Ben
Ben Tanzer
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Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
Male
41 years old
CHICAGO, Illinois
United States
Last Login: 11/19/2009
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Ben's Interests
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| General | Balloon animals, sprinkles, facial hair | | Music | The Shaggs, of course, but also X, The Ramones, The Hold Steady, Bruce Springsteen, The Beastie Boys, Avail, Wilco, Johnny Cash, KISS, Lucinda Williams, The Cars, The Beatles, Billy Bragg, Be Your Own Pet, Run DMC, Nirvana, Iron and Wine, Journey, Saul Williams, Tim Easton, Patsy Cline, The DOORS, Joseph Arthur, ACDC, MIA, Aesop Rock, Public Enemy, Bob Dylan, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The Grateful Dead, Jay-Z, Waco Brothers, Kanye West, and Rage Against The Machine
| | Movies | Hiding Out, or anything with Jon Cryer, After Hours, Punch Drunk Love, The Squid and The Whale, American History X, The Warriors, Brazil, Crumb, Salvador, Planet of the Apes, Chuck and Buck, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Short Cuts, Go, The Professional, Animal House, Drugstore Cowboy, Alien, Rushmore, Election, Glengarry Glenross, Brother's Keeper, Kids, Caddyshack, Clerks, Amores Perros, Star Wars, Tape, The Believer, Once Were Warriors, Requiem for a Dream, In The Company of Men, Breaking the Waves, Hoop Dreams, Swingers, In The Bedroom, Escape from New York, Reservoir Dogs, Dead Man, Midnight Run, Breakfast Club, Bad Lieutenant, L.A. Confidential, Niagra Niagra, Pan's Labyrinth, Do The Right Thing, Apocalypse Now, Ghost Dog - Way of the Samurai, Barfly, and One False Move | | Television | Ned and Stacey, The White Shadow, Rags to Riches, Days of our Lives, The Larry Sanders Show, Twilight Zone, X-Files, Greatest American Hero, The Office, Dallas, The Thornbirds, Star Trek, The Shield, Scrubs, 24, Entourage, and Arrested Development | | Books | First and foremost, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, but then in no particular order of importance The Basketball Diaries, Bastard out of Carolina, Cruddy, Naked, No One Gets Out of Here Alive, Into the Wild, The Godfather, Fun House, Flowers in the Attic, Carrie, The Chocolate War, Maus, Jimmy Corrigan - The Smartest Kid on Earth, The Bluest Eye, Bricks and Anchors, Hey Buddy! A Hate Collection, That Was Then This is Now, The Catcher in The Rye, John Carter Warlord of Mars, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Confessions of a Teenage Baboon, American Skin, Hairstyles of the Damned, The Martian Chronicles, Deenie, 40 Hour Man, The Hobbit, When The Messenger is Hot, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Foundation Trilogy, and Meditations from a Movable Chair | | Heroes | Bob Ross |
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Ben's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Hometown: | Chicago | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school |
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Ben's Latest Blog Entry
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The Repetition Patterns This Book Tour Will Change Your Life tour stops and a wrap-up.
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Feeling self-absorbed? This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life.
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I am rocking the Twitter. And no, I don't know why.
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So many Most Likely updates. And so lame of me not to share them, right? Right.
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A funny and interesting story - Most Likely...gets Gapers Block’d and likes it. A lot.
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About me:
I am the author of the novels Lucky Man (Manx Media, 2007) and Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine (Orange Alert Press, 2008) and the short story collection Repetition Patterns (CCLaP, 2008).
I also blog at This Blog Will Change Your Life at http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/ which is the centerpiece of my vast, albeit fux media and empire and over see the zine This Zine Will Change Your Life - http://thiszinewillchangeyourlife.blogspot.com/ - which I think you should read, link with and totally submit to. Cool?
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Who I'd like to meet:
You who ever you are.
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