i adore sitting on my duff, curled up in my bed, reading one of the billion or so books in my room (i exaggerate, i prolly only have around 400 or so, haha), with a cup of coffee on the nightstand and the telly lending a warm glow over my shoulder.
i love to read, write, draw, paint (badly i may add), and just chill with friends or family having a good ole time.
oh, and cute boys, haha - there's no getting around that part, haha.
Music
Burnside Project,
Idina Menzel,
Offspring,
Green Day,
Cher,
Stephen Lynch,
RENT,
Wicked,
Godspell,
Eurythmics,
Christina Aguilera,
Donna Summer,
Sneaker Pimps,
Daphne Rubin-Vega,
Kristin Chenoweth,
Idan Raichel,
Gloria Gaynor,
Amy Winehouse,
The Fugees,
Annie Lennox,
and the rest of my about 1000 CD collection ...
Movies
Definitely Maybe,
Love Actually,
300,
The Golden Compass,
Transamerica,
The Trip,
Enchanted,
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day,
Trick,
Girls Will Be Girls,
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Greene,
Alien,
Her Minor Thing,
Serenity,
Moonstruck,
Clerks 2,
The Devil Wears Prada,
RENT,
Connie and Carla,
Stardust,
Centerstage,
and the other 200ish films which fill up my shelves.
Television
So Notorious,
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,
The Golden Girls,
Lipstick Jungle,
Will & Grace,
Queer As Folk,
Living Single,
Firefly,
Dilbert,
House,
Pushing Daisies,
Tori and Dean: Inn Love,
Family Guy,
The Simpsons,
American Dad,
Home Movies,
She-Ra: Princess of Power,
and a bunch'a others that help distract me from my writing deadlines and killing the morning before work, haha.
Books
Bright Lights, Big Ass,
Such a Pretty Fat,
Stupid and Contagious,
Forget About It,
Boy Meets Boy,
The Starter Wife,
Ivy Briefs,
Girl's Guide to Witchcraft,
Sorcery and the Single Girl,
Gods Behaving Badly,
A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body,
My Horizontal Life,
Size 14 is not Fat, Either,
Big Boned,
The Little Lady Agency,
The Devil Wears Prada,
Frenemies,
English as a Second Language,
Boy Meets Boy,
M or F,
The Looking Glass Wars,
Seeing Redd,
Conversations and Cosmopolitans,
Reap the Whirlwind,
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber,
Little White Lies,
I'm Not the New Me,
Someday My Prince Will Come,
O Jerusalem,
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,
The Straight Road to Kylie,
Fat Hoochie Prom Queen,
Confessions of a Shopaholic,
Lord of the Rings,
The Silmarillion,
Chronicles of Narnia,
The Torah,
The Golden Compass,
The Subtle Knife,
The Amber Spyglass,
plus all of the rest of the 400+ books on my shelves (can we tell i was meant to be either a writer or a complete shut in with no life ... whichever i am, you decide, haha).
Heroes
i see your true colors shining thru!
my mother ... my grandmother (and the rest of my immediate family) - Jen Lancaster/Caprice Crane/Meg Cabot/Josh Aterovis/Sophie Kinsella (author-wise) - Madonna, Cher, Andy Bell (music-wise) - the terrific casts of ground-breaking shows like QAF and W&G - my best friend, Nate, for being there for me and for having such extreme confidence in himself (and so much in me) - someone like that needs to be a hero to more people! - oh, and me; i am my own hero (maybe i can be someone special's special little 'wd', haha.
i am writing my first novel (hopefully the first of many!)
benjamin (kissell) hmm ... Black Friday bled into Black Saturday and Black Sunday ... well, it looms! (I'm currently black and blue from it all) Posted at 6:58 AM Nov 29 view more
About me: Benjamin Kissell ... err, me ... well, i am an aspiring (i.e. not-yet-made-it) author and artist still trying to make it in my native Fredericksburg (the gayest lil town around) before i take the world by storm! - i am a snarky, sarcastic, often loud-mouthed and witty gay man who has been told he has a personality large enough for New York City (who knows, maybe i could end up there before the day is done.) - i hope to make it in the art/writing world and take my place beside such fantastic authors as Jen Lancaster, Caprice Crane, Melissa Marr, Josh Aterovis, Marc Acito and Martha Kimes and such lucrative (read: obsceneley wealthy) authors as Stephen King and Candace Bushnell (take that muthafuckas!) - i am well on my way there ... as i have already amassed dozens (i know, soooo many) of fans with my blogs on here and appearances on the youtube show "Bedside Chats" with my best friend and co-host, Nate.
check out our commercial (above) AND the show at www.youtube.com/bedsidechats and especially, my personal favorite, episode 6 of Season One (one of our more "choreographed" and 'thought out' episodes ... including appearances by an Amy Winehouse so real you can't tell the difference and if you can? you get your money back!) - check out my blogs on here and remember that i am currently working on my first book, entitled "CAN I STAY THE NIGHT? A SERIES OF BOYFRIENDS, BAD DATES AND ONE NIGHT STANDS", keep an eye out for it AND SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT ME AND MY WORK!
Who I'd like to meet: whom i would like to meet? fans, friends and more fans! fans of my writing, my bad acting, my humor and my art! i would love to find and make a family on here (of fans ... wouldn't you love to join my 'fan club'? haha) do you think i hinted about fans enough? haha ... join my 'fan club' - and the re-inBENtion tour! - here by friend-requesting me! whom else? ... hmm ... you, i always enjoy meeting and making new friends on here (take that to mean, more fans, haha). OH, and if i could have, i would have loved to meet Jonathan Larson - the brilliant mind behind RENT and Tick, Tick Boom. La Vie Boheme!
Thanks been looking to make more writing contacts, as I have only been an open market for about a month but have been growing by leaps and bounds each week. Check us out at http://shadowpress.wordpress.com and if it something that looks to fits your interest, please check out the submission guidelines.
Jaxx 11/8 4pm Battle of The Bands! Get Your Tix online at www.rocktheburg.com only $8
2 bands from the burg in this event...Upon Disfigurement and Tomorrow's Ours. Tckets sold determines where in the show they play and the winner is 100% decided by the crowd...support these young band..even if you can't be there a ticket will help them. Convoy of fans going up together from the burg!
It's great to have you as a friend. I hope you will enjoy my music. Please sign up for my mailing list at sashaeleyce.com so I can keep you posted on what's happening. Have a great day and Reach Out and Love Somebody! Much love, Sasha
Omg Ben...I just saw what you group you joined on here! There is a big update saying "Ben Kissell has joined....." That's hilarious and honestly just made my life complete, so THANK YOU!! :)
Thanks for aceepting my add glad to have you as a friend i stay with new music so stay tuned in @ the page and my website www.unknownmusicproductions.com rome aka the unknown dmvs finest !!!!!
Hey there. How's it going? I have some new vids in my vids section...I had a show on Friday. some interesting stuff... 8) Would love if you would stop by. Most people just don't wanna comment...lol! I am working on the quality,but hey it is my second show...so yeah. How you been? Peace and Blessings. Redd
Hi Ben, what's up sexy? How are things in your world. Dropping by to show some love and hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend! Take care and have fun!!