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Ezra

About Me

Crunk like Jon with a body like Usher.

My Interests

Carousing and all that it entails: drinking, dancing, singing, flirting and more.Lounging and all that it entails: reading, watching tv or movies, playing video games, listening to music, and eating.

I'd like to meet:

Other people who think that the scene in the used book store from "The Big Sleep" is just about the hottest thing ever.

Music:

Ludacris, Prince, Kanye West (for the right reasons,) A Tribe Called Quest, James Brown, The Clipse, Black Star, Aretha Franklin, Eminem, Curtis Mayfield, Parliment Funkadelic, my brother (PLUG: www.soulcyclemusic.com,) and basically any melodic hip-hop or bumping R&B.

Movies:

Clueless, Desperado, Seven Samurai, Marx Brothers in this order: Duck Soup, Monkey Business, Horsefeathers, Cocoanuts, Day at the Races, Night at the Opera; Kill Bill, Bridge on the River Kwai (I really need to see that again,) The Long Kiss Goodnight, Mean Girls, East West, Mapantzula, Sneakers, Maverick, Play it Again Sam, Godfathers, Arsenic and Old Lace, Rear Window, The Princess Bride, Some Like it Hot, Office Space, and Under the Cherry Moon.

Television:

Sopranos, Pardon the Interruption, Gilmore Girls, Sports.

Books:

John Le Carre, John Dickson Carr, Douglass Adams, Rex Stout, Edmund Crispin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Richard Russo, Walter Brooks, Arthur Ransom, and not P.G. Wodehouse, but I'm working on it.

Heroes:

Harpo Marx

My Blog

Recalling New Orleans, Part One

To continue my theme of being absurdly remiss in my blogging duties, I am only now, almost two weeks after I got beck from spending a week in Louisiana, going to write about it.I went down with a grou...
Posted by Ezra on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:23:00 PST

The Animal Kingdom

Hello faithful reader. Once again, I must apologize for the vast swaths of time between blog posts. Soon you will be so used to the pauses that I will be able to stop apologizing or, conversely, perha...
Posted by Ezra on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:11:00 PST

Common Sense

One of my favorite columnists, Bill Simmons, thinks that sports teams should employ common-sense assistant coaches. These people, whose expertise might only have been formerly employed playing countle...
Posted by Ezra on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:54:00 PST

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums

Low End Theory, A Tribe Called Quest, 1991.This was the album that got me into hip-hop. The two rappers, Phife and Q-Tip, interact more seamlessly then any other duo I've ever heard."If your hair and ...
Posted by Ezra on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:44:00 PST

The Banks Ain't Never Shook Like That!

I suppose literally everything is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You never had breakfast this morning before nor will you ever have it again. Reading this entry is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. T...
Posted by Ezra on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:35:00 PST

Toasty Wam Apartment

This Saturday my housemates and I threw a housewarming party. After several months of floating around, it has been amazing to settle down into my new place and being able to entertain is one of the ke...
Posted by Ezra on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:50:00 PST

Apartment Hunting in New York

So I finally found an apartment! 202 West Ninth Street, Apartment 2, Brooklyn, NY. I'm really excited about moving in on the 15th and I feel like an enormous weight has been lifted off my back. But I ...
Posted by Ezra on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:53:00 PST

On Football

Sitting at home today and watching the 24 hour, multichannel, minute to minute, minute coverage of the Terrell Owens situation finally gave me the kick in the ass necessary to write this piece that I'...
Posted by Ezra on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:15:00 PST

Where did I put that Fat?

**** WARNING: The following blog is highly biological. If you get grossed out, stop reading here and hit your browsers 'back' button. ****I weighed myself on my mom's scale the other day. But this is ...
Posted by Ezra on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:11:00 PST

ink sinking into me like I was paper

After reading my brother's recent blogs about his record collection and his favorite smells, I started thinking about what makes a difference in my life. I decided that my musical choices are more det...
Posted by Ezra on Fri, 19 May 2006 04:23:00 PST