ONE OF MY SKETCHES: WORLD PIECE
I have no interests. Only fervent disinterests.
I also like pretending that I'm 3-D.
Okay, none of the previous is true.
I like trivia. Here's a few quizzes I wrote for Sploofus.com. have a click!
Take my quiz: The Crappy Christmas Mom Gave Me All I Asked For
Take my quiz: Ear Wax: Hear's Some Questions
Take my quiz: A Toast to Toast
Take my quiz: Twister: Sex in a Box
Take my quiz: The Spork: A Cafeteria Icon
I loves me some art (seeing and doing), being in love, saying the right thing at the wrong time, photography, old movies, unplanned adventures, road trips to someplace I don't know about, Sunday morning uselessness, looking at the world with a squint and a cocked head, realizing yet another dream, walking long distances for charity, wordplay, honesty, staring at my banjo and wondering when I'll learn how to play, making homemade pasta, watching lettuce grow old.
Anyone who I haven't met yet. And Audrey Tautou.
One of my pooches...Chicago the Wonder Dog:
Your Brain's Pattern
Your mind is a creative hotbed of artistic talent.
You're always making pictures in your mind, especially when you're bored.
You are easily inspired to think colorful, interesting thoughts.
And although it may be hard to express these thoughts, it won't always be.
What Pattern Is Your Brain?
I will listen to anything as long as it's audible, from Native American chants to Aboriginal club music to classic rock to punk and classical. Abba to Zydeco.
Some of my consistent faves are Richard Thompson, Tom Waits, Howling Wolf, Robbie Robertson, Cat Stevens, Paul Pena, Yothu Yindi, ELO, Luka Bloom, Ben Lee, Shane MacGowan, AC/DC, The Ramones, Velvet Underground, Harry Nilsson, Phil Ochs, The Mills Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Dire Straits, Paul Simon, Jimmy Scott, Vivaldi, John Coltrane, The Cars, 70's punk, Bee Gees, Randy Newman, Lefty Frizzell, Native American music, the early film scores of Jerry Goldsmith. I love lyrics which is the only way I can endure country music.
On one cross-country drive I stopped on the banks of the Big Muddy and burned for a banjo, a raft, and a boy named Jim. I settled for the banjo, which I vow to learn! Not being a huge fan of country or bluegrass, and out of necessity, I plan to create a new genre of music.
Currently listening to Hot Hot Heat, Spoon, Keane, Comets on Fire, The Smiths, Longwave, Dead 60s, Drive Like Jehu, Bloc Party, banned music of the 1920s and Mark Knoppfler w/ Emmylou Harris. Teddy's Cheer Club rules!
I also like the sound cheese makes when it's sleepy. So cute. And I have a large collection of antique recordings from the 1860s. I do a great Jefferson Davis impersonation. Prove me wrong.
Flicks - Down By Law, Diner, Sullivan's Travels, Harold and Maude, Vernon Florida, Wings of Desire, Ran, My Life as a Dog, Wild in the Streets, Targets, Car Wash, Local Hero, A Thousand Clowns, The In-Laws, Willie Wonka, Battleship Potemkin, Run Lola Run, Cold Turkey, Triplets of Bellville, Time Bandits, The Point, Amadeus, ...Cuckoo's Nest, Au Hasard Balthasar, Night at the Opera, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Cinema Paradiso, Breaking Away, Midnight Cowboy, Ghost World, the Planet of the Apes series, Glory, The Boy Who Could Fly, Lady in White, Start the Revolution Without Me, Touch of Evil, Dr. Strangelove, Oliver, Five Corners, Wonderfully bad B-Movies like Murdercycle, Street Trash and Chopping Mall, Amelie, Amarcord, Static, and the film on old pudding. It's natures Saran wrap.
Sweet Smell of Success is the best screenplay ever!
A bit of a film trivia master. Fave directors include Preston Sturges, Buster Keaton, Bill Forsyth, Robert Bresson, Federico Fellini, Jarmusch, Jacques Tati, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang. Favorite actors include Buster Keaton, Cary Grant, Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Tautou, Bogart, Jeff Bridges, Paul Coyne, Susan Sarandon, that cute little Emmanuel Lewis, and anyone who will get naked for my pleasure.
TJ Hooker's Adrien Zmed loves me. I once found his American Express card on the sidewalk and he now calls me the most honest man in Los Angeles.
Not a fan. I work in TV as an editor and producer, so I don't watch it unless I get paid to. TV destroys the mind and I'm damned proud that I've been entrusted with that power.
I have a short attention span so I only watch subliminal ads. And Charles in Charge. That Willie Aames is a hoot!!!
In fact, I will seldom watch any 9/11 documentary that doesn't include Willie Aames.
But if I had a way-back machine and could program my TV - The Andy Griffith Show, Banacek, Freaks and Geeks, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons, Breaking Bonaduce, Due South, Unwrapped, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Lou Grant, The White Shadow, Soap, Entourage, Quantum Leap, Thirtysomething, Reno 911, Quark, Columbo, On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Fernwood 2Night, The Office (US and UK), The Untouchables (watching it drunk in college, I became convinced Ness was gay. He looks every perp up and down), the new Battlestar Galactica (as good as The Sopranos but with more pointed social commentary and better space battles).
I read Mad Libs regularly. Very underrated and so intellectually amorphous...but in a good way.
For some odd reason, I also like finding out the back story of useless stuff, like Paint-By-Number sets, foot diseases, diners or breakfast cereal.
My faves are Huckleberry Finn, On the Road, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Siddhartha, Still Life With Woodpecker, Travels With Charley, The Middle Americans, The Oxford English Dictionary, the OSPD, Oliver Twist, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Encyclopedia Brown, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide. Favorite writers include Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Herman Hesse, James Cain, William Goldman, Tom Robbins, O. Henry, Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Hemingway and any biography of a classic Hollywood star.
Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Underdog.
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