SCATTING!! (nonsensical jazz music versus shitting on people... perv), BRENDAN FRASER MOVIE GAME, parking garage roofs, being barefoot, the Full House Holy Trinity, puns, Native Americans, tex-mex in general and Taco Bell in specific, Kill/Marry/Fuck, making silly short films, writing, stand up, improv, rock n roll, concerts, photography, playing french horn and trumpet (for 16 years), learning guitar, PHOTOSHOP, painting, grilled cheese, thrifting, fuzzy posters, Tyler Perry-ing, laughing, skanking, SOUTH OF THE BORDER and other various places of kitschy Americana, making fun of confederates, spur-of-the-moment photoshoots, 90's Orioles, harmless stalking, spontaneous dance parties, sailing, ALAN RICKMAN TRIBUTE VIDEOS , pranking, learning quirky ex presidential facts, daydreaming, laughing about black face, collecting Abe Lincoln periphanelia, dinosaurs, Elvis Presley, washed up celebrities, and blasting the theme song of the place i am driving through at full volume... and sideburns. I have a deep respect for good sideburns. Well, most facial hair in general. And Yakkety Sax.
I'd like to meet:
And Alan Rickman. Holy shit I want to meet Alan Rickman.
Music:
Reel Big Fish, Old Crow Medicine Show, Queen, Beck, Eagles of Death Metal, ANDREW W.K., Jenny Lewis, Feist, Suburban Legends, The Mountain Goats, The Beatles, The White Stripes, TOM JONES, Gogol Bordello, Less Than Jake, Sufjan Stevens, Man Man, Bob Dylan, World Inferno Friendship Society, Johnny Cash, Weird Al Yankovic, Fiona Apple, Spoon, The Matches, Joanna Newsom, and anything New Wave or Cawk Rawk... if I don't break a sweat dancing, I probably won't see you live. Unless you have schtick. Or you have a gimmick. I love gimmicks. I also love swing & really bad 90's music. Ska music makes me happy like nothing else can. And I am in l-o-v-e with Elvis Presley, at all ages, now and forever.
Movies:
My most influential films are: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Child's Play 2 and Total Recall. This doesn't mean these are my favorite, but they've shaped me more than any other films have... sorry film school, I failed you.
Bubba Ho-Tep, Harold & Maude, Singin' In The Rain, Talladega Nights, Throw Momma From the Train, Anchorman, Zoolander, Wet Hot American Summer, LA Confidential, The Aristocrats, Toy Story, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shawshank Redemption, Love Actually, Serenity, The Matador, Arlington Road, Lucky Number Slevin. Also love basically anything Wes Anderson has done. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS!! DEMOLITION MAN!! THE FACULTY!! SLiTHER!! JURASSIC PARK!! INDEPENDENCE DAY!! ELMOPALOOZA!! Most 90's Baseball Movies. All Brendan Fraser movies. All of the Star Trek: TNG movies (somewhere inside is a huge sci-fi geek). Jim Carrey movies are my biggest influence. I love John Waters. And his mustache.
Television:
The Office, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, Raines, HUMAN GIANT, The Winner, Arrested Development, Upright Citizens Brigade, Scrubs, Strangers With Candy, Stella, Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Firefly, Reno 911, Freaks & Geeks, The L Word, Dexter, Saturday Night Live (1975-2002), Seinfeld, FULL HOUSE , Andy Barker: PI. And I watch Star Trek: TNG whenever I can.
Books:
My eyes are bad from reading so much as a kid. I've probably read "The Great Gatsby" 30 times, if I ever kill John Lennon you'd find it in my pocket. I read every book I can get my hands on about Abe Lincoln, no joke. "Assassination Vacation". "High Fidelity". "The Watchers". "On The Road". "Wuthering Heights" "The Dubliners" My collection of short stories on Dead Elvis. "Lost in the Funhouse" by Bill Zehme. Bruce Campbell's "If Chins Could Kill - Confessions of a B Movie Actor". "Catch 22". "No Laughing Matter". I love the Saturday Night Live memoir book that came out in 2003, and anything written by Steve Martin, especially "Shop Girl". "The Daily Show Presents: America The Book". And "Nothing Sacred" by Lewis Black... he kissed me one time, haha. And I love books of Presidential Trivia.
Heroes:
Mae Bessie Posey, my grandmother - I am the person that I am today because of this woman... she has taught me to love storytelling and I would not be half the person I am today without her influence in my life - she was my grandmother, my role model and one of my best friends.
Jim Carrey - the day I saw him fall out of a rhino's butt I knew I wanted to make pictures.
Andy Kaufman - he made a living in making himself laugh, regardless of who else thought he was funny.
Abraham Lincoln- little known fact: freed the slaves. Oh, was also a jokester and a teetotaller.
