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Johnny O

Stop swallowing that tablecloth, freak!

My Interests

Music:

MOST RECENTLY LISTENED TO:

Kate Nash

Old Ricky Gervais podcasts

MY FAVES:

The Pixies

Nick Cave

Tom Waits

Josh Ritter

Patrick Park

Bright Eyes

The Faint

M Ward

Iron and Wine

Calexico

The Arcade Fire

Godspeed You Black Emperor

The Walkmen

Franz Ferdinand

Belle and Sebastian

Nick Drake

Simon and Garfunkel

Radiohead

Pulp

Blur

Rufus Wainwright

Ben Folds

Cat Stevens

Movies:

Recently Seen and Enjoyed:

Atonement

Faves: Le Samourai

The Sting

Big Night

Suspiria

The Shawshank Redemption

Rushmore

Royal Tenebaums

The Big Leibowski

Miller's Crossing

Tony Takitani

O Brother, Where Are Thou?

Garden State

The Sevin Samarai, & anything else by Kurosawa

High Fidelity

25th Hour

Grosse Point Blank

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Amelie

All the Real Girls

Cache

Brick

Books:

Upcoming Reads:
Rene's Flesh
Currently Reading A.K.A. Desperately Trying to Finish:
The Savage Detectives
Old Faves:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Ham on Rye
The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon (buy this book right now suckas!!!)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting-Mulan Kundera;
Wild Sheep Chase, & Wind Up Bird Chronicles-Haruki Murakami;
Love in the Time of Cholera, & 100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez;
Of Human Bondage-E Somerset Maughm;
Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace;
The Royal Family, & Rising Up and Rising Down-William Vollman;
Anything by McSweeney's & The Believer;
The Grifters-Jim Thompson;
Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius & You Shall Know our Velocity-Dave Eggers;
The short stories of Cornell Woolrich, and Isaac Babel;
ANYTHING by Dostoevsky,

My Blog

I like old. i like new. i like dirty old man scent. not really though.

I am a sucker for new and for old.  for example, thanks to my career, i tend to have a lot of techie toys.  my phone seems to become outdated every 12 months or sooner.  in 2007, i had ...
Posted by Johnny O on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:29:00 PST

Its not you, its me. No really, its me, im a douche.

So the scientists of America still haven't created a time machine.  This peeves me a bit.  We've come a long way in the last 10 years, but in my opinion, these nerdy sons of hookers are sitt...
Posted by Johnny O on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:42:00 PST

My hungers, some satisfied and some painfully unsatisfied

I need to explain why i am alive right now, or why i have survived thus far in life. The reason i am not dead, not a big bloated green corpse hiding beneath 6 feet of dirt and worms and sod, is becaus...
Posted by Johnny O on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:13:00 PST

Death Pool 2007

Death Pool -Fidel Castro 80 - As much as i hate to include him, i'm afraid this is his year. and soon the beautiful city that time forgot, havana, will be DisneyCuba. -Ariel Sharon 79 - He had a ...
Posted by Johnny O on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:20:00 PST

I can't make any promises, this mother is really all over the place...

i love the first rain of the winter.  i feel like we still haven't gotten it good yet.  it's kinda sprinkled a few times lately, but i want a downpour.  i've had a very physical day tod...
Posted by Johnny O on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:31:00 PST

The blog that was written because my movie sucked...

It is cold as balls. And since my apartment was built before Pink Panther was drawn, let alone that lovely stuff called insulation that he's pimping, my apartment is an ice box. I imagine if this ho...
Posted by Johnny O on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:23:00 PST

The Excrement blog... yes you did read that correctly.

Ok so here's the advanced warning. This blog is about poop, crap, turtle heading, prarie dogging, evacuation. I don't expect this to be a popular blog with the ladies. I also know already that my frie...
Posted by Johnny O on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:55:00 PST

Why i'm so much cooler than you OR my whiny blog about competition

I live in the shadow of Los Angeles, the sprawling suburbs of east East LA, which is not exactly like living in Hollywood or even Downtown for that matter. and i grew up in Orange County. Growing up i...
Posted by Johnny O on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:07:00 PST

a little sentimental

i have to admit that i'm a fickle blogger.  i'm definitely far from consistent.  you might get a little story from me, and then not hear from me for 3 months.  so i'm considering settin...
Posted by Johnny O on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:37:00 PST

Part 2 of The Persian Princess and the Big Bad Johnny O

So the Persian Princess had a friend with her the night of the debacle.  Her name is Sheena...and she's left me a lovely li'l message that i thought i'd post here, with my own comments below...&...
Posted by Johnny O on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:29:00 PST