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Sammy Von Mashenhausen

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About Me

Gah! Too many things to say, I can't be arsed.I'm bad ass...The End.

Amsterdam 2006

My Interests

Benson & Hedges 100s, Rum & Coke, graphic design, illustration, photography, old & new television ads (especially from the UK), obsessively organizing my ridiculous amount of magazines, googling people i've just met, googling friends (especially google image, it cracks me up everytime), googling myself (don't front like you dont do that shit) comedy news (Fox 5, UPN 9 News, BET ha!) blogs of all kinds, extreme lurking, not cooking, trying to cook, drinking, detoxing, smoking, quitting, MySpace, YouTube, XTube (whatchu know about that??), making cocktails, new cleaning and household products (Bed, Bath & Beyond is heavenly to me), old school pornography, people watching, the human mind, pretending to work out, 80s movies and music, hating on brunch (don't get me started), laughing always, corny shit, a whole heap of other things and cold hard cash.

I'd like to meet:

So you sold our secrets for World Cup glory but I forgive you darling. You are the only reason I'll move back to Manchester, although I'm pretty sure when you return to the UK you'll have to go into hiding.
I still love you though, I know this fabulous little place where you'll be safe...xoxoxo

Oh and Rob, in regards to the above, I'm just being hospitable. Please come over this evening as originally planned.xoxoxoxo

Music:

Somebody said to me the other day "You listen to the most random shit" And they were right Aside from a penchant for movie soundtracks. (Hans Zimmer I love you!) I likes what I likes and I don't give a fack.

Movies:

Rocky IV, Transformers:The Movie, Brewsters Millions, Trading Places, Ruthless People Desperately Seeking Susan, Wall Street, Coming To America, Home Alone, The Goonies Uncle Buck, Black Rain, The Golden Child, A Bronx Tale, Blow, Die Hard 1+2, Die Hard with a Vengance was a pile of bollox, Scarface, Goodfellas, Kill Bill 1+2, BIG, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Half Baked, Constantine, Batman Begins (I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS) Leon, The Ladykillers (no not the Tom Hanks remake), American Psycho, Hitch (Always makes me cry), Prime, The Last Samurai (Fack all the haters, I LOVE Tom Cruise and the soundtrack is AMAZING!!!)

Television:

I'm not going to be a pretentious fart and say TV is bad blah blah blah.
Fuck all that nonsense — I could quite easily give up my day job and become a TV critic or professional TV Watcher:
Seinfeld, The Hills, Making The Band 3, Rob & Big, America's Next Top Model, Nip/Tuck, Project Runway, Fresh Prince of BelAir, The Cosby Show, Degrassi Junior High (the old one), The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under (RIP Nate!), The Shield, Golden Girls, Roseanne, The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough, UK DOCUMENTARIES...I miss them so much and 60 minutes *** I also love Andy Rooney.

Books:

Off the top of my head — Tuesdays With Morrie, The Alchemist, The Witches, Matilda and almost everything written by Roald Dahl. I also love trashy novels (HollyWood Wives and other Jackie Collins literature, oh and Confessions Of A Video Vixen??!!!
WTF?! I can never look at Irv Gotti in the same way again.
I can however read design, fashion and random art/music/fashion/photography magazines all day.
Dammit I want to be a TV Critic, Magazine Reading Connoisseur when I grow up.

Heroes:

Bruce Willis YippieKaYay MuthaFuckas... and of course Optimus Prime (R.I.P)
Oh and as corny as it sounds forever my mum, dad and lil brother. I love, respect and admire my lil bro AND I'm inspired by my true friends EVERYDAY.

My Blog

Mind Blowing Music Decisions

We all know that Jay Z's much anticipated album was released today.I am an i-tunes window shopper, I actually can't add any more albums to my cart because I have a shit load already in there (mostly s...
Posted by Sammy Von Mashenhausen on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:00:00 PST

Ed Bradley

I'm a HUGE 60 Minutes fan, to the point where my Sunday evenings revolve around it.Ed Bradley was one of my favorite correspondents (alongside Andy Rooney), he was a pioneer, intelligent, witty, cool...
Posted by Sammy Von Mashenhausen on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:57:00 PST

The Good, The Bad + The Ugly

THE GOOD "Once the profane, edgy, manic Pryor bogarted his way into what had once been the province of safe, smiling, middle-of-the-road comics, it would never be the same again. Pryor was angry, con...
Posted by Sammy Von Mashenhausen on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:12:00 PST

Annoying"

I really am beginning to get annoyed" with people and their ANNOYING myspace graphics...People - if you're going to make yourspace vibrant/interesting/colorful etc etc or feature music/videos/artwork ...
Posted by Sammy Von Mashenhausen on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:47:00 PST