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Just a road comic - I travel all over the country but base out of both Austin, TX (hot bed of Bohemian artists) and my hometown of Dayton, OH (a town so quiet you can hear the dreams die...) These twin influences give my material an odd mix of hipster edge and Midwestern accessibility - somewhere between a thinking-man's-comic and a drinking-man's-comic.
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Influences
Influences:
Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Jon Stewart, Jake Johannsen, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Richard Jeni.
But let’s talk about more important influences:NPR, This American Life, NYTimes, Slate, New Yorker, Harpers, graphic novels, old radio shows, whiling away an afternoon in a used bookstore, trolling thrift stores for funky clothes, bouncing between Happy Hours, small family-owned ethnic restaurants.
Great theater to inspire or bad theater to amuse. Drinking, but only in a slow, steady stream, never in obnoxious amounts all at once.
Musuems/art galleries--
Parking garage roofs, gay bars where all the cool straight people hang out, hole-in-the-wall shit-kicker bars, lectures, bingos, live music and anywhere with a jukebox that makes me salivate
"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s "Theory of Relativity" to serve. You don’t have to know the Second Theory of Thermal Dynamics in Physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love, and you can be that servant." M.L.K.
Mark's Interests
General
NPR, This American Life, NYTimes, Slate, New Yorker, Harpers, graphic novels, old radio shows, whiling away an afternoon in a used bookstore, trolling thrift stores for funky clothes, bouncing between Happy Hours, small family-owned ethnic restaurants.
Great theater to inspire or bad theater to amuse. Drinking, but only in a slow, steady stream, never in obnoxious amounts all at once.
Musuems/art galleries--
Parking garage roofs, gay bars where all the cool straight people hang out, hole-in-the-wall shit-kicker bars, lectures, bingos, live music and anywhere with a jukebox that makes me salivate
Music
Tom Waits Leonard Cohen Smog Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Lamb, Portishead, Zero 7, Goldfrapp, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Bill Withers Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Jesse Cook
Nina Simone, Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Astrud Gilberto Roddy Frame, Waterboys/Mike Scott
Philip Glass, Arvo Part, Gorecki, Tangerine Dream, Godspeed you Black Emporer, Air, Jack Johnson, Damien Rice, Damien Jurado, The Decemberists Ben Folds, Aimee Mann, Franz Ferdinand, , Beth Orton, Allison Moyet, Stevie Wonder, Jeff Buckley Smiths, Style Council, Alphaville, Yaz, Morrisey, The The Magnetic Fields, Front 242, Thrill Kill Kult, Joy Division, Bauhaus, System of a Down, Godhead, William Shatner, Over the Rhine, Sufjan Stevens,
Foreign/Indy/Classics --- Benny and Joon, Thin Red Line, Amelie, Secretary, Mother Night, Blade Runner, Midnight Cowboy, Buffalo 66, Kill Billl (esp part 2), Sideways, Garden State
Caddyshack, Moderns, Big Night, Film Noir (Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Asian Horror
Television
Daily Show, Colbert Report, Battlestar Galactica, Thick of It (BBC), Office (BBC), Twin Peaks, Homicide, Sealab, Aqua Teen, Tick, Larry Sanders
Books
Vonnegut, Kundera, Studs Turkel, non-fiction, Robert Heinein, CS Lewis, Mark Twain, Margaret Atwood, Huxley, H.P. Lovecraft, Orwell, Sedaris, Tom Wolfe, Raymond Chandler, Oscar Wilde, dissenting views of history (Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, et al.)
I could care less about professional sports, what kind of engine is in my car or People Magazine.
Enjoy sinnin', blasphemin', truth tellin', fornicatin', free thinkin' and other threats to society. Try to keep any hypocritin', liein', or whinin' to a minimum.
I cook. I make a hummus that you would sell out your country for...others have.
Best Cheese? Feta. Definately feta.
I use my bike. A lot. I use my library card. A lot. I use my common sense. Somewhat less than a lot.
I don't trust girls who are too girly and guys who are too manly, people who think with their guts, and people who believe their god-creature hates anyone/anything.
weluckyfew on Yahoo email/IM
If we all work together then maybe... someday... we can make this country realize that "Git-R-Done" just isn't funny.
Glitter text makes my eye cramp up...
Who I'd like to meet:
My name in lights!
In Dubuque, Iowa.
At the Best Western.
You know, the one that has the tropical indoor pool.
Happy Birthday! Btw, I saw a guy at my gym with a sick tribal band around the upper part of his calf. Then slightly below that was a Chinese symbol. Made me think of your blog.
Second day has been fantastic. It's already becoming second nature for me. I still need to work on taking off from first shift, though. Haha. I think I'm going to buy it from you. :)
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