Friends

Nov 2003

Ridgefield/Danbury, CT - NYC for the last 10 years

ABC/Disney, CBS, Procter and Gamble, Bay City Intern, Oakdale Wordsmith, Llanview Collegiate, Genoa City Tourist, Salem Resident

http://profiles.friendster.com/tommiecas

Ridgefield High School

Ridgefield High School, Class of '93

School of Visual Arts, Attended 1996 - 1999, Other, Screenwriting, Also Ithaca College 1993-1994
Ithaca College, Attended 1993 - 1994, Other

Television Writer

The Department of Redundancy Department, the JLA, West Coast Avengers (for purely ironic reasons), Proud Browncoat, and of course, the WGA. (Grr... Argh)

Trying to reverse the effects 80's romantic comedies have had on my life, Defeater of Insecurities Worldwide, meandering aimlessly around both the streets of NYC... and Friendster, watching and deeply analyzing TV, any and all live music (except pitch-corrected bubble-gum crap), reading, buying rounds of shots, keepin' up with the Mutants, avoiding holidays at all costs

How about authors? (Can I include Alex Ross in all this?) Chuck Klosterman, Neil Gaiman, Bret Easton Ellis (I just finished "Lunar Park"... a book hasn't left me that jumpy since reading The Shining when I was 11), Chuck Palahniuk, Robert Fulghum, Stephen King, Robert McCammon

The list is long... Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Crash (Haggis, not Cronenberg), Before Sunrise/set, Sin City, Seed of Chucky (How can you not?), Love Actually (best use of flashcards since "Parenthood"), Shaun of the Dead, Die Hard, American Psycho, Dream with the Fishes, Serenity, Donnie Darko, Cinema Paradiso, About Last Night, Flirting with Disaster, Saved!, Citizen Ruth, Scream (all 3... I don't care what anyone says... 3 KICKS ASS!), any and all Lucas/Spielberg PRE-1990 (Oh, how the mighty have fallen...), St. Elmo's Fire, This is Spinal Tap!, The Station Agent, Fight Club, Lord of the Rings, Terminator 2, ALMOST FAMOUS (any Cameron Crowe), Nightmare on Elm Street, could go on and on forever... okay, so I'm a movie junkie. My DVD collection is terrifying.

Give me any outdoor music festival, and I'm in heaven. Other music I enjoy: Dave Matthews Band, Matchbox twenty, Grateful Dead, Phish, moe., Metallica, Polyphonic Spree (Who follows Metallica with the Spree? I do, that's who! :-)), Pink Floyd, String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, Blink 182, NOFX, REM, Rancid, Simon and Garfunkel, Green Day, Rolling Stones, Live, Beth Hart, Leftover Salmon, Tenacious D, Bon Jovi (I'll come out of the closet and just admit it already), Weezer, Toad the Wet Sprocket, A New Found Glory, Santana, Janis Joplin... Is it legal to be this eclectic, and STILL hate Madonna???

Nip/Tuck, Adult Swim, Farscape, HUFF!, Simpsons, Surface, My Name is Earl, The Shield, Family Guy, Arrested Development (I HATE YOU ALL FOR NOT WATCHING THIS SHEER GENIUS! Okay... feel better now... but it's still your fault it got canceled), the NEW Battlestar Galactica, Extras, Rescue Me, Starved, Weeds, It's Always Sunny in Philly, The 4400, Entourage, South Park, Daily Show (Can't end my day without it), Sopranos, Bill Maher, Alias, 24... right, so I'm a TV junkie too. I like to rationalize my addiction by calling it a business expense.

Libra

My DAYS OF OUR LIVES blog is up on: www.myspace.com/tommiecas

FYI: Friendster recommended me for the following three groups: Shady Individuals, Gay Jews and W.W.J.D. I am not shady. Not Jewish. And I'm pretty sure I know the answer to the other question. He'd say: "Who cares... you're still cool... pass the wine..."

According to my testimonials, I am (allegedly) a lush who owns a suit and likes to find people new jobs. Well, maybe... but I'm also a lot of other things. I'm a little geeky, but a little hip... a little ESPN, but a little Sci-Fi... a little passive, but a little aggressive... a bit of a partier, but a bit of a homebody... a little gay, but a little straight... I'm either extremely well-rounded, or have multiple personality disorder. You be the judge...

The longer I'm away from my piano, the worse off I am...

I throw my jeans on the floor at the end of the day.

All my shirts have sleeves. Some long. Some short. But they all have sleeves.

No one can ever tell I'm Italian.

Flirting is a foreign language to me.

I don't do Barbra, Bette, Britney, Madonna (the entertainer or the religious icon), tight clothing, the gym, or Broadway... and words like "fierce", "breeders" and "fabulous" are not part of my vocabulary. And I know jack about hair, fashion and dancing. Yet somehow, they still let me in the club.

Sometimes I agree with Cartman... and it scares the crap out of me.

I'd rather get major dental work than go shopping for clothes.

I actually know all my Friendsters.

I live for the flop, the turn, and the river.

I can laugh at myself. Finally

Girls who aren't looking for a "Will". Guys who aren't looking for a "Jack".