EJ
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...At an undisclosed location.
Male
39 years old
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 1/16/2009
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EJ's Interests
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| General | Writing, reading, volunteering, Jeeps, scuba diving, camping, climbing, bouldering, salsa, rappelling, pizza, pirates, Macs, plinking, Almondrado, Neverwinter, spelunking, Civ, Urban and Wilderness Search and Rescue | | Music | Link Wray [Jack the Ripper], Dick Dale [Hava Nagila], The Kingsmen [Louie Louie], Trashmen [Surfin' Bird], The Lively Ones [Pipeline], The Sentinels [Tor-Chula], Iggy Pop [Lust for Life], Brian Setzer [Malagueña], Duane Eddy [Rebel Rouser], The Troggs [Wild Thing], Challengers [Tequila (yeah, yeah, the Champs are good, too...)], The Kinks [All Day and All of the Night], The Beach Boys [Good Vibrations], The Rev. Horton Heat [Big Sky], John Williams [Raiders], Hans Zimmer [Black Hawk Down], Klaus Badelt [PotC], Basil Poledouris [Conan], Ennio Morricone's theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Strauss [Danube], Rossini [William Tell, though Seville is close], Mussorgsky [Night on Bald Mountain], Wagner [Ring/Valkyries], Ravel [Bolero. Duh.], Beethoven [Ode to Joy], Vivaldi [all of the Seasons], Handel [Messiah], Grieg [Peer Gynt/In the Hall of the Mountian King], Carl Orff [Carmina Burana], Gershwin [Rhapsody in Blue], Stravinsky [Firebird], Danny Saber [Indian Summer], The Royal Scot Dragoons [Scotland the Brave], Norman Cook [Because We Can, From "Moulin Rouge"], The United States Marine Corps Marching Band [any one of a million cadences], Van Halen [Atomic Punk], Klint [Diamond], Argent [Hold Your Head Up], David Byrne [Don't Fence Me In], Grid [Swamp Thing], Queen [We Will Rock You], The Wiseguys [Start the Commotion], Steppenwolf [Born to be Wild], The Avalanches [Frontier Psychiatrist], Deep Purple [Smoke on the Water], Smash Mouth [Then The Morning Comes] | | Movies | Many cycle through the top 10; a few stay there. Some that influenced my imagination: Any of the Stooges movies. Most of the Abbot and Costello movies. Star Wars. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Conan. The Princess Bride. The Matrix. Others that strike me and fade away... | | Television | Battlestar Galactica, Junkyard Wars, The X-Files, Enterprise, Family Guy, Early Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, "This Old House", Rooster Teeth's "Red vs. Blue" webseries. | | Books | Man, it bums me out that this category is so far down the list. Even if it was first, though, how many folk would claim War and Peace or A Brief History of the Universe to pad out their intellectual resumé? "I read it in High School" doesn't really count, does it?
How 'bout this: I'll list some authors and you can see if any of them ring bells. Gary Larson, Bill Waterson, Syd Harris and Scott Adams (hint, there's a pattern in there). Or... Richard Lederer. Or... the writing staff of The Onion? If not, don't feel bad. The world is a funny place.
How about Verne, Clark, Asimov, Heinlein, Dick, Rowling or Tolkien? Even Gygax is an engaging writer of sorts, though his legacy isn't by any means passive fiction.
Or a bit more mainstream. Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight is still my favorite poem. I can't say there's any major failure in the collected works of Shakespeare (though I tend to nod off on his sonnets). Yeah, Romeo and Juliet is poignant, but it's depressing. Henry V... now that was cool, a portrait of the ultimate prodigal son. On that note, I'll close with the anonymous author of the The Book of Ruth, which is unquestionably the most beautiful story of the Bible. | | Heroes | Henry V (1387-1422 AD), Richard Marcinko, Teddy Roosevelt, Chuck Yeager, George Washington, Woodward and Bernstein, David Hackworth, Edward Murrow, Danny Coulson. |
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EJ's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Burbank | | Body type: | Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Broadcast Button Monkey |
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EJ's Networking
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Television - Production - Engineering
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I've been working behind the scenes for 14 years. From local news (in Los Angeles), I've gone on to Access Hollywood, Tonight Show and Fox Sports International.
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Television - Production - Producer
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...But I'm moving away from Production toward producing. I'm looking to write killer leads, enticing bumps and witty copy. See what I can do for your scripts!
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About me:
Okay, so now I'm on "MySpace." Thank God there are 29 hours in a day or I'd be so screwed.
Wait, I'm getting this strange sensation...
There's not much to me. I'm an ordinary, average guy. I like to do lots of stuff, but I'm afflicted with a form of spiritual ADD, so I flit between hobbies. Jack of all trades, master of none (or maybe "master of few"). Professionally, I think of myself as an author. Nobody else does, yet, but someday I hope to be published. In the meantime, like every other starving artist, I have a day job – I work in television production. It used to be local news, but these days it varies a bit more. Not personally satisfying, but rewarding in a "keeps the rent paid" sort of way.
If you'd like to know more, poke around in the profile. Never know just what you might find...
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Who I'd like to meet:
There are plenty of people in history I'd love to meet. Regrettably, I think the conversation would be rather one sided.
"So, Mr. Washington, what was on your mind when you crossed the Patomac?"
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"Right, next question."
As for living people? There are plenty of real-life heroes that it might be neat to meet, but I'm not sure what I'd say. They are servants of our society; the soldiers, policemen and firemen that put themselves in harms' way. Perhaps one day I'll be able to count myself among them. Until that time, they have my distant admiration.
Closer to home, and a little less dramatic, I've always been a dreamer. That grew into a desire to share my dreams and it led me to become a storyteller. And it's other storytellers I'd love to meet – people that have somehow enticed the muse to follow them around. Over a mexican coffee or two, I could learn something from those folk. In alphabetical order: James Cameron, Chris Carter, Tom Clancy, William Gibson, Peter Jackson, Richard Lederer, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Jon Williams...
I could go on and on...
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