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RoMak

light as a feather, stiff as a pentagram

About Me

Hi, my name is RoMak!
I'm lead singer of the pre-modern, post-vintage electropop noise band
RoMak & the Space Pirates
I like, do that..with my life..a lot.
I think singing is my favorite thing to do. But other stuff is chill too..I guess. I love working on different projects...Yeah, stuff is chill..or wait, maybe it isn't? I'm still working in life's major questions.
I also play drums in Satan-a-tr0n!
www.myspace.com/satan-a-tr0n
I dislike tomatoes..and olives. I also dislike opression, sexism, homophobia, racism, ageism, a suburban police force of arrogant bigots..you know, stuff like that.
I'm obsessed with bad television, or really anything bad in general. It's almost more fun in today's day/age to consume something stupid and pointless and see what you can extract from it. I like to explore the depths of shallowness.
That isn't to say that legitimate art doesn't have it's place in society. It's probably sitting in your friend requests box, but you don't bother to look at those profiles because you don't know them personally and see no benefit in leaving your social bubble..and you'd rather hang out with the same people forever until you eventually marry one of them..then the only art you'll have room for will be love songs and made-for-tv-movies.
Wow. I'm sure glad counter-culture isn't dead.
Anyway...I'm also obsessed with pop-culture (in general) and the relationships between art, economy, cultural ideals of different time periods, public adoration, public rejection and urban legends.
I also like to express myself through the way I look and sometimes experiment with my appearance. I do things very deliberately and like to look fancy but also enjoy looking disgusting and parading around barefoot in ugly, oversized clothing.
I like dolls, puppets, cartoons, effigies and anything that resembles a humanoid but isn't. In fact, I like anything with faces, and everything has a face! Hmm...but I don't like everything. In fact, most people accuse me of hating everything.
I believe in ghosts, aliens, sea monsters, magic, dinosaurs and pretty much everything like that.
I'm a pretty self absorbed person, but I'm not as bad as Oprah. If I had my own magazine called 'R Magazine,' I still wouldn't be on the cover of EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ISSUE! What the hell?! I would just be on most of them.
I choose to let the number 3 and the color orange completely dictate all major decisions in my life for some reason.
I try to be good about responding to comments, messages, etc.. But sometimes I can't be. Don't take offense if I don't respond to you, or if it takes me a long time!! It doesn't mean you aren't important or something like that.
If you want to keep tabs on what is going on with me, subscribe to my blog.
Some people think I'm really nice. Other people think I'm a jerk. Some people are idiots.
This video is old and kind of ridiculous, but that's why I like it so much. There's more on youtube if you're interested
Buy Space Pirate music here!!

My Interests



feminism, gay rights, the art of fashion, the fashion of art, gerbalism, the inaugaration of things considered 'classic', the disposal of things overly temporal and/or misunderstood, marital rape, castration, mass suicide, celibacy, the number 3, the color orange

I'd like to meet:

ghosts, new friends, people I admire, people who can help me grow as an artist and a person, people who aren't snobs!!!
This is a short compilation of some clips from me in the upcoming film NUMB. This is my first time doing a movie and I'm really excited to see it when it's finished!!! NUMB is a subculturally focused coming-of-age story set in the early 1980s. I play a gay youth named Stevie Kirkland who dreams of escaping suburban life but finds himself trapped in a cloud of narcotics, corrosive relationships, family issues and nightclubs. NUMB is a Love Machine Films production.

Music:


Bands that have "touched" me (in no particular order):
Switchblade Symphony, Marilyn Manson, Violent Femmes, DEVO, Gary Numan/Tubeway Army, Billie Holiday, Crash Test Dummies, Fiona Apple, Depeche Mode, Powerman 5000, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Danzig, Misfits w/Danzig, Ohgr, Bauhaus, Intro5pect, 4 Non Blondes, Sinead O'Conner, Nirvana, Oingo Boingo, Coal Chamber, Leftover Crack/Choking Victim, the Makeup, Atom and his Package, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, System of a Down, Static X, the (no) apologies project, S.A.C., White/Rob Zombie, the Cranberries, Le Tigre, Supertramp, Wesly Willis, TATU, The Centimeters,(some)David Bowie, Tones on Tails, Sweet 75, Babybird, Joan Osborne, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Radiohead, mudvayne, THE THE, Polysics, Dresden Dolls, The Channeling, Talking Heads, B-52s, Radioactive Chicken Heads, Psychedelic Furs, Skinny Puppy, Andre 3000, The Tleilaxu Music Machine, Gravy Train!!!!, Green Day, Prodigy, Local H, Pearl Jam, george michael, Ladytron, Berlin, IamSpoonBender, Reverend Glasseye, Elliot Smith, Dane & the Death Machine, Euromotion, Aphex Twin, Mighty Mohawk Man, Hollywood Undead, Dirty Sanchez, Spice Girls, Gorillaz, Peachcake, Culture Club, Abiku, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Miracle Chosuke, Modest Mouse, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the Transmissions, the Smiths, Joy Electric, Goldfrapp, ABBA, Captain Beefheart, Hairbrain Scheme, the Screamers, Nora Keyes, Frank Zappa, Scissor Sisters, Toxic Lipstick, Metric, Bark Bark Bark, Vengaboys, IamX, Bikini Kill, Bonnie Tyler, Julie Ruin, the Cardigans, Gwen Stefani, Bratmobile, Lit, Geraldine Fibbers, the Sundays, MIA, Tre Lux, the Locust, Britney Spears, Sleater-Kinney, Of Montreal, Jack off Jill
I mostly only like bands that don't really exist anymore for some reason.

Movies:


Meet the Feebles, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, GUMMO, Beetlejuice, Teen Witch, GATTACA, Nowhere, Party Monster, Nosferatu, Pink Flamingos, Devil's Rejects, Phantom of the Paradise, Cry Baby, the Doom Generation, Velvet Goldmine, Childsplay 2-5, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original one, duh!), Silent Night Bloody Night, Dead Alive, Shortbus, Heathers, Alice Sweet Alice, the Legend of Leigh Bowery, the Nomi Song, Leprechaun in the Hood 2, Batman Returns (the best movie...ever!!! even though it makes NO sense), Jawbreaker, Mannequin, She-Devil (with Roseanne), Kamikaze Girls, BORAT, Clueless, Heavenly Creatures, Nowhere, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

Television:

Dexter, Sex and the City, Cold Case

Books:

Treasure Island, Misery, The Magic Circle, Lexicon Devil, 1984, The Alchemist, The Stranger, Pet Semetary, Thinner, The Martian Chronicles, Bonfire of the Vanities, Everything About Me is Fake and I'm Perfect, true crime books or anything having to do with serial killers

Heroes:


Kathleen Hanna, Frances Farmer, Leigh Bowery, Fox Moulder, Rod Serling, Tina Root, Stephen King, Gomez Addams

My Blog

"Graphite Will Grovel" video

See if you can guess the premise! Directed and edited by Be Like. ...
Posted by RoMak on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:37:00 PST

sometimes people write blogs with titles like, "I haven’t written in here for a long time."

I acknowledge that it's been awhile. So what have I been up to these days? One of the biggest, most important things to mark the past couple of months is the completion of 'Attack of the Has-Bee...
Posted by RoMak on Sat, 10 May 2008 06:49:00 PST

Yay; I got my publishing name!!

Yay! Yesterday morning I received my stuff from ASCAP in the mail, and I now have my own publishing company/thing! neato..I even got my first choice on the name. I’m now the proud owner of Subur...
Posted by RoMak on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:05:00 PST

sea thickness

I was alarmed today talking on the phone with Dave Staples outside of the Cup when I heard someone screaming from somewhere to the right of me. It was this kid walking up and down the sidewalk wearin...
Posted by RoMak on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:23:00 PST

In case you missed it

D. Bene and I on the Epidemic! show is archived and you can watch it here!! Epidemic - Romak & D. BeneWatch This Episode on www.theStream.tv...
Posted by RoMak on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST

bathroom break

Into the bathroom at work. Urine is always just diluted, the way that work dilutes life. As if pissing life away for pay were a simple bodily function. The stench of death in this off-white room m...
Posted by RoMak on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:46:00 PST

Well THIS is news!!!

Don't miss us!!! We'll be on the show 'Epidemic!' at 10pm pacific time. You can view it on the website and communicate with us via instant messenger. We'll be talking about our NEW ALBUM (which is ki...
Posted by RoMak on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:50:00 PST

the myspace version of learning about someone

1. Do you think you can get through it without answering "I don't know"? pobably not. 2. Are you involved with anyone? no 3. Where do you wish you were right now? sitting on the beach with a margarit...
Posted by RoMak on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:06:00 PST

some interesting news

D. Bene and I are going to be on the Saturn and Atari show called 'Epidemic!' on the 14th at 10pm Pacific. It's kind of an interview, or a talk show, or whatever. You can view it at www.thestream.tv. ...
Posted by RoMak on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:05:00 PST

Okay, seriously...what the fuck is wrong with people?!

Crytal Antlers (that's another band, not us...by the way. some people seem to have been confused) got their van and all of their equipment back after it was stolen. That is at least nice to hear. But ...
Posted by RoMak on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:11:00 PST