Friends of the Faux: Lee
Posted by Dan
September 13th, 2007 at 03:11pm
In Friends of the Faux
What can I say about Lee?
Lee must be experienced to be believed.
Vitals
Name: Lee Harper
Location: New Yawk Ceety
Web Site: http://itsinthedreams.livejournal.com – I guess is the closest I have. It hasn’t been updated in a while.
What’s your story?: Oh, I’ll always have a story for you.
What do you do during the day?: All day I sit in front of a computer on top of a metal desk making web sites, listening to music with headphones on in an office filled with smelly boys near the Empire State Building and Ktown.
How do you know about TiFaux?: Back in college, Dan was the president of my fraternity. One day I actually read some of his writing in the school’s paper and learned that he was color blind. I asked him many, many questions about this phenomenon. Friendship obviously bloomed leading to a hottt, passionate lust affair. Well that is until the day he told me he was gay on the way to a concert we didn’t have tickets for. Wait, what was I talking about? [ed note: I have no recollection of this confession, although I remember the concert.]
Why are you so interesting?: I kind of have a bad case of ADD so I zip and rotate through many odd interests, activities, adventures and terrible boyfriends.
Favorites
Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A League of Their Own
Music: Sigur Ros, LCD Soundsystem, Cat Power – could go on forever. Oh yeah, freshman year Dan let me play a song on his radio show – inspiring me to become my own pretentious college radio DJ a couple years later.
Book: On The Road has still held true, Everything Is Illuminated, Middlesex
Food: God I miss Southern food. Pimento cheese, macaroni and cheese, bbq with coleslaw, corn puddin, etc.
Web Site (besides TiFaux — don’t be a kissass): whiskerino.org (“Lee why are you looking at guys with beards all day at work?”)
Television
The best show currently on television is: Little known fact – I do not have cable and read more about tv than I actually watch (unless Cristin’s roommate is nice and lets me watch their DVR’d shows). Or shows off the internet! Weeds is my final answer.
But my all-time favorite is: Pete and Pete from Nickelodeon.
I’m pained to admit it, but the show I secretly love is: Desperate Housewives
Whose shit are you sick of?: Fucking American Idol!!!!! (The French version – Nouvelle Star – is even worse)
Most cherished childhood television memory: The golden years of Nickelodeon. (I will be playing touch football on the same team as ferg face! And I’m getting my friend an autographed photo of Mo from Guts!)
Which TV character/personality would you most like to have a tryst with?: Jim from The Office
Kill, boff, marry — Jack Shepherd (Lost), Peter Petrelli (Heroes), Michael Bluth (Arrested Development): I think I’m the only American who does not watch Lost.
Kill, boff, marry — Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica), Heidi Klum (Project Runway), Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother): I’d kill Hannigan (I always hated that stupid “One time in band camp” quote), I’d have a hott, passionate lust affair with Heidi, and I guess marry whoever the last chick is.
10 Comments Add your own
1. Lee | September 13th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Famous!
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Dan | September 13th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
See? Thanks to your support, you are now known to literally tens loyal TiFaux readers.
3. Amandine | September 13th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Hey, I’m just curious : on what principles do you base the affirmation that the French version of “American Idol” is worse ? Note that I’m not sure I disagree, it’s just that being French, I don’t know why anybody would bother watching that, let alone someone who is not, well, French…
4. Lee | September 13th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Haha. Good question.
I was in Montepllier at a friend’s friend’s rommate’s apt. I kinda had a fling with this Welsh guy who was living there. The first night we had a wild, fun night out. The second night he insisted on staying in and feeding me this dry terrible curry he made and watching Nouvelle Star for what seemed like 10 hours.
He was obsessed with it .
The reason I said it was worse was because the singers were singing in English but didn’t really know the language. So, beyond what I already hate about this kind of shows – none of the inflections were correct because they didn’t know what they were singing. So, that made it worse – if only slightly.
5. Amandine | September 13th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Does that show only last 10 hours ? It feels much much longer.
The one thing that makes it worse to me is that the French version of Ryan Seacrest (wait, no, that was a woman this year) takes foreeeever to spit out the name of the winner/looser. I mean, forever. I was waiting for the show to end, probably to watch whatever was after. I might even have turned off the television, THAT is how much it bothered me. I caught five minutes of a rerun of the American version on a cable channel the other day and it’s way faster.
Anyway, I sympathize with your pain. I’m talking about the dry curry, of course.
6. maggie's dad | September 14th, 2007 at 7:45 am
It sounds like you have to be Welsh, not French, to like Nouvelle Star . After all if you have the patience to pronounce “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch” you’ll probably enjoy the slow reveal by the French host.
7. Kate | September 14th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Lee, you now may be my favorite Friend of the Faux b/c you play touch football. Me Too! Do you Zog? How good are you at beer pong now?
8. Michael Rebain | September 14th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Forget Nouvelle Star (and American Idol for that matter)! Nice to know somebody else remembers Pete and Pete. Ah for the days of truly subversive and funny children’s programming that an adult could appreciate.
9. Lee | September 14th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Ah ha! Maggie’s dad unveiled the mystery. Do they also like dry curry?
Katie, actually, I’m in some Yorktown league for touch football. I play soccer with Zogsports though. I have a feeling after my Sunday game, beer ponging will ensue. What days do you have games?
Man I love Pete and Pete. I learned while trying to find pictures of Ferg to make fun of him with that Gordan Gano from the Violent Femmes was one of the substitute teachers in Pete and Pete AND they played in an episode of Clarissa Explains it All. Nickelodeon was brilliant!
10. Kate | September 14th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
@Lee I play touch football on Sundays, though out I’m missing this weekend. I’m curious to hear your thoughts about non-Zog leagues. I’ve only ever played through them. Where do ya’ll play?
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