• JEdward
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      • In response to: "What do you do on the side?" I would say that anything outside of sleeping is a hobby. So on the side I am a sexual health educator, actor, painter, vegetarian and Netlix addict. I may also be someone who works out, strangely.
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    • 'The Watcher In The Woods' is the work of art that has impacted me more than any other.

      • This is the first move that I truly fell in love with as a kid and my obsession continues to this day. I've seen this film so many times that by the age of 12 I had memorized it, word for word. I can't say when I saw it for the first time, but I can be sure that It was on home video. I was probably around the age of eight. No movie traumatized me more than this movie. Not "Jaws" or "The Exorcist" or "Poltergeist" but a Disney film. For over a year, I refused to look in a mirror. I think what makes it repeatable for me is that I appreciate it at every age. it started as a terrifying film that haunted my dreams and, as I aged alongside the film, it became perhaps the most unintentionally funny thing I have ever seen. Funny how something like our film sensibilities can really act as a barometer of our own maturity. It's impossible for me to experience it as a motion picture any more because I've scrutinized every possible element of every second of celluloid. But I go back to it again and again and I won't ever stop. I've shown it to at least fifty people in my life. If I am ever married, it will play at the reception. I may even walk down the aisle to the soundtrack. Who knows why exactly something strikes a cord in us the way this film does for me. But I can say it's impacted me more then any other work of art I have ever encountered.

      • answered by JEdward on 06/26/2009
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    • Oppression tastes like artichoke

      • First you need to know that I have not eaten meat in about nine years. Until last night. After I finished an entire slice, I noticed there was some sausage on the half eaten slice of "Vegetarian" Papa Murphy's pizza my sister was in love with. I considered the possibility that this was one stray sausage and that surely I would have tasted the fear and oppression in the other slice, had it been there. Apparently oppression tastes like artichoke because about two hours later I began to lose about three pounds or so, rather quickly.

        As I finally slept, I had this dream that I was going to the doctor to have some blood taken. The nurse handed me the needle and told me to take care of business myself. I tried over and over and each time the needle went into one side of my arm and out the other causing blood to spurt all over me, the walls and the staff. Finally they hooked me up to a phlebotomy machine since I was so inept with the needle and I passed out while the few drops of blood i had in me, were extracted.

        Being sick causes me to have fucked up dreams anyway. Plus I was less then 24 hours away from getting my first tattoo (not to mention 11 years too late).

        I guess Bret Easton Ellis was the ghostwriter, but next time I hope I at least get to see Christian Bale and his chainsaw.

      • answered by JEdward on 06/20/2009
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    • People who've met the famous J. Edward Nelson

      • Kate Hudson
        I was working at Essentials For Body And Soul at the Tower Place Mall in Cincinnati, OH and she came in. She was quiet and polite. I don't think she was too well known yet. I remember thinking she was the funny woman from "200 Cigarettes."


        Lisa Loeb
        I met her at Lilith Fair and told her that her music changed my life. She looked a bit nervous.


        Chris Cooper and Richard Dreyfuss
        I was in a scene from "Silver City" with both of them. Chris Cooper was really kind and soft-spoken. Richard Dreyfus seemed like a dick.


        Tori Amos
        I met her in Cincinnati. She told me she liked my shoes. I fell in love with her a little.




      • answered by JEdward on 06/14/2009
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