Mindfucking, changing the world, quantum physics, agit-prop art, using the power for good, making out, post-apocalyptic survival, kittens.
Music
REM, eels, Frank Zappa, The Long Winters, The Postal Service, Joni Mitchell, Mike Doughty, The Wrens, 60s folk music, protest rock, John Vanderslice, David Bowie, David Byrne, Ken Stringfellow, Soul Coughing, Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, Polyphonic Spree, Tegan & Sara, Minus 5, Mountain Goats, Sufjan Stevens, and all sorts of guilty pleasures like "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "We Built This City" and "Let The River Run."
And all those Kelly Clarkson singles, but don't let that tarnish my AWESOMELY indie street cred.
Movies
Any scene featuring Harold Ramis, the 'Tiny Dancer' bit in Almost Famous, the RNA protein-synthesis Jabberwocky movie, Existenz, Waking Life, Toys, City of Lost Children, Annie Hall, Children of Men, North by Northwest, Dirty Dancing (no, really).
Television
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (aka "Balatica"), America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Twin Peaks, anything about cosmology, NOVA episodes about quantum physics, Spaceghost Coast to coast, Fraggle Rock, Top Chef, So You Think You Can Dance (loves!!!), Lost, House, Granatomy, Primetime Medical Mysteries, Planet Earth (but only in HD) all those talking-head shows on VH1 (blatant self-promotion).
Books
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Anything by Heinlein especially Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love. Anything about quantum physics. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. World War Z. Anything by George Carlin. How To Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce. Cruddy by Lynda Barry. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. Anything about Woody Guthrie.
Heroes
Woody Guthrie, Frank Zappa, Andy Kaufman, Lenny Bruce, Wonder Woman.
Wesleyan University
Middletown,Connecticut
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Theater and English
Minor: (focused on directing)
Clubs: Theater, theater, theater. Students for a Free Tibet. Grail (the magazine). Economic Action Committee. Happenstance Theatrelab. Myth Arts Collective.
About me: Hey there, hi there, ho there! I'm Bex, and I am oh-so-fond of you. Yes, I'm that grrrl on the VH1, with the red streaks and the star necklace (branding, baby!). You've found me. I'm also your friend in New York City. My real job is being a writer/director. Seriously. I'll write and direct anything with integrity -- I'm an art-ho, but an art-ho with taste,
Here's a brand spanky new list of lots of my TV appearances. You should hire me for more. I'd also make an awesome wacky neighbor / co-worker on a sitcom.
And I, much like the rest of the multiverse, have a a blog.
More Bex Than That At Which Sticks Can Be Shook, aka Planet Bex). (please do clickity click and come visit)
So! About me: raging Bush-hater, vitriolic atheist, and vehement vegetarian.
Turn-ons: cosmology, deconstructing pop culture, singing & dancing, tequila.
Turn-offs: emoticons, bad grammar, stupidity, fascist governments, war, fighting, anger, James Blunt.
I seem to be a verb. I want a hug. I love this song.
I also really like vegan soup.
Want me to write your tele- or screenplay or direct your video or do voiceover for you? Sure thing. Lookenzee here! This is the video for "Fire Island, AK" by The Long Winters. I directed this bad boy.
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Look, this is me being a tool in a promo for my Oomph blog:
Who I'd like to meet: Scientist-rockstars, superheroes, and baby pandas. And, please, a unicorn or two.
Look out for "Rock Band Cometh: The Rock Band Band Story" coming soon to a television near you! For a sneak peak, check out the re-release of their groundbreaking music video (Rock Band Band invented the music vide):
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Perhaps you will post a review of our new book, MORTIFIED: Love Is a Battlefield on Amazon. If you say nice things, we will let you go the 3rd base.
PRAISE FOR THE NEW BOOK: "If Schadenfreude was an Olympic sport, then this book would be its illegal performance-enhancing drug. The baring of souls is seldom this funny or touching." Paul Feig Creator, Freaks & Geeks
My name is Robert Turo, you probably don't know me at all, that's cool, but I've seen you on the TV and have been smitten with you ever since. Anyway, thank you for showing me that there are still hot and funny girls out there and I hope you have a happy Holiday Season. Please do me one last favor and "Stay Beautiful!"
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for coming out last night! You two are frakkin' cool and I am frakkin' lucky to know you! I am tuning in tonight for your show! Can't wait! XOXOXO
