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the clever girl

and this is the room one afternoon I knew I could love you

About Me

I like soon tofu, ridiculous television, Gewürztraminer, and shiny things. I long to take them all back to my nest.

I have nothing to hide, but I'm not gonna tell you where the bodies are buried.

I dislike cockroaches, marketing execs, and people who drive as rudely and inconsiderately as myself.

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My Interests

no depression music, quick witted private detectives, sloe-eyed dames, david lynch, and those tall motherfuckers who seem to do everything at half the speed and twice the coolness the rest of us mere short mortals do it.

I'd like to meet:

Christopher Walken, Richard E. Grant, and Lou Reed before he got sober. Rehab is for quitters!

Music:

...is only really, really good when there's a dobro involved.

Movies:

adventures in babysitting, really, is at the top of the list. and then after adventures in babysitting there's everything else: m, l'avventura, wonder boys, adaptation., silence of the lambs, la dolce vita, good night, and good luck, sneakers, history of the world part one, sex, lies, and videotape, deconstructing harry, the big lebowski, 12 monkeys, my best friend's wedding, mulholland drive, brazil, pulp fiction, the usual suspects, a very long engagement, syriana and traffic, gone with the wind, walk the line, office space, kinsey, you can count on me, in the cut, pi, insomnia, spoorloos, the talented mr. ripley, elizabeth, cat on a hot tin roof, notorious, rebecca, bound, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, I heart huckabee's, annie hall, reservoir dogs, fight club, manhunter, royal tenenbaums, punch-drunk love, the breakfast club, ghost world, moulin rouge, three kings, the virgin suicides, the insider, dark city, withnail & I, I am trying to break your heart, in the mood for love, 2046, heavenly creatures, working girl, the grifters, coming to america, the cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover, lost in translation, and of course that one with the guy who did the thing and had the problem and faced the adversity and got the girl.

Television:

holy shit, I love TV. house, arrested development, quantum leap, west wing seasons 1-3, six feet under, deadwood, alias, curb your fucking enthusiasm, lost, grey's anatomy (don't you judge me!!! I do what I wan!!), law and order and all the baby law and orders, monk, futurama, 24, vintage simpsons, the x-files, huff, family guy, aqua teen hunger force (meatwad, c'est moi), nip/tuck, it's always sunny in philadelphia, deep space nine because captain hawk was the shit, picket fences, the adventures of pete and pete, the jetsons, millennium, dick sargent-era bewitched, seinfeld now and forever, and if it says "meep meep" then it's gold.

Books:

vladimir nabokov, jane austen, tom robbins, haruki murakami, margaret atwood, ted hughes, william faulkner, lorrie moore, aleksandar hemon, italo calvino, sylvia plath, james ellroy, ernest hemingway, ishmael reed, katherine mansfield, john steinbeck, isaac babel, z.z. packer, nick hornby, e.e. cummings, antonya nelson, flannery o'connor, gabriel garcia marquez, kelly link, alan moore, george saunders, thomas harris, franz kafka, stanislaw lem, katherine anne porter, harold pinter, carol o'connell, joseph heller, wislawa szymborska, don de grazia, hermann hesse, jack kerouac, james joyce, bret easton ellis, joan didion, kurt vonnegut, james thurber, david mamet, jose rivera, sarah waters, shirley jackson, c.s. lewis, zora neale hurston, kate chopin, edgar allen poe, and dear scott, f. scott fitzgerald.

Heroes:

the person or persons responsible for the "everything" bagel. You rule.

My Blog

chicago, illinois

he wakes up in the passenger seat and takes a look around. "We're forty miles from St. Louis," I say. "Where is the 55?""In St. Louis."I can't clap my hands in joy because the car pulls to the left bu...
Posted by the script wrangler on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:42:00 PST

I'll fuck you, but not while listening to your shitty band

sorry, the provocative title has nothing to do with content of blog. sad face, huh?I am looking forward to a big month of Leaving Los Angeles, starting with a road trip to chicago which will hopefully...
Posted by the script wrangler on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:53:00 PST

300

I...must not have seen the same movie as everyone else. The one I saw was a racist, sexist piece of trash Frank Miller story, pardon, and...really dull. The fight scenes weren't very impressive, even....
Posted by the script wrangler on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:36:00 PST

you must've been so high.

"He seems nice.""He seems that way, doesn't he?"I'm tired of my side job giving me more grief than the job that has apparently (?) become something of a career, seeing as people keep paying me for it ...
Posted by the script wrangler on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:30:00 PST

JAMIE LEE CURTIS *is* BLUE STEEL

the day has come. I have finally gotten the chance to do something I've always wanted to do ever since I became a "script analyst"--I GOT TO REFERENCE BLUE STEEL!if you haven't seen Blue Steel, it's a...
Posted by the script wrangler on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST

in case you were wondering

I work too fucking hard for you to give me shit when I call out for the first time ever because my migraine medication has made me too loopy to drive.Heart,D.p.s. not a fan of the migraine, but you ro...
Posted by the script wrangler on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:22:00 PST

spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap/hope no one sees me/get freaky

sometimes late at night I slip into something comfortable.I close the blinds.I lock the door.I put on my headphones.And I listen to Garth Brooks.I spent a good deal of my youth in the middle of nowher...
Posted by the script wrangler on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:29:00 PST

oddness about town.

Sort of weird news; my cousin-in-law was killed in a plane crash a few months back. We're not terribly close to these relatives, but we spent a lovely weekend with them two years ago and they were a w...
Posted by the script wrangler on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:57:00 PST

I'm the asshole

So this link is about how indie bookstores are failing due to the competition from corporate bookstores like Borders and Barnes and Noble. You'll remember that the former is my current employer, but I...
Posted by the script wrangler on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:04:00 PST

everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stemmed rose

Ah, the tiring ways of the retail. I narrowly avoided being reported to corporate today, which sounds scary but apparently is not. So much. And...See the thing is nothing in my life is very interestin...
Posted by the script wrangler on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:32:00 PST