Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Bob Newhart, Walt Disney, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Smothers Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer Films, etc. Just look at my interests, and you'll figure out my influences...
Members
Just one that I know of...
TV Shows
My videographer work has appeared on such shows as:
"Entertainment Tonight" "Extra" "E! News Daily", etc. working in conjunction with my friend Dane Andrew for his company "Total Entertainment News". I won a Telly Award for my camera work on "Cinequest/The Peter Fonda Story" for "E! News Daily".
As actor/writer, I appeared in: "Dances With Squirrels: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Story" "KBHK-TV's Steve Martin Week Promo" "Random Acts of Meaningless Comedy" (Winner of Tino Award and Lassen County Video Film Festival) "Desperately Seeking Comedy" (Winner of Lassen County Video Film Festival) "C3V" (Winner of Tino Award) "Cupertino Connections/Hot Topics"
Films
"The Last Nightmare"
"Blow Job"
"Skin Flick"
"Ice Cream, You Scream"
Albums
I own lots and lots of comedy albums, but sadly, have never made one... P.S. I'm open to free samples to add to my collection!!
Geez, if you haven't figured this out from reading the other sections, then I don't know what to tell you...Ok, I also like comedians, comic books, humor magazines, movies, books, CDs, DVDs, TV, animation, music videos, etc...
Music
Beatles, Rolling Stones, Monkees, Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins, Art of Noise, Diana Ross, Paul McCartney, Talking Heads, Ray Charles, B-52's, Devo, Tubes, Turtles, Supremes, Beach Boys, Eurythmics, Frank Sinatra, Fleetwood Mac, Phil Collins, Supertramp, Ringo Starr, Flo and Eddie, Archies, Frank Zappa, Marvin Gaye, Wings, Styx, Ministry, Kraftwerk, Kinks, Monkees, Fixx, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Dean Martin, Esquival, John Lennon, Tom Petty, George Harrison, ELO, Elvis Presley and Costello, Traveling Wilburys, The Who, Elton John, Billy Joel, David Bowie, etc...
Movies
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Star Trek, Star Wars, Hammer, Being John Malkovich, Cabin Boy, Good Burger, Harold and Maude, Evil Roy Slade, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, A Christmas Story, Up in Smoke, A Fish Called Wanda, Clueless, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Big Fat Liar, Coen Brothers, Farrely Brothers, Universal Monsters, Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Austin Powers, Albert Brooks, Mel Brooks, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Disney, Pink Panther, Peter Sellers, etc...
Television
Green Acres, Little Britain, The Goodies, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, Star Trek, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry Sanders Show, Seinfeld, My Name is Earl, A Few Minutes with Stan Hooper, Robot Chicken, Cheers, Frasier, Gary Shandling Show, Bob Newhart Show, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Saturday Night Live, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Reginald Perrin, Conan O'Brien, Fawlty Towers, Mr. Bean, Carol Burnett Show, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, All in the Family, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Three's Company, Norm, Tim Conway Show, Ren and Stimpy, South Park, Beavis and Butthead, Maude, Jeffersons, Good Times, When Things Were Rotten, Mork and Mindy, Addams Family, Munsters, Flip Wilson Show, Rhoda, Phyllis, George of the Jungle, Fridays, SCTV, Electric Company, Sesame Street, Vision On, Hoppity Hooper, King Leonardo, Are You Being Served, Tonight Show, Simpsons, Get a Life, The Nanny, My Hero, The Goodies, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bugs Bunny Show, Get Smart, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, etc...
Books
Mainly biographies, autobiographies and informational books. Some humor and some other stuff. Not really into novels, but I own a nice edition of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and many children's books by Dr. Seuss and others...and of course, I like comic books, especially Harvey Comics (Casper, Richie Rich) and humor magazines like Mad or Cracked or National Lampoon...
Heroes
Probably see who I'd like to meet for that. I like anyone famous or not so famous that does something clever or creative or humorous that isn't just doing things completely for their own monetary gain or something that is harmful to themselves or others, that they do derive some pleasure about what they do. And if they aren't, why are they doing it???
San Francisco State University
San Francisco,California
Graduated: 1988
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Broadcast Communication Arts
Minor: Writing
1986 to 1988
De Anza College
Cupertino,California
Graduated: 1986
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Liberal Arts
Minor: Film/Television
1984 to 1986
Saratoga High
Saratoga,California
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Freelance Writing Assignments WANTED:
Minimum rate is $.10 per word.
Knowledgeable on a wide variety of topics including:
Comic Books/Strips
DVDs/Movies
Television
Books/Magazines
Sales/Marketing
Art
CDs/Music
Please contact me at thft@att.net with assignment, rate of pay, and deadline requirements.
My second book "Created and Producted by Total TeleVision productions: The Story of Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and the Rest"
Front cover by Mike Kazaleh ("Ren and Stimpy", "The Simpsons")
Back cover comment by Scott Shaw! ("Captain Carrot", "The Flinstones", "Scooby-Doo")
Written by Mark Arnold ("Hogan's Alley", "ComicBase", "Atomic Mouse")
380 pages! Full color covers! Complete Total TeleVision history!
Order your copy today! Only $29.95 for paperback. Click HERE
to order! Also available at Amazon and available now in your local comic book shop!!
My first book "The Best of The Harveyville Fun Times!"
Front cover by Shelley Pleger ("Shanda the Panda")
Back cover by Ernie Colon ("The 9/11 Report", "Richie Rich")
Forward by Tony Isabella ("Tony's Tips", Marvel Comics)
Edited by Mark Arnold ("Hogan's Alley", "ComicBase", "Atomic Mouse")
400 pages! Full color covers! Complete Harvey Comics history!
The number 1 bestselling Lulu book the first week of January, number 3 for the month of January and has peaked at number 105 overall out of over 35,000 books on Lulu!!
Order your copy today! Only $29.95 for paperback or $44.95 for hardback! Click HERE
to order! Also available at Amazon and available now in your local comic book shop!!
Click on each highlighted word for a different link to what I've done:
My latest projects for 2009 include a book called "If You're Cracked, You're Happy: The Cracked Mazagine Story" for BearManor Media, , and various articles in Back Issue magazine.
I'm also contributing material for the five following books by Leslie Cabarga and Jerry Beck: Harvey Comics Classics Series.
I write articles for Hogan's Alley among other things.
I also maintain a number of websites including Mark's Rare Comics (buy something!)
I'm working on my third and fourth books now. The third is the "Cracked" book. The fourth will be about The Beatles, so if you are a Beatles fan, join Mark Arnold Reviews The Beatles. By the way, I am looking for artists to do both cartoony and realistic drawings and paintings of The Beatles for the book. Everyone's contribution that's used will receive a free copy of the book when it's published, so contact me if you're interested. I am not sure of the exact date of publication, as I am writing the book in my spare time, of which I have none, but please contact me all the same if interested.
Who I'd like to meet: Who haven't I met? Working with my friend Dane Andrew doing celebrity interviews all of these years has allowed me to meet many of my favorite people (too many to list here and many that have since passed away, like Bob Hope). However, there are still a few I'd like to meet before I go shuffling off... To name a few that I HAVEN'T met: Andy Griffith, Albert Brooks, Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Jerry Lewis, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Kurt Russell, Dean Jones, Christopher Lee, Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Conan O'Brien, Bob Elliot, Dana Gould, Dave Attell, Bob Newhart, etc... and although I have seen them in performance, I have not MET them face to face: Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Martin Mull, George Carlin, etc...
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Sounds good. I know I start training for my teaching position on the 6th and it will be ongoing for a few more months but hopefully we can work something out. the extra coin i make from taking those paid surveys online helps out alot tho; you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
www.workforblingsurveys.com
I prolly won't have anything going on that weekend so if nothing else, maybe I can get back to town for a few days then. If I can work it out, you'll have to meet 'em too. Talk to ya later buddy. Keep me updated!
hey u! how ya been? hope things are going good. I havent been able to make it over to the hotel to stop in for a minute... clints been working in town again so im back on dinner duty. lol we are trying to get a mailing list made for my mom to send the invitations out so that's yay. its going to be june 6th at 11a we're going to have some food a bit before. kind of a celebration thang, ya know? quitting mah job with that lameass of a boss jaime. gah, i aint gonna miss her at all! i still cant believe that that survey thing that britt showed me is actually working - n dat we're gettin paid; im so luvin it too. givin mah opinion on stuff i do - pshhh ... so easy. i wonder if we'll ever hit da cash that that website said we would. i dunno, but with my last check being $126, i dont even care. i only pulled in like 200 a week and my crapass job anyway, so this is perfect. you should do it, i'm tellin yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
The exclusive WORLD PREMIERE of the entire short film Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park, the CG animated spoof of Dirty Harry films, streams ONE DAY ONLY on the worlds second most popular English language streaming short film and animation site, BeatnikTV.
Thanks for being a pal of Jetpack! The first Saturday in May is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY and if it's humanly possible, you'll want to be at Jetpack Comics! Tons of guests including Ed Mcguinness(the guy drawing HULK!)and the entire MIRAGE STUDIOS CREW(They do TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!!!). Add to that tons of other artists and writers, vendors, and returning again, the STAR WARS 501st!!! Stay tuned at our myspace page and href="http://www.jetpackcomics.com">JetpackComics.com.. for more info! Now if you can't be there, still be our myspace pal! Drop us a line! Tell us which comics rule and which comics suck! WOOO!
And leave a comment about it there! If it's popular enough it may become a series! And coming soon: two new Playboy cartoons by Mort, BUNNI POWER and CUNNING STUNTS!
The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
I wish you the best of health, sanity and clarity so that you may conjure up the best of plans and execute them flawlessly for your well deserved prosperity.
