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Oliver Platt

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About Me


I'm Rob
.."In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!...You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier. It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"..
- Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger"
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My Interests

Family
Friends
Movies
Music
Writing
Atheism
Existentialism
Psychology
Anti-theism
Caffeine
Brights movement
Poetry
Intelligence
Guitar Hero
Adult Swim

I'd like to meet:

.."A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell -- mouths mercy, and invented hell -- mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!"..-Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger"

Music:

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AC/DC
Aerosmith
Alice in Chains
Allman Brothers Band
Amy Winehouse
The Animals
Apocalyptica
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
At the Drive-In
Ataxia
Audioslave
Babyshambles
Bad Company
The Band
Battles
The Beach Boys
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Beck
Bee Gees
Benevento-Russo Duo
The Bicycle Thief
Big Star
Billy Joel
The Black Crowes
The Black Keys
The Black Motorcycle Club
Black Sabbath
Blind Illusion
Bloc Party
Blue Oyster Cult
Blur
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bob Segar
Bobby Darin
Bon Jovi
Bright Eyes
Bruce Springsteen
Buckethead
Buddy Holly
Bush
Butthole Surfers
Buzzcocks
Captain Beefheart
Cat Stevens
Cheap Trick
The Chemical Brothers
The Clash
Cloud Cult
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
Counting Crows
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Cribs
Crosby, Still, Nash, & Young
The Cure
Daft Punk
David Bowie
David Gilmour
Dead Kennedys
Dean Martin
The Decemberists
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Devo
Don McLean
The Doors
Dr. Dre
Drums and Tuba
DVDA
The Eagles
Editors
Elbow
Electric Light Orchestra
Elliot Smith
Elton John
Elvis Costello
Eminem
Eric Clapton
Eric Johnson
Explosions in the Sky
The Faces
The Flaming Lips
Fleetwood Mac
Flight of the Conchords
¡Forward, Russia!
Frank Sinatra
Frank Zappa
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
Fugazi
The Futureheads
Gabby La La
George Harrison
Ghost
Glen Hansard
Gnarls Barkley
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Gordon Lightfoot
Gorillaz
Grateful Dead
Green Day
Guns N Roses
Gym Class Heroes
Heart
The Hives
Hole
Incubus
Interpol
Jane's Addiction
Janis Joplin
Jeff Beck
Jeff Buckley
Jefferson Airplane
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
John Frusciante
John Legend
John Lennon
John Mayall
John Mayer
John Mellencamp
Josh Klinghoffer
Journey
Joy Division
Kaiser Chiefs
Kansas
Kanye West
The Killers
King's X
King Crimson
The Kinks
Kraftwerk
LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
Les Claypool
Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel
The Libertines
Lou Reed
Louis Armstrong
Ludwig van Beethoven
Lupe Fiasco
Lynyrd Skynyrd
MIA
The Mamas and the Papas
Manic Street Preachers
Marketa Irglova
The Mars Volta
Marvin Gaye
Massive Attack
Matchbox 20
Matisyahu
Maximo Park
Meat Loaf
Metallica
Mew
Mgmt
Miles Davis
Minutemen
Moby
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
The Moody Blues
Mos Def
Mothers of Invention
Mott the Hoople
Mountain
Muse
My Bloody Valentine
My Morning Jacket
NWA
The National
Neil Young
The Nightwatchmen
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
Oasis
Oceansize
The Offspring
Oingo Boingo
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Otis Redding
Outkast
Oysterhead
Ozzy Osbourne
Parliament/Funkadelic
Paul McCartney
Paul Simon
Pavement
Pearl Jam
A Perfect Circle
Pete Townshend
Peter Frampton
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
The Pixies
The Police
Portishead
Primus
Prince
Prodigy
Public Enemy
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
The Raconteurs
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Rainbow
The Ramones
Ray Charles
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Sparowes
REM
The Replacements
Robert Johnson
Rocky Votolato
Rod Stewart
Rolling Stones
Run-DMC
Rush
Santana
Sausage
Serj Tankien
The Shins
Sigur Ros
Simon & Garfunkel
Sleepercar
Slint
Sly & the Family Stone
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
Soul Asylum
Soundgarden
Sparta
Spoon
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto
Stevie Wonder
The Stone Roses
The Strokes
Styx
Sublime
System of a Down
Talking Heads
The Temptations
Tenacious D
They Might Be Giants
Three Dog Night
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Tool
Travis
TV on the Radio
U2
Ugly Casanova
Vampire Weekend
Van Morrison
Velvet Underground
The Verve
Victor Wooten
War
We Are Scientists
Weezer
The White Stripes
The Who
Wilco
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wu-Tang Clan
Yardbirds
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yes
ZZ Top

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Movies:

Love movies pretty much more than anything and I want to be a filmmaker.

Movies I've seen recently:

The Signal 8/10
Wall-E - 10/10
Funny Games - 10/10
Junebug - 8/10
The Happening - 2/10
House of 1000 Corpses - 6/10
The Incredible Hulk - 6/10

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My Blog

Best (and Worst) Films of the First Half of 2008

The first half of the year has passed, and with these months has come a collection of both great and horrible films; these are my favorites and least favorites so far.Best (in order of release)Cloverf...
Posted by Oliver Platt on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:04:00 PST

My Top 25 Favorite Bands/Artists

Well, I'm incredibly bored and I just read Rolling Stone's best music of '08 issue, so while I'm watching TV here are my 25 favorite bands, sort of in order.25Simon and GarfunkelExcellent music, brill...
Posted by Oliver Platt on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:25:00 PST

The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments, since their initial appearance in the Holy Bible’s Books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, have provided Christians and Jews everywhere with simple laws to abid...
Posted by Oliver Platt on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:57:00 PST

A Quick Word About Easter

I’m going to make a couple quick points here:For one, Easter has become more and more irrelevant, as its originally Spring-oriented themes and backgrounds are slowly wasting away as the "Holy"da...
Posted by Oliver Platt on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:12:00 PST