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Jack Marshal

Did you ever feel that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

About Me

When there is a good song on a commercial, I try to find the commercial on youtube, find out what song it is, then buy it on iTunes.I like long picaresque movies. I am in love with the English language and wish we all spoke like Hamlet and Ophelia. I like thinking Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him.I dislike conspiracy theories that are made to make yourself sound smart. I like spring. I like winter. I like summer. I like fall. I like musicals. I like plays. I love my family. I like that my dad is me and my mom is my sister. I like comedy. Comedy is the reason we haven't all killed ourselves. I like bowing. I think casual conversation is the most interesting thing to observe. I like Seinfeld. I can name the original cast of SNL. Chevy Chase. Loraine Newman. Garret Morris. Jane Curtin. Dan Akroyd. John Belushi. Gilda Radner. I like how there were seven originals and seven words in LIVE FROM NEW YORK IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT. I like Fridays. I like old movies in black and white. I love snow. I love Christmas. I'm not religious. I like how that's okay. I like baseball. I like Brennan. Caroline. Chris. Maddie. Libby. Judith. Eric. Ian. Steven. I like comfort. I like being early. I like staying late. I like 5:30 am. I like pizza. I like Neil Simon. Tennessee Williams. I think Arthur Miller has a good point. I think smoking is the stupidest thing a person can do to themselves. I think my dad is right. I like animals . I actually enjoy long walks on the beach. I wish I was a real life Nathan Detroit. I want to bring back the leisure suit. I like revolutionaries, even if they're wrong. I like narrating. I like apple juice. I think Coke is better than Pepsi. I think we should all wear hats all the time. I think ignorance is as far off from bliss imaginable. I like this rant. I like a lot of things.What do you like?

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"This above all: to thine own self be true" -Polonious
"I can resist everything but temptation" -Oscar Wilde
"Think of MUSICAL COMEDY, the most glorious words in the English language!" - "42nd Street"
"All I want for Christmas is my constitutional right to publicly petition my government for a redress of grievances." -Samuel J. Byck
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going” -Tennessee Williams
“Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon plays-not that they're bad, but you can only take so much.” -Wes Bentley
“If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.” -Neil Simon
"If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family." - Quentin Crisp
"Ask an actor a question, he gives you his credits." -Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl
A New Day - Original Movie. Red Elf Films.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Jack!

    Jack can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night.Jack is incapable of sleep.New Zealand was the first place to allow Jack to vote.Bananas don't grow on trees - they grow on Jack!When provoked, Jack will swivel the tip of his abdomen and shoot a jet of boiling chemicals at his attacker!About one tenth of Jack is permanently covered in ice!It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown at Jack.Jack will become gaseous if his temperature rises above -42C.The deepest part of Jack is over 35,000 feet deep.Ideally, Jack should be stored on his side at a temperature of 55 degrees!
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Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Stability |||||| 26%
Orderliness |||||||||||| 46%
Accommodation |||||||||||||||| 63%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Intellectual |||||||||||| 50%
Mystical |||||||||| 36%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Religious || 10%
Hedonism |||||||||| 36%
Materialism |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 63%
Adventurousness |||||||||||| 43%
Work ethic |||||||||||||| 56%
Self absorbed || 10%
Conflict seeking |||||| 23%
Need to dominate |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Romantic |||||| 23%
Avoidant |||||||||| 36%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||||| 63%
Wealth |||||| 30%
Dependency |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Change averse |||||||||||| 50%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Individuality |||||||||||||| 56%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||| 70%
Peter pan complex || 10%
Physical security |||||||||||||||| 63%
Physical Fitness || 10%
Histrionic |||||||||||||| 56%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||| 70%
Vanity |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||| 63%
Female cliche |||||||||||||||||| 76% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Interests

Acting, Singing, Debate, Movies, Writing, Antiques, Hollywood, Comedy, Broadway, The Fifties, Independence, Philosophy, Literature, Dramaturgy, Popular Culture, Baseball, Foreign Countries, History, The Past, Theatre, Family, Friends, Satisfaction, Puffed Franklins

I'd like to meet:

LIVING -- Neil Simon. Don McLean. Bill Murray. Steve Martin. Lorne Michaels. Jack Nicholson. Phillip Seymour Hoffman. John Hinckley. Stephen Schwartz. Andrew Lloyd Weber. Stephen Sondheim. Alan Menken. Howard Ashman. Nathan Lane.Jerry Lewis. Lee Wilkof. Carol Burnett. Mel Brooks. Roger Corman. Jerome David Salinger. Darrell Hammond. Woody Allen. Dick Clark...

DEAD -- William Shakespeare. Tennessee Williams. Frank Sinatra. George Michael Cohan.Cole Porter. Abraham Lincoln. George Washington. Phil Hartman. Chris Farley. John Candy. Walter Matthau. Arthur Miller. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Oscar Wilde. Ernest Hemingway. Truman Capote. Jimmy Stewart. Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Humphrey Bogart. Elvis Presley. Johnny Cash. Herman Kozeny. Jerry Kozeny. John Marshall. Thomas Edison. John Adams. Benjamin Franklin.John Lennon.Don Knotts.Richard Pryor.John Wilkes Booth. Samuel Byck.

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Music:

Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Don McLean, The Beatles, The Rat Pack, Rufus Wainright, Johnny Cash, The Postal Service, Cake, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Blood Sweat and Tears, Guillemots, Sufjan Stevens, Allan Sherman, Simon & Garfunkel, Van Morrison
Musicals:
A New Brain, George M!, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent (on occasion), Man of La Mancha, Assassins, Is There Life After High School?, 1776, Urinetown the Musical, Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Forbidden Broadway, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Cabaret, Footloose, The Music Man, Godspell, Gypsy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, La Cage Aux Folles, Mame, [title of show]
Musical Theatre Composers:
Stephen Sondheim George M. Cohan, Cole Porter, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman, Stephen Schwartz
Little Shop of Horrors Film Original Ending (How it should have been) The above video shows the original ending to the 1986 film version of the Off-Off Broadway musical, Little Shop of Horrors. This is how the play ends. After running test screenings, however, upon seeing the reaction of the audiences and making a personal realization, Frank Oz, the director changed the ending to the much happier version which shows Seymour (Rick Moranis) and Audrey (Ellen Greene) living their dream life as man and wife...it sucks ass.

Movies:

Gene Wilder and Marty FeldmanMel Brooks' Young Frankenstein Forrest Gump, State and Main, 12 Angry Men, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Scent of a Woman, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Garden State, My Dinner With Andre, Singin' in the Rain, Orange County, Clerks, It's a Wonderful Life, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Blazing Saddles, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Duck Soup, Stand By Me, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Big Fish, Annie Hall, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Finding Forrester, Young Frankenstein, Anything Mel Brooks and Woody Allen

Television:

Slings & Arrows, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Law and Order, Queer as Folk, The Office, Seinfeld, Inside the Actor's Studio, Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg, Monk, Psych, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Sarah Silverman Program, Family Guy, The Weakest Link, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Camouflage, Mad Men, Almost any game show

Oldies: Cheers, I Love Lucy, All in the Family, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Dick Cavett Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Jeffersons, Let's Make a Deal, Three's Company, Andy Griffith Show, Leave it to Beaver, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Password

Books:

The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Count of Monte Cristo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Live From New York, In Cold Blood, Without You: a memior of love loss and the musical "Rent", Dracula, Anything by David Sedaris.

Plays: The Glass Menagerie, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Rumors, The Odd Couple, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Importance of Being Earnest, I Hate Hamlet, The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take it With You, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Inherit the Wind, The Zoo Story

Playwrights: Neil Simon, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

Shakespeare: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (sometimes)...

Heroes:

Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Neil Simon, George M. Cohan


My Blog

I’ve been tagged.

TAG Tag you are it!Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, habits, or goals about yourself. At the end choose 5-10 people to be tagged, listing their...
Posted by Jack Marshal on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

Our Lord and Pupil

Imagine going to high school with Jesus Christ. He'd be the guy who's really good at Math, but falls behind in Social Studies. He'd be the guy correcting teachers and students from saying "and me" as ...
Posted by Jack Marshal on Tue, 15 May 2007 08:26:00 PST

Some Things You Could Have Gone On Living Without Knowing

My AutobiographyPrologue1. Where did you take your default pic?-->WGHS outside of room 3122. What EXACTLY are you wearing right now?--> button down striped shirt, blue khakis, Thespian shirt, blue chu...
Posted by Jack Marshal on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:27:00 PST

He changed his name?

I thought it might be time for a change. "And it looks like Nathan's just another victim"
Posted by Jack Marshal on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:59:00 PST

why?

Boredom has found me once more. I never update this blog. I know I've cited this before but to kill a little boredom:www.livejournal.com/users/dramaholic1if you got one too, i'll friend you, just tell...
Posted by Jack Marshal on Wed, 10 May 2006 04:17:00 PST

Useless

I will probably never post to this blog, and when I do it will most likely be copied from http://www.livejournal.com/users/dramaholic1/ You have to be a friend to see anything recent. If you are ...
Posted by Jack Marshal on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:05:00 PST