I think I'm going to make the lists too long...Writing; Reading; 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s Movies (especially Screwball Comedies); Old Jazz and Standards; WWII History; World History; 1970s campy stuff; 1980s campy stuff; Dark Comedy; Silent Comedies; Film Noir; Good Stand-Up Comedians; Old Comic Books; Old Radio Shows from the 30s to the 50s; Watching the leaves swirl around on the ground from the wind of a crisp Fall day (a Fall and Winter guy in a Summer town) - Man, I got the douche chills when I wrote that
Music
The Beatles; Louis Armstrong; Ella Fitzgerald; The Police; Foo Fighters; Anita O'Day; Cab Calloway; Fats Waller; Old Jazz and Standards; The Talking Heads; 1970s Rock; 1980s pop like The Outfield, The Fixx, and Crowded House; Old Country Music like Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Senior, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, and Ernest Tubb; Willie Nelson; 1940s Western Swing like Tex Williams and Spade Cooley; AC/DC; Van Halen (Diamond Dave version); Billy Joel; Fleetwood Mac; Supertramp; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Traveling Wilburys; Dinah Washington; Louis Prima; Nat King Cole; The Cure; The Cramps; The Ramones; Blondie; Prince; Queen; Elvis; They Might Be Giants; Squirrel Nut Zippers; Katharine Whalen's solo stuff; a really embarrassing affection for the original lineup of KISS (I was a member of their Army); 60s Britpop; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Electric Six
Movies
My all-time favorite movie fluctuates between Jaws and Raising Arizona; anything by the Coen Brothers; the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road To...movies; Film Noir; 1930s Screwball Comedies; Scorcese Gangster Flicks (and Mob movies in general); The Die Hard movies; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Marx Brothers movies; Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, and The Princess Bride (I swear I am not a chick); Danny Boyle movies like 28 Days Later and Millions (watch it at Christmas with your family, there won't be a dry eye in the house); There's Something About Mary (everyone has a Mary); Star Wars until it ended in 1983; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Rushmore; Bottle Rocket; Almost Famous; Silent Comedies; Little Rascals short features; WWII movies; Planet of the Apes (Chuck Heston version only); Zombie movies; Halloween; John Carpenter's The Thing; An American Werewolf in London; Mel Brooks movies like Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles; Singin' In The Rain; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; a really embarrassing affection for KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park; all those really crappy horror movies from the 1970s where animals eat people...I totally spelled Scorsese's name wrong, but I'm not scrolling all the way back up there to fix it.
Television
The Office (British and American versions); LOST; Entourage; The Sopranos; Scrubs; The Andy Griffith Show (Black and White episodes only); 30 Rock; Arrested Development; NewsRadio; Rome; Band of Brothers; Moonlighting; Curb Your Enthusiasm; hilariously "hip" 70s Cop Shows like CHiPs; South Park; Sanford and Son; Seinfeld; Friends; Bewitched (I had a little kid crush on Elizabeth Montgomery); The Beverly Hillbillies (I did not have a little kid crush on Granny); My Name Is Earl (because it sort of reminds me of Raising Arizona); Spaced (COMING SOON TO DVD, it's a great 1999-2001 British sitcom from director Edgar Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost from Shaun of the Dead, and Lucy Davis from the BBC Office series)
Books
A few favorites - Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns (seriously); Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut; Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose; Adventures in the Screen Trade, Which Lie Did I Tell? and Magic by William Goldman; Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary, The Dead Zone, Christine (there's a really touching story of friendship beneath all the haunted car stuff), IT (the first half, anyway), and On Writing by Stephen King; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Lord of the Flies by William Golding; The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; Stalingrad and Berlin by Antony Beevor
Heroes
William Goldman; Ray Bradbury; Robert Bloch; Kurt Vonnegut; Philip K. Dick; Hunter Thompson; Bruce Willis; Jack Benny; That "Time to Make the Donuts" Dude (he got up and made the donuts EVERY SINGLE DAY, man); Jack Cole (artist); George Burns and Gracie Allen; Stephen Ambrose; I made the lists too long, who the hell is going to read all this
Do you think I made the profile ugly enough, by the way? I'm not quite sure. I think I could do better. My goal is to make it so dookie ugly even fake myspace webcam stripper spammers will see it and just shake their heads sadly and stop filling my inbox with dozens of fractured English invites to wherever the hell fake myspace webcam strippers post their "hot uncensored pics."
I AM TOTALLY ON TO THE FACT THAT YOU ARE REALLY AN UNEDUCATED 45-YEAR-OLD FOREIGN MAN WHOSE BREATH SMELLS LIKE OLD WET TOBACCO AND FEET, "HAYLEY"
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Anyway, kevinparrott.blogspot.com is where I keep the more personal stuff (in case you missed the bigass link above). I just post goofy junk here...when I actually bother to post junk here.
Every myspace blog I ever click on is infested with animated unicorns or sparkling fairies or midi Air Supply songs or whatever anyway, so maybe it's best none of that accidentally spills all over this page.
I used to have another myspace page/profile I made a long while back, but it was pretty much empty, and when I logged in a while back, I somehow managed to break the hell out of it. In frustration, I deleted it and started this one. I'm not terribly myspace savvy. Your world frightens and confuses me...your iron birds, your magic picture boxes.
The rest of this might be of interest to all none of you.
I used to write a blog called Are You Hep To The Jive? up until the latter half of 2005. It was mildly (some might say infinitesimally) popular. Eventually I became increasingly occupied with other things happening in my life, and I let the domain expire. Not long after some douchebag out there in the ether of the internets decided the domain http://www.kevinparrott.com/ was synonymous with web traffic, and bought up all the rights. Clicking through the link now takes you to a weird NASCAR-themed search page because, even though I've only watched maybe like an hour of racing total in my entire life (needs more crashing), apparently nothing says NASCAR quite like my birth name. It would cost $200 (or more) to buy back the name from this nameless, faceless individual. I decided www.kevinparrott.net is just as easy to type, and exactly $200 cheaper. And I never use it. That was money well-spent.
Sometimes I feel weird about using my real name over and over again for all these websites and blogs and personal pages, but all the cool names are always taken. BY NASCAR.
P.S. - I'm not really a scientologist, but I do think Travolta was hilarious in Battlefield Earth.
P.P.S. - I didn't really watch Battlefield Earth. But I did laugh at the commercials.
P.P.P.S. - I just realized I put like 85 links in this profile and absolutely no information about myself, and that made me laugh, too, because I'm kind of an idiot.
P.P.P.P.S. - I caved and added music, because it's always a pleasant surprise to have that shit suddenly come blasting out of your speakers in a quiet office environment.
Wasn't that worth reading?
Who I'd like to meet: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Benny, Jimmy Stewart, That "Time To Make The Donuts" Dude, Lincoln...you probably mean people who are alive, don't you.
hey neighbor.. was just snooping and found that blog about the CFRGs and wanted to say great blog as well as cool pictures. really hope you had good time and the next one is on the 13th so tell your friends. also let me know about the t-shirts. have a few friends who are interested in purchasing..
