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Kelly Laymon

Beat on the Brat with a Baseball Bat! Oh Yeah!

About Me

I'm a pop culture whore. Music. Movies. Television. Books. Stand-up comedy. Music videos. Magazines. Bad cable television. Award shows. Live music.
I travelled all over the country with my parents for the first twenty one years. Now I've been doing it myself for the last six. I've crossed the country five times. And then some. Always on the go here on the east coast. Crossing state lines on the regular. The United States is an amazing treasure of sights, people, and experiences and I can never get enough.
A good Saturday night is a bottle of champagne. A movie. Or TV on DVD. And much time spent rearranging my albums. And tweaking my obsessively thematic playlists for my iPod.

My Interests

You name it.

I'd like to meet:

Old friends. Former classmates. Folks I had fun with, but lost touch.

Music:

Top Artists: Warren Zevon. Blondie. The Beach Boys. The Ramones. Green Day. The Donnas. No Doubt. The Doors. Coldplay. Joy Division. The Killers. Leonard Cohen. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
Honorable Mention: Tom Waits. Morrissey. The Smiths. The Clash. The Cure. Talking Heads. The Dead Boys. Sublime. The Sex Pistols. Oasis. Rancid. The Violent Femmes. Aimee Mann. Blues Traveler. Interpol. Julee Cruise. Ryan Adams.

Movies:

Anything by Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Kevin Smith. Sunset Boulevard. Lost in Translation. Shopgirl. Broken Flowers. Team America: World Police. Mean Streets. Swingers. Made. High Fidelity. Freaks. Old School. Dodgeball. The Wedding Crashers. Fargo. Blood Simple. Barton Fink. Sideways. Miller's Crossing. Sid & Nancy. The 40 Year Old Virgin. Knocked Up. Superbad. The Great Outdoors. The Truth About Cats and Dogs. Almost Famous. Wonder Boys. Capote. El Mariachi. Desperado. Sin City. Blue Velvet. The Towering Inferno.

Television:

Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman. South Park. Dinner for Five. Twin Peaks. Homicide: Life on the Street. Freaks & Geeks. Six Feet Under. Undeclared. Carnivale. Love Monkey. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Fawlty Towers. Miami Vice.

Books:

Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Hornby's High Fidelity. Martin's Shopgirl. James Ellroy's My Dark Places. Capote's In Cold Blood. Chuck Klosterman, Tennessee Williams, and Paul Feig.

Heroes:

Creative Heroes: David Letterman. Bonnie Hunt. Quentin Tarantino. Tina Fey. David Sedaris. Amy Sedaris. David Spade. Paul Feig.

My Blog

Shake Your Groove Thing

Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday or if you'd get to eat cookies for breakfast. Being an adult? Totally overrated. I mean seriously, ...
Posted by Kelly Laymon on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:50:00 PST

I Got Tagged!

Pamphilia tagged me.  My barometer for weird is SO far off that I have no idea what constitutes weird at this point.  I'll try to think of things people may not know about me.   Nanc...
Posted by Kelly Laymon on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:58:00 PST

Yang

This is where I live.  My mother decorated it.  I don't do laundry, I buy new underwear.  The table?  Six months of magazines I know I'll never read but I won't throw out.  I...
Posted by Kelly Laymon on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:48:00 PST

DON'T!

Don't mention the war!  I only mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
Posted by Kelly Laymon on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:18:00 PST