Writing, Dreaming, Improv (IO West to be exact) Comedy, Wriggling out of a 26 year slump, Reorganizing my life-- Listening to music-- Trying to save $$
I'd like to meet:
Music geeks and misanthropes to start. Then I'd like to meet people who have good senses of humor and an itch to do something with it!!!!!!!!!! I'm tired of sitting around talking about the projects I'd like to accomplish! I'd like to meet someone...anyone that can help me grow as a comedic writer and grant me serenity to finally kick some ass.
Music:
Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Cash, Wilco, T-Rex, Neko Case, Pedro the Lion, Hank Williams,The Smiths,ABBA, Kings of Convenience, Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Jon Brion, Interpol, dM,Belle and Sebastian, Devo, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Clientele, Hepcat, Woody Guthrie,Jonathan Richman, Fiery Furnaces, The Beat Happening, Heavenly, Neil Young, Pere Ubu, Magnetic Fields, Carl Perkins, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mirah, Le Tigre, Fruit Bats, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, The Clash, Doug Martch, Uncle Tupelo, Tammy Wynette, Pavement, The Sea and , Lou Reed,Roxy Music, Matt Pond PA, Hal, Starlight Mints, Cardinal,Damien Jurado,Sandy Denny,Ron Sexsmith, Cass McCombs, Richard Buckner, Nick Cave, Klaus Nomi, Clinic, The Left Banke, Papas Fritas, Spoon, Cursive, The Shins,Aislers Set, Stereolab, M.Ward, Built to Spill, Of Montreal, The Mother Hips, Wolf Parade, The Halo Benders, Dios(Malos), Olivia Tremor Control, The Clean, The Kissing Book, Ancient Greeks, Cousteau, and so, so, so many more.
Movies:
Harold and Maude, Dead Poets Society, Closer, Trust, Singles, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Shaun of the Dead, Garden State, An Ideal Husband, Henry Fool, Sleep With Me, Say Anything, The Virgin Suicides, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Velvet Goldmine,Some Kind of Wonderful, the Jerk, I Capture the Castle, Full Metal Jacket, Mansfield Park, Waiting for Guffman, Big Fish,V for Vendetta, Shop Girl, and MANY more.
Television:
South Park, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Young Ones (I need it on DVD) Chapelle's Show, Anything that makes me laugh.
Books:
Bound for Glory -Woody Guthrie, The Stranger- Albert Camus, Tales of Ordinary Madness- Charles Bukowski, Ionesco.................., Eros the Bittersweet-Anne Carson, Answered Prayers- Truman Capote, A Lover's Discourse-Roland Barthes The Picture of Dorian Grey-Oscar Wilde, The Rise of Life on Earth- Joyce Carol Oates, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy* -Tim Burton, Serendipities: Language and Lunacy - Umberto Eco, Bend Sinister-Vladamir Nabakov Mythologies-Roland Barthes Light in August- William Faulkner Straight Man- Richard Russo The House of Mirth-Edith Wharton The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers A Widow for One Year-John Irving
Heroes:
My Ma, My Pa, Conan, Mike White, Georgio Moroder (thanks for Donna Summer dude) Ian McKay, Bryan Ferry, Lorne Michaels, Arj Barker (I love Poopy too) Patton Oswalt (I would go see Alabama Puppy Fart) David Cross (that git 'er done guy IS a dickweed) Jon Stewart (You Wrote It, You Watch It - I watched it!) Judd Apatow (Why does all your shit get cancelled?) Dorothy Parker (because you're fucked up too) Steve Martin (because true love lasts a lifetime)
