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Will

Cornbread. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

About Me

I'm a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in bacon. I'm a marketing writer in Atlanta, doing some music journalism and film work in my spare time. I spend a lot of time drinking coffee and bringing myself back down to earth with beer. I try to read a few books, catch some movies, and go see bands play in the middle of all that.What else do you want to know?

My Interests

Writing, bitching about politics, wondering why the artists and writers I like have a high mortality rate, baseball, college football.

I'd like to meet:

Cool people. Like you. No, not you, you.

Music:

Drive-By Truckers, REM, Wilco, Guided by Voices, Radiohead, Marah, Southern Bitch, The Drams, Cheap Trick, Social Distortion, MC5, The Ramones, Duke Fame, Supersuckers, Slobberbone, Bottle Rockets, Dead Kennedys, Rollins Band, Pearl Jam, Now It's Overhead, Black Flag, KISS, Mother Superior, John Hiatt, Tom Waits, Five Eight, Neil Young, Kevn Kinney, Jack Logan, Foo Fighters, Warren Zevon, Pixies, Fugazi, Cracker, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, OutKast, Motorhead, Lucero, Merle Haggard, Superdrag, Soul Asylum, The Replacements, Big Star, Minus 5, Crowded House, Neil Finn, Dead Milkmen, The Posies, Wu-Tang Clan, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Heartless Bastards, Sleater-Kinney, Alejandro Escovedo, New Pornographers, Modern Skirts, Widespread Panic, your mama

Movies:

Anything starring Burt Reynolds made 1976-1984, The Big Lebowski, Chinatown, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, Clerks, Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Anchorman, High Fidelity, Sling Blade, Chrystal, Jaws, Super Troopers, The Aristocrats, The Evil Dead series, Bubba Ho-Tep, Shaun of the Dead, Dazed and Confused, Grosse Pointe Blank, Slacker, Coffee and Cigarettes

Television:

The Simpsons, The Office (UK and U.S.), Scrubs, Arrested Development, Letterman, The Daily Show, Spongebob, South Park, The Henry Rollins Show, Braves games, Adult Swim, more shows on E! than I care to admit.

Books:

Most anything by Nick Hornby, Carl Hiaasen, Evan Dorkin, Faulkner, Hemingway, Allan Weisbecker, Larry Brown, Flannery O'Connor, Kinky Friedman and Mickey Spillane

Heroes:

The Hulk. Also, Jonas Salk

My Blog

Three things

1. I'm 95% over this stupid mono. My thanks to everyone who sent well wishes or at least cut back on the death threats. You're all great. As such, I'll be taking all of you to dinner at the Golden Cor...
Posted by Will on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:17:00 PST

Not quite dead

Just a quick note to announce that rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I think I'm on the road to recovery, though I'm taking this week off from work to get the rest of this junk behind me an...
Posted by Will on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:47:00 PST

Mono-blog.

I had kind of hoped to fill this up with witty observations from being bedridden for three days. However, my inability to stay awake for more than half an hour is making that difficult. Instead, here'...
Posted by Will on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:42:00 PST

Things I wish the doctor had not said.

"Wow, that's a really infected throat. We're putting you on an IV of antibiotics, and I'm prescribing more antibiotics and steriods. Also, I want you to see another doctor tomorrow, because if that sw...
Posted by Will on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:58:00 PST

A couple of ha-has and odds n ends to conclude your week.

1. Went to see Crowded House last night. So, so good. Liam Finn, Neil's son, played a solo set and was a madman on the guitar and drums. His album's due in January. He's got a myspace page if you want...
Posted by Will on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:34:00 PST

Sept. 25th

Don't look for me that day, I'll be at the record store picking up the following:New Steve EarleNew Bettye Lavette w/the Drive-By TruckersNew Foo Fighters (shut up, they're great)Any thing else coming...
Posted by Will on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:09:00 PST

Wisdom for the would-be writer

"There's a thin line between fiction and non-fiction. I snorted that line in 1972." -- Kinky Friedman, to me, upon me asking him if he was planning on writing any more fiction. I ended up buying a box...
Posted by Will on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:59:00 PST

The Winner!

Okay, here's the moment you've all been waiting for, or more likely, completely forgot about. The winner of the drawing in the Beatles poll is.......is...The mighty Excruciating Elizabeth. No, I didn'...
Posted by Will on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:05:00 PST

Poll time

All right, kids. Normally I'm your dancing little monkey here, making with the funny ha-has or weird links in an attempt to make you laugh and thereby inflate my own ego. Well, NO MORE. This time, the...
Posted by Will on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:52:00 PST

Mr. Manners

Etiquette lesson time, folks. If you're going to break up in the men's department at Macy's (and really, why wouldn't you?), howzabout you don't go out of your way to walk over within two fe...
Posted by Will on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:19:00 PST