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Benny

I'll make my own bed better than before...

About Me

I have a tendency to be all thumbs. I wish I could hibernate. I would love to have a full-on video game arcade in my living room.

You are The Fool

The Fool is the card of infinite possibilities. The bag on the staff indicates that he has all he need to do or be anything he wants, he has only to stop and unpack. He is on his way to a brand new beginning. But the card carries a little bark of warning as well. Stop daydreaming and fantasising and watch your step, lest you fall and end up looking the fool.

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My Interests

writing, theatre, television, really exciting nonfiction, clever fiction, insomnia, live music, indie pop, new wave, post-punk, down from the mountain country, bluegrass, folk, chicks with voices, real and good pop music, pop culture nostalgia, dream analysis, sleep patterns, palm reading, divination, alcohol in any form except rum, urban history, urban legends, sub-culture, the unique sociological commentary of Horror Movies

I'd like to meet:

Someone to kick my ass.

Music:

Bands: Rilo Kiley, The Elected, Ben Folds Five, Nickel Creek, Sigur Ros, Postal Service, Portishead, I am The World Trade Center, Sunnyday Real Estate, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, The Cranberries, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Faint, Eisley, The Prom, TV on the Radio, George, M83, The Format, Kind of Like Spitting, The Pixies, My Favorite, That Dog, Girlyman, Fall Out Boy, Skunk Anansie, Venus Hum, Mamas and the Papas, The Frames, Stars, The Sundays, Texas, Killing Heidi, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Letters to Cleo, Phoenix, Athlete, The Smiths, The Cure, Joy Division, Cheap Trick, Shakespear Sisters, Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, Tricky, Cocteau Twins, Thrill Kill Kult, Kidneythieves and the Clash. *************Solo Peeps: Jeff Buckley, Gregory Douglass, Patty Griffin, Duncan Sheik, Lisa Loeb, Dar Williams, Poe, Fiona Apple, Bic Runga, Howie Day, Carole King, Gordon Lightfoot, Sondre Lerche, Nelly Furtado, Missy Higgins, Chris Thile, Tegan & Sara, Eric Himan, Chris Garneau Janis Ian, Imogen Heap, Jenny Lewis, Onelinedrawing, Christopher Dallman, Racheal Sage, Tracy Bonham, Justin Tranter, Keyth Lawrence, Casey Stratton, Indigo Girls, Theresa Sokyrka, Dolly Parton, Casey Donovan, Kasey Chambers, Ani, Sarah McLachlan, Coyote Shivers, Eva Cassidy, Dusty Springfield, Mindy Smith, Aretha Franklin, Dylan Rice, Sacha Sacket and Jeff Buckley (again).

Movies:

Anything scary or gory, gruesome or frightening. Especially Zombie Movies. Zombies, Zombies, zombies. That being said: Ordinary People, Empire Records, Nightmare on Elm Street, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, New Nightmare, Halloween, Halloween 2, Hallowen H2O, Dark City, Clue, Nowhere, Doom Generation, October Sky, Carrie, The Hours, Shopgirl The Graduate, Die Hard, The Crow, Camp, Sleepaway Camp (1,2 & 3), 28 Days later, Beautiful Thing, My Own Private Idaho, Elephant, Garden State, Twin Falls Idaho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, LOTR, Northfork, Sin City, Mysterious Skin, X-Men, X-Men2, Me Without You, Can't Hardly Wait, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mulholland Drive, Little Women, Strictly Ballroom, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Cherry Falls, The Blob, The Fly, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Dead Alive, Zombie, Suspiria and everything else.

Television:

Right Now: Lost, The Riches, The Office (British and American), Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock and Bleak House. Of Yore: My So-Called Life, Wonderfalls, Buffy, X-Files, South Park, Daria, Simpsons, Quantam Leap,Northern Exposure, Scrubs, Reno 911, Inside the Actor's Studio, Dinner For Five, Twin Peaks, Project Runway, Angel, Drawn Together, Def Poetry, Craft Corner Deathmatch, American Gothic and anytime Roseanne is on tv I will watch it. Also any show on Animal Planet, Dicovery Channel, History Channel or Travel Channel. I kinda like TV.

Books:

Ordinary People, Flesh and Blood, Winter Birds, Hey Nostradamus, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs, All Families are Psychotic, Rules of Attraction, Close Range, Bad Dirt, Middlesex, Dream Boy, The Informers, Miss Wyoming, Generation X, The Twenty Seventh City, Geek Love, House of Leaves, The NeverEnding Story, Momo, Zombie, Mrs. Dalloway, Catcher in the Rye, Bleak House, The Corrections, The Body Artist, Cujo, Culture of Fear, Mysterious Skin, The Ice Storm, Safety of Objects, Shopgirl, LOTR, Running With Scissors, Lives of Circus Animals, House of Mirth, Figs & Phantoms, Pink Houses and Family Taverns, Slaughterhouse Five, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1984, Death be Not Proud, White Noise,Salem's Lot, Dandelion Wine, and The Stand. I read Comic Books. And...I...uh....I did it...I read them....the Harry Potter Books...all six of them...in a row....and...and...I liked them....I did...

My Blog

Up Front about Up Fronts...

Okay...initial reactions... Why do networks let whatever hit show from last season dictate the next years pilot season?   All the pilots are supernatural in nature...clearly taking off of t...
Posted by Benny on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:55:00 PST

Don't kill me....but...

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Posted by Benny on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:05:00 PST

I hope you don't mind that I put down into words....

I hate writing about writing. But that goddamn cursor blinks at me and all I can do is silent scream. Mouth open, face in mock-abject pain. A sentence forms and I call it morose. I erase it and then ...
Posted by Benny on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:40:00 PST

Still dodging the bullet...

Over the phone she sounds like a refugee. Her voice like gravel and her inflection weary and weighted with a continent of trouble. She has that kind of lilt to her speech that screams, without intent...
Posted by Benny on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:44:00 PST

Suitcase is a Hit!!!!!!!!!

FIVE OUT OF SIX STARS!!  Time Out's review of Suitcase is in! Read below and then call for reservations!!     Time Out Chicago / Issue 91: Nov 23Nov 29, 2006 Review Suitcase Ap...
Posted by Benny on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:10:00 PST

Appetite Theatre (My Company!) presents the Midwest Premiere of "Suitcase"

To commence out 3rd season of PREMIERE PLAYS,presentsSUITCASE,or Those That Resemble Flies from a Distanceby Melissa James GibsonDirected by Zachary DavisWhat do you pack in your Suitcase? For the cha...
Posted by Benny on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:48:00 PST

Get On the Shortbus

So I got to see Shortbus tonight.And all I can say is...mmmm.As far as plot...don't count on one in this one. That isn't the point. It's an experiment of sorts that I think largely works. There are...
Posted by Benny on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:24:00 PST

The Last Drought of the Middle West - "The Future Prom Queen's Seventh Sin"

This is what a gastric bypass must feel like, Alison thought, My guts have been mangled. Wadded up like play-doh. Kayce Allways stapled my stomach.     With a red face and a thumpi...
Posted by Benny on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:55:00 PST

McQuotes in McPreparation

  [To Derek about the prom.] Addison: This whole thing brings back very traumatic memories of being a band geek, with braces, and a lisp; spending the whole evening with 'Skippy Gold' talking ab...
Posted by Benny on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:45:00 PST

Come See Some of My Literary Semi-Genius....Bruschetta 2006

Welcome to Appetite Theatre Company's Third Season! To kick it off... CALL TO MAKE RESERVATIONS - 312-787-9384 Running for 3 Weeks Only...Opens Friday! RESTAURANT PARTNERS       G...
Posted by Benny on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:06:00 PST