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A La Playa!

Ah no no

About Me

I have nothing to lose.

My Interests

Do and Don'ts, films that don't leave my head, quick wits, the neverending tragedy of the Oakland Raiders, trying not to curse but failing miserably, Indian food and a fine assortment of ales.

I'd like to meet:

Don Knott's ghost

Music:

Lil' Wayne mixtapes, David Banner, DJ/Rupture, High on Fire, Robyn, To Live and Shave in L.A., old funk and house, Th Bats, Carcass, Shuggie Otis, STEELY MOTHERFUCKING DAN

Movies:

Gremlins 2, Parpaillion, Detour, Imitation of Life, 70s horror, Ten, Chain.

Television:

Arrested Development, Deadwood and cartoons

Books:

Fiction:
A Fan's Notes and Blood Meridian

Nonfiction:
The film criticism of Manny Farber, Nicole Brenez and Jonathan Rosenbaum

Comics:
Dori Seda, Eve Gilbert and Love and Rockets

Heroes:

Michael O' Donoghue

My Blog

my stunted brilliant career

After two weeks of sludging through sinus infections and writer's block, the first of five profile articles for the V_____ M________ is done. Hopefully I can finish the rest of the these with the vera...
Posted by A La Playa! on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:27:00 PST

thank you, residents, for yet another unrelated question

The act of writing articles about community meetings is becoming a horror. I feel that the event requires a sizeable amount of text to get all the information out but CHRIST ALMIGHTY do the articles t...
Posted by A La Playa! on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:07:00 PST

sad songs/stupid suckers

Three things: 1)People are unreliable, probably because they are y'know just human, and thus if you want to not be disappointed it may just be better to realize that sometimes your friends are ju...
Posted by A La Playa! on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:10:00 PST

once i was an aesthete, now i'm just a dick

There's nothing sadder than when someone is convinced that they have impeccable taste in music and they utterly, massively, tragically don't. This isn't elitism, mind you. Let people listen to what th...
Posted by A La Playa! on Wed, 03 May 2006 08:40:00 PST

coitus by natural course

Today is the day forever etched into history whereupon I came upon two rednecks fucking on the Star Trail; a man with a Dale "Intimidator" Earnhardt moustache and a woman with bleach-burnt hair but st...
Posted by A La Playa! on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:20:00 PST

how to evacuate

Work apparently deposited my paycheck twice. Now I'm thinking that I should just close out my account and get out of town. Move to New Orleans and start selling heroin to all the people that moved to ...
Posted by A La Playa! on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:39:00 PST

It don't worry me.

I always wondered how people got blisters so easily on their hands when they play guitar but after playing "Let Us Cross Over the River" with improvisations for about 40 minutes straight on mandolin w...
Posted by A La Playa! on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:52:00 PST

Bullies in the Bathroom (work, play, accomplishment and bargain decadence).

There's a point where you just get burnt out on a job and I've finally hit that where I work. They told us at the preliminary interviews that there would be mandatory overtime but I never expected two...
Posted by A La Playa! on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:44:00 PST

Love Letters (How to Clean Your Closet)

In Belated Honor of Thee Holiday of Yesterday...I will write letters to all of my exes and lovers, most of whom I don't even talk to anymore. Some I've slept with, most I haven't.Dear Stephanie, Every...
Posted by A La Playa! on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:35:00 PST