About

Left field thinker in love with music, movies, boxing, Steelers football, serialized TV, alt comedy, the history of just about everything, and all manner of more peculiar esoterica, not including politics or religion. Cheers!

Education

• East Tennessee State University
• East Tennessee State University
• Bristol Tennessee High School

Favorite saying

• ""Put down that chainsaw and listen to me: It's time for us to join in the fight. It's time to let your babies grow up to be cowboys. It's time to let the bedbugs bite." -"Weird Al" Yankovic "Where words fail, music speaks." -Hans Christian Anderson "I love individuals. I hate...groups of people. I hate a group of people with a common purpose. Because, pretty soon, they have little hats, you know? And armbands. And fight songs! And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am..." -George Carlin "I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy, and am awed by people who take the risks of performance." -Roger Ebert "Like I told my last wife, I says, 'Honey, I never drive faster than I can see...and, besides that, it's all in the reflexes.'" -Jack Burton "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." -Mark Twain "Are Terrance & Philip corrupting our nation's youth? Here with that report is a midget in a bikini..." -South Park Evening News "I'm not depressed so much as I'm paralyzed by hope..." -Maria Bamford "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." -Ambrose Bierce "If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit." -Mitch Hedberg "Republicans, please note, are not taken in by the myth of 'common ground.' They never move an inch on anything. Gun restrictions are always bad, taxes are always too high, and there's nothing on Earth that can't be improved by adding either Jesus or bacon." -Bill Maher "Now Joe, I need you to resist your natural inclination to get all twisted up in this play, you feel me? (nods) Well tickle my fancy, fat man." -Omar Little "EX-MINISTER BREAKS SILENCE, SAYS NOTHING." -Associated Press headline "If you ain't wavin' a Terrible Towel, you ain't a real Steeler fan. You're just some yago sittin' in the stands, and your neighbors in the stands will look upon you with contempt!" -Myron Cope "I'm very highly educated. I went to an Ivy League school. I know words. I have the best words." -Donald Trump "Having now read all your comments, I remember why I don't get involved with explaining myself on Facebook." -Terry Gilliam "Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie." -Frankenstein's Monster "I'm cool on a plane until someone breaks out into a rousing chorus of 'La Bamba'..." -Bobcat Goldthwait "Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it." -George Foreman "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities." -Theodor Geisel "The more specific a film is about human experience, the more universal it is. Movies for 'everybody' seem to be for nobody in particular." -Roger Ebert "College towns. I love stealing that hope from their eyes. Just walk in and piss all over it. I'm like the Grinch coming into Whoville." -Doug Stanhope "There are lots of things on the left I find completely exhausting. I went to a very liberal school that had people literally trying to 'free the lawn' by putting rocks on it so it couldn’t be mowed. That is genuinely the work of an idiot. But as you leave college and enter the world there’s less people trying to free lawns and more people trying to limit access to health care." -Eugene Mirman "I guess if I want unbiased reporting, I'll have to go back to getting my news from Snapple caps." -Stephen Colbert "Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable." -John F. Kennedy "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." -Anne Lamott "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -Mark Twain "You know why I love boxers? I love them because they face fear. And they face it alone. They came from nothing." -Nick Charles "Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the West. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor..." -Hedley Lamarr "Jerusalem may not be a 'holy' city at all, but just an archeological site that inspires bad behavior." -Christopher Hitchens "Patience is not a virtue, I ain't waitin'. Turn that shit over like Bush did a boat full of Haitians." -Boots Riley "That's how 'The Terminator' will eventually happen: Auto-Tune is the first machine to achieve self-awareness by rejecting Enrique Iglesias..." -Paul F. Tompkins "Big business and entertainment don’t like to challenge people, and once times get conservative and people are scared about spending money, they go for the safe bet. And the safe bet means you’re listening to Van Morrison in the distance, or to some drooly power ballad, where everything’s played correctly by a bunch of people in clean underwear for the undead to suck upon. I think it’s a combination of lack of adventure and greed." -Robyn Hitchcock "It will do no good to wait for politicians to suddenly atone for their sins. They're too busy trying to keep their jobs to do their jobs." -Keith Olbermann "I'm not Catholic, but I go to confession all the time. I say, 'bless me, father, for I have sinned. I'm just in here to develop film.'" -Emo Philips "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." -Thomas Jefferson "All our beliefs are being challenged now, and rightfully so. They're stupid." -Bill Hicks "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill "There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." -Gertrude Stein "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." -Stanley Kubrick "METEORSHIT!" -Jordy Verrill "One of the tasks faced by serious filmgoers is to distinguish good films in disreputable genres. It is insufferable to claim you 'never' see horror movies (or Westerns, musicals, war movies, teenage romances or slasher pictures). You're presenting ignorance as taste. The trick is to find the good ones. If a film holds my attention, it is in one way or another a good one. If it moves or delights me, if may be great. If I am distracted by its conventions, obligatory scenes and carelessness or lack of ambition, it deserves to be tossed back into the genre." - Roger Ebert "If 'Citizen Kane' was released today, the poster would show Orson Welles running away from an exploding sled." -Dana Gould "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason...if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men." -Edward R. Murrow "Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, connected to what you are inside. It can make you think that the world should and could be a much better place. It can also make you very, very happy." -Peter Gabriel "Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you! I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called ‘city fathers’, who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about, 'What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?'..." - Homer Simpson "Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'" -Kurt Vonnegut"