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Steve Schifini

Wake up and smell the LA..

About Me

32 years old, LA resident, aspiring writer, lover of imported cheese, domestic not so much

My Interests

music (high octane sack-grabbing rock n'roll, mostly) guitar, NY Yankee baseball, college basketball, Georgia football, movies, books, comics, coffee. See below..

I'd like to meet:

Elvis, Yankee Fans

Music:

Springsteen, Beatles, The Pixies, Morphine, Elvis Costello, Viloent Femmes, The Hives, The Mooney Suzuki, Iggy Pop, Bowie, Television, REM, P-Funk, Dead Milmken, Johnny Cash, The Replacements, Ramones, Radiohead, The Kinks, Neil Young, A Tribe Called Quest, The Beach Boys, The Dead Boys, The Flaming Lips, Elvis Presley (Sun years especially) The Clash, Bob Dylan, Beck, Stevie Wonder, The Animals, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Five Eight, Pylon, The Rolling Stones, Soul Coughing, Ween, Vic Chesnutt, Lou Reed, CCR, Leonard Cohen, Iron Maiden dude, New York Dolls, Cheap Trick, Pavement, Black Sabbath, Blues Explosion, early 80s punk and 60's garage rock- to name a few.

Movies:

The Warriors, Godfellas, Chinatown, Donnie Darko, Vertigo, Strangers on a Train, Lord of the Rings, Dog Day Afternoon, Planet of the Apes, Sunset Boulevard, Stripes, Night of the Hunter, Ghostbusters, The Omega Man, The Third Man, Stop Making Sense, Mystery Train, Raiders of the Lost Ark, M, Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, River's Edge, Hell House, Young Frankenstein, Network, Five Easy Pieces, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Spaceballs, Strange Brew, Better Off Dead, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, An American Werewolf in London, History of the World Part 1, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, film-noir, sci-fi and anything in which Charlton Heston overacts

Television:

The Twilight Zone, Family Guy, The Honeymooners, The Prisoner, Get Smart, Star Trek, The Munsters, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Sportscenter, Baseball Tonight, Cheers, The Odd Couple, Arrested Development, the Office

Books:

Slaughterhouse Five, 1984, Sirens of Titan, 3 by Flannery O'Conner, The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, On the Road, Big Sur, Cash: The Autobiography, MAUS: a survivor's tale, Fahrenheit 451, The Corrections, In Cold Blood, Catcher in the Rye, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cat's Cradle, Mother Night, Edgar Allan Poe, baseball books, and comics

Heroes:

John Lennon, Hershcel Walker, Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield, Keith Richards, Orville Redenbacher, Kurt Vonnegut, Spider-Man, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Stan Lee, Bob Dylan, Robert Towne, Lee Van Cleef, Charles Beaumont, Robert Mitchum, Orson Welles, Rod Serling, Steve Balboni, Mel Brooks, Edgar Allan Poe, Norman Lear, Iggy Pop,Fred "Rerun" Berry, Bill Murray, Jack Kerouac, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Rick Moranis, Don Zimmer, and Batman.

My Blog

PHIL RIZZUTO

Fuckin A' that's the second guy from my "Heroes" to die this year. Can you get those Money Store commercials on You Tube? He was the greatest Italian-Yankee shortstop ever. Sorry, Dale Berra.
Posted by Steve Schifini on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:34:00 PST

POTATO BALLS

How good are the Potato Balls from Porto's in Burbank? I can now safely divide my life into two halves. The first 33 years of random collisions and interactions, and the second is a golden age which ...
Posted by Steve Schifini on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:40:00 PST

LOL...

Actually means "Laugh out loud" not "lots of luck." Yes, I'm too old to be on myspace. However, LOWMMF, still means "logged on wearing marshmallow fluff."
Posted by Steve Schifini on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:28:00 PST

Kurt Vonnegut

To acknowledge the death of the last great American Novelist and the role of the culturally relevant fiction novel along with him, do not look back or eulogize Kurt Vonnegut with anything sappy or cli...
Posted by Steve Schifini on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:32:00 PST

I saw De Niro

Okay, I seldomly geek out amidt celeb sightings, but this is Robert Freakin' DeNiro! I went to the rehersal for the new movie "What Just Happened" and I saw "Bob" walking down the faux main street her...
Posted by Steve Schifini on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:11:00 PST

BASEBALL FEVER..

Shake out the winter frezzer burn my NJ, NY friends- Pitchers and Catchers report on Tuesday (Insert West Hollywood joke if you can't handle my sinciere excitement)
Posted by Steve Schifini on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:31:00 PST

my pretty, money-making hands

Okay the good news is that I made the cut on Numbers, and it will air December 15th. The bad news is they used a take where you can only see my hands! Man, I guess these showbiz suits just weren't r...
Posted by Steve Schifini on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:52:00 PST

Who stole my Car stereo?

If one of my myspace friends did this- you're out of the top 8. No backsies.
Posted by Steve Schifini on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:46:00 PST

I was chased by a friggin' coyote!!!!!

Okay I guess this is a good time to try out the ol blog- as the headline indicates this is not a complicated metaphor, I was chased by a coyote while jogging. As if you needed another reason to not l...
Posted by Steve Schifini on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:52:00 PST