Kevin Parrott
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Fake Cowboy |
| Location | Wilmington, NC, United States |
| Introduction | I'M AT A LOSS FOR WORDS |
| Interests | Writing, Reading, 1930s movies, 1940s movies, 1950s Movies, Screwball Comedies, Jazz Vocals, Big Band, Western Swing, WWII History, World History, 1970s camp, 1980s camp, Dark Comedy, Silent Comedies, Film Noir, Stand-Up Comedy, Golden Age Comics, Old Time Radio, Watching the leaves swirl around on the ground from the wind of a crisp Fall day (a Fall and Winter guy in a Summer town, and boy do I ever feel like a douche for writing that) |
| Favorite movies | My all-time favorite movie fluctuates between Jaws and Raising Arizona, anything by the Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men coming soon!), Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road movies, Film Noir, Screwball Comedies like Bringing Up Baby, Scorsese Gangster Flicks (Mob movies in general), The Die Hard movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marx Brothers movies, This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride (I swear I am not a chick), Danny Boyle - 28 Days Later and Millions (watch it at Christmas with your family,), There's Something About Mary (everyone has a Mary), Star Wars until it ends in 1983, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Almost Famous, Silent Comedies, WWII movies, Planet of the Apes (Chuck Heston version only), Zombie movies, Halloween, John Carpenter's The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, Mel Brooks movies like Young Frankenstein & Blazing Saddles, Singin' In The Rain, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a really embarrassing affection for KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park ("Insufficient data at the moment, Star Child!"), all those really crappy horror movies from the 1970s where animals eat people... TELEVISION: The Office (British + American versions), LOST, Entourage, Sopranos, Scrubs (What has two thumbs and doesn't give a crap? Bob Kelso), 30 Rock, Arrested Development, NewsRadio (miss Phil Hartman), Rome, Band of Brothers, Moonlighting (DVD sets are great), Andy Barker PI (damn you, NBC), Curb Your Enthusiasm, hilariously "hip" 70s Cop Shows, CHiPs, South Park, Sanford & Son, Seinfeld, Friends, Bewitched (had a little kid crush on Elizabeth Montgomery), The Beverly Hillbillies (did not have a little kid crush on Granny), My Name Is Earl (sort of reminds me of Raising Arizona), Spaced (not on DVD - seek it out on the Net, it's a great 1999-2001 British sitcom by Edgar Wright with Simon Pegg & Nick Frost from Shaun of the Dead, & Lucy Davis from the BBC Office series) |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, The Police, Foo Fighters, Anita O'Day, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Old Jazz and Standards, 1970s Rock, 1980s pop, The Outfield, The Fixx,, Crowded House, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Senior, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, Willie Nelson, Western Swing , Tex Williams, Spade Cooley, AC/DC, Van Halen, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Dinah Washington, Louis Prima, Nat King Cole, The Cure, The Cramps, The Ramones, Blondie, Prince, Queen, Elvis, They Might Be Giants, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Katharine Whalen, a really embarrassing affection for the original lineup of, KISS, (I was a member of their Army), 60s Britpop |
| Favorite books | A few favorites - Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns (seriously); Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury; Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut; Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose; Adventures in the Screen Trade, Which Lie Did I Tell? and Magic by William Goldman; Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary, The Dead Zone, Christine (there's a really touching story of friendship beneath all the haunted car stuff), IT (the first half, anyway), and On Writing by Stephen King; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Lord of the Flies by William Golding; The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving |