Introducing Japhy Grant After almost a year of blogging, I realize I've never actually told all you good folks out there in Blog Land just who I am. Sure, most of you know me, but for those who don't, an introduction is in order. The Baseball Card Stats: Age: 23 Gender: Male Location: A garret in Washington Heights, New York City, New York. Occupation: Student, Writer, Copywriter, Tutor. Formerly at ABC Daytime. Interests: Photography, Art in general- with specific interests in Pop, Abstract Impressionism, Roccoco, Barouque, and anything Big, Red and a Series. Readingb, Films, Skiing, Theatre, especially performance, Blogging, The 80's. Influences: Andy Warhol, James Joyce, Jacques Barzun, Walt Disney, Montaigne, Branson, my parents, Salon.com,Baz Luhrman (though as a person, I dislike him intensely). Style: Changes with the week. Education: Currently pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College, former home of Allen Ginsberg and rated the most beautiful campus in America (does not apply to the students however). Formerly at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, studying Dramatic Writing. Left for financial reasons. Films I Like: Harold & Maude, Mullholland Drive, anything by Krystof Kieslowski, Dead Again, The Royal Tennenbaums, Minnie & Moskowitz, Preston Sturges films, Far From Heaven, Dancer in the Dark, The Neverending Story (but not the sequel), All About Eve (the result of repeated forced watchings at the hands of my Oscar Wilde-ish former roomate), The Red Violin, The Bond series, and of course, all the films I've either written or in my head, including my adaptation of Stranger in a Strange Land, The Sandman and my Star Trek screenplay in which Wesley Crusher is the villain. Books I like: The Dubliners, The Dharma Bums (read it to meet the inspiration for my nom-de-plume), everything Haruki Murakami has written, Coin Locker Babies, Coraline, Plays Well With Others, Siddhartha, a children's book called "Blue Lights" that I have never been able to find but loved in the third grade, Fight Club, which I read a good four years before the movie, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The World According to Garp, biographies and The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake. Music I like: Anything Nick Drake-ish, including Duncan Shiek and his ilk, Lamya, NERD, Bjork, Billy Joel, Radiohead, Fischerspooner, Malcom McLaren, Craig Armstrong, Avalanches, the White Stripes, PSB, Janet Jackson, Dolly Parton, Dimitri from Paris, Robbie Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Audra McDonald, David Bowie, Brian Eno, covers of Mack the Knife and the Laverne and Shirley theme song, The Cure, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, The Vines, Quincy Jones, Prince, Annie Lennox's "Money Can't Buy It", anything Jared Abbott reccomends to me. Seminal Moment: April 28th, 1979. This makes me a Taurus or if your Chinese, a Ram Running on the Mountain- an extremely auspicious sign I'm told. The FAQ: Is your name really Japhy? Not legally, nope. It is a nickname though and it makes me happy when you call me Japhy. What's your real name? Elvis Aaron Presley Why do you write on this blog? Originally, because it looked like fun. Since I started Japhyjunket it has helped me improve on my weakest writer skill: laziness. I am a very lazy writer. The blog has forced me to write more often and it's pretty fun to boot. What do you want to do with your life? Everything. No...really... Start a media production company that will allow me the leeway to pursue all the various projects in my head as well as enable other young artists to work together in a collaborative community. The company is called AnvilArts and it's not dead, just sleeping. So you want to be a producer? Sort of. I find it frustrating that there is so much talent out there and that our late-capitalist society forces them to work in isolation, even in big cities. I want to change that. Will you marry me? And ruin our beautiful friendship? Seriously though, I'm not the marrying type. Have you ever been in love? Yes. I'm a big fan of love. More than a career or money or really anything else, I believe love is the reason to live. What's your favorite food? Lobster. Have other questions? Ask me and I'll post them here.

posted by Japhy at 1/06/2003 09:03:00 AM || #