Nico Toscani profile picture

Nico Toscani

I'd have been here before if i'd come....

About Me

An enigma in the making....a former child prodigy....a master of disguise....a box within a box within a box....an old skool romantic....a writer without an ending....a horse without a rider....a clock that is right twice a day....an experiment without a conclusion....listless

My Interests

Writing
Writing!
Writing!!
Procrastinating.....
Having fun

I'd like to meet:

The Ghost of Christmas Past

Music:

Guided by Voices, Husker Du, Love as Laughter, Oneida, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Native Nod, The Lapse, The Van Pelt, Vague Angels, Disco Inferno, Gang Gang Dance, The Timeout Drawer, Sunny Day Real Estate, Of Montreal, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Pixies, Exploding Hearts (RIP), M83, Cut Copy, Errortype:11, Urge Overkill, Big Black, Devo, Enon, Tripping Daisy, Butterfly Train, Brendan Benson, Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, Girls Against Boys, godheadSilo, Gumball, Karp, Lync, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Destroyer, Les Savy Fav, Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Pitchblende, Panthers, Plastic Constellations, Pinback, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Polysics, Q and Not U, Some Velvet Sidewalk, The Thermals, The Spinanes, 764-Hero, Destroyer, Single Frame, Braid, North of America, City of Caterpillar, A Day in Black and White, ....And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Frog Eyes, Figurines, Figurine (!), Dntel, Isis, Pelican, Red Sparowes, Yaphet Kotto, Jaga Jazzist, The Kallikak Family, Comets on Fire, Urusei Yatsura, Consolidated, Red House Painters, Bedhead, The New Year, Scarce, Cap'n Jazz, Racebannon, Haram, June Panic Dismemberment Plan, Black Heart Procession, A Silver Mt Zion, Ester Drang, Aloha, Done Lying Down, Explosions in the Sky, Meneguar, Rainier Maria, Do Make Say Think, The Mendoza Line, Comets on Fire, The Decemberists, Herman Dune, Juno, Lift to Experience, New Bad Things, Party of Helicopters, pg.99, Raising the Fawn, The Silver Jews. Animal Collective

Movies:

Grosse Point Black, Heat, Better off Dead, Cool Hand Luke, Paths of Glory, Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Re:Animator, Phantasm, Fight Club, Magnolia, Evil Dead Series, Twelve Monkeys, Seven, Clerks, Mars Attacks!, Tigerland, Starship Troopers, Braindead, Beautiful Girls, Mallrats, Jacobs Ladder, Casino, Aliens, Save the Green Planet, Hard Boiled, Rear Window

Television:

CSI, Spooks, Family Guy, I'm Alan Partridge, Sledge Hammer, Law and Order, America's Wildest Police Videos , University Challenge, Day Today, Brass Eye, The Simpsons, The Shield, Invasion

Books:

The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon, Snow CRash (Neal Stephenson), Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Harumi Murakami), Neuromancer (William Gibson), Number 9 Dream, Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell), The Dark Fields (Alan Glynn), House of Leavs (Mark Z. Danielewski), Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis), American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand (James Ellroy), The Chrysalids (Jphn Wyndham), The Hyperion/Endymion Quadrology (Dan Simmons), Revelation Space, Chasm City (Al Reynolds), The Forever War (Joe Haldemann)

Heroes:

and Villains

My Blog

An Interview with Michael Bay

Nico: Tonight I am joined by A-List film director Michael Bay who has kindly agreed to take time off from his busy schedule of gathering nails for the coffin that is "Transformers"....Michael: Now tha...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:11:00 PST

The Aging Action Hero....

"The Aging Action Hero or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Botox"Anyone who recently saw Sylvester Stallone pretend clap his way through the recent Everton vs Reading game....no really, lo...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:19:00 PST

Television: The Drug of a Nation

Sat here looking down on the terraces of purgatory that is terrestrial TV, having not yet taken the icy plunge into the circles of hell that are the various digital packages available, it is easy to s...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:56:00 PST

Seagal vs Van Damme

vs In a hypothetical and wholly fictional scenario - no mullets barred, all corsets removed - it has long been the question as to who would come out on top should these two ever get down to it....wha...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:30:00 PST

Blind Hard Talking Hawk!

It's time to resurrect this occasional series of ritual abuse at the aging action stars of yesteryear....this time it is future Senator John McClane himself....Bruce Willis....so let's get right into ...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:19:00 PST

Judge Rocky Mountain Rescue?

Sod the formatting on this one, the last time was a pain in the arse.Stallone, you've been chosen......and I'm going to be ultra selective, so I don't care if you've been an extra in a classic like Kl...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:06:00 PST

Loquacious Decimus Meridius, commander of the 2.00am crosslegged brigade

What am I doing here at this time?What do you expect? I'm spouting ungainly garbage of the AM variety. The kind of talk that gets you nowhere in a hurry, has no point, no plan, is ad-libbed (poorly) a...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:29:00 PST

oh....my poor neglected child!

I'll be back....I just can't be bothered being intermittently creative and destructive at the same time all the time every day kind of thing. I'm going to do another action star justification thing so...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:45:00 PST

ignore! ignore hijack! hijack!

i didn't really write that below.i think it was intended for somewhere else.the previous person that i inherited this space from wrote that crap.oh shit.i've been rumbled.oh well, no hiding things now...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:46:00 PST

it was a long and lonely sunshine

ahoy..............................it was a long and lonely sunshine, so say the backstreet boys and kevin klinewhen jamming together with a 2 by 4, with lots of drugs and a two bit whorealong comes Mi...
Posted by Nico Toscani on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:37:00 PST