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Lex Officio

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About Me



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There is a charge/ For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge/ For the hearing of my heart-/ It really goes.

My Interests

Being more cooperative. Schadenfreude 24-7.

Music:

David Bowie is my favorite musician, hands down. I like these bands too: Dethklok, ELO, Cocteau Twins, the Clash, Patsy Cline, Iron Maiden, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Beck (you have redeemed yourself, Mr. Hansen), Django Reinhardt, X, Iggy Pop, Cirith Gorgor, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Dusty Springfield, Old Man's Child, Devo, Charles Mingus, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Stiv Bators, Rolling Stones, Coco Rosie, Wanda Jackson, Red Sparowes, 13th Floor Elevators, Siouxi and the Banshees, T. Rex, The Kinks, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Bach (the original rocker), Nina Hagen, Murder City Devils, PJ Harvey, Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Songs: Ohia, Ratatat, The Wailers, The Ventures, Television, The Slits, Cat Stephens, A Silver Mount Zion, Mulatu Astatke. If my Ipod had its way, we'd be listening to ACDC and Darkthrone all of the time, but it doesn't, so we don't.

Movies:

Keiner Liebt Mich.

Television:

It's time to get honest and stop pretending I don't watch tv. Metalocalypse and The Cosby Show. I really, really love those shows.

Books:

I like them alot. Vladmir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, JD Salinger, Flannery O'Connor, Hubert Selby Jr., Jonathan Lethem, Evelyn Waugh, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut, Somerset Maugham. Virginia Woolfe, Sarah Kane, Charles Bukowski, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce, Anthony Burgess, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Jeffery Eugenides, Nathanael West, Henry Miller, Charlotte Bronte. Give me lofty, twisting prose any day.Currently reading: "Venus in Furs" Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. I dunno. Apparently the Amazon.com recommendations robot thought I'd like a little 19th century erotica.

My Blog

Bloody Red Eyes

Taking a poll: How many syllables in the word "nausea"? The dictionary thinks three or two, but my English teacher thinks two, apparently, which is why she rejected my haiku. (I think maybe it's&...
Posted by Lex Officio on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:32:00 PST

The Opening Scene in the Movie of My Life

Today, one of my classmates approached me about a comment I'd made in class a while ago about the Faulkner story A Rose for Emily and what a social faux pas someone had made by sending a Bap...
Posted by Lex Officio on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:53:00 PST

Get off my back, Google.

Did you mean: walking shoes No, I meant, "walkin' shoes," like I typed. And if you have a problem with my apostrophe, how about you throw in a question mark with that sass?  ...
Posted by Lex Officio on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:29:00 PST

I spy strangers.

You know, watching C-SPAN, it's totally evident that our country was founded by a bunch of stuffy Puritans. I was watching Condoleeeeeeezza (sorry, double vowels set me off) and the gang over at ...
Posted by Lex Officio on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:29:00 PST

What Google thinks I need

The following headlines came from the advertisement sidebar on Google, reportedly based on my emails and searches: Chocolate Sheela-Na-Gig/9010 acre Ranch for sale (this one is the winner co...
Posted by Lex Officio on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:24:00 PST

Take those leggings and hang yourselves.

I just have to say this: I hate where fashion is going right now. Has anyone flipped through like, any catalogue lately? The red flags are everywhere and we keep pushing forward, blinded by ...
Posted by Lex Officio on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:13:00 PST

The Number of the Beast

You scored as Satanism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Satanism! Before you scream, do a bit of research on it. To be a Satanist, you don't actually have to believe in Satan. Satanism ge...
Posted by Lex Officio on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:57:00 PST

Sleeping Above Ground

I am beginning to understand the caste system of living quarters that exists behind Ikea bamboo shades and safety-pinned bedsheets alike. I began my painful climb up the bedding and seating ladder sev...
Posted by Lex Officio on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:27:00 PST

A Letter to the Really Big Spider that Just Ran Across My Desk and into My Drawer:

Dear Really Big Spider that Just Ran Across My Desk and Into My Drawer, Not cool. Not cool at all. I mean, it was one thing that you completely interrupted my work day by streaking across my desk and ...
Posted by Lex Officio on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:17:00 PST

Rain in LA

I moved to LA during the dreaded "El Nino" in late '97, early 98'. I was shocked to see Californians react as such, well, pussies, in regards to the water falling from the sky. Ever since then, I...
Posted by Lex Officio on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:10:00 PST