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Benjamin

thebigbendavis

About Me

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My Interests

Theater, Film and Television, Art, Politics, idle conversation, sweeping unsupported generalizations.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who checks out WWW.MOVIENIGHTONLINE.COM

Music:

Wilco, Jack Johnson, Dylan, Radiohead, Jim's Big Ego, Sondheim, Springsteen, Marley, The Band, Duke Ellington, Clapton (when I'm in the mood),

Movies:

Network, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, All that Jazz, French Connection, Unforgiven, Jaws, Vertigo, Kubrick, Capra, Fight Club, Magnolia, Meatballs, Being There, Chinatown, too many to list. visit www.movienightonline.com for some more I love.

Television:

Heroes, The Office, Boston Legal, Simpsons (in the day), Mythbusters, Daily Show/Colbert Report, Meet the Press, Frontline, The Chris Matthews Show, 60 Minutes

Books:

Siddhartha, Thank you for Smoking, To Kill a Mockingbird, War and Peace, Shakespeare, Eliot, The Hidden Hand Presidency, Chekhov, Brecht (sometimes), EasyWay to Quit Smoking (unfinished) and I am a recovered Stephen King fan.

My Blog

An Open Letter to Barack and Michelle Obama

I just sent this to Michelle Obama via barackobama.com...Dear Michelle,I am an ardent supporter of you and your husband's thrilling campaign. I write to you with serious concern about the smear tactic...
Posted by Benjamin on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:30:00 PST

My Mother’s Essay about being a woman of her generation voting for Obama

This is a beautiful essay my mother wrote this week..."Am I a bad feminist if I don't want Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination?"A friend of mine, apparently as enthusiastic as I am about ...
Posted by Benjamin on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:30:00 PST

Boredom Killing

So here it is, my first MySpace blog. I don't know what it is, but I've been getting into this whole MySpace thing the last couple of days. I never really got the point of it before, and now that I ge...
Posted by Benjamin on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:55:00 PST