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kevin

ist der kleine Eisbär!

About Me

I'm like one and a half Phife Dawgs.

My Interests

surfing pacifica, lindy hop, jazz standards, snowboarding, parlaying, comedy, artificial intelligence, computer shite, nerd hop (kevlar money$tacks, the world's stingiest rapper, EP coming soon), eating sushi.

I'd like to meet:

myself, at some point.

Music:

duke ellington, john coltrane, N*E*R*D, some van hunt, chris conner, nat king cole, sinatra, basie, 3xDope, maceo parker, remy shand, floetry, erykah badu, Prince, matt dusk, sam cooke, lou rawls, ice cube before 1993, diamond d, kim nalley, biggie smalls, stompy jones, bobby womack, slave, ohio players, supercat, satchmo, yo majesty, sugar and gold, king yellow a.k.a. yellowman, d.j. premier, special ed, d.j. cam

Movies:

bad santa, 2001, swingers, the tao of steve, 2010, contact, mississippi masala, ali, goodfellas, mo' better blues, harold and kumar go to white castle, heat, troy, goldfinger, comedian, the 40 year old virgin, half baked

Television:

Live @ Gotham

Books:

count of monte cristo, is bill cosby right?, louis's children

Heroes:

zardoz

My Blog

hell of a coincidence

I'm on my deck with my laptop reading about O.J. Simpson's guilty verdict, while my kitchen computer pumps live radio from nworcs.com. they're playing a 2hour tupac hour. as I wrap up the O.J. story,...
Posted by kevin on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:17:00 PST

JaMarcus Russell is a large man

Saturday night, 11:15 pm - I’m sitting at home watching ’Casino Royale’ on my new iMac. The movie’s cool, the iMac is cool, but it’s saturday night. I shouldn’t be...
Posted by kevin on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:24:00 PST

rich, middle class, poor?

rich:             "... so I went to my doctor"middle class: "...so I went to the doctor"poor:           &n...
Posted by kevin on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:56:00 PST

fate? destiny? hand of god?

today I experienced a chain of events that felt like some invisible force was gently bending the universe to save my ass.So it's 130pm, I'm on the verge of applying for this apartment on the corner of...
Posted by kevin on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:50:00 PST

shooting in the mission

I was at Cable Car Pizza on 16th and Valencia last night around 1:30 am, just getting a slice. We heard 6 shots fired, not in the distance, but real real close, like next door close. So close that eve...
Posted by kevin on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:34:00 PST

Ebony & Irony: notes from a self-produced comedy show...

with Joe Tobin... we did the whole thing ourselves. The title, the photo shoot, the flyer design, booking the room, promoting the show, booking super-host Tony Sparks and the body of the show - Greg E...
Posted by kevin on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:12:00 PST

comedy tip .7

if you answer the phone onstage, make sure the person on the other line is funny.
Posted by kevin on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:42:00 PST

what's in your iPod?

yizzur, i got me an iPod. i'm now free to ignore people wherever i go, which is really the purpose of the technology. whether it's bums on the MUNI or other comics yammering away as i try to prepare f...
Posted by kevin on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:51:00 PST

old school

last night I did a set and sitting in the audience was kirk mchenry, an old-school bay area comic. he's actually the first comic I met that was making a living off comedy, so I give a lot of weight to...
Posted by kevin on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:29:00 PST

I bombed tonight

so I hit the Canvas Gallery tuesday night open mic (http://www.thecanvasgallery.com/),  totally confident off 2 consecutive nights of belly laughs from my new set, and I completely eat it. The au...
Posted by kevin on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:29:00 PST