Kevin Parrott
- Age: 39
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Leo
- Zodiac Year: Rooster
- Industry: Non-Profit
- Occupation: Your Rockstar
- Location: Wilmington : NC : United States
About Me
I'M AT A LOSS FOR WORDS
You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
Some plastic blog readers to fill in for the real ones I don't have.
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
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Team Members |
| A Fistful of Chest Hair | |
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| This Blog Smells Funny | KZ gennimcmahon Solonor Rasreth Jim Treacher michele Sean M. |
