Michael
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| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer/Artist |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | I'm a 51 year old Canadian back in Toronto after living in Los Angeles. I have an extensive theatre background, as an actor, writer and director. I've written a bunch of Plays, A Book, A lousy Screenplay, and am attempting a Musical, and a good screenplay. I'm also an Illustrator of dubious talent. |
| Interests | Writing, Graphics, Movies, Music, Theatre, Comedy, Playing Guitar(badly), Politics, Old Time Radio, Trivia. Illustrators. and, yes, Some Comic Books. In other words, I'm a geek. An Old Geek that remembers everything, so that gives me status...or so I'm told. Or maybe it just makes me that much more pathetic...Want some gummy worms? |
| Favorite Movies | King Kong (33), The Quiet Man, Citizen Kane, Out of the Past, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Frankenstein(Any Universal Horror Movie Actually) Any Mr. Moto Movie, All the Fred and Ginger movies except Flying Down to Rio and Roberta. Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Fight Club, The Marx Brothers, WC Fields, Abbott and Costello, Martin & Lewis, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, The Torchy Blane Movies, Anything with Bogart or Cagney or Bogart and Cagney. Looney Tunes.The Incredibles, Some Woody Allen, Most Spielberg and Scorsese, Crumb, Saturday Afternoon Serials. |
| Favorite Music | Spike Jones, Christine Lavin, Jann Arden, Louis Jordan, David Bowie, Sam Cooke, Django Reinhardt, The Beatles, Betty Hutton, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, The Folksmen, Charlie Parker, Randy Newman, The Elvises (Presley and Costello), Jill Sobule, George Gershwin, They Might be Giants, The Who, Ella Fitzgerald, Rough Trade, Moxy Fruvous, Roxy Music, Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys. |
| Favorite Books | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Men of Tomorrow, A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius, Anything by Raymond Chandler, Mark Twain, and Dashiell Hammett, WP Kinsella, David Sedaris, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Vowell, Robert Heinlein, and some Stephen King |
In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?
Because our school didn't have a pool! Any other stupid Questions, bright eyes?