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Maxwell and his Silver Hammer

freight train, each car looks the same

About Me

I have a beard and I need glasses to see. MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Reading, Sour Gummie Life Savers, Writing, Johnny Depp films, Singing out loud, Doing Laundry, Road Trips, 50s pop music, Stand-Up

I'd like to meet:

The Gypsies my dad swears dropped me off on my parents doorstep.

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Music:

Weezer, Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliot Smith, Desaparecidos, The Get Up Kids, Bob Dylan, Ludacris, Elton John (the early stuff), Modest Mouse, The New Amsterdams, The Band, Saves the Day, Rilo Kiley, Kanye West, The Killers, Lucero, Stevie Wonder, Sufjan Stevens, Leon Russell, Onelinedrawing, Tupac Shakur, The Postal Service, Hot Hot Heat, Cursive, Gym Class Heroes, The Flaming Lips, Billy Preston, Coldplay, The Elected, The Faint, Ben Folds, Aqueduct, The Shins, Miles Davis, Bloc Party, Michael Jackson, The Good Life, The Beatles

Movies:

The Godfather, Mallrats, Pulp Fiction, Wet Hot American Summer, The Godfather Part II, Scent of A Woman, Goodfellas, Fight Club, Edward Scissorhands, Karate Kid, The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie, Tombstone, Pirates of the Carribbean, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Love and Death, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Girl Next Door, Anchorman, Annie Hall, Unforgiven, The Rules of Attraction, Almost Famous, The Usual Suspects, Super Troopers, The Baxter, Blow, The Sandlot, Batman Begins, Jerry Maguire, Play it Again Sam, High Fidelity, Say Anything, Casblanca, Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic, Million Dollar Baby, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Scarface, Citizen Kane, The Aviator, Old School, Wedding Crashers, American Splendor, The Matrix, Cinderella Man, good night and good luck

Television:

The Daily Show, Stella, Reno 911!, The Colbert Report, Arrested Development, Next, The Wonder Years, That 70s Show, My Name is Earl, Boy Meets World, The Office, The Best Week Ever, Seinfeld, The X-Files, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Last Comic Standing

Books:

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, The Rum Diary, 1984, Animal Farm, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Heroes:

My Parents, Jon Stewart, Michael Showalter, Johnny Depp, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen, Batman

My Blog

From The Ying Ying Twins to Mother Theresa in Three Easy Steps (Part Two)

Even though I think most rap is completely absurd, there is one rapper I refuse to make fun of: Tupac. Because he's not dead, and nobody knows where the fuck he is, and, frankly, that scares me.I'm no...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:40:00 PST

From The Ying Ying Twins to Mother Theresa in Three Easy Steps (Part One)

Ok...here are some new musings I would like to write down to get some feeback on. Let me know what you guys think.I love music and the more I listen to, the more rap becomes, hands down, my favorite t...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:12:00 PST

Yahoo.com is the downfall of our society

I try not to write too often about the media for two reasons: 1) Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert do perfect jobs taking the newspeople to their preverbial houses and 2) I feel it has become an all-to-...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:42:00 PST

Needed to share this with the world or Procrastinating on my Poetry Paper

My dear suite-mate Jeff Byrd and I were having a conversation about the Cabot Star Herald, the local newpaper of our hometown. We were discussing how cheap it was and blah, blah, blah...anyway, I'll j...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:34:00 PST

The Dry Leading the Blind...Literally

Out of nowhere today, a ridiculous storm hit Fayetteville. It rained hard and it rained for hours. This was nothing out of the ordinary for Arkansas weather. However, I did see something out of the o...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:40:00 PST

The Only Opinion That Matters

If you haven't heard the news, Heath Ledger will be cast to play The Joker in 2008's sequel to Batman Begins. I know what you are thinking. How could the guy who plugged the bubble boy in the ass play...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:13:00 PST

Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut, Sometimes You Don't

I think that the candy bar industry has the most genuis marketing strategy of any industry in the United States. Better than those sonic guys, better than that little gekko, and better than having Pre...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:29:00 PST

The innermost circle of hell is saved for betrayers

So I came to the realization today that I'm switching back to Aquafresh brand toothpaste. Why the sudden change you ask? How do I know, in spite of our sordid history, that Aquafresh is the ...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:01:00 PST

The Val Kilmer Cometh

Today I was at the video store and I heard a man talking about the new Shane Black joint, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The man said to the woman behind the counter, and I quote, "I can't support any movie tha...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:31:00 PST

The Book of Keanu, Chapter 12: Verse 17

Have all of you seen this movie advertised titled "The Lake House?" I just want to make sure I understand the story correctly. A woman falls in love with a man she cannot see, hear, smell, taste or to...
Posted by Maxwell and his Silver Hammer on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:52:00 PST