Gino Verna profile picture

Gino Verna

I won't stop believin', never you worry Steve Perry

About Me

My stuffs and My other stuffs and this too!
I am "dangerously heterosexual"
I am convinced in a past life i was a Pagan Polygamist Chimney Sweep. No, my parents nor I own a pizza place.
I am a freelance artist/designer.
I have a full body flesh colored tattoo.
18 piercings that will not take due to my mutant powers of healing.
I will watch the ROCKY trilogy over the STAR WARS trilogy every day of the week. Rocky is my Luke, Micky is my Obi Wan, Paulie is my Han Solo, Adrian is my Leia, Apollo Creed and Clubber Lang are my Darth Vaders. And do you know why? Because it is REALISTIC story on THIS planet in THIS time, and i relate to that. So until a Jedi or a wookie or a Hobbit or a Harry Potter comes into my day to day life, then and only then will i care to know their story.
I will take a unicorn over a horse every day of the week. And do you want to know why? because unicorns are REAL...so until the day a horse, a cow, a frog...haha. confused yet?
I am quiet for the most part. Mostly because asking me "what do you think about _____?" my answer might leave you shivering in the fetal position.
If you don't like ABBA, there is probably something wrong deep inside you that you should look into...seriously...take that journey, that dip into lake YOU!
I am not a racist, homophobe or chauvinist. However, if I have a gay Spanish friend, I am the first to shout "Listen up Spic next time you want to "express" your "feelings" get in the kitchen and channel them into a bundt cake!" Then we'd do rockette style broadway kicks on the way to the bar for Cerveza and Spic food, in hopes of finding him a lover. Lighten up and look for the comedy in everything.HOW I ROLL: It is not infrequent for my friend Jonnie and I to drive through the ghettos of Philly, giving back hard looks to the locals, while blasting ABBA's "take a chance on me" If you use the phrases "hit me up sometime" or "holla back at me" there is a huge chance i will NEVER "hit you upp" or "holla at ya"

My Interests

Things that are fun, things that are not so fun and things that aren't fun at all.

I'd like to meet:

Amy Sedaris / PJ Harvey / Fairuzah Balk / Audrey Tatou / Sarah Silverman . . . all at once preferably.

Music:

wedding present, PJ Harvey, divine comedy, stereo total, leonard cohen, pulp, stone roses, luna, galaxie 500, girls vs. boys, gang of four, the clash, decemberists, cooper temple clause, magnetic fields, McLusky, eagles of death metal, boomtown rats, built to spill, six by seven, fats domino, belle and sebastian, blur, bob dylan, richard hawley, neko case, hank williams, sr., roger miller, the carter family, adam and the ants, pixies, neutral milk hotel, elvis aaron presley 60s soul, indie, britpop and good hip hop CD collection in my itunes

Movies:

magnolia, being there, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, best in show, waiting for guffman, swingers, shawshank redemption, good fellas, the big night, donnie darko, willy wonka, maltese falcon, secretary, amelie, my first mister, all the real girls, shaolin soccer, the graduate, gandhi, bugsy malone, midnight run

Television:

sifl and olly, fawlty towers, the brak show, kids in the hall, strangers with candy, little britain (guess what? the family guy really isnt all that funny, shhhh)

Books:

edward gorey, the very hungry caterpillar, where the wild things are, dr. seuss, curious george, flat stanley, the five chinese brothers, harold and the purple crayon, really rosie starring the nutshell kids, chicken soup with rice, the cheese monkeys

Heroes:

Pops. have you met him?

My Blog

Vince the Prophet on Youtube. Oh my.

Recently i was talking with my brother Nick about "Vince the Prophet".Vince was a older man in our neighborhood who walked around half naked spouting, poems, prophecies and most importantly would take...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:40:00 PST

Must have been an east coast kid's game

You can truly find anything on the internet. I was discussing with a friend the truly violent kid's games we played in West Philly when i was growing up. She had no idea what i was talking about. I se...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:40:00 PST

life changing moment part 1

If i can think of other life changing moments this may be a blog series:But, the following video definitely was a defining moment in my life and began myobsession with music and "non radio songs" ...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:34:00 PST

Elliptical Machine tradition

Every time i am on the elliptical machine at the gym and it hits "666" caloriesburned i make the devil horn sign and let out a nice "HAIL SATAN!"
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:05:00 PST

It's a toss up really

For the default pic. Heads=picture with no shirt flexing. Tails=Chilling in front of my car. Both you say? Shirtless AND in front of my car!? The world isn't ready for that!Now if i could just find a...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:42:00 PST

I'll tell you what is funny...

Wikipedia's write up on porn stars, so academic. Like this one for good ol' Tom ByronDon't ask me how i ended up on this page, you don't wanna know, but I assure you it was deliberate....
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:56:00 PST

My wardrobe

For the most part my wardrobe consists of jeans and either black, grey or white t-shirt. If they came on a roll dispenser year supply that would be ideal. when i wear my black t-shirt it will usually...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:27:00 PST

Sometimes i wanna Guido-up my profile as a social experiment

That's right...Sometimes i wanna Guido-up my profile as a social experiment.Picture it... Italian flag wall paper, pictures of me in a wife beater in front of an IROC, couple of pictures of the Sopra...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:27:00 PST

Oh this one is a doozie

This is a message i jut got from a myspacer girl in Arkansas. My head is spinning still. Nice to know i am a stereotype.Subject: Italians are cuteHello,You and I don't know each other, but I was doing...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:01:00 PST

Lying vs. Leaving out details

Well i think we can all agree we hate lying and liars. But i have found i get just as mad at people who leave out details just so they can feel good that they 'didn't lie to you'. It is kind of...
Posted by Gino 2: Electric Boogaloo on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:42:00 PST