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Nick Roth

The most intense rock experience ever.

About Me

LINDSEY HAUN BAND AT THE CAT CLUB!!! 3rd-ish Wednesday of every month!The Cat Club is on Sunset next to the Whiskey. The cross-street is San Vicente.Only FIVE bucks with a flier. Any flier. Make your own flier and bring it if you want. Or just print out the delightful one Lindsey made.ALSO: check out the rad music video for Balsamic Vajayjay's new hit, "Narcoleptic O.J."In response to all legal queries: Nick Roth retains 100% legal ownership and copyright for all songs on this MySpace profile, as well as all songs on the S'live Myspace (myspace.com/slivemusic) and is a registered member of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ).The rights to these songs are NOT for sale.Nick Roth is from Los Angeles. He is an internationally recognized D-List film pseudo-star and a UC Berkeley Alumn. He is a composer of music and of prosody. His interests include Historiographic Metafiction, Narrative Involution, Aesthetics, Etymology, Horology, Parody, Science, Architecture, City Planning, and Guerrilla Art. His favorite authors are Shakespeare, Virgil, Nabokov, Vonnegut, and Pynchon.Here is a sample from Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon because most likely you have never read it:Once, long before dawn, bidden he can scarce say how, Mason rises from his cot,– Maskelyne across the shelter snoring in a miasma of wine-fumes and an Obs Suit patch'd together from local sources, whose colors in the Gloom are mercifully obscur'd,– enters the Wind, picks his way 'cross Boot-slashing Rock up over the ridgeline and down onto the floor of a ruin'd ebony forest, where among fog-wisps and ancient black logging debris polish'd by the Wind, she accosts him shiv'ring in his Cloak. The Ocean beats past the tiny accidental Island. 'I can't have Maskelyne finding me out here' (M&D 164).Here are some other things I think you should check out:AND SOME OTHER FILMS BY NICK RISHERLINDSEY HAUN STARS IN SHROOOOOOOOMS!!!

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Music:

Member Since: 2/25/2006
Band Members: Nick Roth - Guitar, Vocals, Mandolin, Tambourine.
Influences: Robert Smithson, Thomas Pynchon, Luis Bunuel, Ted Hughes.
Sounds Like: The inside of your ears, underwater, filled with Vaseline, while contemplating John Baldessari.
Record Label: Nick Roth Productions
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Yet More Poetry

I revised it...I sit down at the pool in a white plastic deck chair flanking the shallow's edge. Birds' chirping punctuates the low electric drone of lawn mowers and leaf blowers, flooding back eastw...
Posted by Nick Roth on Fri, 09 May 2008 03:58:00 PST

NEW POETRY!? KENYA BELIEVE IT?!

Cascade of Parasites, 2/08Nick RothOpaque (the changing of thegates kept lockeredwithhollyoak bristlesdiaphanous ( inthe umber of charcoaledmadness is that root Ismashing solid (fish sauceIf balsamic...
Posted by Nick Roth on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:47:00 PST

Even More Bad Poetry

Another blast from the past of bad-to-mediocre poetry (this time most of it is actually bad. The first one is ok.)~NickUntitledI'm growing increasingly concerned,that the only reason I feel anything,...
Posted by Nick Roth on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:33:00 PST

More bad poetry

I was digging around through old text files and found this poem. It's a defense of the first three words of my senior thesis:In Her SeminalJust posed on the ring of falsity,A loveliness intensely amp...
Posted by Nick Roth on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:16:00 PST

MY FIRST EVER BLOG EVER

This is a poem I wrote last year. It was accepted for publication by the Trainwreck Union's publication Switchyard, but then I don't know what happened -- internal strife within the Union, perhaps in...
Posted by Nick Roth on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:58:00 PST