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Carmelo Obama Valone

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About Me

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I am a disturbed yet very happy story teller, in numerous mediums of the written word. I have written plays, and more..other projects would include Literary readings in the SF bay area, and in Boston.I have been published randomly here and there in the following: LA Weekly, Cherry Bleeds (the Sf Bay Area's), some hip La literary rags and other spots. I also have been a tattooed freaky model featured in Photography shows in Boston, Los Angeles & San Francisco. I won a screenwriting competition, and I have also acted in tv/film...but who hasn't in La?I also work for 425 Films. Please go check out our new film "The House That Jack Built" in my top friends.Google me if you really care.I always have something to say in my blog.And no, I don't look like a writer....I look more like the guy you hired to beat up the bullies bothering you in highschool....and chances are I was that guy.The latest news & Big Project: My Big project is that I am currently wrapping up my book. My book is a memoir about the 1990s, falling in love, grunge, falling out of love, death, life, suburbia, drugs, Harvard Square, relationships, rock and roll, punk rock, hell and more. It happened here and there and Harvard square.You might just have to wait and spend that $24.95 to hear my latest story.Updated 2/26/08Secondly; If you don't like mypage oh well, as it is "myspace".ps. i rotate my top people every week, as i feel it is elitist.

My Interests

running, colorofchange.org, Peace in Israel and Palestine, South America, Fate, random moments, the story makes the man not the grammar, poetry, politics, history, American History, music,(Dafur) Africa, world music, world politics, film, film, film, books, la history, Creepy old buildings, photography, long distance running, supporting our troops overseas but not the war, Sinn Fenn and Jerry Adams,immigrant rights, prisoner rights, ending GW's reign of terror, South Africa, the Sudan, sufisim, The Artist's way, creativity, and most importantly....second chances. San Fran, New Orleans, Mexico City, Baja, Bullfighting, laughing at life and taking chances.
Tyler Druden.I don't know where Tyler found that house on paper street. I didn't know if he bought it or was just squatting, neither would surprise me.
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I'd like to meet:

Everyone, positive and negative people, the devil, Robert Johnson, the homeless and the Dali Lama.Plus: People who write, "you" as opposed to "U" and so on. People who don't use ALL CAPS and know how to communicate. Here are some stills of me wrapping up/writing my book!I support the 2008 ban on this years Summer Olympics on behalf of the great people of Tibet and Darfur.

Music:

Kanye West, Moldy Peaches, Tool, Wu Tang Clan, Blind Willie Mctell, Sea Wolf, Eric B & Rakim, Opera, 50cent, Joy Division, QOFTSA, Chain Gang Music, C. Love, Tom Waits, Uncle, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Nirvana, The Cure, Silver Sun Pickups, Killers, White Stripes, Elliot Smith, Iggy Pop, Jane's Addiction, This Mortal Coil, She Wants Revenge, Grandaddy, Oval, Nick Drake, Tv on the Radio, Massive Attack, the shins, Aphex Twinz, Strokes, Beethoven , Flamenco, Yo-Yo Mama, Pixies, Von Bondies, the very Old Blues, Leonard Cohen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Italian music, Opera, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Johnny Coltrane, Buddy Holly, Jim Carroll Band, Good hip hop/rap, Burrows, Nick Cave, and whatever good music sounds like. Musical Scores...I have tons of them.

Movies:


There Will Be Blood, Diving Bell & Butterfly, High Fidelity, King of California, Music & Lyrics, Atonement, The Shipping News, Broken English, Broken Flowers, The Fisher King, American Gigalo, Don Juan Demarco, Less Than Zero, Seven years in Tibet, The Darjeeling Limited, My Own Private Idaho, The Assasination of Jessie James by Coward Robert Ford, Something the Lord Made, Into the Wild, The Pursuit of Happyness, Croupier, Blood Diamond, Grosse Pointe Blank, Stranger Than Fiction, The Departed, Half Nelson, Paradise Now, Dogma95 films, Goodfellas, Munich, Tom Twyker, Stanley Kubrick, Jaws, Open Hearts, The Beat That Skipped my Heart, The Sea Inside, Drugstore Cowboy, Identity, Blown Away, Sin City, Macbe and Mrs Miller, Godfather, Donnie Darko, Adaptation, Dead Man, Bullets over Broadway, On the Waterfront, Boondock Saints, Dog-day Afternoon, Love me if you dare, Garden State, Waking the Dead, Deadman, American Beauty, Sunset Blvd, The Apartment, Pickpocket(1959), Man on Fire Road to Perdition, History of Violence, La Dolce Vida, A very Long Engagement, Blown Away, Shoot the Piano Player, Taxi Driver, Crash (2005), Cinderella Man, Match Point. The Squid and the Whale, Turtles can fly, Rocky, The Manchurian Canidate(Sinatra version), Unforgiven, Mystic River, Ordinary People, Midnight Express, The Door in The Floor, Good Will Hunting, Matt Dillon's City of Ghosts, and the Godfather, Ice Age, The Ref, The Defiant Ones, I am a fugative from a Chain Gang. Annie Hall, Pulp Fiction.
Animation: Ice Age, Nemo, Watership down, and the Plague Dogs.
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Television:

Dexter, Californication, Weeds, Dead Like Me, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Six Feet Under, X-Files, Curb & Jerry (all Larry David shows), Nip/Tuck, CSI Vegas, LOST, Sopranoes, House, Brotherhood, It's Always Sunny in Phildelphia,Family Guy, Venture Brothers, Simpsons and American Dad.

Books:

The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks, Faith in Carlos Gomez & Not By Accident by Sam Dunn, Empire Falls, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Ham on Rye, Girl Interrupted, Great Gatsby, Jesus's Son, And the Ass Saw the Angel, The Stupidest Angel, Go Ask Orge, Running With Sissors, The Pleasure of Her Company, Choke, Basketball Diaries, Fight Club, Lovely Bones, Rule of The Bone, Catcher in the Rye, Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath, The Peoples History of the United States by Zinn, Drugstore Cowboy, The Moving Toyshop, A Dirty Job, Lolita and The Bell Jar.And or anything by: Charlie Bukowski, Chuck P, James Ellroy, Denis Johnson, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Russell Banks, Edmund Crispin, Herman Mellvile, Hemingway and Jim Carroll. Edward Bunker-ex-bank robber turned writer, Brendan Behan-an Irish Rebel and writer. John Irving is the man, so is Stephen King.

Heroes:

"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live" Charles Bukowski quote

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dexter, Senn Penn, Clint Eastwood, Truman Capote, Myself, Charles Bukowski, Wes Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jim Carroll, Dito Montiel, Chuck Palahnuik, Chuck D, Malcom X, MLK, Susanna Kaysen, Marlon Brando, James Deane, Kurt Cobain, Steinbeck, Alan Ball, Chris Titus, Stephen King, William Trevor, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Dennis Leary, Denis Johnson, George Carlin, Edward Bunker, Brendan Behan, Annie Sexton, Malcom X. Jerry Stahl, Steve Martin. Fellini, My mom, O Henry, John Irving, and finally my pal Elyn Saks..... who's part superhero.And the great great British graffiti artist named Banksy!

My Blog

The Devil Came On Horseback-(the truth about Darfur )

http://www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com/ Some people aren't meant to be actors or writers or performers....some people's art is something completly different. The art of informing and witnessing....th...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:06:00 PST

Good Fight Clintons.....and Jimmy Carter says for Obama not to Pick Hillary as a VP

The link on the Guardian Uk Congrats again my fellow Obama supportors and Obama himself. We all did it....and lets do it again even better in November. I have to say I agree with Senator Obama's sta...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:41:00 PST

The Stewiewood Insider.....

Tells me that "Family Guy" is doing a spin-off of his slow-talking neighbor....."Cleveland & Family."   How about that? I'd prefer a Qaugmire myself....but okay. I will try it out.   :)...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:22:00 PST

Yet Another Milestone for this writer. (RIP ’Holy Woody’)

So When a writer and his desk part...it's often sweet sorrow. My former desk let's just call him 'Holy Woody' (as he was a nice wood desk from a former Catholic Grade School, for whom I found at GoodW...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Sat, 31 May 2008 12:52:00 PST

The Double Life of Dexter Morgan and Myself

I am so glad that my old friend Dexter will be coming back to Showtime this fall. I have missed him so much. I know most people are probably wondering why is it that I love a serial killer on TV so mu...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Sat, 31 May 2008 08:52:00 PST

Ummm....is Pee Wee back????

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837156/ A new Pee-Wee Herman movie??? Anyone????:0
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Fri, 30 May 2008 04:54:00 PST

Rest In Peace: Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934[1]  May 26, 2008[2]) was an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor. I never got the meet Sydney but his offices were close to my work and...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:38:00 PST

HBO’s "Recount" -

.......was bloody great. You will get angry and upset all over again...or even more angry now.....knowing the damage that GW Bush imposed on this country and the world. -CV
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:38:00 PST

This woman should be in Jail-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYpkvcmog0& Why would you say or ask for anyone to be assasinated? Aside from the general enemies of the 'state'? She made a joke about Obama being assasinated. So...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Tue, 27 May 2008 12:08:00 PST

Quote of the weekend from the movie: "Big Trouble in Little China"

"A brave man likes the feel of nature against his face." "And a wise man knows when to get out of the rain."There was so much wisdom locked in movies made in the 1980s. Right?:)...
Posted by Carmelo Obama Valone on Sun, 25 May 2008 06:59:00 PST