MAX FRIEDLICH'S LOVE/HATE LIST (XL EDITION)

Dream Baby Press asked Max Friedlich for a list of 20 things he loves and 20 things he hates ❤️🚫

Max Wolf Friedlich is a current LARPer, former slam poet, and a part-time Broadway playwright born and raised in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. People keep asking him "what's next?" and the answer is whatever they'll let him do. Max’s hit Broadway show JOB is currently running through October 27th.

THINGS MAX FRIEDLICH LOVES:

1. Agedashi Tofu

   

2. The Wayfinder Experience - the live action Roleplaying summer camp I work at /attended as a child

   

3. The 2007-2008 New York Knicks

   

4. Slings and Arrows season 1 (and 2 and 3)

   

5. Cephalopods

   

6. Every interview Das Racist ever did 

7. “Brother” as a gender neutral term

8. Knowing for sure that God is real

9. Fandoms 

10. Hibiscus iced tea

11. The part in any music biopic where they introduce a secondary famous person before they’re famous by being like “oh him? That’s just Quincy…Quincy Jones.”

12. Downstate by Bruce Norris

13. Savory hand pies - all cultures 

14. “Swing Life Away” by Rise Against 

15. Venmo as social media

16. Comic book stores

17. The word “penis”

    

18. Socks for Hanukkah 

19. Everybody Wants Some (2016)

    

20. Reptiles as pets

THINGS MAX FRIEDLICH HATES:

1. Artists being tricked into becoming “creatives”

2. The Hamptonification of the Hudson Valley 

3. That Quibi didn’t buy my unscripted show about porn

4. Commenting “I can’t tell if this is satire”

5. Mixed chicken and lamb over rice when they go overboard with the white sauce

   

6. Moralizing 

7. Tom Hanks performance in the film Forrest Gump

   

8. Checking myself for ticks

9. Mandatory Shakespeare in schools

10. Publications reviewing anything as “buzzy” 

11. Getting up to pee

12. When any diner closes - permanently or for the day

13. JK Rowling

14. Weaponizing trauma to enact trauma

15. My blonde mustache 

16. My clammy ass hands 

17. 2 being a prime number 

18. The fact that “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” was in The Lords of Dogtown trailer but not the movie 

19. People who point out New York City is dirty

20. In like… 2015- ish when people started accusing the Fat Jew of stealing their tweets, marking the transition from social media being silly and irreverent to being a place of social and literal commerce. The birth of Capital C Content.