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the great enabler

my natural state is: at rest

About Me

give me a chance and i'll take my chances. give me a second chance and i'll make it perfect. give me a third and i'll probably destroy it. stiff drinks and loose conversation. i'm capable of things you could only dream about. droppin' the sl- and takin' it eazy. the definition of a solid dude. a bed and a party. my name is spelled: z-a-c. and it's pronounced: smooze (as in booze) - e - ak. go ahead, now say it quickly.oh, and i was here (you might find me at the right side of the frame):

My Interests

appreciating what isn't art but should be...reading stories about drifters, writing songs about the same...writing that book of mine that i just cant seem to get done...the power of lo-fi digital photography...the systematic dissemination of the english language...the fine art of heckling bands...a connisseur of cheap booze..."work to live; don't live to work." oh, and i laugh when people fall down.

I'd like to meet:

people capable of being friends. people who've been chewed up by life and spit back out...they got the flavor. people who do what they say and say what they mean. people who don't mean what they say, but say it grandly. people who do what they say and mean, but beautifully fail at it. people who have a hard time saying what they mean, but mean it explicitly. people who don't mind when i do this...

Music:

DAYMON DAY DEUX: anytime you hear the snare, it's me. the ringing in my ears is like a symphony...not to be forgotten or outdone: Dangerzone, Bru Lei & Amos Famous. .. width="425" height="350" ....

Movies:

Vitamin Flintheart in "the Big Snatch." A song by the Dolby Fuckers and video by the New Decadence. chateau awesome pictures: Art Film I, Art Film II, Un Miracle Noel, and the New Decadence Manifesto: A Historical Romance...other than that: disorderlies, krush groove, freaked, death proof, lars and the real girl, science of sleep, knocked up, children of men, we are marshall, bobby, baby snakes (by frank zappa), tideland, hot fuzz, the departed, who killed the electric car, hard candy, shawn of the dead, half nelson, factotum, plain clothes, little miss sunshine, they live (starring rowdy roddy piper), amazon women on the moon, stranger than fiction, midnight cowboy, tenacious d and the pick of destiny, he died witha felafel in his hand, lucky number slevin, quicksilver, hustle and flow, the prize winner of defiance ohio, turk 182, garden state, escape from new york, i heart huckabees, 200 cigarettes, THX 1138, riot on sunset strip, eddie and the cruisers, real genius, vision quest (it makes you wanna rock and workout), weird science (unless it's on TBS), ghost world, where the buffalo roam, the hustler (badass paul newman), anything with steve mcqueen, bubba hotep, repo man, johnny be good, just one of the guys, christine, dead end drive-in, the life and hard times of guy terrifico, what's up matador?, i am trying to break your heart, a good band is easy to kill, dreaming in america... and YACHT ROCK!

Television:

.. width="425" height="350" .... the flickering box doesn't tell me what to do... but sometimes i watch: it's always sunny in philadelphia, weeds, freaks and geeks, the adventures of pete & pete--on dvd, at my own leisure, commercial free.

Books:

anything by henry miller, anything by kerouac, anything by chuck klosterman (the shorter the better--cause i love the way he just tosses it off), the great charles bukowski, jesus' son by denis johnson, one flew over the cuckoo's nest by ken kesey, the time traveler's wife by audrey niffeneger, mad love by andre breton, happy baby by stephen elliott, the electric kool-aid acid test by tom wolfe, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers, a brief history of nearly everything by bill bryson, a scanner darkly by phillip k. dick, black monk time by eddie shaw, life after god by douglas coupland, cash by cash, chronicles: vol. one by bob dylan, garden of eden by ernest hemingway, neuromancer by william gibson, the poetry of kenneth rexroth...and the funniest mag on earth: chunklet. oh, and let's not forget: modern drunkard.

Heroes:

i don't believe in heroes. those that are out of the ordinary... or those of the everyday variety... but this guy is pretty close. i wouldn't roll around on that floor-- and i've mopped it. or this guy... Crazy Office Guy [Angle #1]

My Blog

im not a red sox fan, im a fan of red sox fans

these days i'm not even much of a baseball fan, mustering only the strength to check and see the tribe's opening day lineup.  maybe i'll watch after the all-star break... regardless, this story ...
Posted by the great enabler on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:47:00 PST

Jaguar Ride

Brian McMahon is the guitar player in seminal Cleveland rockers, Electric Eels.  They made there name slugging it out with Rocket from the Tombs and the Dead Boys, but they also lived in Columbus...
Posted by the great enabler on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:36:00 PST

chris berman gives pharmaceutical advice...

that explains a lot about all the nicknames he gives.to think i was excited to meet him as a ten year old at the pro football hall of fame in canton. we'd have a lot more to talk about now....
Posted by the great enabler on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:15:00 PST

hes no keith olberman, but jack cafferty is telling it like it is...

this is soooo fucked....
Posted by the great enabler on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:07:00 PST

when i was in high school, there was a point that i watched this every day.

i'd throw my bag in my room, grab a soda and a snack, and throw on a dubbed VHS copy taped off of VH1.  sometimes, i'd wait until right before band practice, giving my system the jolt it needed, ...
Posted by the great enabler on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:04:00 PST

keith oberman is a BADASS!

oh, i remember when Keith Oberman was the goofy anchor on ESPN's Sportscenter.  during his tenure, he helped to usher in a new era of sports reporters, in the wake of the first true modern sports...
Posted by the great enabler on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:11:00 PST

check out this band i used to be in called the cusacks

they recently created a myspace and made their material available online.  you should go check them out at myspace.com/thecusacks a few thoughts about my old friends: sure, i knew about gaunt and...
Posted by the great enabler on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:46:00 PST

Ash to Ashes, Dust to Rust

so there was once a band i loved called ash. they were always hard to come by, being that their american labels would all go under before these irish punks could really get much momentum. during the p...
Posted by the great enabler on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:37:00 PST

the late great mitch hedburg

i usually hate comedy recordings, but i've been a fan of mitch hedburg since i first heard him.  i was at a birthday party for mike frank, which was supposed to be a "price is right" themed ...
Posted by the great enabler on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:34:00 PST

the truth about cats & dogs (no, not the movie)

here at chateau awesome, we have a man named the mike frank, the the being as integral to the name as the two proper nouns it precedes, a roommate in the basement named pants, who brews his own liquer...
Posted by the great enabler on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:41:00 PST