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Roman

Shaking like tremolo.

About Me

I'm in with the out crowd.

My Interests

impossible-to-find sneakers, proofreading, malapropism, short fiction, 100 yen stores, the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley, the record covers of Peter Saville, wingdings, hazy autumn afternoons, getting high off placebos

Movies:

Raise the Red Lantern, L'Aventurra, Best in Show, Autumn Sonata, The Last Emperor, Battle Royale, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Television:

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, America's Next Top Model, Best Week Ever, The Kids in the Hall, The State, Project Runway

Books:

Fragments: A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, The White Album by Joan Didion, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis, pretty much everything by Haruki Murakami

My Blog

America's Next Top Awesome.

I have been watching ANTM since its first season, and after Naima won Cycle 4, I have tried to swear off ANTM, thinking that I was so over it because I finally accepted in my warped mind the fact that...
Posted by Roman on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:54:00 PST

Soundtracked No. 2.

"Untitled #2" by the Clientele from It's Art, DadI like to think of early Clientele as "hardcore" Clientele. Their music, at its most stripped down, appeals to persons of esoteric and specific tastes,...
Posted by Roman on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:26:00 PST

Soundtracked.

Here are a few songs I've been listening to lately; the only way I can ramble on about such things is if I write a blog entry on it. It's not like you'd read the whole thing, but maybe you will, who ...
Posted by Roman on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:38:00 PST

Brokeback Mountain: just two cowpokes in heat.

(As part of my get rich quick scheme, I decided to start posting reviews of books I've read, films I've watched, maybe even open bars I've gotten drunk at, to cash in on the millions of dollars waitin...
Posted by Roman on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:06:00 PST

Me and Billy's top five titles for gay porn movie spoofs, round 1.

1) Robotop2) Field of Wet Dreams3) The Fast and the Bicurious4) The Legend of Teabagger Vance5) New Jack Off CityHonorable Mention: Deep Blue Semen, 28 Gays Later, The Bad News Bears...
Posted by Roman on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:53:00 PST

You people...

Made my day.  I'm a really lucky guy.  Thanks for making my birthday so awesome.  Cillian Murphy and Laurin Hill missed out big time.
Posted by Roman on Fri, 26 May 2006 10:14:00 PST

So this week...

I tore my favorite new shirt.  I fucked up my favorite pair of sunglasses. I got a not-so-great haircut after patiently growing it out for three months. ...so I am glad this week is almost over. ...
Posted by Roman on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:07:00 PST

Interesting Fact No. 12

I can't confirm the validity of this, but some pagans allegedly buried women in the ground until their periods were over. Okay, who has a shovel?
Posted by Roman on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:09:00 PST

Interesting Fact. No. 11

I've been reading a manuscript on Antarctica, and now it's one of my dearest wishes to visit this enigmatic white continent during my lifetime. Since I won't be going there in the foreseeable future, ...
Posted by Roman on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:50:00 PST

Leave My Sister Alone

She is not a 90 lb. rice cooker. My parents and little sister lived in Japan from 2001 to 2004, so this is of particular interest to me. They would tell me about the young Filipinas that worked as h...
Posted by Roman on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:21:00 PST