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Rick(y)

well...it's...15 cups of coffee and you know its on

About Me

i'm the luckiest boy in the world... i have wonderful friends who all love me very much... that makes me feel special... i'm a big dork who drinks too much... i'm lazy and i should probably quit smoking...i bite my fingernails til they bleed... I'm a pretty simple fellow who often makes life too complicated... i like making out with soft-lipped girls...i fancy myself a world traveler, which is ironic since i've never left the u.s. cause i can't save money... i wish i wasn't such a flake so i could keep in better contact with some of the people who've affected my life...i think growing up is really hard

My Interests

carousing, debauchery, chicanery, tom foolery, libidinous crooning, obvious flirtations, coffee, cigarettes and good conversation, darts, books, carnies and other circus folk, tea for two, faking like i really want to grow up, an assortment of fine wines and cheeses, bringing the ruckus, making people dance

I'd like to meet:

lesbian nazi hookers abducted by space aliens and forced into weight loss programs

Music:

the flaming lips, postal service, tom waits, me first and the gimme gimmes, pink floyd, dean martin, frank sinatra, lyrics born, the descendants, op iv, the faint, los desaparecidos, the pixies, the pogues, the clash, the ramones, dead milkmen, the lucky stiffs, dj cheese danish and mc cucumber slice, dan the automator, z-trip, dj shadow, built to spill, the get up kids, prince paul, kool keith, the junior panthers, statutory rick and the sex offenders, wolf parade, bright eyes, the clientele, sonic death monkey, the libertines, tv on the radio, the queers, fugazi, the dwarves

Movies:

waiting for guffman, saved, clerks, mallrats, reservoir dogs, amelie, city of lost children, zoolander, rounders, oceans 11, the usual suspects, american beauty, the manchurian candidate, the life of brian, eddie izzard: dress to kill, billy madison, down by law, dead poets society, i'm gonna git you sucka, rounders, annie hall, the adventures of baron munchausen, the deer hunter, best in show, spinal tap, adventures in babysitting, license to drive, richard iii, three o'clock high, andy kaufman: the midnight special, cecil b. demented

Television:

the west wing, the family guy, the simpsons, aqua teen hunger force, arrested development, house, prison break

Books:

hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, the unbearable lightness of being, a scanner darkly, player piano, america: the book, the old man and the sea, the great gatsby, narcissus and goldmund, american gods, good omens, infinite jest, a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, the lord of the rings, junky, the heart is deceitful above all things, the clans of the alphane moon, focault's pendulum, the man in the high castle, super/system, postively fifth street, demian

Heroes:

Brodie Bruce, Steve McQueen, My Father, George Carlin, HL Mencken, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, President Jed Bartlett, Stewie Griffin, Bill Hicks, Steven Colbert

My Blog

sometimes you just have to jump

Have you ever waited your whole life for something, then when you finally get close to it, you're so fucking scared, your hands are shaking uncontrollably and you can't seem to get the key in that las...
Posted by Rick(y) on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:59:00 PST

So it begins...

when i was a young boy and people asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up, i said that i was gonna be a lawyer and that one day i'd be president.  well, the president thing's not likely to ha...
Posted by Rick(y) on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:19:00 PST

ricky nelson and the holy branca

as you all know by now, every time i come down here to sunny southern calfornia to visit the family and whatno, i am on a quest for fernet.  it never pans out.  usually i have some bartender...
Posted by Rick(y) on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:42:00 PST

beisbol

the time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things... of bats and balls and baserunning, left fielders with bad knees... and why the bay is freezing cold and whether Schmidt has wings...  ...
Posted by Rick(y) on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:47:00 PST

i need gills

ok, seriously, this shit is getting ridiculous.  its been raining for a month straight.  i used to think that God was looking after fog city.  he hath forsaken us now.  we are on o...
Posted by Rick(y) on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:58:00 PST

unemployment and the modern man

so its been like two weeks since i've worked.  i'm bored.  i dont have enough money to go out every night and fuck around every day.  i gotta get a job soon.  i wish i were a bette...
Posted by Rick(y) on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:07:00 PST

drinking and dancing and learning and loving

i just put down a book i devoured in 2 days...it told the story of the Irish people, the people whose ancestors adopted me some 26 plus years ago.  I have always seen  in the Irish an indomi...
Posted by Rick(y) on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:57:00 PST

Captivity

i gazed out my window this morning, hoping for a bit of sunshine on my day off.  it was not to be.  god hast thwarted me yet again.  it's raining.  but not real rain.  just an...
Posted by Rick(y) on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:24:00 PST

longings

it started innocently enough...i moved to the richmond...fell in love with cheap chinese at smelly dives where i'm the only one in there who doesnt speak cantonese, then i re-fell in love with taco be...
Posted by Rick(y) on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:26:00 PST