About Me
ABOUT THIS BLOG
- A lot of it is me reblogging neat crap. For autobigraphical stuff, click “Personal Blog” to sort through everything personalish. That was obvious. You didn’t need me to tell you that. Nnrrrr…
I won’t put many original creative things here, though, lest someone rip me off and I lose out on tens and TENS of precious dollars.
ABOUT MYSELF
Hi. I’m John.
Interests: theistic existentialism, etymology, history, (rock) music, satire.
Activities: reading Wikipedia like a smack addict, sloppy-but-passionate guitar/bass/drums, socializing, writing, outdoorsiness.
Skillz: English/French/German/Italian/Spanish, teaching, improv comedy, research and exposition, critical and creative writing, getting things down from high-up shelves and so on.
Experience: 2yrs. volunteer missionary service in Switzerland/France/Luxembourg; 3yrs. teaching Intro to Film Art & Analysis at Brigham Young University, 1mo. teaching English in Parisian suburbs; 3mo. Cinéculture Field Study in Paris; 1mo. Greco-Roman History in Rome/Umbria; 2mo. International Film in London.
Goals: write a couple of books, record a couple of albums; tour with a band and/or doing standup comedy; broadcast an oeuvre of sketch comedy, make at least a couple of feature-length films and a few shorts; maybe grad school? Teach. Help. Be happy.
Adjectives: tall, clumsy, dry, friendly, barely-kempt, passionate.
Foods: muesli, röschti, spätzle, supplì, biscotti, dark chocolate, yoghurt, vegetables, pastrami, sauerkraut, goat cheese, flax crackers.
Music: The Kinks, The Hives, The Beta Band/Aliens, Ben Folds Five, Beck, Gorillaz/Blur, Cake, Tenacious D; Saint-Saëns; Swiss Classic Radio.
Film: Edgar Wright, Steven Soderbergh, Wim Wenders, Fritz Lang, Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, William Wegman; New York Doll, Adaptation, the Jerk, Amélie, Inglourious Basterds, Caro Diario, Wings of Desire, Schizopolis, Hot Rod, Snatch, Funny People, Sherman’s March, The Life of Brian, In the Loop.
Comedy: Monty Python, Kasper Hauser, Big Train, Mitchell and Webb, Little Britain, Human Giant, the State, Stella, Trigger Happy TV, Sifl & Olly; South Park, NewsRadio, Outnumbered; Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant/Karl Pilkington, Marc Maron, Dylan Moran, Eddie Izzard, Louis C.K., Maria Bamford.
Other TV: Dexter, Breaking Bad, Deadliest Warrior.
Literature: James Herriot, Jules Verne, Douglas Adams, Orson Scott Card, Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Hornby; All Creatures Great and Small; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Catcher in the Rye, The World As I See It (Albert Einstein).
Culture: The Sound of Young America, Wired Magazine, The Daily What.
Role Models: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ(Jesus), Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Smith, John Taylor, Theodore Roosevelt, Heber J. Grant, James Herriot, Hugh Nibley, Tim Willardson, John Starrs, Dean Duncan, Tom Russell, Daryl Lee, Bob Hudson; Ferris Bueller, Han Solo.
Kindred Spirits (I presume): Benjamin Franklin, Graham Chapman, Lorne Michaels, Judd Apatow, Dave Foley, Bob Odenkirk, Ricky Gervais, Nick Hornby, Simon Pegg, Andy Samberg, Paul Rudd, Colin Firth in Love Actually, Flik, Cameron Frye.
