Jose L. Torres - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I live in New York City. I write comic books. That pretty much does it.

My Interests

Reading, writing, movies, music of all sorts.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Comets on Fire, Of Montreal, Os Mutantes, Wu-Tang, The Beatles, The Kinks, Ghostface Killah, The Byrds, Neil Young, Supertramp, Bad Religion, Donovan, Rancid, Nirvana

Movies:

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Unforgiven, Fearless Vampire Killers, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, anything by Kubrick, Phenomena, Suspiria, Ping Pong, Devil's Rejects ....

Television:

Dexter, Arrested Development, Californication, The Office (both American and British)

Books:

The Brothers Karamazov, Faust (Marlowe mainly, but Goethe,too), The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Master and Margarita, Confederacy of Dunces, Men of Tomorrow, The Three Musketeers, Hemmingway short stories

Heroes:

Ernest Hemmingway, Mikhail Bulgakov, Alan Moore, Roman Polanski (except for the statutory rape thing) and Rob Zombie

My Blog

Bloggetty-blog

Sorry it's been so long. I've been busy with stuff I can't really talk about and my latest thoughts involve people I'd rather not talk about. Hopefully, THIS makes up for it. Check ou...
Posted by Jose L. Torres on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:00:00 PST

Politics and Nutrition

Strap on your dildos, folks, it's time for an extended metaphor or a compare and contrast. Maybe it's an analogy. Hmm. Not too sure if it's an analogy.Anyway.Every now and again I li...
Posted by Jose L. Torres on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:05:00 PST

Double Team Supreme

Before I get into all of this, I have to make it clear that I've heard nothing but good news for the past few days. I really have no reason to be stressed, but I just can't help it. Having said ...
Posted by Jose L. Torres on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:09:00 PST

Raging Boners

I was thinking the other day, as I folded my laundry, about how of all the things I miss about being 12 and 13 the spontaneous and furious erections rank among the things I miss the most. They r...
Posted by Jose L. Torres on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:19:00 PST

Institutionalised Apathy

As I was doing my rounds today at the hospital where I do my 9 to5 thing, I heard a lady repeatedly crying out for help. She did this for the entire time I was stocking the unit's pharmaceutical...
Posted by Jose L. Torres on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:24:00 PST

My sick-call strategy

So, I call in sick to work a lot. It's not that I'm lazy, just between work, my girfriend, my friends and family and all the errands I'm always running, some weeks I require a little more alone ...
Posted by Jose L. Torres on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:10:00 PST

Joined MySpace

It would appear that, in a drunken fit, I joined MySpace about eight months ago. Only now have I gotten to actually put up a profile. I blew off work for this?Hmm...Off to a bad start....
Posted by Jose L. Torres on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:04:00 PST