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About Me

Well, I'm a human being, my hair is brown, I live with the love of my life (which is kick-ass!), and I value warmth, humor, and compassion in people. I also value shared love of pop-culture, or specific pop-culture things, like music, tv, and movies. (Notice that while I am indeed a graduate of film school I do not use the word "cinema"-it's a bit prententious.) I like making mix tapes, and in this capacity, I am purist-I prefer using actual tapes as opposed to burning CD's. (I just thought it was important to get this out in the open up front.) I enjoy Scrabble and the game of LIFE. I also enjoy cooking, even though I'm not exactly Wolfgang Puck, and the day I watch a cooking show is never ever gonna come. I also despise tv shows devoted to the rearranging of furniture-it's almost like watching nothing. I don't know. I'm not really sure what else to say here-I've just been listing random things. That in mind, I'll drop a little background. I'm from Blackwood, NJ, the greatest town in the world-at least for visiting my parents or getting weed. Chicago is my favorite city. It's nifty. I'm 22 years old. Weezer is my favorite band. I'm a sucker for nostalgia. Casablanca is one of my favorite movies. Lastly, I'd like to add that while my sister is awesome, I have to take issue with her on her not liking of Bill Murray. She's out her damn mind, Murray is the man.

My Interests

Rocking. Rocking hard. Rocking even harder still, to the point of blowing people's minds out of their asses, or at least melting their faces off. That, and the secret, sordid world of competitive air guitar.

I'd like to meet:

President Bush. I had a dream that we played the Back to the Future 2 pinball machine at the laundromat next to Chan's Garden in L-Town, and I've always been a tad curious as to whether or not he had the same dream. Not really, but if I ever did meet him, this is exactly what I'd talk to him about, well, after I opened up by making pleasant chit-chat about the weather and whether or not he'd seen any good movies lately. (I bet he thought The 40 Year Old Virgin was awesome!)

Music:

Uh, the usual suspects. Weezer, Ween, Ben Folds, Dylan, Outkast, Portishead, Pixies, Beach Boys, The Clash, The Replacements, They Might Be Giants, Prince, Django Reinhardt, Television and the epic metal of Pat Brose.

Movies:

Casablanca, It's A Wonderful Life, Jackie Brown, The Truman Show, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Sleeper, Hannah and her Sisters, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Straight Story, The Princess and The Warrior, Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Election, Animal House, Boys Don't Cry, Shattered Glass, Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead (it's totally brilliant, don't scoff), Melinda and Melinda, Goodfellas, The King of Comedy, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Wedding Crashers, Animal Crackers, Ball of Fire, Double Indemnity, Stalag 17, The Searchers, All The King's Men, The Lady From Shanghai, Run Lola Run, Quick Change, Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch), Me, You, And Everyone We Know.

Television:

THE SOPRANOS, West Wing, Scrubs, Six Feet Under, Simpsons, Conan, Letterman, Ed, The X-Files, Sex and The City, Seinfeld, Coupling, King of The Hill, The Office (Steve Carrell version!), Saturday Night Live. And my favorite channel is Turner Classic Movies.

Books:

Anything by Salinger, On The Road, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Welcome to the Monkey House, Conan O'Brien's In The Year 2000, Hairstyles of The Damned, Live From New York (the big-ass history of SNL book), and, of course, my sister's favorite book, Great Issues in American History, Volume 3. Jenn likes Running With Scissors, which I too think is great. Bee Season is another great book. My friend Pat's favorite book is Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, which, coincidentally, is also Sadaam Hussein's favorite book.

Heroes:

Jenn, Pat, Stacey, Franklin. And just so you know, Stacey's favorite tv show is Becker, starring the ever fabulous Ted Danson.

My Blog

Five Songs

And now, a word about the Five Songs expirement: I wanted to choose five songs at random and write about whatever they made me think of when I listened to them. I sat down at the computer, popped on t...
Posted by Wheaton on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:52:00 PST

Purple Toupee...

Ah, I've had some hot new jams (and yeah, I'm the kind of person who feels no shame whatsoever in saying "hot new jams") I've been rocking as of late. 1. Lincoln-They Might Be Giants This album f...
Posted by Wheaton on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:42:00 PST

Holy Quit! Part 3: Dropping Some Science...

There I was, in the middle of a rapidly intensifying craving. I was washing the dishes. Normally, Id just go grab one from whereever I was hiding the pack, but instead I did something else: I dropped...
Posted by Wheaton on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:14:00 PST

Holy Quit! Part 2: No Direction Home or You Can't Ever Really Hide Anything From Yourself

A Bittersweet Relapse (9/28/05) Yesterday, after I told Jenn all about the lengths Id gone to keep myself away from the half-full pack of Parliaments (Full Flavor, Im not a Lights kind of guy),...
Posted by Wheaton on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:44:00 PST

Holy Quit! Part 1: A Diabolical Beginning (9/27/05)

*Disclaimer* Ive finally decided its time to quit, for real. Therell be no next pack is the last one retreats, nor do I have a pack in my pocket right now, hoping like hell that I have the will...
Posted by Wheaton on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:21:00 PST

With horror, I realize that it's just another Diet Coke.

Its late afternoon on a foggy, boring day. Stacey and I are standing in my Grandmothers living room. The static, wholly green walls and green carpet seem to only enhance our boredom. Im handed a ph...
Posted by Wheaton on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:09:00 PST

Pirates of Brando's Island...

Yeah, there was a review of Marlon Brando's finally released novel, Fan-Tan in the Times yesterday. I hope to someday read the book, as I've always been curious about it, and the review said that the ...
Posted by Wheaton on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:50:00 PST

Duhng, Clank, Sprrang....

"Duhng, Clank Sprrang, Duhng, Clank, Sprrang!" It's what I hear out the window. It's the sounds of basketball, namely, a shot where the ball is dangling around the rim for a few incredibly long second...
Posted by Wheaton on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:47:00 PST

The Street Parade....

On the way back from the bank, on 95th St, between 95th and California and 95th and Sacremento, a guy started yelling to me, from the middle of the street. He was standing there with his car, which ap...
Posted by Wheaton on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:28:00 PST

Friday night with the lights turned low.....

There's all sorts of noises we can hear outside our windows. Sometimes it's the Polish kids playing, (they play a lot in a tree on the side of the building, with a box from a blender or vegetable slic...
Posted by Wheaton on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:43:00 PST