Ben Bolling

University of Virginia, Attended 2000 - 2004, Class of 2004, Bachelor's Degree, English, Drama

roustabout, tough cookie, recovering misanthrope

Religious Society of Friends, Hit Factory, our sweet book club, Music Row Democrats

cultural studies, Southern literature, excess, kitsch, small engine and auto repair, yoga, football, education reform, boys who play the piano, moonshine, enabling others

anything by Sarah Vowell, Possession, The Piano Teacher, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Fair and Tender Ladies, The God of Small Things, Music for Chameleons, Living Buddha Living Christ, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, The Sound and the Fury, Leaving Cheyenne, Love Medicine, The Little Friend

RHINESTONE, The Rules of Attraction, The Cider House Rules, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wet Hot American Summer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dancer in the Dark, Napoleon Dynamite, Wonderboys, Ernest Scared Stupid, Harry and the Hendersons, X2, Reflections in a Golden Eye

Dolly Parton, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainwright, Lyle Lovett, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dwight Yoakum, Tift Merritt, John Prine, Natalie Merchant, Ray Charles, Feist, Dixie Chicks, Elton John, Shooter Jennings, Gillian Welch

our cable gets cut off a lot

It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

the prominently cheekboned, those with an active interest in elaborate dinner parties, the long form journalist, the trashy, the sophisticated, those with a passing interest in graphic novels, scholars of 1920s American literature