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Belly-Flavored Candy

My sink smells like water.

About Me

My background is in extreme metal music and over-the-top horror films, so naturally, I became a comedian. I do a TV comedy show (today public access, tomorrow the world) and am involved in a variety of movies.

My wife is lead vocalist for a metal band. I think I'm the only Mormon who can truthfully say that. Also, my cat's MySpace gets more attention than mine. But that's alright, she's a cool cat.

Check out clips from my show:: BELLY-FLAVORED CANDY on YouTube

Read my comedy:: BELLY-FLAVORED CANDY Blog

Here's a couple of new sketches. Help yourself, there's plenty to go around:
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My Interests

Engaging in creative pursuits whenever not working.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone cool. Preferably funny.

Music:

This guy:

(translation: Strapping Young Lad and any Devin Townsend projects). Also Metallica ('84-'89), Oingo Boingo, Peter Gabriel, Genesis (’71-’80), Faith No More (and most Mike Patton projects), Stooges, Motorhead, Dream Theater (’92-’94), Killing Joke, Joy Division, Sepultura (’91-’96), Ennio Morricone, Encompass, In Flames (’95-’99), Holst, Amorphis (’95-’98), Suicidal Tendencies, Johnny Cash, Iron Maiden (’82-’92), Ramones, Bernard Herrman, Spastic Ink, Goblin, Anthrax (’85-’94), Devo, Liquid Tension Experiment, Prokofiev, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest, lots of other stuff...

Movies:

DAWN OF THE DEAD (’78)
DUCK SOUP
BRAZIL
TOUCH OF EVIL
MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
CITIZEN KANE
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
BRIGHAM CITY
TAXI DRIVER
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE ('74)
RIO BRAVO
HIGH AND LOW
PARADISE LOST
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
STAGECOACH
BIG LEBOWSKI
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ('56)
HANGMEN ALSO DIE
FIVE STAR FINAL
GHOSTBUSTERS
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
DANCING OUTLAW
AMERICAN MOVIE
DEAD ALIVE
MOBSTERS AND MORMONS
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
VIDEODROME
THE BROOD
THE THIN BLUE LINE
Pasolini’s THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER ('55)
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE
NEW YORK DOLL
HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE
Lots of others...

Television:

Belly-Flavored Candy, Monty Python, old school Simpsons, The Critic, Family Guy, Dexter, The State, Arrested Development, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Mr. Show, and Kids in the Hall.

Books:

All these guys (and gals) have delighted, enlightened, and/ or challenged me:
Orson Scott Card, Gerald Kersh, Ray Bradbury, Flannery O'Connor, John Wyndham, Philip K. Dick, God, H.P. Lovecraft, John Collier, Brian Evenson, Katherine Porter, Harlan Ellison, Octavia Butler, O. Henry, Bill Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Matheson, Jim Thompson, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Charles Dickens, Brian Aldiss, William Faulkner, Stephen King, Fritz Leiber, Fyodor Dostoyevsy, Neil LaBute, Robert Heinlein, William Peter Blatty, Alvin Schwartz, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, F. Paul Wilson, Robert R. McCammon, Arthur C. Clarke, John Biguenet.

Heroes:

Don't really have any. But I really like people that stand by their principles and try to do the right thing. Even if they fail.

My Blog

Memo to Creative People

Words to live by from Orson Scott Card, I don't care who you are or what you believe:"I was about to make some pretty serious covenants with my wife-to-be, which I intended to keep. But...I was also ...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:29:00 PST

Polygamists and Zombies

The original 1978 DAWN OF THE DEAD is a beloved film I've returned to for comfort throughout my life. And it has a line that rather profoundly echoes my feelings when I read about the decimated FLDS s...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:06:00 PST

One Mormon’s Perspective on the Texas Raid

I've wrestled with it and I've had a hard time reaching a definite conclusion. I abhor polygamy and I'm horrified by the thought of underage girls being manipulated into forced marriages with older me...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:02:00 PST

Huckabees Running Again...

Don’t follow the show, but I’d heard there were a lot of Mormons who were American Idol finalists this year. Bearing that in mind, the following is too insanely brilliant not to repost (fr...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST

Orson Scott Card: On Art and Religious Hypocrisy

From his "Letter About Plagiarism," where he responded to severe LDS criticism of his novel "The Memory of Earth" (if you don't want to read anything uplifting, skip straight to the second paragraph):...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:04:00 PST

Brian Evenson: Way Ahead of the Curve

From a 1997 interview in "The Times" when he was still an active Mormon (his ideas in the second paragraph have become more fashionable in LDS culture since he left the church, ironically):"I feel goo...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

Thus Spake Neil LaBute

Words of wisdom from his introduction to his YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS script:"I love the idea of criticizing my audience as I entertain them. One must be cruel to be kind...I find myself a hopeful r...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:19:00 PST

No Mormon for President

So that Romney guy officially dropped out of the race for president today. My feelings about that guy are so mixed. Flip-flopping, immigrant-booting, and torture-advocacy aside, I really wonder how...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:03:00 PST

Nitpicks With That C-ville Article

Any of you who are my Charlottesville friends have probably already seen it, but if not, have at it:http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=121304062461064& ShowArticle_ID=11432801083815762 It was ...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:31:00 PST

R.I.P. Gordon B. Hinckley

90% of you are probably saying "Who?" The other 10% probably aren't reading this.He was the president of the LDS church since 1995 and he passed away last night. He's the only church leader my wife or...
Posted by Belly-Flavored Candy on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:19:00 PST