Since nothing direct seems to sound right, here are some indirect things about me:
1. I've eaten more beef jerky in Los Angeles than Arkansas (where I'm from). This is only because, to my knowledge, I've only eaten beef jerky once in my life. Despite its ubiquitous presence in convenience stores across the South, I've always sort of looked at it and thought, "here's something I don't think I'm going to enjoy." Turns out I wasn't wrong. It's not terrible; just something for which I wouldn't pay money. Incidentally I ate it at Chuck Berry's old house in the Hollywood hills. That feels like it should mean something.
2. I've seen more raccoons in Central Park than in Arkansas. Recently I was reading a book on a park bench when four young raccoons and their mother materialized from the undergrowth near The Pond and ascended a tree. I felt like Wil Wheaton in Stand by Me when he saw the deer.
6. I have a comprehensive knowledge of late 80's hip-hop. Kool Moe Dee, Eric B. and Rakim, Slick Rick, 3rd Bass...I have dozens of VHS tapes of Yo! MTV Raps. Go ahead, step to me.
97. Whenever I get a soda from a fast-food restaurant, I always pop in the little dome in the lid marked "other." It's a compulsion I've had since childhood.
C. The only time I ever went to drama competition in high school, I won first place in solo acting. It's the only trophy I've ever won.
XXI. I play guitar a lot, but at any given point in the day I'm playing drums in my head, or with my teeth. Or I find myself slapping my chest to a beat that isn't there.
10. My basil plant is four feet tall.
My Ideal Person:
The continually fascinated and easily amused. Failing that, fans of cookies, Flickr, Night Court, barbecue sauce, thrift store CDs, bookstore basements, Dunkin Donuts coffee, Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Wilder, cornbread, obscure history, etymology, Nicholson Baker, Noah Baumbach, Scrabble, The Thin Man, Richard Scarry, and Frank Zappa are all guaranteed at least a decent conversation over drinks.
The last great book I read
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock and Roll - the most insightful
history of American pop music in the 20th century.
My most humbling moment
Not knowing what the word "boner" meant in 4th
grade.
Favorite on-screen sex scene
Patrick Fugit being deflowered by groupies in Almost Famous.
The celebrity I resemble the most
Eric Forman
The best or worst lie I've ever told
Oh I've been to Prague.
If I could be anywhere right now
Laramie, Wyoming. 5 a.m., the Loaf and Jug, buying freshly
brewed gas station coffee to keep warm from the intense
wind and snow. Reading the paper indoors where it's
safe. Not going anywhere because all the roads are closed.
Five items I can't live without
guitar, amp, cookies, beer, napkins.
Fill in the blank: _____ is sexy; _____ is sexier.
history is sexy, geography is sexier.
In my bedroom one will find...
Old movie posters. Stacks of CDs and books. Headphones.
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