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Jim Marquez

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I write with fire. I write with sex and whiskey on the brain. I write like a motherfucker! Been doing what I call "shows" all around L.A. In Hollywood, Highland Park, East Los Angeles, Downtown L.A.......I read and perform my writings to all crowds, to cool people who know what's up. My material is harsh & soft, a little offensive, but thought provoking, maybe sexed up a bit, throw in a dash of drunkeness, certainly silly, over the top here & there, self-deprecating as all hell, a teeny-weensie pinch of violence, poignant, sad, touching, tear jerking, but full of REAL LIFE, baby! Heart on the sleeves! As honest as it gets! Can you handle that?......You can find my books "L.A. Bitch IV: The Last Word!", "L.A. Bitch III: The Writer Strikes Back!", "L.A Bitch II: The Second Coming!", "L.A. Bitch!", "A Syringe Full of Loyalty" & "East L.A. Collage" @ "Shakespeare & Company"/Paris, France, at "Antigua Cultural Coffee House"/El Sereno, "Libreria Martinez"/Lynwood,"Casa de Sousa"/Olvera Street-Downtown Los Angeles, "City Lights Books"/San Francisco,"Metropolis Books"/Downtown Los Angeles, "Olverita's Village"/Olvera Street, Downtown LA. More locations to come.....I'm also heavy into the arts scene in downtown Los angeles. I cover the madness as a columnist for "CITIZEN LA". And I love to travel all over Europe. Backpacked 8 times solo.........Check out my books. Don't be afraid...Visit:www.LuLu.Com/JimMarquez..
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My Interests

I'll Be Reading Here July 12!!!"Sand Baby" by Glenda Rolle Reads From My Book "L.A. Bitch IV"-Bookmarks coming soon!! May 2008: My New Piece: "The Naughy Things People Do When.." SeeJimsBooks Traveling in Europe, writing, the beach, drinking, lots of incredible, dripping sex, eavesdropping, watching strange things happen around me, women, tulips, soccer, foreign films, the occassional hollywood movie like "Batman Begins", net surfing, the quiet of a hot, still, summer morning, a sleazy casino at 4 in-the-fucking-morning, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Paris, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Dublin, Berlin, Prague, the BBC, seeing my name in magazines and newspapers and book titles, performing at my own shows, Asian girls, women in general between 18-26, books, my laptop. Purchase "L.A. Bitch IV" www.lulu.com/jimmarquez

I'd like to meet:

The ghosts of Charles Bukowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald & the dude who invented Absinthe!! AND, OF COURSE, MY BLOODY BOOKS! SeeJim'sBooks .. .. .. .. ..> .. .. .. .. ..> .. .. .. .. ..>

Music:

U2, Pearl Jam, The Doors, The Who, The Clash, STP, Janes' Addiction, Stones, Moby, Chemical Brothers, soundtrack to "Lost in Translation",Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, the "love theme" in "Blade Runner", Sting, The Police, NIN, Dave Wakeling, Dave Matthews, salsa, mariachi, trance, electronic, taiko drumming, Traditional Irish, tribal, African, Arab, world music, Sinatra, Armin Van Buuren, Radiohead, both soundtracks to "Transpotting", Amsterdam and Berlin club shit, and more to come...

Movies:

Clerks II, Superman Returns, Capote, Domino, Man on Fire, History of Violence, V, Batman Begins,Irreversible,Cache, Crash, War of The Worlds, The Bourne series, Fight Club, Seven, Casino, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Royal Tenebaums, Pulp Fiction, The Shinning, old Ginger Lynn skin flicks (the sounds she made while cumming, oh my god!), The Thing, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Natural Born Killers, JFK, Any Given Sunday, House of 1,000 Corpses, Kill Bill, Ronin, Wyatt Earp, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Amelie, Moulin Rouge, Wait Until Sunset, Sexy Beast, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, The Good, the Bad & The Ugly, Unforgiven, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Once Upon A Time in America, Lost in Translation, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, Trainspotting, The Beach, Shallow Grave, Millions, Waking Ned Devine, Rear Window, Godfather Part II, The Conversation, American Pie, Bloody Sunday, Blade II, The Usual Suspects, Angel Heart, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Killing Zoe, An American Werewolf in London, Narc, The English Patient, The Crow, Shaun of The Dead, The Devil's Rejects, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the new Amityville Horror, Wedding Crashers.

Television:

BBC, PBS, Porn,

Books:

.. Most books of prose by Charles Bukowski, but especially "Post Office", "Women", "Tales of Ordinary Madness" & "Shakespeare Never Did This"; by Brett Easton Ellis: "Less Than Zero", "Rules of Attraction", "American Psycho", & "Glamour"; by Stephen King, a lot, but mostly "The Dead Zone", "The Shinning", "Salem's Lot", "The Talisman", "Firestarter", "Different Seasons", "Misery"; by Peter Straub "Ghost Story", "Shadowland", "Floating Dragon"; by Thomas Harris "Red Dragon"; by Nathainel West "The Day of the Locusts"; by Hemingway "The Sun Also Rises"; by Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"; by J.G. Ballard "Crash"; by Daniel Silva "A Murder in Vienna"; by Dan Brown "The Da Vinci Code"; by James Ellroy "The Black Dahlia": by Steve Hodel "The Black Dahlia Avenger"; by of course, a man I met just months before he blew his fucking head off Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" & "The Rum Diary"; by Jim Marquez "L.A. Bitch", "L.A. Bitch II: The Second Coming!", & "A Syringe Full of Loyalty"; by Ray Bradbury "Something Wicked This Way Comes"; by Dennis Cooper "Frisk"; by Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"; by Phillip K. Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"; by Dante "The Inferno"; by Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange"; "Brown Buffalo" by Oscar Zeta Acosta. Don't forget:

Heroes:

Writers like Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Brett Easton Ellis, Dennis Cooper, James Ellroy, Me: Jim Marquez, Stephen King before the accident, Peter Straub, Ernest Hemigway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel West, Daniel Silva, Dan Brown, Steve Lopez from the LA Times, firemen, writers who experience the shit and live to tell the tale, people who backpack solo across europe, Team USA men's national soccer squad, women who backpack solo across europe, the Scottish, the Irish, a choice few professors I had, my dad, bartenders, editors who have the balls to publish me, david my pal for picking up and saying fuck you and is living and working in Paris, bookshops who have the balls to stock my books, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorcese, Van Gogh, Monet......MY BEST PAL "JOEY" HERE AT WORLD CUP 2006-GERMANY

My Blog

Reading @ Joe Bravos Tortilla Art Show 7/12

I am honored to be reading at Mr.Bravo's Reception. He of appearances on Good Morning America, Tyra Banks, celebrity collections, and exhibitions in Hong KongOlvera StreetJuly 127-10pmMe Reading from ...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:42:00 PST

Reading @ Joe Bravos Tortilla Art Show 7/12

I am honored to be reading at Mr.Bravo's Reception. He of appearances on Good Morning America, Tyra Banks, celebrity collections, and exhibitions in Hong KongOlvera StreetJuly 127-10pmMe Reading from ...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:43:00 PST

Review of my DVD Launch Party 6/30

Hey Kids, The following is an excerpt of a review by "Frankiely" from www.LATACO.Com   Jim "The Beast" Marquez reading from his latest book "L.A. Bitch IV" at the "L.A. Bitch IV DVD" release part...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:33:00 PST

"L.A.Bitch IV" DVD Launch Party!!! 6/27

Ladies & Gents,   Quite simply: my book, "L.A.Bitch IV: The Last Word!", has now become a DVD. I know, huh? Go Figure.    With the indelible assistance from masters of Photogr...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:10:00 PST

MY "Citizen LA" Column June 2008

"Pieces of L.A." By Jim Marquez In honor of Father's Day Jim has graciously allowed us to run the opening words of his first novel in progress...Chapter OneThe trunk was already open by the time Jack ...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:19:00 PST

MY READINGS/DOWNTOWN LA/JUNE 6-7!!!

..   Ladies & Gentlemen   I'm getting prepped for THIS weekend, June 6-8, in Downtown LA, the biggest art weekend of the summer!!   My hands are a bit shaky at the momen...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:01:00 PST

May News/"CitizenLA"/Future Readings

..   Ladies & Gentlemen   Greetings for May 2008. Damn year's pumping by fast, isn't? So here we are, new issue of "Citizen LA" is out, artwalk approaches, new pieces have been&nbs...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Wed, 07 May 2008 01:53:00 PST

German Travel Piece Re-tooled

hey kids, re-cut & partial rewrote a damned interesting piece I did on germany. check it out. comment if you have the time.....It's Called "21st Century German War Memorials" "He who closes his...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:42:00 PST

April News!!!

Hey Kids! Just wanted to thank all those that came out to my book signing over at "First Street Studios" on Saturday night. It was a blast! We had friends, foes, & future anonymous lovers show up,...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:30:00 PST

My New Piece in April

hey kids, so this old, drunken writer & 4 bartenders walk into this strip club, see? and they... well, you gotta read my new piece in the april 2008 issue of "citizen l.a" to find out what happens...
Posted by Jim Marquez on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:05:00 PST