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About Me

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My Interests

Killing my Evil Twin. Music. Finding bands no one wants to hear and making everyone listen ANYWAY. Acting, writing, comics and video games. Nerd culture is alive and well.

I'd like to meet:

Rampant narcissism like this should really be outlawed...

Music:

Todd Rundgren, XTC, Marshall Crenshaw, Brian Wilson, Joni Mitchell, Ben Folds, Jason Falkner, Jon Brion, Buddy Judge, Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers, Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Coldplay, Splender, Third Eye Blind, David Mead, Blinker the Star, The Verve Pipe, Weezer, The Beatles (Both together and solo...except Ringo. Sorry, buddy.), Phantom Planet, Owsley, Optiganally Yours, Of Montreal, Al Green, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Ok Go, Kate Bush, Marvin Gaye, Hall and Oates, Fountains of Wayne, Laura Nyro, Elliott Smith, Duncan Sheik, David Bowie, Silverchair, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Both as a group, and solo), Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Crazy Horse, Colin Hay, Spymob, Erik Scott Smith, The Mars Volta, Brendon Benson, Bob Mould, Better than Ezra, Billy Bragg, Apples in Stereo, Barenaked Ladies, Zero 7, WanderLust, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Rooney, Ray Charles, Elvis Costello, Smashing Pumpkins, Athenaeum, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Dada, Glare, Cake, Crash Test Dummies, Marvelous 3, Bruce Cockburn, Del Amitri, Emmett Swimming, Everclear, Folk Implosion, Foo Fighters, Guided by Voices, Richard X. Heyman, Iron and Wine, Billy Joel, Norah Jones, Keane, The Killers, Nick Drake, The Mommyheads, The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, Jason Mraz, Muzzle, Muse, New Radicals, Moxy Fruvous, Charlie Parker, Josh Rouse, The Jane Doe's, Pink Floyd, The Police, Sting, The New Pornographers, Radiohead, The Pursuit of Happiness, Smokey Robinson, Tonic, Semisonic, Matthew Sweet, Cat Stevens, Spacehog, The Lemonheads, Sugar, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Rentals, TMBG, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, The Tragically Hip, The Who, The Rembrants, Wheatus, Tea Party, Of Montreal, ooops. Out of space.

Movies:

Let's see here...Life is beautiful, The Big Lebowski, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and anything by Kaufman, The American Astronaut, Donnie Darko, Memento, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera!, Reservoir Dogs, Batman Begins, Sin City, Kevin Smith's collected works, Unbreakable and anything by M. Night, The Producers (Original), Lost in Translation, Cannibal! the musical, Serenity, Battle Royale, The Back to the Future trilogy, Indiana Jones as well, Tron, Oh Brother, where art thou? and anything by the Cohen's. Anything with Bruce Campbell, The Shawshank Redemption, Zero Effect, The Thing, 28 days later, Night of the living dead, The first 3 Rocky's, The Life Aquatic and anything Wes Anderson, Dark City, Permanent Midnight, The Truman Show, The Incredibles, The New Kong...there's more I'm sure.

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and anything by Joss Whedon. LOST, Black Adder, House, Quantum Leap, Bones, Scrubs, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Arrested Development, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Show, Home Movies, Futurama, Cowboy Bebop, Simpsons, Family Guy, FLCL, WonderFalls, Danger Mouse, Clone High, The Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast. I also have to admit to being a Wrestling fan. Be it WWE, Lucha Libre or something from Japan, I'm a big mark at heart.

Books:

I tend toward biography's now. My author's are as follows: Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Brian Michael Bendis, Douglas Adams, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Phillip K. Dick, Bryan Givens. When I was a kid, Choose your own adventures were great. I mean great. Screenplays and Stageplays are always good for a lark. One shot books like, Prozac Nation, The Neverending Story, High Fidelity, I am Legend... I read a lot. I mean a LOT. Let's say...more than you.

My Blog

Lear’ned: Epilogue

Anybody want to take a guess at what today is? Today is actually the anniversary. If I had kept it up, today would have been 365 days of learning.I learned that you do NOT in fact learn something new ...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

Learn'ed 290

Sheldon, Matt and I went to an art show tonight. How hoity-toity is that? Well it was this: www.crazy4cult.com . the site might no be up until Friday. Actually all of the art was inspired by cult film...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:13:00 PST

Learn'ed 289

This article just needs to be reposted. It's showing you fake book jackets that you can put on your copy of Harry Potter so no one knows you're reading Harry Potter. It's for guys, really since girls ...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:11:00 PST

Learn'ed 288

Jeni Eckman's Birthday party today. I ended up in charge of the grill and I cooked a large volume of meat. Man oh man. No one complained, so I guess I didn't do a horrible job. I've never cooked on a ...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:57:00 PST

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Hudson Hawk. Man, I missed this movie when it was released, but it is right up my alley. Stupid over the top humor and ridiculous situations? Sign me up. Way to go Bruno!
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:56:00 PST

Learn'ed 286

Harry Potter 5 is good. Like Ross says, it's unusual for a movie series to go this long without seriously screwing something up. Except for the murderous editing of all Ron Weasley related sub plots....
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:55:00 PST

Learn'ed 285

Today while watching the "bastardized E3" coverage I heard that there may be some "Sci-Fi elements" rumored as part of Assassin's Creed which could be pretty cool. If you don't have any clue what I'm ...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:55:00 PST

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Psych is back on USA and I watched it today through the magic of Tivo. It doesn't seems like they've missed a beat from hiatus even though the "airing during the summer" thing bothers me. Like the don...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:51:00 PST

Learn'ed 283

More movie nonsense today as I saw Die Hard 4 and Ratatouille. Both were good. Die Hard was a competent action flick with nothing to do with the die hard series. I still enjoyed it. And no matter what...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:49:00 PST

Learn'ed 282

Ok so I read this today and I thought it was interesting. Did you know the character Walter from The Big Lebowski is based off a real person. I kid you not!! His name is John Milius and he has done so...
Posted by The Fall Guy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:48:00 PST