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yours truly

Almost Five Days Old (MySpace Time).

About Me



CAN: Accurately sing the Star-Spangled Banner, Butcher Spanish and French, Fake Jazz Guitar, Tolerate absurd ideas, Read people, Enjoy Jean Claude Van Dam's art house films, Feign authority on abstract subjects, Dialogue, Finish daunting projects, Be palpably charming, Destroy a simple omelette, Strain a second of sex appeal, Get socratic, Eat unappologetically, Pick up a tab, Enjoy a Fassbinder film, Multi-task, Match wardrobes and socks, Pull people's legs, Understand Das Kapital.

CAN NOT: Accurately sing "Auld Lang Syne", Cook rice, Stiff a waitress, Grow a beard, Win the game of craps, Stand pretentious people, Hit women (wrestle, yes; hit, no), Stand in line at the DMV, Accept bad hygiene, Support terrorism, Watch bad sitcoms, Learn the Marengue steps, Turn down N.Y. cheesecake, Understand the Federal Reserves.

My Interests

BIBLE, GOD, JESUS of NAZARETH... Kieslowski, Rohmer, Allen, Godard, Takeshi, Bergman's films. IPOD. Bukowski, e.e.cummings, Byron's poems. Friend's Bookstore. The 80's. Tragic comedies. Anti-heroes. Showtime Boxing. Cheever, Updike, Carver, Barthelme, Chekhov, Borges's short stories. Beating the house odds at Craps. Western Philosophy. UFC. Edward Gorey. Writing. Rothko's paintings. Ayn Rand's manifestos. Tom Wolfe's essays. Paul Johnson, Allan and Harold Bloom's intellect. Lenhert Green's card magic. The Dog Whisperer. Jungian and birth order psychology. Underdogs. Flaws. Virtues. Tragic characters. Flash animation. Ware, Clowes, Moore's comics. Bi-Partisan Politics. Buffalo Wings, Pho, Sushi, Chili Burgers, Red Stripe Beer. Starbuck's Machiato. Peet's latte. Faking jazz or rock guitar. Unpretentious people. Telemundo.

I'd like to meet:

God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit (in form). Eve. Martin Scorsese. Harold Bloom. Dennis Prager. John Updike. Beat Takeshi

Music:

Yo La Tengo, M83, Luna, Belle and Sebastian, Galaxy500, The Magnetic Fields, My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, The Flaming Lips, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Mogwai, Grandaddy, The Wrens, The Microphones, Roger Moon, Dinosaur Jr, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, The Jayhawks, Interpol, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, U2, Taking Back Sunday, The Get Up Kids, Saves The Day, Suzanne Vega, Ricky Lee Jones, Abra Moore, The Hollies, Styx, The Who, The Beatles, The Stones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Caetano Veloso, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, Bird, John Coltrane, Luiz Bonfa, Bill Evans, Afrika Bambaattaa & the Soul Sonic Force, The Roots, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Erik Satie, Beethoven, Claude Debussy Wagner, Phillip Glass, and oh...Rebelde.

Movies:

FOREIGN: Kieslowski's Color Trilogy, The Double Life of Veronique, Persona, Contempt, Jules Et Jim, 400 Blows, The State of Things, Il Postino, Fireworks, Habla Con Ella, All About My Mother, The Kung Fu Hustle, Happy Together, In The Mood For Love, Eric Rohmer's Morale Tales, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Breathless, A Band Apart, L'Avventura, The Knack, Snatch, Shawn of The Dead.
DOMESTIC: A Woman Under The Influence, The Graduate, Buffalo '66, The Godfather Trilogy, All About Eve, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Election, Boogie Nights, Rushmore, The Royal Tannenbaums, Adaptation, Casablanca, Harold & Maude, Julien Donkey Boy, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotlessmind, Lost In Translation, Deer Hunter, Touch Of Evil, Psycho, Raging Bull, Good Fellas, Pulp Fiction, Jaws, E.T., Omen, Rocky I, Woody Allen's Pre -79 Films.
ANIMATION: Iron Giant, The Fox and The Hound, Beauty and The Beast, A Ghost In The Shell, The Incredibles, A Charlie Brown Christmas.
INDULGENCE: Any Marx Brothers Film, Rocky III-V, Master of The Flying Guillotine, Any Peter Seller Film, Sixteen Candles, The Lost Boys.

Television:

Lost, The Office (BBC), Ali-G show, Discovery, History Channel, Dateline, VH1 80's & 90's, The Dog Whisperer. Animal Planet. Showtime Boxing. Scare Tatics. TBN movies. Infomercial greats of Tony Little (the Gazelle exercise equipment).

Books:

FICTION: Middlemarch, The Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged, Notes From the Underground, Madame Bovary, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth, Death In Venice, Old Man Goriot, Far From the Maddening Crowd, The Great Gatsby. Rabbit Run installments. Trust Me. Couples. The Ground Beneath Her Feet. White Noise.

NON-FICTION: The Bible, Intellectuals, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Kings I&II, Euthyphro, Thinking For the Second Time, Mere Christianity, Mindhunter, My Life in Art, The Art of War, Idiot's Guide to Craps.

PLAYS: Othello, Perestroika, The Rhinoceros, The Glass Managerie, Glengary Glen Ross, Blithe Spirit, Death & The Maiden, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya.

My Blog

9/11 Conspiracy B.S. and Other Conspiratorial Annoyances. Part One

CONSPIRACISTS are hardly desperate for material and inspiration. Now why is that? Is it because they live in America, land of unprejudiced freedom and unchecked imagination? Perhaps I'm being overl...
Posted by CRS | prmn on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:25:00 PST

My Movie Premier

I've been asked many times about my feelings concerning my movie premier--were you nervous, were you proud, were you excited, anxious? etc... Well... Eleven days later, I'm ready to embellish on the...
Posted by CRS | prmn on Mon, 29 May 2006 10:01:00 PST

MYSPACE MUSIC ROTATION

It's slim-picking finding the right piece music for my MySpace page, simply because I'm a strange bird who happens to like a lot of the band's deeper tracks, and would go out of my way to mine them. ...
Posted by CRS | prmn on Tue, 30 May 2006 08:37:00 PST

BERGMAN'S SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE

husband and wife tear each other apart, kisses alternated with blows, affection and cruelty lockstepped in a well-rehearsed dance towards an unconsciously scripted demise. funny thing is--the characte...
Posted by CRS | prmn on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:06:00 PST

HUSTLE & FLOW

Just saw Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow". Very ashamed to see it this late since its release. Very impressed with his directorial and writing debut. Brewer beautifully rusts a hollywood hackneyed ...
Posted by CRS | prmn on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:48:00 PST

CURRENT BOOKS (The Month of May)

Paul Feig's "Kick Me"-- so far, painfully humorous and nostalgic. creator of Freaks and Geeks revisits familiar school yard angst and locker room dread. and tales of adolescent powerlessness and hum...
Posted by CRS | prmn on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:36:00 PST