WRITING!!! Comedy, Music, Film, Theater, Politics, meeting new people, learning new things.
Music
Opeth, Type O Negative, Steely Dan, Fiona Apple, Led Zeppelin, System of a Down, Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, King Crimson, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Beatles, Bela Fleck, Cornelius, Zero 7, Ben Folds, Zebra (and Randy Jackson, solo), Nellie McKay, New Pornographers, Rush, Spacehog, The Streets, Tenacious D, Galactic Cowboys, The Police (first 2 albums only, really), Metallica, Outkast, The Darkness, Black Sabbath, They Might Be Giants, Tool, Iron Maiden, Cake, Long Winters!!!, Charles Mingus, Coldplay, David Bowie, TV on the Radio, Devo, YES, Guns n Roses, Phish, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Judas Priest, King's X, The Kinks, Kiss, Mike Keneally, Miles Davis, NERD, Motley Crue, Pearl Jam
Movies
All by Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, David Mamet, many others.
Television
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Books
Plus, anything by Nick Hornby, John Dufresne, Clive Barker (back in the original horror days), Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Queenan, Charles Bukowski - The Secret History, Bonfire of the Vanities, Microsurfs, Hardball by Chris Matthews (great look at how Congress really works), Clinton & Me by Mark Katz (great look about how being a presidential jokewriter really works), Freakonomics, Heavier Than Heaven (Cobain bio), Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Live From NY (SNL oral histroy), For Keeps (Pauline Kael anthology)
I'm a journalist, editor, and author who has interviewed thousands of comedians, musicians, actors and others for features in publications and websites including The New York Post, Radar, Esquire, Variety, Maxim, Salon, Nerve, the Black Table, and many, many others.
The list of people I've interviewed is vast and wide, including most of the current cast of SNL (plus Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon), John Legend, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Mamet, David Cross, George Carlin (numerous times - click the "Esquire" link above for one of them), J.J. Abrams, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Degeneres, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman, and Dane Cook; Aimee Mann, Modest Mouse, Rick James, Al Green, and James Brown; two members each of Yes, Phish, Black Sabbath, and Guns and Roses, and three members each of KISS and the Grateful Dead. The list goes on - if you want to know if I've written about anyone specific, feel free to ask.
I also write non-entertainment-related feature stories. I've interviewed the likes of Governor Mario Cuomo, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, and the former Commander of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq, General George W. Casey - and, I won an award for Excellence in Profile Writing from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for this profile of a theatrical publicist/prison activist named David Rothenberg.
I've written five books, have appeared several times as a pop culture expert on A&E's "Biography," and was also featured as one of the profiled “Successful Freelancers” in the 2007 Writer’s Market.
In a former life, I performed stand-up comedy all around NYC, and appeared on the first-ever episode of Chappelle's Show. (Remember the Pop Copy Sketch, where the angry dude screams at Guillermo Diaz, "I wanna see your manager!" and Guillermo screams back, "I AM the manager, bitch!" That bitch was me.) I was also hired to help write jokes for host Whoopi Goldberg at a sold-out Radio City Music Hall event called, “An Evening with Harry, Carrie, and Garp,” which featured readings by John Irving, Stephen King, and J.K. Rowling, and have ghost-written jokes for many major CEO's and other execs in the media world.
Going back even further, I have played hard rock guitar in numerous bands (my lead playing was compared to Jimmy Page's by several highly intoxicated college girls), and I've recently developed an affinity for cheesy 70's exploitation flicks. Up next: Fritz The Cat!
Who I'd like to meet: FILM AND MUSIC LOVERS! (Always looking for more movie and concert buddies.) Comedy fans; generally intelligent people who like a good challenging conversation; and fellow writers to yap about what we do.
Thanks for inviting me to write for your website! It's been a lot of fun!!! I never realized how much I enjoyed interviewing all these people! It's addicting!
WHERE ARE YOU? I was serious about RUSH. Are you going to that concert? Hope you are well and loving the Britney news. You must be so proud to have written a book about her before she was THIS amazing...
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him.
He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wiped a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
"What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room, "Why are you down here at this time of night?"
The husband looks up from his coffee, "Do you remember 20 years ago when we were dating, and you were only 16?" he asks solemnly. The wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring and sensitive.
"Yes I do," she replies.
The husband paused. The words were not coming easily. "Do you remember when, your father caught us in the back seat of my car making love?"
"Yes, I remember," said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him. The husband continued.
"Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said,
"Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to jail for 20 years?"
"I remember that too" she replied softly. He wiped another tear from his cheek and said... "I would have gotten out today."
Look, everyone knows you're a beautiful, brilliant, billionaire, rock star, astrophysical cosmologist. So, why not vote for me to be on "America's Next Big Producer?" All you have to do is GO TO THIS WEBSITE, click "Join this Contest," follow the instructions, and vote for "Adam's Bio"!
Happy Valentine's Day from HA! We are open--come in with your special someone and get out of the cold! Say "It's Not You, It's Me" at check-in and get free admission for you and yours. Drink specials and dessert are available!
Even though I get the sneaking suspicion you've been avoiding me as of late, let it not ever be said that I don't make my best effort to remain unabashedly loyal, as well as proudly dedicated to former ties. So, with that in mind...
