Theatrical comedy. Websites about theatrical comedy. Paying to see theatrical comedy when it comes to my town. Women who particularly enjoy authors of theatrical comedy. Spoons. Millionaires. Searching for some way to put those two things together. Come on, brain--think, think, think!
I'm neither anti-Semitic nor am I an opium fiend. So, if you're looking for such, I can't help. I'm sorry to disappoint.
Consider this for a moment. If you say to me "would you prefer strawberries or cherries?"I say "strawberries, every fucking day of the week. No contest." Just load me up with some strawberries, son. If my college ever has a shortfall during a pay period, they can pay me in strawberries for a couple of weeks.But if you say "which is the better pie?"With exactly, I mean, exactly the same intensity, without an ounce of variation or hesitation, I'd say "cherry."Now why is that? Why can't the strawberry people make a better pie? In any human endeavor, is there a circumstance analogous to the odd relationship between strawberries and cherries vis-a-vis pie?
Yeah, I am exactly like this. This is exactly what I'm like. Yeah. Do with that what you will.
This is the fatter version of me, from August, 2006, "acting". I like to point out how much cuter I am than this now, but eventually, whatever points the weight loss gets me will be outstripped by my advancing age, so I'll let you make your own aesthetic decision. Giving a subtle, understated, but powerful performance is Kirk Hiner, co-author of Spoon Millionaires. . Sometimes people show this to their children. I am uncertain I approve.
80s popular music that could somehow be utilized in a play set in 1986. Like the theme from Silver Spoons, for example. "Here we are/face to face/a couple of Silver Spoons./Hoping to find/we're two of a kind/making it something/making it something else." Tremendous.
I got a bearskin rug. I got a fireplace too. I love me the Grammy Awards, where it's 1984 forever.
My favorite song is the version of Everlong that Grohl sang on Stern. If you haven't heard it I'm uncertain we have anything left to discuss.
Currently, I'm listening to the soundtrack from Once. As a 1/2 member of the tribe, there's nothin' like a heartbroken Irishman.
Movies? Fuck movies. Seriously. Who has time to waste on what is probably a terrible movie that includes absolutely no references to spoons or millionaires? Instead of movies, why not spend time at the live theater? Perhaps at a comedy. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.
Oh, I guess I do like documentaries. And gay porn. But not documentaries of gay porn, curiously. I find those to be pretentious.
King of Kong is good to watch.
I liked Buffy. But those bastards ripped it off the air and broke me in my tender places. Now, I just go to the theater to see Spoon Millionaires, which is a lot like Buffy, but you really have to see it a number of times to make that connection.
I enjoy watching commentary tracks. It turns what would otherwise not be a documentary into a documentary watching experience.
If you aren't watching The Wire, you're making a mistake.
Books are overrated, compared, you know, to theatrical comedies. Although, I do enjoy whatever is the most recent leftist screed. I'm way left. Like, "I worked for Jerry Brown in the Democratic Primary in 1992 and since then the Democrats have been far, far, far too conservative for me" left.
In fact, although I've been voting for President since I was 17 (true story) a candidate I've voted for has never once won. Not a primary. Not a general election. (True story.) I get an unnatural degree of satisfaction from this.
Once again, I lost this year as well. The candidate I voted for in the primary not only lost the primary but now has dropped out of the race. 20 Years of Losing! I should get t-shirts made.
I loved the Charles Schulz bio with a boundless melancholy. There's also a baseball book Robert Coover wrote about 40 years ago that scratches me in my most tender of places.
Heroes...I'm a little too solipsistic to really have heroes, but I guess U.S. Supreme Court Justice Willian Brennan, who first articulated the notion of the living Constitution and everyone who badgers their area theaters to write the co-authors of Spoon Millionaires a sweetass check in order to bring the greatest theatrical comedy ever written to their town.
Were you to read a summer, 2007 blog entry, you'd see that my heroes often times wind up committing homicide. So, if say, Michael Moore or The Fonz ever wind up killing everyone in a convenience store one night, blame me. I have the power supreme!