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Richard

you get mistaken for strangers by your own friends

About Me

I'm an actor and live out here in LA. It's been a love/ hate relationship out here...uh oh, hope LA isn't on myspace too or she's gonna be pissed. :) Anyway, I think I speak for many when I say it's love/ hate. It's odd--it's like going to a really, really big commuter college campus where everyone takes off after classes. So, the place doesn't really have a center. I'm not actively dissing it--it's just a different feel. Come on though, there is something inherently funny when your city magazine, like Los Angeles Magazine runs a "Great Escapes!" article every issue. If you live here (like about 90% of myspacers) you probably know what I mean. Unless of course, you're one of the ridiculously hot chicks on my friends page. Then you probably love LA because you have the key to the city--or at least every red velvet event in town--because the city IS the image capital of the world and rewards its exemplary citizens handsomely.But I'm here for a while so I better make the best of it. So.....this laid back guy with a great sense of humor likes to see movies that don't play elsewhere, go rollerblading, biking, go to the beach, hike in Runyon Canyon, eat out at restaurants, hang with friends, check out the clubs and lounges and meet new people. Really different from you, huh?

My Interests

i like to dabble in art and graphics. mostly i come up with an idea and tweak it on photoimpact. i made this shirt to draw attention to karl dane. if you don't know who he is, you better ask somebody! just kidding, sadly no one remembers who he was. if you care, write me and i'll tell you. here, my friend lauren is modeling my karl dane shirt. isn't she beautiful?
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I'd like to meet:

Creative, artistic, intelligent, positive, talented people with integrity and a sense of humor. People that have passion: photographers (ANDREAS BITESNICH!!!), artists, models, storytellers. Quick wits. Beautiful women who realize their gift but aren't content to be satisfied there, who treat people with kindness. Life is a journey: Focus on the trip rather than the luggage you were given. And probably Kimberly GuilfoyleI made my layout at killerkiwi.net

Music:

U2, The Killers, Foo Fighters, The Bravery, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, Underworld, Coldplay, Blue Nile, New Order, The Cure, The Smiths, Journey, Junkie XL remixes, Ramones, REM, Paul Van Dyk, James, Doves, Neil Diamond (come on, you love him too. The guy sells out stadiums and it ain't just me there), Badly Drawn Boy, Dr. Dre, Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance, DJ Tiesto, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Everclear, Moby, GooGoo Dolls, REO Speedwagon (yep, guilty pleasure--ain't afraid to fly that flag), Jesus and Mary Chain, The Clash, The Starkillers, hip hop, Jay Z, TRANCE...

Kwoon - I lived on the Moon / Animation by Yannick Puig
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Movies:

.."..C0C0C0"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest--if this film doesn't raise the free spirit revolutionary in you, please go rent Van Damme movies, Raging Bull, Seabiscuit, Cinderella Man, Glengarry Glen Ross, Salesman--a documentary, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Shawshank Redemption, Streetcar Named Desire, The Misfits, Dog Day Afternoon, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World, old Jerry Lewis flicks, Baraka, Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (not that shyte remake), Godfathers, Casablanca, anything by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Red Dragon, The Last Samurai, The Professional, all Tarantino, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Notebook (come on, it really was good)
"THE DISGUSTING TRUTH": a short film a friend and I shot a few years ago.
lol, watch as bobby gives some relationship "advice" to his buddy. question: if a guy's had 40 "relationships" is he a disaster or does he become the "voice of experience"? .. ..

Television:


sure, it's not the only thing I watch, but what is it with this show? It's a dinousaur by today's standards of tv viewing, but I freaking LOVE it. Maybe it's the steady, reliable sound of the ticking clock or the fact that it reminds me of Sunday nights watching it with my dad when I was a kid....either way, when Mike Wallace's charactery, wrinkled face informs me "I'm Mike Wallace. Those stories AND Andy Rooney tonight on 60 Minutes" it's on. tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...

Made with the MyTheme myspace editor

Books:

I just finished "I, Fatty" by Jerry Stahl. So, Roscoe Arbuckle was demonized and his career completely ruined and OJ lounges around Miami in golf shoes like nothing happened? This country took a serious wrong turn somewhere....

Heroes:


Immaculee Ilibagiza, survivor of Rwandan genocide (800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days!) by hiding in a small bathroom with 7 other women for over THREE months! This woman is an angel. She's amazingly strong to have endured this yet radiates nothing but kindness, warmth and forgiveness.


Put his face on Rushmore. The guy's an icon.


In my mind, Brando never gets older than this. He's cryonically frozen after "Mutiny on the Bounty". Forgot all that crap you heard about lines on other actor's foreheads and his odd (and sad) older state. If you've saw Streetcar or On the Waterfront, you know he was the best.


Wasn't this the best advertisement growing up? Draw a turtle, you're an artist!


A still from the last film I was in--The Champ. Sort of a gothic love story meets Cinderella Man. I only look like that through half the movie. The makeup was amazing. Props to Evolution Studios!


My friend Harmonie and I.

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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DON'T LET ANYONE EVER TELL YOU CAN'T DO SOMETHING. "the creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"
--Emerson
.. .. "Heavy the Sorrow that Bows the Head, When Love is Alive and Hope is Dead"

--Sir William Gilbert; HMS Pinafore
"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity;
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, and make it possible."
--T. E. Lawrence

.. .. here's the weird thing: nothing is actually moving.

My Blog

Presidential Prediction

ok, here it is.  (And look at the date 'cause I don't want anyone saying, yeah, but this or that....we're talking at least 8 months before it all goes down, mofos.)anyway, so if you're wondering ...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:20:00 PST

hinder - lips of an angel

i love this tune (its on my profile so i can hear it anytime i want--yep, its Rich Varga Radio taking requests from ME!)anyway, great song but sometimes doesn't it sound like one of those songs where ...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:12:00 PST

KFC

stopped into KFC today.  Quick question: are you kidding me with this place?When I was growing up, we went to a place called Kenny Kings (it's a Cleveland thing, you wouldn't understand)  Th...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:53:00 PST