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Wes

wesgerald

About Me

I'm crazy as hell, I bring the pain, and the fun. If you're around me, you WILL be entertained.

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My Interests

Being cheezy to the max, making people laugh, running, reading, all night diners, dive bars, Downtown L.A., Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Echo Park, Jonathan Antin hair products, long walks and drives around L.A., indie movies, hanging out until dawn, road trips, crooning, and all kinds of ill shiz.

I'd like to meet:

As F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "Strange children should look at each other and say, 'let's play!'"AIM = Westheangelino

Music:

Bright Eyes, Arcade Fire, Mates of State, Fatboy Slim, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Everclear, Jeff Buckley, XTC, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ratatat, Air, Brian Eno, Coldplay, Goldfrapp, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jesus and Mary Chain, Mazzy Star, X, Jane's Addiction, Johnny Cash (been a fan forever, unlike a lot of you posers!!!), Modest Mouse, Moby, the Smiths, Peaches, Nada Surf, Silversun Pickups, Rilo Kiley, Bowie, the Cure, and many more. And let's not forget musicals: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Showboat, Hair, Cabaret, Ragtime, Carrossel, to name a few.

Movies:

Way too many to mention.....so here's a sampling: Godfather I&II, Goodfellas, Sling Blade, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, I Heart Huckabees, Rushmoore, Royal Tanenbaums, Goodbye Lenin!, Waiting, Waterland, XX/XY, You Can Count on Me, Midnight Cowboy, Pennies From Heaven, Shattered Glass, Star Wars series, etc etc etc

Television:

TOP CHEF!, Project Runway, Sealab 2021, the West Wing, Cowboy Beebop, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Boondocks, Inside the Actors Studio, Robot Chicken, Family Guy, Duckman, SIX FEET UNDER, the Sopranos, Blow out, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Friday Night Lights

Books:

Fiction: anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Cider House Rules, A Lesson Before Dying, The Bell Jar, Jude the Obscure, 1984, Journey to the End of the Night, Nadja, and I've recently fallen in love with William Faulkner. Non-fiction: City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis, Dude...Where's My Country?, Under the Banner of Heaven, As Nature Made Him: the Boy Who Was Raised a Girl, the Great Unravelling by Paul Krugman.

Heroes:

My Mama and Daddy, Abe Lincoln, Jonathan Antin, Timothy Treadwell.