Kevin Dedes

American Conservatory Theater, Binghamton University, Webster High School

State University of New York - Binghamton, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, Biology, French, Acting

Actor, Writer, Student, Realtor, Bartender, etc...

American Conservatory Theater, Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, The Flea Theater, Boxcar Lounge

Socializing and Doing, Eating and Drinking, Art and Culture, Languages and Linguistics, Physical and Mental Activites.

The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-time, The Great Gatsby, The Chronicles of Narnia, my college zoology textbook, The Hitchhikker's Guide To the Galaxy Trilogy (all five), A Tale of Two Cities, Evolution's Rainbow, Grapes of Wrath, Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, A Short History of Nearly Everthing, books by David Sedaris and Kurt Vonnegut, Plays by Mamet, Shepard, Albee, and Kenneth Lonnergan, Beckett. Maxim. (For example.)

Thumbsucker, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Big Lebowski, Amelie, Annie Hall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, Beetlejuice, Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure, His Girl Friday, The Hudsucker Proxy, Love and Death, Ferris Beuler's Day Off, The Secret of NIMH, and others that are more 'serous' and 'important.' *Funny note. I'm an actor, but I don't really like movies. Well, that's not true, I love movies, but I'm not a movie junkie, and no, I don't believe that's a contradiction... Discuss...

Gerswin's "Rhapsody in Blue", REM, Elvis Costello, They Might Be Giants, Talkingheads, Radiohead, The Cure, Pulp, Blur, The Flaming Lips, The Velvet Underground, Marvin Gaye, Outkast, Bjork, The Smiths, The Streets, The Roots, The Modern Lovers, Pixies, Ibrahim Ferrer, Songs I Haven't Heard Yet, ad infinitum...

Daily Show, Simpsons, Family Guy, Strangers with Candy, Six Feet Under, The Critic, Sienfield, Cheers, Frasier, Blind Date, That Show With The Naked Or Semi-Naked People In It, NOVA, etc...

I'm a guy who likes people and is interested in learning and doing things. I think Descartes was wrong when he said "Je pense, donc je suis" because I think it should really be "J'apprend, donc je suis" because at every point in spacetime through which we pass, we're learning. And by learning I mean taking in stimulus/information, processing it, and making decisions based upon it. I'm also interested in languages. For example, I am trying to learn Spanish. Quiero apprendar hablar Espanol porque quero hablar con the Mexican guys behind the line at the taquerias around San Francisco. I would consider myself a born-again secular humanist. (Insert rolled-eyes here) I suppose those words should be capitalized, but I don't want to hit backspace...I am theoretically open minded although sometimes my redneck past catches up with me, but that's to be expected and anyone who argues that point is probably in some sort of denile.

Anyone who's capable of having intelligent conversations about dumb things. (Or, dumb conversations about intelligent things) A good example of this would be, perhaps, in incessantly trying to understand the physics of vectors, force and friction, neuro-physical interactions as they interact with the endocrine system, the phenominon of celebrity and how it's affects the nation-state, and of course the nature of "home-field advantage." All while drinking an MGD, playing pool, and checking out that girl's huge rack in line for the bathroom.