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Filthy Rich

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About Me

I am a sleep-deprived scribbler who obsesses about the written word. When I am not engulfed by jealousy for McSweeney's contribution to the literary world, you can find me hacking away at several stories / ideas. I prefer my eggs scrambled.

My Interests

the written word, colors, baseball, nutella, graphic design, KMTology (incorrectly dubbed egyptology)

I'd like to meet:

visionaries, artists, people i can collaborate with and share creative ideas. i would like to meet our creators (the biblical 'elohim', if you will) whom i am certain are lurking about ready to reveal themselves. oh, and andy kaufman.

Amar Sin Ser Amada

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Music:

prince, mike patton, trent reznor, reh dogg, madonna, mos def, talib kweli, anggun, beck, johnny cash, ornette coleman, john zorn, many others... rounded out with ludwig van beethoven's seventh symphony, second movement. give me a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and an hour or so with a comfortable chair and some tight jams, and i am a happy camper.

Movies:

clerks, fight club, the godfather series, the star wars series, scarface, high fidelity, life is beautiful, immortal beloved, amadeus, amelie, 28 days later, superman, gladiator, rocky, pootie tang, pee wee's big adventure, ghostbusters, fletch, coming to america, bad santa, napoleon dynamite, anchorman, old boy, a tale of two sisters, dark water, i'm not scared, malena, la dolce vita, hum dil de chuke sanam, taal, other bollywood flicks, bad over-budget disaster films, cheesy japanese monster movies (godzilla), 70's horror flicks, and much much more

Television:

lost, the office, my name is earl, heroes, random programming on the history or discovery channels, campy conspiracy theory documentaries, baseball tonight, the apprentice

Books:

works by hunter thompson, charles bukowksi, henry miller, john gardner, colson whitehead, chuck palahniuk, hp lovecraft, koji suzuki, bret easton ellis, dave eggers, jonathan lethem, tobias wolff, jhumpa lahiri, vladamir nabokov, fyodor dosteyvesky, iceberg slim, comte de lautreamont, chinua achebe - also spiritual texts, most prominently esoteric volumes written by h.p. blavatsky - isis unveiled and the secret doctrine. and most importantly, schwaller de lubicz' extraordinary research - the temple of man.

Heroes:

writers and artists across the globe - you guys all inspire me to work my tail off. and andy kaufman.

My Blog

The Dark Side of Quality

I get paid to be hated. No glamour in my line of work - it's all villainous. But before I go into some lengthy bitchfest, let me first explain what I do (currently) in the simplest way possible. When...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:47:00 PST

A Faceless New York (Part 2)

The welcome mat to New York's proverbial 'melting pot' has long been weathered and worn. In the past couple of decades, those from the outskirts of this country seem to have migrated here in droves. D...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:38:00 PST

A Faceless New York (Part 1)

The other day, I overheard someone on the train crowing (with a friend) about her impending lease signing in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn. She was glowing, beaming! I couldn't place her accen...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:23:00 PST

Some News...

I haven't posted in quite some time because I've been working on a ton of personal side projects as well as inundated with my regular job so I am going to keep this shortFirst, check out:www.ecopatter...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:43:00 PST

Toho Inc

Cool conversation with a buddy of mine that I'd like to share:Jamie: what is that pic you have on your myspace profile?Jamie: see what I mean?.....Jamie: never cease to amaze meFilthy Rich: that pic i...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:09:00 PST

Not fooled . . .

So this fairly recent post by MonkeyPants caught my attention and I feel compelled to offer up a retort. MP -- while the guy you were IMing with clearly fits a very sad profile, I don't think it is f...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

Marked

During this past glorious (rare) weekend, I took myself to Central Park armed with some new submissions sent into Purpleprose during the week. Amidst wielding my deft editorial prowess, I inadvertent...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:17:00 PST

she breathes

from the forthcoming series - "return of the muse"she breathesshe breathes in the balmy island airbut the wave of hurt has yet to recedeshe shivers despite the sticky humiditysweat simmers the pores o...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:02:00 PST

unstable grounds

from the forthcoming series - "fault line"unstable groundswonderwhy must we build the homeover unstable groundsendangering the future, the familywith unfamilar shifts and soundsconvulsing beneath our ...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:00:00 PST

r.i.p. joey v.

i am saddened to hear that joseph vincuillo (aka joey valentine), the man who gave me my most recent tattoo a little over three weeks ago was killed in an automobile accident a few days ago. he was o...
Posted by Filthy Rich on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:57:00 PST