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About Me

Some people like to call me the rockingest dude ever. I call these people "mom."

My Interests

film, politics, the funny, Bart Nickerson, tiny t-shirt contests, kickhead.com, the C mini, giving drum sets to people, phonetically-pleasing names.

I'd like to meet:

Someone that will leave either entirely scathing or entirely kind phone messages. Oh, and Charles Shaw.

Music:

Pearl Jam, Sigur Ros, Violent Femmes, Flaming Lips, Nirvana, REM, The Walkmen, Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, Godspeed, Iron and Wine, Ben Folds, Modest Mouse, Hole, Radiohead, John Frusciante, Scripture, mother fucking Springsteen, Neil Young, Mazzy Star, Thunder Lizard Be Thy Name.

Movies:

Kieslowski represent! Rushmore, Zero Day, City of God, Sorry Haters, Y Tu Mama, Sin "Mah mitts!" City, Spider-Man, Metropolis, Spellbound, Assassination of Richard Nixon, Goonies, Raging Bull, Lebowski (most Coen brothers), Office Space, Monster, The Corporation, Blue Velvet, Top Secret, Welcome to the Dollhouse, 400 Blows, Scene In, Battle Royale. The Matrix sucks, admit it.

Television:

Futurama.

Books:

Douglas Coupland, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, 1984, Crashing the Party, Come As You Are, Live From Death Row, The Watchmen, Preacher, To Kill a Mockingbird, Douglas Adams, David Sedaris, The Great Train Robbery. $5 says if you are on MySpace you couldn't care less about what books I like.

Heroes:

MLK, Francis Ford, Spider-Man, Dan Savage, Ira Glass.

My Blog

Three Stories of Varying Humiliation.

one On New's Year Eve friends and I called car service to get a ride to some party. At around 9:00 two taxi vans arrived right on time, one behind the other. As we walked out of ...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:21:00 PST

My Pee-Pee: A Rousing Polemic In Two Acts.

I was maybe 2 or 3 years old when I saw my first naked adult. My mother would take me to the YMCA in Brooklyn alot to teach me how to swim. She must have been a pretty good teacher too, cau...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:08:00 PST

Los Angeles By the Numbers.

15 Minutes by car it takes to get from Santa Monica to Hollywood. 120 Minutes by car it takes to get from Santa Monica to Hollywood during rush hour. 1200 Estimated homeless popul...
Posted by Rich on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:05:00 PST

Love Letters to an Assistant Manager.

Assistant Manager, To me, you mean the world. Your presence alone can shape my part-time day job shifts of moderate humiliation into something so much grander. And yet, it would be wrong of me ...
Posted by Rich on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:52:00 PST

I Was A Used Car Salesman For 24 Hours.

Oh, MySpace! It has been too long. Since we last spoke, a number of things have happened in my life:- Did some laundry. - Went to bed, and subsequently woke up, a bunch of times.- Bought P...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:16:00 PST

The Rich Monahan East Coast Farewell Tour.

The Official L.A. Announcement: For those of you not already aware, this fall I - along with an additional 2/5 of Kickhead and 5/5 of the lovely Ms. Devon McKeon - will be moving to Los Angeles...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:43:00 PST

So Robin Wright Penn kinda called me a Nazi...

...on the commentary track for Sorry, Haters!!!! My pal/ex-professor/non-sexual screenwriting crush Jeff Stanzler made an awesome movie last year starring Robin Wright Penn and a quick cameo by yours ...
Posted by Rich on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:31:00 PST

This Summer Needs a Soundtrack.

Oh, MySpace, it's been too long. So I've returned to work from our two month hiatus refreshed, sunnier, and more aware than ever that parenthetical bank account balances indicate a negative number.&nb...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:37:00 PST

Jersey City Superstar.

So on Saturday afternoon Private First Class Bart and I were having a cigarette on our porch, as we have been known to do. Across the street there was a group of about six or seven kids jus...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:34:00 PST

Put Some Fucking Pants On - Songs To Wake Up To.

I feel so damn good about this amazing mix cd I made this week, that I almost feel ashamed. Thanks, mom. Please, download these songs, come to my house, or give me your address and I w...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:46:00 PST