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Roger Midnight

Pretty is as pretty does.

About Me

I'm oldschool Hollywood, baby!

My Interests

......................... also MMORPGs. ("For the Horde!")

I'd like to meet:

I generally don't add people to my friends list unless we've shared a meal or drinks together. So, if I don't know you, your request will almost assuredly not be accepted. That doesn't mean I don't look forward to breaking bread with you someday. But a man's gotta have a code.

Music:

Goth, Glitter, Punk, and Industrial are my largest influences.I also like Classical (particularly symphonies), and a lot of the "Classic Rock" that I grew up with. I don't own a single CD recorded this century.

Movies:

Fight Club, Heathers, The Cutting Edge, Strictly Ballroom, The Stunt Man, Sliding Doors, Hoffa, My Favorite Year, Interview With the Vampire, Liquid Sky, A Clockwork Orange, Repo Man, House of a Thousand Corpses, This is Spinal Tap, nearly every version of Hamlet ever filmed.

Television:

Frontline, Newshour, Uncommon Knowledge, NOW with Bill Moyers, Nova, My So Called Life, Ally McBeal, Saturday Night Live, House, Decisive Battles, Daria, Kim Possible, South Park, Will and Grace, The Simpsons, H.R. Puffenstuff, The Banana Splits, The Prisoner, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the early seasons of Babylon 5.

Books:

Clancy, Crichton, GibsonHendrix, Hoffman, Ludlum, Gibson Shakespeare, Rice. also... Rules For Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky.

My Blog

Rep. Charles Rangel, regarding the president.

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who is black, was asked on public TV what he thought about the president. "Well," he said, "I really think that he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all."...
Posted by Roger Midnight on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:06:00 PST

Bill Maher's open letter to the President

Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that.  You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, ...
Posted by Roger Midnight on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:24:00 PST

The Parrot

A young man named Roger received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with pr...
Posted by Roger Midnight on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Secretary

Lara and I were talking about favorite movies last week, and we realized that there were a lot of movies we didn't share in common because one of us hadn't heard of a film, or simply hadn't gotten aro...
Posted by Roger Midnight on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Nice Boots! (ok, just how clueless was I?)

I just learned THIS YEAR that the term "Nice Boots" is shorthand gothspeak for "Nice Boots, wanna fuck?"At least it is up here in S.F. in the year of my lord 2004.So here's my question... was this tru...
Posted by Roger Midnight on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I'm coming out of the closet!

All the time I was living in L.A. I was harboring a dark secret that I felt I didn't dare utter, even to my Hollywood friends. But today, I'm coming out of the closet to proclaim to the world: "I hate...
Posted by Roger Midnight on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What Kind of Goth are you?

Bah, I used to wear car parts and bondage gear too, though! Geez, dab a little glitter on, and not only will the girls who make you their sexual conquest still be finding it months later, but now you'...
Posted by Roger Midnight on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST