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Randroid

That was a big splash of paint.

About Me

I like to wear the Clifford shirt. It makes me feel bigger and redder than I actually am on the oustide. Of course, I can never feel bigger or redder than I do on the inside which is quite big and very literally red (except in the dark).

My Interests

5% quarterly return on initial investment with some additional low-yield dividends attached.

I'd like to meet:

my maker. You know, my mom? She's pretty cool. She used to be a pirate. I'd like to meet up with her sometime and catch up on old times.

Music:

Fun music. Good music. Dancin' music.

SongFight!

Movies:

Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Back to the Future 2, Ghostbusters, Alien, The Graduate, Garden State, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Lion in Winter, Braveheart, Waiting for Guffman, Deerhunter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Boondock Saints, True Romance, Trading Places, Beetlejuice, Princess Mononoke, The Thin Blue Line, Roger and Me, Shawshank Redemption

Matchstick Men, Big Fish
Alison Lohman...

Television:

Arrested Development. Quantum Leap. Firefly. "Being a Total Dork: The Television Biography of Ryan O'Connell"

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Fountainhead, Ishmael, My Ishmael, The Story of B, Nausicaa, Ender's Game, The Chronicles of Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, The Watchmen, Mumbo Jumbo, Middle Passage

Heroes:

John Galt. (of Atlas Shrugged)
Eddie Willers. (of Atlas Shrugged)
Howard Roark. (of The Fountainhead)
Mr. Roark (of Fantasy Island)
Gandhi (of the Indian Independence movement)
Charlie Kauffman (of screenwriting fame)
Ben Folds (of songwriting fame)
Treble and Bass (of the Symphony of Justice)
Myself.

My Blog

I post on livejournal.

I don't post here; I post on livejournal. http://www.livejournal.com/users/boringryan/
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hair Everywhere

I wish I could find the Human Nature soundtrack so I could listen to Patricia Arquette singing about hair everywhere. "Look at all the hair. everywhere, everywhere. On the possum and the woodchu...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Take off your pants and....

Jacket! O, jacket! How I loved thee until the very moment when your pocket caught on the railing that tore you asunder. My love for you was too unjustly brash and as I lunged forward, toward a great ...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thanksgiving

I had Thanksgiving in some exclusive restaurant. I wish I hadn't. I'm very glad I had a Fakesgiving dinner Tuesday night with three lovely ladies and lots of slapdash, rough-n-ready home cooking. A...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Department of Statism

It has recently occurred to me that my online posts might be carefully monitored because the government is conducting background checks for my eligibility and security clearance this summer.  For...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Going...going...

I wished for this semester to end some weeks ago, and it looks like that wish is coming true.  I have some work to do so that I pass my classes, but that'll probably come together pretty easily o...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Ryan Sleeps Alone Tonight

Back from D.C.  Shitloads of work.  I saw some awesome art at the Hirschorn (or however you spell that guy's name) involving gunpowder.  I'm going to have to start working on an evolut...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Rock out!

I found a pin in the street the other day that has the silhouette of a rock star with a microphone and the words "Rock Out" written along the top edge and the slightly smaller words "with your cock ou...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

BBC = my pain

My film and lit. class just finished the first 3 hours of the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Castorbridge and boy am I in need of a good movie. The teacher usually puts the movie in an...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Writ-athon Part 3

So I turned in the French paper and handed a two sentence Paper Proposal in to my Spanish teacher who has acknowledged the proposal and demands a more concrete assignment to be handed in by Monday. G...
Posted by Randroid on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST