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Who have you been told you look like?
By Josh Board | Published Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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I used to hear Dan Aykroyd when I was younger. Now that I’m bald, I hear Billy Joel a lot. When we went to see him in concert at the Pond in Anaheim, I had a lot of people coming up to me and telling me that. And they always say it like it’s a compliment. But I don’t find him particularly good looking.
Bill Trost
Video Game Designer
Oceanside
After every gig, I hear I look like Tony Iommi, the guitarist for Black Sabbath. I’m in a Sabbath tribute band, so I’m going for that look. I also hear I look like Frank Zappa a lot because of this goatee. Usually it’s drummers that tell me that. If I didn’t have the goatee, I’m guessing I’d never hear that comparison.
Jack Moore
Musician
San Diego
I often get told I look like Scott Ian of Anthrax, even though my goatee isn’t nearly as long as his. In fact, I get told I look like a lot of bass players from heavy-metal bands. Someone will sometimes come up and not even be sure which band. They’ll just say, “You look like a bass player.” I ask them which bassist, and they’ll say, “I don’t know. All of them.” I’m not sure, but maybe a lot of bass players are bald.
Kyle Andrews
Accountant
Carlsbad
Well, you just told me I looked like Courtney Cox. I don’t usually hear that. I’ve heard Sandra Bullock, which I don’t see. She has brown eyes. I used to get Jennifer…oh, what’s her name…Jennifer Connelly. I got that one often. I’m lucky because those are attractive women. Sometimes when people say you look like someone else it’s not a good thing.
Anne Carazzo
Entrepreneur
Clairemont
I used to get told Barbra Streisand a lot. Over the years, I’ve probably heard that about 20 times. It doesn’t bother me. Her and Cher are my idols, so it was always nice to hear.
Elisha Arden
Caregiver
Rancho Mission
I get told every now and then that I look like Michael J. Fox. That’s when I shave my face. And, I don’t think they really mean that I look like Michael J. Fox as much as they think I look like [his character in] Teen Wolf. You probably can’t see it now, but it’s the one celebrity I hear.
Robert Swan
Charter Pilot
Leucadia
Thanks Josh for the interview and write-up in "Off the Cuff". It was nice meeting you at Geralds. The name of my Black Sabbath tribute band in "CHILDREN of the GRAVE" based in San Diego, CA.
Rock on and Cheers,
JM
By COTGblacksabbathtribute 9:49 p.m., Jul 11, 2009 > Report it
When younger with shorter hair, I used to most consistently get Isabella Rossellini, especially from Asian exchange students. My favorite: One of my oldest friends once said I looked like a cross between Pocahontas and Jackie O.
By SDaniels 10:05 a.m., Jul 13, 2009 > Report it
Helen Hunt (when blonde).
Mary Lou Retton (when brunette).
Kathy Najimy (when fat).
I've actually just heard those once each. What I usually get is, "I know you from somewhere," which they never do.
By antigeekess 7:27 p.m., Jul 13, 2009 > Report it
I think you're a Helen Huntish type. Do you ever have one of those days where you go out and EVERYONE looks familiar? A term for that exists...you probably know it, anti.
By SDaniels 11:45 p.m., Jul 14, 2009 > Report it
Wow SD, you must be a knockout... Isabella Rossellini!
By tikicult 6:09 a.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
she is...there was a man that couldn't stop staring at her one night Lol...try as he might to get her attention...FAIL...
By magicsfive 6:10 a.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
Well, the Rossellini comparisons were a long time ago--and magics, didn't you think that guy at the bar was a bit freakish? Speaking of Isabella Rossellini, anyone seen her strange 30-second "Green Porno" spots on Sundance? Paper mache mammal and insect 'junk;' gotta love it!
By SDaniels 11:12 a.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
oh yes definitely freakish...but poor guy tried SO hard to get your attention lol...well at least he had good taste :)
i haven't seen her 30 second spots, but i thought she was incredibly sexy in 'death becomes her'.
By magicsfive 11:36 a.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
SD is a VERY attractive lady, and quite classy. I can see the Rossellini comparison, but I think she's even more attractive than Rossellini.
Magics, you remind me a lot of Drew Barrymore.
When I was a bit younger, people insisted I was Eric Clapton. Weird.
By refriedgringo 12:19 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
*Blush.* Aw shucks, guys. As long as we are in this lovefest, I'll add that one can see the Drew B. comparison with magics. Firestarter, with those big sad peepers and pouty lips. 'Oops, so sorry, sir, was that your heart I just set ablaze?' Gringo does have the Clapton air about him, a studious look, but more humor in the eyes than EC.
By SDaniels 12:38 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
i see it too. and i can also see the reference to eric clapton.
i have heard that all my life, refried, about drew, and take it as a compliment. during my 16th and 17th year, i always heard brooke shields...if only i could still look like that lol..
By magicsfive 12:40 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
Btw, I don't see Michael J. Fox in that guy interviewed above, but I do see Adrian Zmed (of that embarrassing sequel to Grease).
By SDaniels 12:42 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
I never get compared to anyone...
What do you guys think?
I'm the skinny one in the Johnny Cash tee..
http://marauderscarclub.com/images/Bowli...
- Joe
By tikicult 1:18 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
Joe:
Chris Young of the San Diego Padres.
http://blog.stats.com/young.jpg
By refriedgringo 1:26 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
maybe if I was a foot taller!
By tikicult 1:31 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
damn tiki...you're smokin hot...what were you saying?
By magicsfive 1:38 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
ha!
Thanks magicsfive.. you just made my day!
- Joe
By tikicult 2:30 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
thank YOU ;)
By magicsfive 2:55 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
Joe: A young Gregory Peck, with large soul patch.
By SDaniels 7:32 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
Wow SD, that is a compliment.
By tikicult 8:59 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
refried...did they say you looked like Clapton over Tequilla? I just finished reading Claptons book, and he was quite the alcohol back in the day. But yeah...I do see the similarities.
I saw those Isabella spots. They were so bizarre. Just hearing her voice was awkward enough. I used to think her accent was so cute (see Cousins for proof of that). But in those spots, it was just...creepy.
What about her part in Blue Velvet? Yikes!
By JoshBoard 10:27 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
do i need to google these isabella spots? i am intrigued...the accent adds to her sexiness i think..
By magicsfive 10:41 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
ok here we go. yes, very bizarre lol. and let me assure you, SD is
WAY hotter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs6zXf7qq...
By magicsfive 10:47 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
wow. i didn't know she was ingrid bergman's daughter...learn something new...every freakin day!
By magicsfive 10:49 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
Heh, I had to close the browser when she got to the part about how the female praying mantis eats the head of the male during sex, and he just keeps on copulating in spite of it. It reminds me too much of my first marriage.
By refriedgringo 11:15 p.m., Jul 15, 2009 > Report it
refried...that was the funniest thing I've heard (read) all day. Awesome.
Yes, normally her accent is cute and sexy. In those spots, it's just a bit creepy.
By JoshBoard 1:32 a.m., Jul 16, 2009 > Report it
Refried... do you get the "pain of the world, rock wanderer" look when you play guitar??
http://croz.fm/img/ec_1977.jpg
- Joe
By tikicult 8:09 a.m., Jul 16, 2009 > Report it
Refried wrote: "Heh, I had to close the browser when she got to the part about how the female praying mantis eats the head of the male during sex, and he just keeps on copulating in spite of it. It reminds me too much of my first marriage."
Joe wrote: "Refried... do you get the "pain of the world, rock wanderer" look when you play guitar??"
Thank you for these gems, gentlemen--laughed so hard I sprayed my Caesar salad all over the desk! :)
The wierdest thing about those Isabella spots is that they are so short--I think I said 30 seconds, but some of them are even shorter--guess to simulate the lifespan of insects and even shorter span of insect copulation?
By SDaniels 5:30 p.m., Jul 17, 2009 > Report it
Btw, spent all of yesterday in a sailing party, and the owner of the boat--a wonderful guy--looked like Bogey in African Queen--no joke. It was especially great when he shimmied up the ropes and hung there a few moments. If he'd been able to do the accent, would have been better yet, schweethart...
By SDaniels 5:35 p.m., Jul 17, 2009 > Report it
Joe, when I clicked on your link, I got this message:
"If you are seeing this page it likely means that somebody is trying to steal my bandwidth by hotlinking. Not cool. :-( "
By SDaniels 1:46 p.m., Jul 18, 2009 > Report it
Oh, too bad - I'm betting that they have some technology that can tell if an image is being viewed from the site or if it's embedded into another site (hotlinking). After a set number of clicks directly to an object the site will automatically redirect you their warning page.
you are right, uncool!
I found the image on a google image search, this site:
http://croz.fm/files/category-eric-clapt...
- Joe
By tikicult 6:53 p.m., Jul 18, 2009 > Report it
Btw, the "not cool" comment was really "Clapton's," Joe. I personally think you're awesome cool, since you like "The Gypsies are Coming" :)
By SDaniels 2:20 p.m., Jul 21, 2009 > Report it
Joe - The Clapton that I kept getting compared to, before my beard basically turned white without warning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Bm2xvuz...
And, this version of Blind Faith's anthem is amazing. I'm a huge Nathan East fan. And you get Clapton and Knopfler, too!
By refriedgringo 2:42 p.m., Jul 21, 2009 > Report it
I totally see it now!
By SDaniels 4:26 p.m., Jul 21, 2009 > Report it
SD, you are cool for digging Bukowski!
I read Shel Silverstein's poems to my boys at least once a week.
- Joe
By tikicult 4:43 p.m., Jul 21, 2009 > Report it
Well, it's really thanks to refried for reintroducing me to him.
I 'get' his characters, and really like all kinds of literature, though it will take more convincing from refried to get me into the Beats--found them to have all the bravado and d**k waving, and none of the hard bitten undercurrents of feeling of Bukowski, or the clever wit of the French decadents. 'Course, many classmates were always mad for the Beats, though...
By SDaniels 10:32 a.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
Never dug the beat poets. I guess that the perfect lit for me would have to be a mix of Bukowski, Dr. Suess, Neil Gaiman with a little bit of David Sedaris... Read by Tom Waits with Miles Davis playing in the background - crackling from the AM radio in my '52 Chevy.
And somehow mix in the photography of David Perry.
While drinking Jack Daniels on ice.
I really don't read much. Mostly look at the pictures.
- Joe
By tikicult 10:56 a.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
That is a sweet scenario of visual and aural textures.
For your nostalgia for a certain era, you may prefer the Beats' prose...
I had to look up Neil Gaiman. He wrote the novella behind that animated film "Coraline," which I did have a curious urge to see. Any good?
By SDaniels 11:15 a.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
Didn't see Coraline. If you want to read something really good by him pickup a copy of Good Omens - It's the story of the end of the world...
I just got my copy back from loaning it out, think I'll re-read it.
Did you look up David Perry?
By tikicult 11:55 a.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
Btw, just read a really cool Sedaris piece (one of his monologues) in a New Yorker--not sure which one, as we always have a bunch of back issues lying around in the bath and livingroom.
So he's on a cross-country train, and parties with this older guy, one of these hopeless drunks hanging out in the bar car. The descriptions of the people in the bar car, and of sneaking into the ladies' 'lounge' car to smoke and drink are so real--evokes one's early twenties, and getting into a little mischief. The disconnect and yet some kind of emotional meeting between Sedaris and this macho but beaten down guy is worth picking up on.
By SDaniels 12:01 p.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
Yes, I recognized and like Perry's stuff, as well as the nostalgia for desert-y and deserted places. You might like (or even know) the artist Ed Ruscha's 26 Gasoline Stations? It was at the La Jolla Museum of Contemp. Art recently.
My so-called doctoral dissertation is supposed to be on a guy who did big desert earth works in the 70s--Robert Smithson. Love anything desert, anything contemplative and evocative of desert stillness, in B & W, with those clean horizon lines. Out of the way funky cafes and stops...middle of nowhere random shots of little things people tend to miss.
Went to see a film in the middle of Joshua Tree last summer. The filmmaker was there and they set up a huge screen in the desert; film was a loop of setting a desert house on fire. We all lay on the sand and sipped Tecate, watching it over and over. Fantastic!
By SDaniels 12:06 p.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
I saw David Sedaris play the ECPAC a few years ago - he has the best dry sense of humor... went and saw Santaland Diaries at the Old Globe, too - what a laugh.
I took these pix out in Death Valley about 17 years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandiegojoe...
I have seen the 26 gas stations pictures, but I didn't know who took them..
I grew up camping in the desert, the movie in Joshua Tree sounds like one of those once in a lifetime nights...
- Joe
By tikicult 12:30 p.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
Holy cow, tiki, these are right up there with Perry's work! I love them, esp. the ocotillo! Keep on keepin' on with that camera!
I also grew up camping in Anza Borrego--Hawk Canyon, with all the redtail nests--we always brought binocs and saw the new fledglings peeping out from the red cliffs...
Yes, it was one of those nights and what a landscape... Dotted with scrub and tumbleweed, lit only by the stars, and dozens of tiny flashlight spots, we stumbled out across an expanse of wash toward a giant flickering screen, to find a bunch of hipsters around a trashcan filled with ice-cold beers. Wish I had photos of it for you!
Got to speak there with artist Andrea Zittel about Smithson and one of her favorite artists, Donald Judd--look her work up on High Desert Test Sites--have you seen all the artists' work out there in JT? You'd love it, esp. hers--she has these strange otherworldly "life stations" that look like little silver alien pods. She's got some land out there to display them.
By SDaniels 12:51 p.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
Seriously, Joe, you should be quite proud of your work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandiegojoe...
By SDaniels 1:01 p.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
thanks! I need to get my SLR fired up... all the pix I take now are with my camera phone.
By tikicult 7:05 p.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
My dad would take my brother and I out to a place in AB called Little Blair Valley. We would camp in Little Blair at night and hike east of there into a huge wash during the day. The wash would end where it hit bare rock, the water had cut path out of the rock. at the end of that there was a sheer cliff face about 75 feet to the bottom. From the top of the cliff you could see all the way to Mexico.
There were rocks in the wash that had pictographs and those little holes where the Indians would grind grain.
Can't wait until the boys are a little older and I can take them out there.
- Joe
By tikicult 8:37 p.m., Jul 22, 2009 > Report it
Years ago, a guy at LAX insisted I was Barbie Benton. He thought I was denying it because I didn't want to give out autographs. My ex used to be mistaken for John Derek a lot, and you have to wonder, why would he be with me and not Bo?
By Mindy1114 12:59 a.m., Jul 23, 2009 > Report it
Joe, I'll have to try to map that spot, with the pictographs, as I cannot recall ever seeing them. The view from the badlands is amazing, standing on the edge looking out over those long red fingers of cliff. Is it near the Carrizo badlands?
By SDaniels 8:10 p.m., Jul 23, 2009 > Report it
mindy, looking at your myspace i can kind of see that :)
By magicsfive 8:40 p.m., Jul 23, 2009 > Report it
SD: sounds interesting, watching a film in the desert. the head of the san diego film society, tells a great story when he was a PR guy for Charleton Heston. they screened 10 Commandments in a desert or somewhere like that. all for the foreign press. and, a huge storm came, and was tearing apart the film screen as it showed. this guy figured he was fired for setting all this up, and Heston made some great joke (sorry, i can't remember now what it was), about God and Moses, and the wind, etc. the foreign press all quoted that, and made it the major headline of all their newspapers.
wow...i just realized stories suck when I don't remember all the details.
By JoshBoard 12:36 a.m., Jul 24, 2009 > Report it
I'm pretty sure that this amazing long link is the entrance to Little Blair:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Blair+Vall...
You have to drive in a good ways, there are campsites. I have not been out there in years.
Here is a link on the pictographs:
http://www.petroglyphs.us/photographs_ku...
By tikicult 6:05 a.m., Jul 24, 2009 > Report it
Hey thanks, Joe! I recognize this preoccupation with triangles in pictographs before, and though they are often seen as a feminine symbol of fertility, I think there's more to understanding them as something like a chain of infinity.
Got to get out there and check these out. We were thinking of camping maybe in November or December, if it has cooled enough--might not have. Of course the best time to go is very early spring.
Btw, I commented on your story--magics, check it out!
By SDaniels 11:55 a.m., Jul 24, 2009 > Report it
"wow...i just realized stories suck when I don't remember all the details."
I heartily wish my significant other would reach this valuable conclusion.
I was once involved in a desert shoot, out in Anza Borrego. I was about 19, and had still never driven a car, due to health issues. My friend was making a short B&W film for a City College class, and the scenario is simple: a guy pilots a light plane, transporting cocaine across the border, through the desert. He lands, out of fuel, runs out of water, and has nothing but bales of coke in the plane's belly to console him. Either he does some of the coke, or has a heat and thirst-driven fantasy of the Grim Reaper dragging him by a rope across the sand.
My first time driving: very very slowly over hardpan (and the hardest pan ever!) dragging this actor, who was some feet back in the sandy wash. Picture the actor in tattered clothing, hanging onto the end of his rope (literally), with the black-cloaked figure of Death dragging him from the other end. Of course, you could not see in the film that I was driving a VW bus pulling both actors. Why didn't they just have the actor playing Death pull the pilot? They wanted an extremely even passage through the sand that "Death" couldn't make look easy enough. Fun stuff!
By SDaniels 12:07 p.m., Jul 24, 2009 > Report it
SD which story is it? i'm sorry i come in here sporadically and kind of lose touch with what people are talking about :)
By magicsfive 12:50 p.m., Jul 24, 2009 > Report it
Find Joe's blog here:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/ti...
By SDaniels 1:07 p.m., Jul 24, 2009 > Report it
SD - thanks for checking out the story...
- Joe
By tikicult 7:11 p.m., Jul 24, 2009 > Report it
Helen Hunt (when blonde).
Mary Lou Retton (when brunette).
Kathy Najimy (when fat).
I've actually just heard those once each. What I usually get is, "I know you from somewhere," which they never do.
By antigeekess
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I hear you are a splitting image of Lassie.
By SurfPuppy619 8:11 a.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
Hey SurfPuppy, why don't you go back to discussing your chest hair with your alter egos? Antigeekess is out of your league.
By SDaniels 11:06 a.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
Wow...I ruffled some of SDaniels feathers it looks like.
Such the manly man :)
By SurfPuppy619 11:51 a.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
Oppppsss....I meant "manly woman"!
Sorry about that SDaniels.
I hear you are a cross between Lou Ferrigno and Rosanne Barr, but that was when you had shorter hair :)
By SurfPuppy619 11:53 a.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
Ha! How do you describe YOUR alters, "gofurry?"
By SDaniels 12:10 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
LOL.........I'm not "go furry".
I think gofurry is an alter ego of JustWondering though.
By SurfPuppy619 4:04 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
I stand corrected. A 'surf puppy' by definition, appears to take the form of a small, furry creature, known for playful leaps and nips at the insubstantial foam and spray of ocean waves. The question is, then, what do a surf puppy's alters look like?
By SDaniels 5:37 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
I stand corrected. A 'surf puppy' by definition, appears to take the form of a small, furry creature, known for playful leaps and nips at the insubstantial foam and spray of ocean waves.
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You left out the irresistible cuteness and undeniable loyalty the surfpuppy (one word-not two) brings with them!
http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/i...
I don't have any alters, but you can catch me at .31-.49 here (don't cream your panties);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w392ZszV...
I am begining to think SDaniels is a gimmick account for the geekess.
By SurfPuppy619 5:51 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
Adorable. My fave? The absentminded terrier trying to walk over onto another dog's board.
Uh, it's called DIScourse, and you can leave out the overly graphic--and wishful--thinking--thanks. (re: "...panties")
"I am begining to think SDaniels is a gimmick account for the geekess."
I'm sure AG and I are both flattered, but nope. You're the only one around here dealing in gimmick accounts for certain.
By SDaniels 6:20 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
you two are killing me...lmmfao...
:D
By magicsfive 6:48 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
I'm sure AG and I are both flattered, but nope. You're the only one around here dealing in gimmick accounts for certain.
By SDaniels
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SDaniels, you made SurfPuppy cry..........and I could have been your best friend.
By SurfPuppy619 7:44 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it
You mean we can only be best friends if I somehow manifest into AG? Hmm. That ain't gonna happen, but you can visit my blogs on Banker's Hill. Ciao, Puppy :)
By SDaniels 8:01 p.m., Jul 26, 2009 > Report it