I am Witty, Thoughtful, and Crafty

I really like to take pictures, esp food experiments I make, rocks, toys, found objects macro (I like the detail up close, always liked the Games magazine eye-ball benders), and live bands. I like video too and most media and I'm bursting with other creative potentially great ideas.

Talking. Fixing things or figuring out why something doesn't work. Off the wall humor and creativity. Research, finding the answers. Being different or difficult, you choose.

Ask them.

Books: Kitchen Confidential, A Cooks Tour, Anything by Lenny Bruce or Charles Bukowski, Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict, Richard Brautigan, esp Trout Fishing in America, Hickory Wind (life of Gram Parsons) by Ben Fong Torres....I like magazines too...currently getting ReadyMade.....I like to read out loud to people...esp bedtime stories...

Movies: Lots.....but I'm no film nerd......ElectraGlide in Blue, The Long Goodbye, We Jam Econo, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Spirited Away, Star Wars, Raiders, Who's that Knocking at my Door, The Thin Blue Line, Mean Streets, Days of Wine and Roses, The Apartment, Big Night, Midnight Cowboy, Chinatown....

TeeVee: The Rockford Files, Quincy,House, Lost...The Wire (Welcome to Hamsterdam!), Deadwood (have to love any show that says fuck more than I do), Dexter, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Twin Peaks, The State, CSI, Liquid Television...Hoolihan and Big Chuck (or Big Chuck and Little John), PBS cooking shows...David Letterman the old days pre-bypass. Did you see when he poured "some tea for the lady?", the monkey that attacked him? That was some extremely funny shit. Lots of old shows keep coming back to me.

Music: Gram Parsons, Randy Weeks, Mike Stinson, Sockeye, The Zutons, Elliott Smith, Afghan Whigs, Hyper as Hell, Boy in Love, Black Flag, The Mades, Uncle Tupelo, WhiskeyTown, The Court and Spark, Silversunpickups, The Supersuckers, Merrick, Jonathan Richman, U2, REM (Murmur, Reckoning, and Fables...what happend to them now?), Wilco, The Movies, Rex Aquarium, December Stars, Paper Planes, Gina Villalobos, Gush....Plenty more, past, present, and future....If you haven't heard of some of these bands....it's probably cause they are local and you need to get out more, or they broke up and you missed them!

Food: .Taco Spot - In Eagle Rock. .Brite Spot.(revised since they remodeled...I've been here 3x for breaky and its been great each time) Palermos - I live in EP, so just a bit too far to deliver, but I just get their cheese pizza with a dinner salad. Eatwell - I liked both the one on Sunset in Silverlake, but mostly prefer the one in Glendale, because it's low scene and the parking is easy...but then the one on Sunset fell of the map from what I hear was vermin infestation. f*ck! .Taco Tontos in Kent, Ohio. Their burritos are different than here, but oh wow are they good and with a couple pints of any one of a number of Great Lakes beer (don't laugh, its some awesome brew) you better get two...MMM. I get their homemade hot sauce shipped out here.

I have a few others, California Wok, Cafe Angeleno (3rd st near the beverly ctr), King Torta!!!damn fine Torta (Just writing this makes me want to go there this weekend!, Pho on Sunset in Silverlake, I like some soup and sandwich at Urth Cafe but what a scene, its worse than Stranger Joes :-), ooo North End Pizza in Burbank on Orange damn fine pizza, makes me think of Reginas in Boston! Then I'll just cook at home.

.Family .Friends .Music .Nature .Tools .Access to information

You.

Playing guitar. Putting off going out. Working on Photography. I used to go out every Friday (lots of nights really) and see live music, but I don't do it much anymore unless its someone I really want to see. I got out of the loop a bit on the local scene and haven't figured out how to get back in yet. Maybe you can come pick me up, take me out, steal all my records, with a smile on your face, and then do it again. (thanks Ryan Adams). I like to go to parties, see shows, go to movies, entertain, but I'm less motivated to go out when I'm alone.

Open book.

You feel like doing so.