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MAX

I'm lookin for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anything... gimme some money

About Me

I'm perspicacious. So watch out.

My Interests

Saloon keepers, hurdy-gurdy girls, tinhorn gamblers and three-card monte men, road agents, prostitutes, vigilantes and tenderfeet.

I'd like to meet:

Uhh... Stacy's mom?

Music:

Garage, rockabilly, psychobilly, surf, blues, lo-fi, British invasion, house, experimental, lots more. Here's some cool old 45s to listen to. You're welcome.......

Movies:

Three great "Americans": Beauty, Psycho, Movie; The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Godfather I and II, Rear Window, Chopper, Tatie Danielle, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Down By Law, Vynterkiss (aka Kissed by Winter), Box of Moonlight, Some Voices, Bad Santa, One False Move, Hurlyburly, May, In Cold Blood, This Boy's Life, Royal Tennenbaums, True Romance, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Punch Drunk Love, Short Cuts, '40s film noir and comedy. I also demand that you see "Election," a great, dark, cynical, hilarious movie.

Television:

I've been watching Entourage a lot lately. Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fix my/ Sell my/ Buy my House shows, Daily Show, Colbert, Overhaulin', History Channel(s), the late Arrested Development, Six Feet Under

Books:

Tuesday Nights, Wonton Lust

Heroes:

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Blog

Until St. Patrick's Day...

As part of my ongoing effort to improve myself (an ongoing effort that is already well into its FOURTH day), I'm not drinking until St. Patrick's Day. That's March 17. I anticipate a joyous physical, ...
Posted by MAX on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:01:00 PST

I'm effing RICH!!

Got this email this morning. Looks like I'll finally be living the life I deserve. I like how they say I have to use the money for "humanitarian activites." Hookers and booze better fall into that cat...
Posted by MAX on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:01:00 PST

Double Indemnity

Just re-watched one of the all-time classics. Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. Great dialogue, and to that point unprecedented. Phyllis: Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eig...
Posted by MAX on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:02:00 PST

My latest obsession (relax, it's not you)

I was reading an article online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2198229,00.ht ml)  about Bran Castle (made infamous because Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for the Dracula le...
Posted by MAX on Sat, 27 May 2006 03:37:00 PST

Breaded chicken, fuzzy math

On a recent trip to the grocery store's deli counter:   Me: "How much for one of those chicken patties?" Clerk: "50 cents." "Great, I'll take two." "Sorry, hun. Only got one left." "Well, what's...
Posted by MAX on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:36:00 PST

Sunday dinner

I have dinner with my parents every Sunday. And every Sunday my mother gives us an update on her cat's bowel movements (frequency, size, etc.). Sometimes she brings it up more than once. It seems to b...
Posted by MAX on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:14:00 PST