EZRA was born, not hatched or decanted. Really. He speaks about himself in the third person, which is incredibly pretentious and arrogant, not unlike EZRA himself (he also sometimes insists on writing his name in all capitals).
EZRA is a local filmmaker, rapper and spoken word artist. You can also check him out here for samples of those things:
myspace.com/messcrew
http://myspace.com/ezraone
and
http://myspace.com/filmezra
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Ezra also recently published a book of poetry, short stories and essays (mostly about films), and it's available now, exclusively online at lulu.com. To preview and/or buy the book, go to lulu.com and search Ezra Stead, or simply copy and paste this URL into your browser:
http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?search_forum=-1&se arch_cat=2&show_results=topics&return_chars=200& search_keywords=&keys=&fSearch=ezra+stead&fSearc hFamily=0
Here's the trailer for a feature Ezra co-wrote and starred in, coming out this spring, directed by James Vogel:
The City Trailer from James Vogel on Vimeo .
EZRA is also a member of the local rap group Death Ray Scientific (myspace.com/drsrecordings) and a member of the 2007 and 2008 St. Paul Poetry Slam teams (soap-boxing.com)
Watch me eat seven rappers in this battle (skip to halfway through for the good stuff):
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Another old battle I dug up. Shelltoe won this one of course:
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