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My Interests

I love movies, music, reading, poetry, offending people for fun, frolicking, eating enchiladas, playing video games, drinking too much coffee, drinking too much whiskey, and being the best friend you've ever had.

I'd like to meet:

I like meeting fun people. Fun people are fun. Especially naked fun people.

Music:

Lately, I've been listening a lot to Dashboard Confessional and Timbaland.

Movies:

Dying Young, Moulin Rouge, Lost Highway, Mary Reilly, Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me, The Opposite of Sex, Until the End of the World, Rent, Natural Born Killers, The Fountain, A Life Less Ordinary, Intacto, The Chocolate War, Brokeback Mountain, and I could go on and on and on...

Television:

Nip/Tuck, Heroes, Lost, Hotel Babylon, Tell Me You Love Me, 30 Rock, House, Journeyman, The Office, Moonlight, Chuck, Big Brother, Brothers and Sisters, etc.

Books:

The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Against Forgetting by Carolyn Forche, NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende, Gerald's Game by Stephen King, etc.

Heroes:

My dog Pepi is my hero. And he loves me.

My Blog

The Chumscrubber

Rating: A  The Chumscrubber is a darkly comic (and often hilarious) film about suburbias reluctance to deal with the reality of life.  Take teenager Dean Stiffle (played expertly by Jamie B...
Posted by Troy on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:17:00 PST

Capote

Rating: B+   Capote is a hauntingly quiet film, acted with shocking perfection by Phillip Seymour Hoffman in what is surely the role of his career.  The films story centers on Truman Capote...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:22:00 PST

The Experiment

Rating: B   A group of 20 men sign up to participate in an experiment, conducted by pseudo scientists, where 12 men are to act as prison guards and eight are to act as prisoners all the while be...
Posted by Troy on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:51:00 PST

Match Point

Rating: B  Match Point is Woody Allen at his absolute best.  The story centers on Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a former tennis pro turned tennis instructor who meets a wealthy young man nam...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:15:00 PST

Brokeback Mountain

Rating: A+  An amazing, heartbreaking and delicately beautiful love story, Brokeback Mountain is, by far, the best film that I have seen this year.  The film follows the story of two young m...
Posted by Troy on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:57:00 PST

King Kong

Rating: B+  Epic and gorgeously shot, King Kong is a vastly entertaining spectacle full of amazing special effects and an emotional core that is pleasantly full of depth.  The vision that is...
Posted by Troy on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:34:00 PST

Rent

Rating: A+  A beautiful, poetic and deeply moving film, Rent is, by far, the best film of the year.  Adapted from the stage musical, Rent focuses on a group of bohemians, living in New York...
Posted by Troy on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:24:00 PST

Mysterious Skin

Rating: A  A beautiful and haunting film, Mysterious Skin centers on two boys on a little league team whose lives take two dramatically different paths as they come into manhood.  As a&...
Posted by Troy on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:52:00 PST

The Weather Man

Rating: B+  What a sad, sad movie this is.  Sprinkled with the funniest of darkly comedic moments, The Weather Man is one of the most heartbreakingly sad, achingly poignant films Ive seen i...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:51:00 PST

North Country

Rating: B-  Having picked a film that isnt as good her own acting ability and presence, Charlize Theron gives another pitch-perfect performance in North Country thats destined to at least get h...
Posted by Troy on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:06:00 PST