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NEDA (nay-da)

Routine Retirement Of A Replicant

About Me

My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. There's a Green Beret Colonel up there who's gone insane. I'm supposed to kill him.

My Interests

"The Getaway"

I'd like to meet:

yokels, village idiots, turnip-swaggers and ditch people

Music:

beatles, beta band. big star, the fall, stranglers, wilco, fruit bats, beulah, the the, luna, pixies, stan ridgeway/stewart copeland's soundtrack to 'rumble fish', 'betty blue' soundtrack, nick drake, leonard cohen (the last two in small amounts- otherwise depression ensues), the sugarcubes, lloyd cole and the commotions, mecury rev, the feelies (their cover of 'dancing barefoot' is better than patti smith), spiritualized, yo la tengo, unrest, the black keys, papas fritas, grandaddy, beck, giant sand, pavement, air miami, nada surf, cornershop- too many to name

Movies:

Chinatown, Medium Cool, The Moderns, Rosemary's Baby, Withnail and I, Don't Look Now, Fat City, Zabrinskie Point, Amateur, Wings Of Desire, Bladerunner, Wages of Fear, Sweet Smell of Success, Butterfield 8, All Cassavetes (especially 'Gloria'), All Kubrick (especially 'The Killing'),Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, Zelig, The Cremaster Cycle, Casino Royale, Being There, The Party, Day For Night, Contempt, Repulsion, Breathless, The Loved One, Betty Blue, Raging Bull, Simple Men, almost all Film Noir, anything with Steve McQueen or Paul Newman....so so many.

Television:

The show i'm costuming on is brilliant so watch it!

"STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP"- Monday nights at 10pm on NBC

Books:

milan kundera, kurt vonnegut, lorrie moore, jim thompson, denis johnson, philip k. dick, flaubert, eco, vollman, foster wallace, f scott, henry miller, brautigan, arthur bradford, gabe hudson, murakami, george saunders, martin amis, jonathan franzen, graham greene, raymond carver, paul bowles, tim o'brien- many more.

Heroes:

peter sellers in the 'pink panther' and 'lolita'. amy sedaris as jerri blank. joe frank as himself. howard roark from 'the fountainhead'. "Every hero becomes a bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)