (Lukyanenko), Tales of the City (Maupin), Throat Sprockets (Lucas), The Three Mothers (Varelli), The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Dick), Traumnovelle (Schnitzler), anything by Lewis Trondheim, Tuff (Beatty), Twentieth Century Eightball (Clowes), UnauBprechlichen Kulten (von Juntz), Valis (Dick), De Vermis Mysteriis (Prinn), Watch Your Mouth (Handler), The White Boy Shuffle (Beatty), A Wild Sheep Chase (Murakami), Wonder Boys (Chabon)

Heroes:

Norma Cenva, David Cronenberg, Bill Cuomo, Koko Goldstein, Jim Henson, Sue Johanson, Grace Jones, Henri Langlois, Jennifer Jason Leigh, A.J. Levine, Robert Linn, Edna Mode, Giorgio Moroder, Dolly Parton, Ian D. "Primax" Smith, Pootie Tang, John "Johnny Slash" Ulasewicz, Paul Verhoeven, John Waters

My Blog

At the Movies: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

Sam Peckinpah's Paranoid Park.Terrence Malick's Friday The 13th.David Gordon Green's The Osterman Weekend.Yeah. All of those things.****
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:58:00 PST

At the Movies: Wall-E

WALL-EThis is provocative Science Fiction at its finest, as sleek and shocking as Chris Cunningham's work, as ragged and dirty as prophecy, and as relentlessly adorable as the cutest of kittens. It ha...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:03:00 PST

At the Movies: The Fall, The Strangers

THE FALLDirector/co-writer Tarsem is an unparalleled visual stylist. His commercial and music video work teem with images and ideas that burrow deep and stay in the subconscious long after viewing, an...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:13:00 PST

My Twenty-One Favorite Fictional Spacecraft

Because I am the biggest geek ever.In ascending order...21. The SwinetrekEverybody now- "Pigs- in- Space!" From the Muppet Show.20. StarfightersAlthough technically a class of ship, I'm going to let t...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Thu, 15 May 2008 10:01:00 PST

Best of the Nashville Film Festival (with stuff not in published edition)

Best of the Fest '0801) ONE BAD CAT: THE REVEREND ALBERT WAGNER STORY (US-Thomas G. MILLER)A documentary, a biography, a treatise on the racial history of Cleveland, a look at how artists create, an e...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:13:00 PST

More of that kind of thing

Put your music player on shuffle and answer the questions.What does next year have in store for me?Robert Pollard  People are LeavingHow would I describe my life right now?The Prodigy  Music Reach (...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:43:00 PST

A few thoughts on The Ruins

We give our bodies way too much credit. I mean, they provide a mildly sturdy place to keep our brain, and without them it would be prohibitively difficult to have sex. But when it comes right down to ...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:41:00 PST

Rumor Control: here are the facts

A tooth that I had a root canal and crown done on around two years ago has developed some form of infection in the small remnant of original dental material.To get this fixed requires an endodontic sp...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:16:00 PST

An update

Tooth can’t be fixed until WednesdayTill then I’m adrift on pain pillsSometimes this is coolRight now it is notCareening back and forth between randy buddha and braindead sloucher and inca...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:07:00 PST

It is hard for me to articulate

Something is wrong with my face. More specifically, with a tooth on the left side of my lower jaw. It isn’t even really a tooth, not anymore, which makes things perplexing. The ’tooth&rsqu...
Posted by Jean Genet Ramsey on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:54:00 PST