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Arnab Chanda

samsonite? i was way off.

About Me

FOR GIGS: email me at [email protected]
FOR all non-stand-up stuff: email Janette Linden ([email protected]).
I'm on Facebook too.
born & lived in england for 6 yrs (pontefract), 1 yr in India (calcutta), 14 yrs in saudi arabia (aramco- RT, Abqaiq, Udhailiyah, then RT again), but while living in saudi spent 8 years in school in america (CT, NC, NY). there. done. i moved permanently back to London in 2004.
i do stand-up comedy at night. i like writing stuff, but genuinely struggle with stand-up and have stage fright and often find it painful/boring/repetitive/depressing/frustrating/and hate being stared at/booed off by live audiences. i'd love to do more comedy acting stuff, and maybe one day write/make short films & stuff. i like agnosticism, futbol, tennis, NYC, nyc pizza, dripping sarcasm, white russians (no! the drink! ahaha), and watching movies/listening to music while drunk. i was the number 1 jr tennis player in saudi arabia from ages 10-12, after that things went horribly wrong for me. i also really love watching break-dancing, and i tried it a few times but it really hurt my wrists and made me want to cry. i like things like the big lebowski, rules of attraction, and mighty boosh.

My Interests

robots, stand-up, tennis (lawn and ping), futbol, leeds united, arsenal now (i'm a traitor), nyc pizza, connect 4, hot/wingy chicken wings and drinks with friends, whiffleball during spring and summers in New England.

I'd like to meet:

meeting heroes is always awkward and weird, so just old friends. although it'd be great to shadow conan o'brien and steve martin for a day. people who think usher and julia roberts are annoying. i like opinionated people who can see the quality in Beverly Hills Ninja, Home Alone, and Kindergarden Cop, and who really dislike action movies, especially ones where chicks try to fight and be badass (charlies angels, catwoman, etc.).

Music:

Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Strokes, Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, Queen, Lemonheads, Weezer, 311, Stevie Wonder, Blondie, Beatles, Police, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Talvin Singh, Lenny Kravitz, Ben Folds, James Taylor, Smiths, Tom Petty, C.Crows, Huey Lewis, Nick Drake, Robert Earl Keen, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson (but only his new stuff)

Movies:

Groundhog day, Comedian, big lebowski, rules of attraction, vanilla sky, being john malkovich, amerian psycho, little man tate, hudsucker proxy, rounders, high fidelity, tommy boy, swingers, boogie nights, y tu mama tambien, Rudy, White Men Can't Jump, Bourne Identity/Supremacy, tootsie, Without Limits, annie hall, manhattan, not another teen movie, home alone, bev hills ninja (anything Chris Farley), dumb and dumber, empire strikes back, kindergarden cop.

Television:

Dr. Katz, Seinfeld, Conan, Arrested Development, The Brak Show, Armando Iannucci Shows, Brass Eye, the Mighty Boosh, the Young Ones, 15 Storeys High, Monty Python, Ali G, Scrubs, Family Guy, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

Books:

Calvin and Hobbes, Vonnegut, Animal Farm, Aldous Huxley, and biographies in general

Heroes:

i'd love to meet & hear the stories of: conan o'brien, steve martin, andy kaufman, george carlin, christopher walken, bill hicks, paul rudd, lance armstrong, bill watterson, norm macDonald and the SNL fab four (chris farley, adam sandler, david spade, and chris rock), mcenroe, edberg, becker, goran ivanisevic, marat safin, dmitry tursonov, roddick, federer

My Blog

some super comics

hello. i removed all my blogs because my friend, al stick, said i was really wanky for having a blog. this made me self-conscious, so i removed them all, because i give in quite easily to peer pressur...
Posted by Arnab Chanda on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:06:00 PST