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Greg

All the people tell me so, but what do all the people know?

About Me

I'm kind of a big deal .

My Interests

Music, movies, tacos, cheap suits, ugly ties, politics, the quest for a good chocolate beer, old-school wrestling, books, playing guitar, making movies.

I'd like to meet:

Cute girls and old friends.

Music:

NOFX, Millencolin, Useless ID, Social Distortion, Bad Religion, The Loved Ones, Consumed, Ramones, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Teen Idols, Good Riddance, Screeching Weasel, 7 Seconds, Andrew W.K., Bouncing Souls, Dropkick Murphys, Descendents, Fishbone, Gob, Goldfinger, Ten Foot Pole, Reel Big Fish, Go Betty Go, Lagwagon, Guttermouth, Johnny Cash, Boston, Mad Caddies, William Shatner, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Street Dogs, None More Black, Pennywise, Rancid, Strung Out, Pulley, Weird Al, movie scores, The Aquabats, Bracket, Less Than Jake, The Toasters, The Real McKenzies, Rage Against the Machine, Authority Zero, Rise Against, The Briggs, Los Mox, Suicide Machines

Movies:

Cool Hand Luke, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, The Way of the Gun, Sin City, Glengarry GlenRoss, Ghostbusters I & II, 1984, Pulp Fiction, Monster Squad, Back to the Future Trilogy, Evil Dead Trilogy, National Treasure, Night of the Living Dead, Beverly Hills Cop, Collateral, Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Thelma and Louise, Casualties of War, 007, Chinatown, Die Hard Trilogy, The Untouchables, Escape From New York, GoodFellas, Halloween, Igby Goes Down, Naked Gun Trilogy, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Alien, Miller's Crossing, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Superman, Superman II, Superman Returns, Tombstone, Open Range, Requiem For a Dream, Rocky, Rushmore, Schizopolis, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Transporter, Truth Or Consequences N.M., UHF, Memento, The Goonies, Amadeus, Napoleon Dynamite, Judgment Night, American Beauty, Indiana Jones Trilogy, From Dusk Till Dawn, Cape Fear, The Salton Sea, Léon: The Professional, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, Brazil, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Dutch, Mean Machine

Television:

Lost, 24, Arrested Development, Sledge Hammer!, The History Channel, Sunday Morning Shootout, The State, A-Team, Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Twin Peaks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Soap, MST3K, The Critic, Police Squad!, The Tick, Seinfeld, Futurama, Married with Children, Bullshit!, Stella, Mama's Family, The Golden Girls, The Venture Bros., It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Masters of Horror, The Office, Tales From the Crypt, MacGyver, My Name Is Earl

Books:

1984, Fahrenheit 451, Children of Men, The World According to Garp, Angels & Demons, Sin City

Heroes:

Hulk Hogan, Christopher Reeve, My Grandfather - Thomas W. Burke

My Blog

I hate hate hate hate hate the USPS

So I mail out my Geico bill a couple of days ago, and lo and behold what do I get in the mail today? Half of the enevelope I sent to Geico, torn right down the middle! And it was packaged in this cut...
Posted by Greg-o on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:07:00 PST

Motherfuckin' awesome!

December 1st....Madison Square Garden....Me, Christa, Charlie and Colin....Tenacious D.
Posted by Greg-o on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:10:00 PST

If you're reading this, you must really love me.

Learn shit about me! Or don't! You might know all of this!01. When's the last time you ran?About a week ago. I need to get back into my routine.002. Do your jeans have rips, tears, and holes in them?...
Posted by Greg-o on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:37:00 PST

Shocktoberfest Returns!

Remember before the CW, before the WB, channel 11 was WPIX: New York's Movie Station? Remember how every October they did their annual Shocktoberfest, which was non-stop horror movies all month? Even ...
Posted by Greg-o on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:09:00 PST

Greg the Beardless

To everyone who I haven't seen in the past two weeks: You missed the opportunity to see me without a beard for the first time in six years.  And no, there are no pictures.  If you're that cu...
Posted by Greg-o on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:50:00 PST

My town sucks, but yours is worse

I grew up on Long Island.  Not the upper-class, million dollar home, extravagant, North Shore Long Island, mind you, but the middle-class, three-bedroom house, just-getting-by, South Shore Long I...
Posted by Greg-o on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:28:00 PST

A new movie? Or just today's events?

Old rivals become friends.  Power lifting.  Aliens invade.  A murder investigation.  A trio reunites.  Soup and sandwiches.  The dead return from the grave.  Soccer ...
Posted by Greg-o on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:04:00 PST

Pilfers.

Just got back from seeing Pilfers at the Knitting Factory.  It was their first show in four years.  I had seen one of their last shows at CBGB around my birthday in 2001, and ranked it as my...
Posted by Greg-o on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:57:00 PST

Story of My Life

I wake up.  My car's got a flat and there's no spare in the trunk.  I walk five miles to the bus station and it starts raining.  I miss the bus by two minutes.  The next one won't ...
Posted by Greg-o on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:55:00 PST

Oh shit. I think I just graduated.

WARNING: The following is a 22-year old having a (mild) mid-life crisis. It's been three months since I graduated college and I still find myself...in college.  You see, I still work in the Film/...
Posted by Greg-o on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:32:00 PST