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Ben

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About Me

Um...one time I went like 9 months without a vending machine rejecting a single one of my dollars. True story.I'm currently living in Southern California trying to enter the film "industry". What separates me from the millions of others trying to do the same thing? Well...basically the vending machine story.

My Interests

Movies and moviemaking, Writing, Video Games, Ancient and Medieval history, Music of all sorts, Maxing the awesome, Screenwriting, Reading, Travelling, and so on. I dislike this category.

I'd like to meet:

Alexander the Great, Caesar Augustus,Keanu Reeves, Livia Drusilla, Tacitus, Marcus Aurelius, David Thewlis, Diocletian, Constantine the Great, Julian the Apostate, Atilla the Hun, Justinian I, Theodora Augusta, Charlemagne, Empress Irene of Constantinople, Pope Innocent III, Dante, Gary Oldman, Cesare Borgia, Richard III, Elizabeth I, Louis XIV, Catherine the Great, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon I, Abraham Lincoln & Rachel McAdams (she hot in teh Notebook), and I suppose meeting some current people in the film industry would be useful, if you go for that sort of thing.

Music:

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Beck, Radiohead, Chili Peppers, U2 (sometimes), The Doors, GreenDay (sometimes), Neil Young, Tom Petty, David Bowie, John Lennon, The Who, and a great deal of pop music, especially from the 80s, that there is no need to discuss here

Movies:

Aliens, Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, Terminator 1&2, The Wicker Man (1973), Indiana Jones, Raise the Red Lantern, The Fly, Annie Hall, Clash of the Titans, Back to the Future, Ben-Hur, Wayne's World, The Departed, Spaceballs, Batman Begins, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove, The Thing, Gremlins, Kingdom of Heaven, The Godfather 1&2, Bram Stoker's Dracula, This is Spinal Tap, Ghostbusters, King Kong, Nosferatu, Rain Man, The Graduate, Sleeping Beauty, The Wedding Singer, Resevoir Dogs, American Beauty, the list goes on...and on.

Television:

The Simpsons (up until the tragic events of season 8), Futurama, Scrubs, The Office, Lost, The Critic, My Name is Earl, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and probably some more

Books:

Tacitus, Pliny, Procopius, and Dante, and other suitably pretentious authors. Most of the Romantics, Poe & Lovecraft, Gore Vidal, Robert Graves, Wuthering Heights, Luke-Acts, Dracula, Calvin and Hobbes, The Great Gatsby, The Trial, Confederacy of Dunces, and many many others.

Heroes:

Dabney Coleman

My Blog

Sleeping Beauty

Since I've spent so much time at Disneyland lately, I've been exposed to Sleeping Beauty's castle an awful lot.  While this is a painfully underwhelming structure, as anyone who has seen it cert...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:46:00 PST