Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams - ProfilesArchive

About Me

My name is Phil Abrams and I am an actor living in Los Angeles. I have guest starred on Chuck, Eli Stone, The Bill Engvall Show, Boston Legal, The Practice, NYPD Blue, The Gilmore Girls, Zip, Malcolm in the Middle, Strong Medicine, Head Cases, Pepper Dennis, Zoey 101, The Suite Life, to name a few and have appeared on 24, Cavemen, Eli Stone (recurring), Nip/Tuck, My Name is Earl, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, ER, Crossing Jordan, Navy NCIS, Las Vegas, Medium, Without a Trace, Desperate Housewives, Monk, The X-Files to name a few more.
Click here to see my partial resume on IMDB.
Mission Statement: To bring light, laughter and reflection to the human condition through the mediums of television, film and theatre with integrity, joy, intuition and abundance!
I have also co-authored a book, The Autistic Spectrum Parents' Daily Helper (Ulysses Press, 2004), which can be found here .
And click here to read my very talented wife's poetry!

My Interests

Performance, laughter, atypical perspectives, autism, bubbles, meditation, sugar, sex, swimming, movies, good food, cooking, games, travel, hot showers, literature, Haiku, naps, 'Pataphysics, & more...

I'd like to meet:

People who love to laugh. Anyone interested in the art of acting. People interested in autism and 'atypical' perspectives. Anyone who can assist me in my desire to be a working actor.

Much thanks to MySpace friend Lyric for the incredibly beautiful layout. You can reach her at the following links.

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or at her MySpace page twist .

Music:

Louis & Ella, Mel Torme, Steely Dan, Frank Sinatra, Marshall Tucker Band, Mozart, Procol Harem, Bram Vermeulen, Todd Rundgren, Tom Waits, Roger Kellaway, Don Ellis, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Big Band Music, The Four Postmen, Thomas Newman, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, The Guess Who, Stevie Wonder, Orson Welk, The Bobs, Tom Barnes & Sordid Humor, Donovan, Cat Stevens, Django Reinhardt, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Roches, Blue Grass Music, The Beach Boys, and more...

Movies:

Sullivan's Travels, If I Had a Million, Modern Times, From Here To Eternity, The Best Years of Our Lives, All About Eve, Willy Wonka, The Lathe of Heaven, Harold and Maude, The Tall Guy, Wings of Desire, Scrooged, Groundhog Day, City Lights, Wizard of Oz, Dead End, The Great McGinty, Meet John Doe, Pot of Gold, Children of Men, Bugsy Malone, The Big Bus, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fight Club, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more...

Television:

Anything I Am Appearing On!

The Twilight Zone, Sopranos, Big Love, Entourage, The Black Adder series, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Heroes, It's the Gary Shandling Show, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Green Acres, TV Land in general, and more...

Books:

Zanesville, Stranger in a Strange Land, Stories of God (Rilke), The Lathe of Heaven, Orphans of the Sky, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Kite Runner, Ragtime, Jitterbug Perfume, and more...

Heroes:

HEROES I KNOW

Gabriel

My Family - Michelle, Verarose and especially my son Elijah.
Kristopher "the gifted foetus" Johnson, my Uncle Kenny, Michael Fuller, Shireen Strooker, my old college mates, my close friends, anyone who has assisted me in getting the door open for an acting gig, and more...

HEROES I DON'T KNOW

All those "enlightened" beings who have shown us paths to inner peace.

All those "unenlightened" beings who have shown us the way to laughter.

My Blog

Shut Up, I Love You Haiku

Love You How Much? If words can't express, then silence this sore scratching of pen on parchment....
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:06:00 PST

Haiflew

OUCH!Days tumble over -steamroll past, present, futureinto one flat now.
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:52:00 PST

THE EXPERT

The Expert As an expert in ape and human locomotion he was instantly fascinated with her. It wasn't the fact that she looked a tad simian (her hairline was uncomfortably low on her forehead) but...
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:34:00 PST

Monocle Man & Pinz Nez

In their entire career, this was the direst situation they had ever found themselves. Pinz Nez, straining against the thick ropes, slowly wiggled his head to the right so he could make '...
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:24:00 PST

WEBS WE WEAVE

Webs We Weave Buck had fainted, although he would rather 'die' than have that word explain his purplish, facial bruise. "Blacked out, plain and simple," that's the terse, ...
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:38:00 PST

More ditties

Agitated life?Fret not about the moment -It is long gone now.IN RE:BIRTH (a haiku)Our 'labor' pains hurtto remind us that we areabout to be born.UPON PASSING (a haiku)Raise up the deceased,catafalque ...
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:35:00 PST

THE GIFT

The GiftA man and his wifewent down to the shore for a swim.The surf, rough tumble, knocked them down - she never came up.A sand grain lodged just inside his cheekslowly turned into a smooth pearlwhic...
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:17:00 PST

misc poetry

haiku 43To die, then to wakeand find that life is just adream that has no end. ChangeOn a dime, life turns.Heads? Tails? Makes my stomach flip.Could land on its edge. Up Your Water SpoutWho's to s...
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:25:00 PST

bday

Birthday HaikuIt's happy birthdaywishes that you want today -So...Happy Birthday!
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:03:00 PST

old one

Haiku for the National Spelling Bee Runner-upWeltsmerz, losing word.Sentimental pessimist, that's what she is now.
Posted by Primal Bash = PhiL aBrams on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:55:00 PST