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Dan

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About Me

Despite being born a Jewish male in Los Angeles, I have somehow managed to carve out a place for myself in the entertainment industry. So believe me, I totally know what Halle Berry meant on Oscar night. My politics lean to the left; my penis curves to the right; and I like people who give it to me straight up the middle. I firmly believe that the best advice I ever received came from my driver's ed. teacher who said, "always turn in the direction of the skid." So what's your story?
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My Interests

Travel, History, Free Speech, Music, Food, Comedy, Basketball, Karaoke, Cigars, Rescue Animals and Pie. (I know pie is food... and I already said food... but pie is so important in my life that it needs to be mentioned separately. You got a problem with that?)


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I'd like to meet:

The guy who invented the snow globe.

Music:

The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, U2, Ray Charles, James McMurtry, Green Day, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon, Billie Holiday, The Rolling Stones, Del Amitri, The Who, Randy Newman, Hoagy Carmichael, Aretha Franklin, Smashing Pumpkins, Paul Simon, Elton John, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Waits, Badfinger, Eminem, Stevie Wonder, David Ackles, James Taylor, Barenaked Ladies, The Fugees, Louis Armstrong, Tom Jones, Phantom Planet, Marvin Gaye, Lucy Kaplansky, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, The Byrds and Gram Parsons

Movies:

On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Blue Velvet, Lost in America, Fargo, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Some Like It Hot, Network, In a Lonely Place, The Graduate, My Life As A Dog, A Hard Day's Night, Brazil, Cisco Pike, Dr. Strangelove, Diner, White Heat, Swingers, His Girl Friday, This is Spinal Tap, Birdy, All That Jazz, Ishtar, Windy City Heat as well as the films of Marx Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorcese, Monty Python, Woody Allen and Christopher Guest.


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Television:

All in the Family, M*A*S*H, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, The Sopranos, Hill Street Blues, The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, The Simpsons, Your Show of Shows, Caesar's Hour, 24, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Office (both the British and American versions), Get a Life, Arrested Development, The Shield, Rescue Me, Starved, Beggars and Choosers, South Park, Jimmy Kimmel Live, 30 Rock, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Sarah Silverman Program, Wondershowzen, Laugh In, Saturday Night Live... and then there's some stuff I really like on the internets. Especially...

Books:

What Makes Sammy Run, Concrete Island, Of Mice and Men, Running with Scissors, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Chosen, My Greatest Day in Show Business, Popcorn and anything by Charles Dickens, J.D. Salinger, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, Douglas Adams and David Sedaris.

Heroes:

Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, John Lennon, Norman Lear, Brandon Tartikoff, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, George Carlin, Elvis Costello, Magic Johnson and Arthur Miller

My Blog

Head Squeezins aka Brain Droppings (Remembering George Carlin)

My friend Steve Agee set my mind spinning with his blog post about the death of George Carlin. In it, Steve recalled listening to Carlin on the Dr. Demento radio show on KMET in LA. Being from LA an...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PST

Presidential Quiz

Interesting results. I knew I liked Kucinich and Edwards both, but never paid much attention to Gravel. Interesting that Hillary came up higher for me than Obama. They are all clustered pretty tigh...
Posted by Dan on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:59:00 PST

Southern Discomfort

So as some of you may already know, I have moved to Atlanta, Georgia for work. Yes, a Jew born and raised in Los Angeles decided to relocate to Georgia to continue to pursue the dream of being in sho...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:30:00 PST

A Thimblefull of Head Squeezins

Not to get all Bill Maher on y'all, but I have a new rule I'd like to get on the books.  It's a small phone etiquette concept that needs to be enforced.  If you call someone... I don't ...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:25:00 PST

Random Head Squeezins - Unfiltered With Extra Pulp

I don't think you people really understand the extent to which my insomnia controls my life.  It is now after 8am and I have not been to bed yet.  When I don't have external forces dictating...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:07:00 PST

Random Head Squeezins - A Shot From The Dick

Yeah, I know... everyone has written something about this.  But I really have to hand it to the Republicans.  When they get a total stronghold on our government, they sure know how to flaunt...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:30:00 PST

700 Sundays and 1 Great Thursday Night

Last Thursday, I took my parents and a close family friend to see Billy Crystal's tour de force one man show "700 Sundays".  Without giving away too much, the show is a deeply personal autobiogra...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:28:00 PST

Remembering Richard Pryor - from Huffington Post

Before just about anything else, comedy was the first love of my life.  It sustained and fed my mind and spirit as a kid.  Growing up, that love only deepened and certain personalities becam...
Posted by Dan on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:20:00 PST

A Small Dixie Cup of Head Squeezins

So I'm still sick and rather busy this week, campers.  Therefore, this one's gotta be brief.  But here it is, nonetheless.  Ready for it?  Okay.  Car alarms.  Why bother?...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:39:00 PST

Paul McCartney and His 2nd Best Band Ever

Although I've been fighting this cold long for enough that I am expecting the CDC to intervene, I had a positively religious experience at the penultimate concert on Paul McCartney's 2005 tour la...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:08:00 PST