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FirstFirefly

The forceps of the mind are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hol

About Me

I write screenplays, television scripts, short stories, songs and blogs.

In my spare time I'm a Spacesurfing Ranger on the lookout for truth, light, love and the ultimate porkchop.

My Interests

Reading. Writing. Cooking. Eating. Music. Art. Film. Dance. Pig Roasts. Songs about Tractors. Flowers. Swains Lake. Dirt. Birds. Lubricants. Rainbows. Rivers. Alleys. Boulevards. Garbage Trucks. Sunspots. Libraries. Farmers Markets. Holes in the Wall.

I'd like to meet:

Smart people. Kind people. Dirty people. Country people who find themselves living in Los Angeles...

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Music:

Buck Owens is God. Rahsaan Roland Kirk. I See Hawks in L.A. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. Jurassic 5. Judas Priest. Ted Nugent. Gustav Mahler. Sun Ra. Steve Earle. John Coltrane. Dialated Peoples. Tommy Shaw. Neko Case. My Morning Jacket. Mongo Santamaria. Hornz and Halos. Emmylou Harris. Slade. Merle Haggard. Rev. Al Green. Wolfie A. Mozart. Miles Davis. Dwight Yoakam. Eric Dolphy. Snoop Dogg. Jolie Holland. Francisco Aquabella. Nappy Roots. Tom Petty. Dusty Springfield. Thelonious Monk. Groovy Rednecks. Stephen Rowe. A Brokeheart Pro.

Movies:

Double Indemnity. Nashville. Full Metal Jacket. Ice Pirates. Casablanca. Groundhog Day. Apocalypse Now. Head On. Maltese Falcon. Monsters, Inc. Blade Runner. Caddyshack. Clockwork Orange. Dolls with Issues. Kelly's Heroes. Love and a .45. Local Hero. My Man Godfrey.

Television:



Internet Television:
A Quicker Way to Feed.

Books:

Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson. A Sport and A Pastime by James Salter. All the Freddy the Pig books. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan.

Heroes:

My great-grandfather the bootlegger, my grandfather the farmer, my father the man I hope to become.

My Blog

A Brokeheart Pro

You all know how much I dig the country music, right? Not the plastic shiny Nashville Pop Crap, but really rootsy American Alt.Country. I try to take in as much as I can in the bars and clubs here i...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:42:00 PST

Notes on the State of the Union

Some thoughts while I'm watching the SOTU. That's a fine lavender tie Cheney is wearing.  A shout-out to his daughter or Scooter Libby?  Nice little start acknowledging Pelosi and the absent...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:50:00 PST

State of the Union Address

Tonight's Dubya's chance to convince us that he knows what he's doing. I try to come into these things with an open mind, but I have a hard time with this President. I protested the war in Iraq thre...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:45:00 PST

Back in the Saddle Again

Hidey ho, neighbors... I am back in Los Angeles after an extended tour of the mid-South. I truly enjoyed my time on the front porch in Tennessee getting to know Maggie the goat, and James Brown's fu...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:58:00 PST

Christmas in Hollywood

It's that time of year again! When the temperature creeps below 70, the palm trees get wrapped in twinkly lights, the Scientologists put up their creepily festive Santa's Village, and Andy Dick break...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:50:00 PST

Halloweenie!

Hola, honored friends...I don't normally get much into halloween. If I can be dragged out to a party on the night in question, I'll throw together a costume at the last possible moment. A cowboy, us...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:54:00 PST

Ultraviolet

I filmed a band last night at the Key Club in Hollywood called Ultraviolet. If you're into that Electropop thing, you might just dig them. They kinda have that early 80s new wave hot lead singer chi...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:01:00 PST

It's a life...

I'm reliably informed that I've been doing a terrible job of keeping the people in my world up to date on how life is proceeding for me.  Let me profusely apologize.  I'm a goober.  I k...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:52:00 PST

My thoughts on Bugs Bunny Saves the Day!

Okay, let's jump right to the chase. Why did we do it? Why on earth would we cut together footage of Bugs Bunny, the tragic events of September eleventh, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist and Alexis Arq...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:56:00 PST

Stephen Rowe does Great Country Music!

Wanna watch a great country music video??Of course you do. So head over to KillMtv! Check out the new Stephen Rowe video, "Two Clocks"!It can be tough living far from home. In today's free trade wor...
Posted by FirstFirefly on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:25:00 PST