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David Wraith

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

My Interests

Music:

The Coup, Swamp Dogg, The Eagles of Death Metal, Joan as Police Woman, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Material Issue, Cat Power, The Beastie Boys, The Pixies, The Breeders, Tricky, Prince, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Tool, Gary Numan, Eminem, The Talking Heads, Morphine, Soul Coughing, Portishead, Saul Williams

Movies:

The Helium Tapes: Magnolia Bloom
Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, Blue Velvet, Dead Ringers, Naked, Fight Club, Waking Life, Ghost World, A History of Violence, X2, My Night at Maud's, Menace II Society, Natural Born Killers, The Doom Generation, The Mysterious Skin, True Romance, Mo Better Blues, Unbreakable, Donnie Darko, Memento, Batman Begins, Road House,

Television:

The Wire, Dexter, Weeds, Californication, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Flying Blind, The Ben Stiller Show, Sifl & Olly, Siskel & Ebert, Oz, Twin Peaks, My So-Called Life, Democracy Now, This American Life, Fresh Air, Bob's Scratchy Records, Dangerous Curves

Books:

Jesus Son, Dry, Tumble Home, Reasons to Live, Angels, Bad Behavior, Fight Club, Stripper Lessons, Amazing Grace, No One Left to Lie To, The Powers That Be, anything by Richard Price

Heroes:

Jack Jezreel, Ron Himes, Rudy Nickens, Joan Lipkin, Agnes Wilcox, Jay Swoboda, Eric Vickers, Amy Goodman

My Blog

Channel Wraith Presents: The Helium Tapes - Magnolia Bloom

Another video I've directed for my favorite band. If you don't watch it, then the terrorists really have won. Channel Wraith: it's like MTV, only with actual music videos....
Posted by David Wraith on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:56:00 PST

Ex-Lover

  So a couple years ago I was seeing this girl. She was sweet, smart and absolutely gorgeous. She was also fundamentally wrong for me. We broke up after a couple of months. Then, a couple of mot...
Posted by David Wraith on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:56:00 PST

Im Just Saying

Five years ago, George W. Bush, whom I think we can all agree is not the best public speaker to hold the office of president, made a speech linking Iraq to Al Qaeda, and accusing Saddam Hussein of hav...
Posted by David Wraith on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:56:00 PST

Lindsay Lohan

I wish I could remember the source of the quote, but my favorite comment on Lindsay Lohan's photo spread in New York Magazine was something to the effect of "It's amazing how much she looks like Mar...
Posted by David Wraith on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:12:00 PST

Six-Word Memoir

Sharks don't sleep. Neither did I. As seen on NPR. Please entertain me by adding your own. ...
Posted by David Wraith on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:05:00 PST

Psych!

 
Posted by David Wraith on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:24:00 PST

My Roommate is a Mad Genius

Artificial Sweetener by Andy Magee This is a sculpture by my roommate, Andy. It's a recreation of Andy Warhol's famous portrait of Marilyn Monroe made entirely of Splenda, Equal and Sweet & Low p...
Posted by David Wraith on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:11:00 PST

The Palm Court

The Palm Court is a restaurant and bar and my favorite place to go in New Orleans. They have live jazz and there and one of the band leaders, Lucien Barbarin, used to play for Harry Connick Jr. and al...
Posted by David Wraith on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:50:00 PST

Dreams I had while in Springfield:

I fucked Bjork in someone's basement. I was in the tropics and women were cliff diving into shallow water that was surrounded by rocks....
Posted by David Wraith on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:00:00 PST

Generation X

Is it too soon to start being nostalgic for the 90s? Remember those kids who used to sell cologne on the street? Whatever happened to them? One kid would sit on the sidewalk with a box of knock-off c...
Posted by David Wraith on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:55:00 PST