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Adam
Adam You just got Gropped!

Male
37 years old
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
United States



Last Login: 11/5/2009
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   Adam's Comedian Bio
BioGrew up in the Boston area in a big Victorian house full of books and offbeat art. Dad is a "writer". Mom is an "artist". So, from the get go, our family was "different." When I was 10, my parents sent me to a sparse, woodsy overnight camp in Vermont that was like Marine Corps Boot Camp for the children of urban post-hippies. Hard to explain. Even harder to live through. We had a house for a few years in central New Hampshire, where we went in the summer and I learned to appreciate moss, freshwater swimming and old rusty cans. When I was 14, we moved from Boston to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, where I chopped down trees, hunted squirrel and contemplated existential misery and FM rock radio. Played little league baseball as a kid and got to wear a cool, MLB-style uniform with a snug-fitting jockstrap and cup. Went to a bizarre private school in upstate New York called Darrow School for a year. The students lived in rickety, historic wooden "Shaker" buildings and the school made you dig trenches and build guardrails every Wednesday. They called it "Hands to Work." -such a quaint term. Finished up high school back in Brookline, Ma. in the "alternative" program there called School Within A School (SWS), where students called teachers by their first name, sat on the floor in class and got to swear when discussing Kafka, Hunter S. Thompson or The Bible (read strictly as a "literary" work). Went to Reed College in Portland, OR, possibly even weirder and more intense than anything before. 1,000 people, hyper-intellectual-academic, and decadent/bacchanalian to the point where Caesar Caligula would have been like: "Dudes, c’mon, cool it!" Moved back to Boston where I got a computer tech support job at Lotus and discovered, after a year answering 20 customer calls a day- that I’m not really a "techie" at heart. Went from playing drums (in college was in a hardcore-punk-metal outfit called "Meister Band"- we drank Meister Brau) to lead singing. Took vocal lessons for a year and a half in Boston and sang with modern-rock quartet Furious George for around a year- did a dozen gigs around Boston including famous Bunratty’s, TT The Bear’s, The Middle East, etc. Moved to S.F. where a few old Boston friends were. Did more journalism (I had started in Boston) and went to a lot of cafes and parties in SF and rode my bicycle everywhere. Took improv classes there for fun, then decided SF was too small, pretentious and foggy and I wanted to get more superficial, brash and stuck in traffic so I moved down to LA with the dream of becoming either a writer, actor, or victim of a stupendously horrific and violent murderer, like that Black Dahlia woman. I do some different writing and performing activities. I just realized I’ve had a sort of strange interesting life - at least it looks that way in a Myspace "Bio" box.
InfluencesA guy standing behind the field anchor, waving and smiling gratuitously during a field report on an apartment fire on WHDH Chanel 7’s evening news in Boston. He just had a lot of vim and vigor and really "lit up the room". Stu Sutcliffe, the Beatle who tragically died. Emile Zola. Caesar Caligula.
TV ShowsFX Network’s "Bobcat’s Bigass Show", ABC’s "The Next Best Thing: Search for America’s Greatest Celebrity Impersonator"

    Adam's Interests
GeneralMolecules, Germs, Empty Space, Light, The Absence of Light, Time, Apricots. - I enjoy coffee, but only beans picked by workers who were beaten. It just tastes better. - I hate white people. - I can tell everything about a person just by talking to them for 8 or 9 years. - I believe in saving fossil fuels. I recently took a glider from L.A. to New York City. - I once took my grandmother in a fight, and I barely broke a sweat. - I always hold the door for a lady. None of the women I've dated are ladies. - I liked the Rolling Stones before they sold out and started using electricity. - I have two cardinals rules I live by. 1.) Always tell the truth. 2.) Occasionally lie. - I would like to get big tattoos of biceps on my arms. - I think that children are the future. Except for the ones that are already dead.
MusicI think my car hit someone last night. They screamed and then made a muffled gurgling sound as they collapsed on the cool pavement. If you put that over a funky-dance drumbeat and turned down the high end, I think it'd make a pretty good song. I also like the Partridge Family, but only the really early stuff, when they did songs about arson and rape.
MoviesMy favorite movie is an Argentine/Mongolian/Serbian joint production called: "El Mono De Cuesta Muebles A Cheng Dong Hung Szytski Blisk" That translates into: "Dog Ashtray Porcupine Pickle Sneeze Bicycle Pump" It's a great, wonderful, amazing movie with subtitles, an incredible soundtrack and no picture.
TelevisionI don't watch television. Television watches me.
BooksThe Complete Unannotated History of Lettuce
HeroesWinston Churchill, Jim Varney, Tom Delay, Secret Squirrel.

     Adam's Details
Status:In a Relationship
Here for:Networking, Friends
Orientation:Straight
Hometown:Boston, MA
Body type:6' 0"
Religion:Agnostic
Zodiac Sign:Aries
Smoke / Drink:No / Yes
Children:Someday
Education:College graduate

   Adam's Schools
Reed College
Portland,Oregon
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Political Science
Clubs: Jr. Varsity Shuffleboard, Bulgarian Club, Voluntary Elementary School Sex Ed Tutors, Campus Christians Against Christ, Radish Club, Students For The Death Penalty, Committee To Divest From Finland, Organization To Legalize Aspirin, Coalition to Incinerate The Homeless
 

1990 to 1994

   Adam's Companies
United Pacific Federal Trust Limited Incorporated
Woodley Hills, KS US
General Managing Associate Director
Informational Inter-Company Intra-National Systems

1995-2002


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   Adam's Blurbs
About me:
6'0" (with exercising good posture), 195 lbs. (considerably less if I'm on the moon.) Throw Right, Bat Right (learned to bat OK lefty as a kid) Write right handed. I like almost every kind of food. What don't I like? Hmmmmm. Things that are severely rotting. Insanely spicy hot food, like Thai with three or four little pepper symbols on the menu. Not crazy about Brussell Sprouts, unless they're the ones with bacon crumbles at Mozza. I am very double jointed in my fingers and can bend them back like a circus freak. I also can bend my arms way back behind my head in a way that people find curious and/or disturbing. I have always been a person with a dry, quick sense of humor in real life, especially with regular people who enjoy listening. I find standup to often require a different sort of "funny," but I like those moments where I really bring my real, natural "funny" to the stage in it's pure state. When I was in 4th grade, I wrote and cast a play (including myself as an actor) called "Alexander Graham Cracker" At middle-school age, when my parents sent me to Hebrew School for one of their 3 or 4 attempts at giving me any sort of "Formal Jewish Education"- none of which ever lasted more than a few months- I won the story-writing award in my younger teacher's class for a short story about how they built the Tower of Babel upside down, starting with the top brick first. I can't remember much about the story, but that teacher was ridiculously hot and probably in her early 20's! I've done journalism for many years (in Boston and S.F. also) and have lately been writing pieces for the L.A. Weekly and L.A. Metromix.
Who I'd like to meet:
People who collect colorful birds, narcoleptic Fighter Pilots, guys who hit anvils with hammers, rebellious Mormons, Fundamentalist Anarchists, Billionaires who wear bow-ties and wire-framed spectacles, Basques into racist hip-hop and beautiful young ladies who enjoy fine wine, classical music and chloroform. .. width="425" height="350">..>

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Nov 6 2009 11:51 PM

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Nov 4 2009 3:59 PM

Thanks for partying with Oxnard Comedy Connection at O'Dublins!!! Come back anytime, our stage is always ready!!!

Tank

Tank Jones



Oct 31 2009 6:35 PM

Sometimes when i look around, all i see is misery, despair, frustration and pain...

Then, i close my eyes, take a couple deep breaths, RELAX...And ask myself, "WHAT IF all I saw was what I WANTED TO SEE?" Then, I open my eyes. I see the sun, I see the blue sky, I see my girls smiling back at me, I see life...

And then, lo and behold, I see nothing but OPPORTUNITY...

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Thanks for reading. And if you enjoy these little sayings I send out, take a look at my site, http://TankJones.com and take a look at my blogs. You can also see a lot of pics of events I've done, music I've made and learn about my foundation.

Enjoy the rest of your day :)

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Oct 10 2009 5:30 AM

Just thought I'd drop by and check out your site. Very cool! Hope you're having a great day and thanks for being our "friend" and supporting us!! It means a lot! :)

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Thanks for the add.  Good luck to you.

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Sep 26 2009 1:50 PM

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Sep 22 2009 2:54 AM

Had a thought while driving home and I wanted to share it. Hope you don’t mind…

When we truly let go of past hurts, hang-ups and disappointments and choose to live in the moment, in the now, in the PRESENT, life truly can be a GIFT.

Hope you liked this one. :)




Also, if you like these, shoot me comments letting me know, join me on my Facebook page and when I send you a link to my website once it gets finished next week, be sure to go it and sign up and I’ll send these to you there as well. Take care
Tank

Tank Jones



Aug 28 2009 7:21 AM

I hope this comment, aka 'Tankism' finds you well today. Enjoy and stay in touch. :)

When you wake up in the morning be sure to ask yourself, "Am I looking for LIFE to bless me today or to give me a struggle?"

MINDSET: it's the steering wheel to the vehicle that drives our lives. Which way you going today? :) Take care




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Jul 24 2009 2:30 AM

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Jul 16 2009 2:32 PM

Hello, my friend. Another Tankism to brighten your week. Hope it helps :)

Look at life from the perspective of what you have NOW, what you are grateful for NOW. If you continue to look into the PAST as to what you have lost, when you open your PRESENT, you will not like what you get. However, by focusing firmly on where you are directing your FUTURE by thinking on those things which are good and pure and what you do want to happen, as you unfold your PRESENT, you will find the gift that you know you really want. And, it really is that simple. As a wise person once said: If you believe you can't, you're rightif yet if you believe you CAN, you're right. What do you believe? :)

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Jul 8 2009 6:28 AM

How are you?
Tank

Tank Jones



Jun 19 2009 2:56 AM

The trick is to stay focused on what you want to happen and let go of what you do not... cuz if you keep seeing things as they are, convincing yourself that you "have to" because that's reality, then it will always be your reality. want to change? it's as simple as changing the who, what, how, why and when of what you look at and FOCUS on... DAILY :)

Tankism #25 Hope it helps :)

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May 31 2009 6:54 AM

Failure is the best part of success. They are like yin and yang; you can’t have one without the other. So learn to celebrate your failures. Truly successful people even say they are successful because they have failed more than anyone they know. They keep trying and each time it doesn’t work, it’s just a learning experience. So, go out there, Fail, Learn, Succeed. Fail, Learn, Succeed. Say it with me now, Fail. Learn.. Succeed!!!

Put it this way, you CANNOT get hung up on when something doesn’t go your way. If you stay fixated on the failure, then you cut off the other two steps: Learn and Succeed. Fight the temptation to dwell on the failure with EVERYTHING you’ve got. Get excited about failing! Then Learn, Then Succeed!!!

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May 7 2009 12:34 AM

Just a little note to let you know you are amazing...because you are a great human being!

Have an incredible rest of the week!

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May 5 2009 5:35 AM

Get Inspired, what are you waiting on? Every minute that you waste on this planet focused on what your RIGHTS are as opposed to what your RESPONSIBILITIES are is a golden opportunity that has passed you by. An opportunity to take your life into your own hands and change your world for the better. When you do that, the byproduct is a better world overall. And, this world desperately needs YOU to show up.

Tankism #23
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Apr 21 2009 11:37 PM

See Adam tonight. He's part of a damn fine line-up, and the show's free. So if you're a real myspace pal, you'll show up.

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Tank Jones



Apr 20 2009 12:05 AM

Are you a glass half empty or glass half full type of person?

When life presents you with “experiences”, do you see them as problems that you can do nothing about or moves in a game and your job is to find the solution so you can “win the game?”

Have you failed in life or merely learned ways how not to do something on your way to achieving the life you know you deserve?

Do you live in a hostile world or a world that’s beautiful and full of possibilities?

Are you a know-it-all adult that no one can tell anything to, the world sucks and that’s just the way it is, or do you have child-like faith and can see things like children see them?

This week, let the kid in you back out. Laugh more…Appreciate more…Be thankful more…Help more…BE MORE…You were meant to be abundant, so go out there and start your treasure hunt :-)

Tankism #22 Be well this week my friends…

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