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Jackson Publick

What a strange thing to happen to a little boy

About Me

I make a cartoon for a living...it's called The Venture Bros. and you should all watch it and buy the DVD and any merchandise they might make because I like new suits, good food, DVDs of other people's cartoons and paying rent on time, and I think it's a pretty good show.I've also never broken a bone in my body (though I sprained a wrist and it's possible I cracked my heel).Goddammit, I love cigarettes. No, I hate them. Yes, they're great, let's all smoke. Dammit.I have a big forehead, like a sperm whale, and I'm as white as Moby Dick. If you look very very closely, with special glasses I could lend you when you come over, you can make out a tiny Captain Ahab, lashed to it by his own harpoon lines (the irony!)...I am careful not to crush him when I sleep, though it's hard to sleep what with his constant, high-pitched cursing of me.

My Interests

ProKeds, old robots, Acme Novelty Library, constantly re-living my childhood, thinkin' stuff up, magicians, pirates, retro-futurism, making my dog stop eating cat poop, biographies

I'd like to meet:

Nikola Tesla

Music:

Pulp, Blur, Devo, XTC, Led Zeppelin, Interpol, The Rapture, Velvet Underground, J.G. Thirlwell, Soul Coughing, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Joy Division, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Barkmarket, Art Blakey, Public Enemy, Bloc Party, Bowie, The Dandy Warhols...more crap I can't think of right now.

Movies:

Trainspotting, Rear Window, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Naked, Connery Bond films, To Kill a Mockingbird, any Wes Anderson, Magnolia, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Naked, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ed Wood, The Warriors, Coen Bros., Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Fight Club, Jaws, The Odd Couple, The Taking of Pelham 123, Dog Day Afternoon, Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, Silence of the Lambs, All About My Mother, The Conversation, Glengarry GlenRoss, King of Comedy, Network, Harold & Maude

Television:

Sopranos, The Office, Lost, Venture Bros., South Park, Daily Show

Books:

Stern (Friedman), Nine Stories (Salinger), Moon Palace (Auster), Low Life (Sante), Mr. Mike: the biography of Michael O'Donogue (Perrin), various Tom Swift adventures (Appleton), Acme Novelty Library (Ware), Eightball (Clowes), The Magic Christian (Southern), The Subterraneans (Kerouac), The Ideal Boy (Indian poster book), Dead Leprechaun in a Tire Swing (the magical Mr. Terrence Fleming)