James Inman is the 1997 winner of the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, performed at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, Comedy Central Laugh Riots and three time headliner at the Seattle Lenny Bruce Festival. Described by David Fewster of the Tacoma Reporter as being "the spawn of an unnatural union between Henry Rollins and Don Rickles. He comfortably blows away political correctness in favor of a freeform brutal frankness that so few comics dare even attempt." James also wrote and produced one man show The Greyhound Diary. A tale of a brutal journey into the heart of fear. James plays clubs across the United States, Canada and the UK. Currently based in Kansas and Seattle.
James Inman's Interests
Music
Elvis Costello, Ben Folds, Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg, Damien Rice, Dwight Yoakam, Hedwig, Jayhawks, Mountain Goats, Nick Cave, Mozart, Sade, Son Volt, Dresden Dolls, Smiths, The Clash, Tom Waits, Pogues, Beastie Boys, Blink 182, Dead Kennedys, Johnathan Richman, Louis XIV, Pixies, Sex Pistols, Suede, The Black Keys, The Damned, The Darkness, The Jam, They Might Be Giants, Ween, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hynryk Gorecki, Karen Finley, MC Honky, Massive Attack, Peaches, Tricky, This Mortal Coil, Philip Glass, King Missile, Public Enemy
Movies
Fight Club, Woody Allen, Three Kings, Office Space, Fahrenheit 9-11, the Revolution Will Not be Televised, Bulworth, Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Goodfellas, the Last Temptation of Christ, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Koyaanisqatsi, Full Metal Jacket, Amelie, eXistenZ, Mr. Death, Fog of War, Flirting With Disaster, Communion, Sideways, JFK, Wall Street, the Doors, Salvador, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Bar Fly, Casino, Children of the Revolution and Shrek!
Television
All Television sucks blood turds coming out of Satan’s butthole except Frontline, 60 Minutes, Sealab 2021 and the Trailer Park Boys.
Books
Tao Te Ching, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, My Cousin My Gastroenterologist, Dimensions, the Interrupted Journey, the New Pearl Harbor, Body of Secrets, Tooth Prints on a Corndog, Letters to Earth, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Blasphemous Rumors, Ashes of Waco, Fingerprints of the Gods, the Gods of Eden, Three Christs of Ypsilanti, the Great Shark Hunt, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Li Po, Om Seti, the Bhagavad-Gita, Praise of Folly
Heroes
Buddha, Jesus, Nietzsche, Bill Hicks, Brad Nelson, Jim Harkins, Emery Emery, Doug Stanhope and my roomate Banjo Randy.
About me: I'm a stand up comedian and writer living in Kansas City. I just published my first book called the Greyhound Diary. You can buy it at
Amazon. George Mortimer wrote a cool review for it here. I also write for Media-Underground. You'll find my conspiracy rants there about once a month. I have a
blog on Livejournal but I dont write much on MySpace. You can find all my videos at YouTube here. I sit behind the computer downloading software and music. Most of my friends below are comedians, agents and entertainers. I go on the road two or three weeks a month to do stand up. Im a huge
Elvis Costello fan and I have at least 10 gigs of his mp3s on my hard drive. Check out the
reviews I wrote for Amazon.com of great books and music. The video below is my latest clip from the Unbookables tour in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Please take a look at the new section on my site for The Real Million Marijuana March (TRM3) in Washington D.C. July 4, 2009. I'm California Representative.
Yeah, I never really got that sick, just started to and then took a bunch of cold medicine which I guess wiped it out, which is actually a first for me. Usually any little cold puts me right out of commission. Must've been a weak strain, so if you got the same thing you'll be fine. As to what I thought I heard you say, perhaps I imagined it or dreamt it or misinterpreted it but I could've sworn I heard you talking to someone in the van about something along those lines. One thing's for sure, though- MY reality is subjective, being that I'm hearing people say shit which they may or may not have actually said. Anyway, I did have fun on the tour. I'm kinda sad it's over, truthfully. I hope I'll get to see you perform again sometime.
Thanks for the add! Sorry I gotta follow you around and stick that fucking camera in your face all the time, I imagine it must be really annoying, but it's all part of the show I guess. Just be thankful it's not a colonoscopy camera.
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