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About Me

HOT PANTS!!!!

My Interests

Bending spoons. With my MIND!

I'd like to meet:

Alf

Music:

my rateyourmusic.com page- a work in progressbut i think my favorites are:fugazi/ t. rex/ yo la tengo/ leonard cohen/ television/ al green/ james brown/ sonic youth/ unwound / public enemy/ nick drake/ my bloody valentine/ tom waits/ iron maiden/ mission of burma/ x ray spex/ pixies/ band of horses/ germs/ otis redding/ godspeed you black emperor/ the kinks/ dead milkmen/ joanna newsom/ gang of four/ glenn branca/ superchunk/ the meters/ elvis costello/ six parts seven/ wreckless eric/ the wipers/ akron family/ sam cooke live @ the harlem square club/ velvet underground and nico/ serge gainsbourg/ built to spill/ pavement/ animal collective/ black flag/ deadly snakes/ slint/ the jam/ david bowie/ x/ wire/ xtc/ devo/ rocket from the tombs/ bizarros/ anything chris thompson sings on/ almost anything ian svenonious sings on/ nothing that robert plant sings on/ almost anything created in west akron/ i'm probably forgetting something really important

Movies:

The Top 30
1. Barton Fink
2. The 400 Blows
3. The Decalogue
4. Yojimbo
5. Cranes Are Flying
6. Shoot the Piano Player
7. This Is Spinal Tap
8. Chinatown
9. 7 Up Series
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Taxi Driver
12. M
13. Decline of Western Civilization
14. The Elephant Man
15. Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
16. Star Wars: Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
17. Fargo
18. Pulp Fiction
19. Rushmore
20. The Thin Man
21. The Third Man
22. Blue, White, Red
23. Raging Bull
24. The Natural
25. The Godfather
26. Night of the Living Dead
27. Rosemary's Baby
28. Do the Right Thing
29. Maborosi
30. Rope

Television:

Fishing with John (especially the willem dafoe episode), Get A Life, Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, the Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Office, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter, Mr. Show...

Books:

Albert Camus, Jim Thomspson, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, David Sedaris, Lester Bangs, Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond Chandler, Phillip K. Dick, Al Franken, Sarah Vowell, JD Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Thoreau, Emerson, John Kennedy Toole, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, The Onion, McSweeney's, Arthur, Found, etc.

My Blog

Ain't That a Kick in the Nuts. Trophy Bass Reviews "Little Man."

You know how sometimes you see ads on tv for a movie that looks so dumb that it's got to be hilarious. Well, I figured that the Wayan's Brothers film "Little Man" may have been one of those movi...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:56:00 PST

Hallmark Hall of Fame Waives 5 Year Waiting Period. Grants "Candles on Bay St" Immediate Entry

Wednesday Nov. 29 2006In a move that sent shockwaves throught the television industry, Hallmark opened the doors to it's Hall of Fame for the made-for-tv-movie, "Candles on Bay Street." Despite being...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:14:00 PST

My thoughts on Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet.

"The final resolution decided that Pluto was, in fact, not a planet, lowering the number of planets from nine to eight. The new classification of dwarf planet was created, encompassing Ceres, Pluto, a...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:14:00 PST

Happy Birthday America!

Posted by Trophy Bass on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:01:00 PST

My prediction for Super Bowl 40: Complete Anarchy

So, this weekend's the "Big Game" as they like to call it these days. All this week everyone's been asking me, "Trophy Bass, who's gonna win the "Big Game?" My answer? Nobody.You see there...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:55:00 PST

Cabin Boy: A Hero's Journey.

The following is an excerpt from my 550 page master's thesis. Unfortunately, as I later found out you have to finish your BA before you can be considered for a Master's Degree. So I didn't know what...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:30:00 PST

Tailgating w/ Toby Keith

As I'm sure many of you (losers) were aware, Ford was running a contest whereby the winner would have the pleasure of tailgating with country music legend, Toby Keith. Well, read em and weep, fol...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:26:00 PST

my top 101 movies of all time

Here it is. The 101 greatest movies ever according to me. The top 30 are ranked in order of how i like em. The rest are in no particular order. Let the criticism/attacks on my masculinity begin:1. Bar...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:35:00 PST

C.H.U.D. made me a vegetarian

So we were talkin' bout movies after the pere ubu show tonight (killer) and CHUD came up. I don't think I've told this story to too many people, but CHUD turned me into a vegetarian. Not right away, b...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:00:00 PST

Back in my life

After a 10 year absence Mentos are back in my life in a big way. I gave em up because they used to have ground up cown hooves in em (gross.) Apparently they stopped using gelatin and repla...
Posted by Trophy Bass on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:46:00 PST