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Eddie Payne

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About Me

I write about pop culture for online mags LA Snark and Gloom Cupboard where, according to Jason Neese, I'm adept at giving a lot of cunts what-for in my trademark witty style. That is also what I am known for off-line.

My Interests


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Books:

JOAN MOTHERFUCKING DIDION
Borges, Freud, Kenneth Anger, Moliere, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Joseph Conrad, Stanley Booth, Chet Flippo, Wang Shuo, Patricia Highsmith, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Raoul J. Whitfield, Jim Thompson, Charles Williams, Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, James Weldon Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Bret Ellis, Jay McInerney, Jill Eisenstadt, Donna Tart, Bruce Wagner, Michael Tolkin, John Gregory Dunne, David Mamet, Nathanael West, John O'Hara, Budd Schulberg, Jackie Collins, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, John Fante, Pauline Kael, Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King/Richard Bachman, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, C.L. Moore, Martin Amis, Will Self, Todd Boyd, Iceberg Slim, Dana Polan, Marita Sturken, Slavoj Zizek, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Rem Koolhaus, Lynn Spigel, Rey Chow, Alice Echols, Sara Evans, David Bordwell, Noel Carroll, Michael Renov, LESTER BANGS, GREIL MARCUS, ARIEL SWARTLEY, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Woody Allen and Jonathan Gold.
The forthcoming ENTER THE APE by the Guru of Origin Story aka Richard Nesberg
All the sons of bitchez at Gloom Cupboard: Literature for the Common People

Heroes:

Jankel Augus of Vilna, Lithuania. Salma Hayek. ANNA WINTOUR. Diana Vreeland. Betsey Johnson. Sam Phillips. SARAH FULLER. MARGARET FULLER. ADELA ROGERS ST. JAMES. Leigh Brackett. Stanley Booth. Edie Sedgwick. Jean Harlow. Sly Potts. Patrick Hamilton. Andre de Toth. Gram Parsons. Billy Wilder. Jean-Pierre Grumbach. JLG. Francois Truffaut. Andre Bazin. Wild Bill Wellman. Archibald Leach. Clark Gable. Willie Mays. Sai-gitty. Diddy. Bobby Diggs. Oli Grant. Mitchell Diggs. Todd Boyd. Hova. Gloria Carter. Violetta Wallace. Christopher Wallace. Olu Dara. Ann Jones. Nasir Jones. Ill Will Jones. Kelis. Rod Serling. Patricia Mainardi. Peggy Dobbins. Al Pacino. Robert DeNiro. Brian DePalma. Martin Scorsese. Julia Cameron. Ida Lupino. Dorothy Arzner. Carole Eastman. Bob Altman. Monte Hellman. Andy Warhol. John Cassavetes. Pauline Kael. Irving Thalberg. Sam Goldwyn. Louis B. Mayer. Bob Evans. Rita Hayworth. W.E.B. DuBois and his grandma Elizabeth Freeman aka Mum Bett. Malcolm X. Justice Theodore Sedgwick. Les Paul. Sterling Morrison. Charles Thompson IV. Scott Kannberg. Stephen Malkmus. Mick and Keith. Joan Marie Larkin. Jennifer Salt. Helen Gurley Brown. Joan Didion. Susan Sontag and Annie Leibowitz. Drew Barrymore. Bogie & Bacall. Oscar Micheaux. Lynn Spigel. Marita Sturken. MJ. AI. Dr. J. Magic. LeBron. TMac. Pippen. John Pax. Steve Kerr. Ginobilli. Barkley. Steve Nash. Amare Stoudemire. Mark Price. Sheryl Swoopes. Cheryl Miller. Phil the Thrill. Annika Sorenstam. Lorena Ochoa. Justin Leonard. Scott Verplank. Jack Nicklaus. Lee Trevino. Craig Stadler. Ben Crenshaw. Marc Calcavecchia. Tom Watson. GREG NORMAN. Ben Hogan. FRANCES OUIMET. Chet Lemon. Carlton Fisk. Greg Walker. Ted Williams. Stan Musial. Joe DiMaggio. Sandy Koufax. Mickey Mantle. Nellie Fox. Luis Aparicio. Ozzie Smith. Yaz. Big Papi. Manny Ramirez. Shoeless Joe. Jackie Robinson. Larry Doby. Hank Aaron. Josh Gibson. Cool Papa Bell. Cap Anson, player-manager of the Chicago White Stockings, the first dynasty in baseball in 1865 and owner of the REAL ALL-TIME HITS record 'cause he didn't bet on the games he was playing in, baybee. Fuck an asterisk* 'cause "That's that shit," says Method Man & Redman...

My Blog

We Are All Friends of De Gorillaz

I'm not referring to that lame-o band which I hate as much as I hate that otha lamester whose name refers something in reality otha than themselves aka the "laidback Hawaiian rocker" who's splashed al...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Tue, 06 May 2008 05:46:00 PST

E-Pussy

This is a blog about several things. Although I'm assuming u clicked on it lookin for some pussy-facts or even better yet some flash fiction about the subject. Well, actually, it's gonna be the f...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:43:00 PST

I Am the Guru of Hipster

Some of you Facebook peoples already knew this abt me. You might know me from such Facebook Notes as "So U Know Yer a Hipster When..." I posted that note a couple weeks ago. The gag was basically the ...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:48:00 PST

Movies Which Do Not Sux, Pt. 1

The contemporary noir writer perhaps most equipped to handle the task of excavating Los Angeles's buried secrets is James Ellroy. Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948, one year after Elizabeth ...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:16:00 PST

Intimacy Interruptus Ad Nauseum

Okay, so I finished the rather hellish mandatory USC online sexual harassment course. But I went too fast according to the time-clock they use. I took 72 minutes when the "average time," as they ...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:02:00 PST

Intimacy Interruptus

I am currently taking a zillion and one multiple choice question quiz that’s part of the compulsory USC on-line sexual harassment program for all faculty members. It’s actually 235 web-pag...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:22:00 PST

Chuck Heston is dead bitchez!

Yay! Okay, I have more to say on the subject than that. But that’s gonna be the gist of this. I have much love for Chuck as an actor. He made great apocalyptic sci-fi flix like "The Omega M...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:15:00 PST

Off Beat Pulp and Naked Wimmens

Off Beat Pulp, Attn: Issue 1, 4913 Fontana, Roeland Park, KS 66205, USA.Issue Number One of the literary and art mag OBP is now available. Send five bucks American cash. Receive fine American magazine...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:46:00 PST

Vogue Magazine Iz Racist. Lolz.

So Vogue recently announced "with some fanfare," according to FoxSports.net, that the first ever black man to grace their cover is currently gracing their current cover...LeBron James a...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:00:00 PST

Movies Which Sux, Pt. 1

Scarlett Diva.This flic was written and directed by Asia Argento, who stars as a thinly-veiled version of herself called "Anna Batista." Asia (who’s real name is Aria cos the clinic wh...
Posted by Eddie Payne on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:28:00 PST