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Nate

natekushner

About Me

I am medium-new to New York, and I loves it. I am a comic/writer/drinker/musician/kickball legend, as well as a comic-writer-musician-drinker-kickball-legend. I also have a day job.

My Interests

Comedy (Sketch, stand-up, playwriting), Playing music (guitar, bass, mandolin, rapping), being a pop music nerd, interesting beers, good people, good books, and food that is bad for me.

I'd like to meet:

Smart people. Funny people. Talented people. Hot people.

Music:

Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Radiohead, Plastic Constellations, The Flaming Lips, the Wrens, Tom Waits, T-Rex, New Pornographers, MF Doom, Cocteau Twins, Devo, Pixies, Nick Drake, Blasting Trout Overbite, Enon, Leo Kottke, The Shaggs, New York Dolls, Kanye West, Gang of Four, Televison, XTC, Bowie, etc... Think 1977-1982.

Movies:

Stop Making Sense, Dr. Strangelove, The Jerk, the Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Metropolis, Man of Aran, The Straight Story, Blue Velvet, This is Spinal Tap, The Iron Giant

Television:

Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, The Sopranos, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, Monty Python, Wonder Showzen, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Adult Swim, The Daily Show.

Books:

Martin McDonagh, Salman Rushdie, James Joyce, JK Rowling, Tom Robbins, Philip Pullman, Robertson Davies, TC Boyle, Sam Shepard, Eugene Ionesco, William Shakespeare

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Emo Philips, Bob Odenkirk, Salman Rushdie, Steve Martin, Joey Santiago, Leo Kottke, John Entwhistle, Chris Onstad, Jeffrey Rowland, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Monty Python, Will Ferrell.