Those of you that have had the unfortunate pleasure of knowing me might think sometimes I am a bit creepy. What ever – get over it, I’m just keeping it real.  Not much has changed since I was 16. Same damn soundtrack also. The point of this… I am flipping the channel, end up on Law & Order SVU – see a 9 year old girl as the rape victim. Man, I recognize her! It’s Sam from iCarly! Jennette McCurdy. Yes, I watch iCarly – it is an amazing show. The new episode this past Saturday has a warm bag of dog poop in the first scene, then they go to Canada and check out the Hostess type factory called Fat Cakes. Moral of the story is watch iCarly. And Jennette is actually pretty funny, I follow her on Twitter. And it ain’t even creepy.

—Roger Gastman

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I am going to give you my opinion and my opinion says that holidays are not that cool unless it’s Halloween over and over again. But Dave who runs this site thinks you dear readers want some new fresh gift ideas. So in no order at all I give you a bunch of crap to waste your money on for your ungrateful friends – BOOO!

—Roger

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Roger Gastman narrates a feature about rebel art for Foreign Policy

—Roger

Behind-the-scenes with Roger Gastman on the set of the new Best Coast video directed by Drew Barrymore.

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Roger Gastman gets interviewed in the Wall Street Journal

I heard a rumor about Burger King’s new Blueberry Mini Biscuits. I hate the word mini, and well I hate most all mini things, but I love biscuits, I love blueberry pancakes and blueberry bagels so you know I had to go there and try them.

Not since Wendy’s decided to get “new” fries (old ones still BETTER) have I been this excited to see the possibilities of joy in my stomach. Today was the day.

The verdict – they were not bad! They were actually quite good. Like they might have even baked them in house and not just microwaved them up. I could have eaten about 30 of them to fill me up. So moral of the review – if you mad hungry order like 12 orders of them.

—Roger

PS – I didn’t try the icing.

Clear, 2010, Slovakia

Roger Gastman gets a nice profile in T Magazine

Risk / Black House

I have a photo series that I am working on. It’s about being creepy. I’m a good ass creep. I have been training my entire life. Here is a sneak preview.

—Roger

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The Hundreds recently posted a great interview with sometime contributor, plastic charm necklace wearer, and full-time hustler Roger Gastman. If only he had given them a pic of that Bethesda tattoo…

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Here are a few pictures from my trip (that I am still on) to Slovakia – yes I said Slovakia. When I got the call I was like – wait did I learn where that place is in geography class in school? I thought it was a joke. But it worked out – here we are – me POSE and SABER. It is actually kind of awesome here – well at least what I have seen so far. And I got to eat strawberry risotto – dats rights! So all you people reading this that are like shit – I want to break into that guys house – he is away – NO GO! I gots the dogs – and I got a person and persons staying there 24 hrs a day. Back to Slovakia – I wonder if there are vampires here?

I’m writing this from an airport in Germany. Yesterday I saw the film The American. I had read and heard great things about it. But it sucked. Like sucked real bad. Like I wanted to walk out. I don’t know what the plot is – why things happen and why did they make this movie? I know I am far from the smartest guy in the world – shit even on my own block. Best thing about the film – a nice pair of tits that are real. But not worth a ticket. Ban this movie. F-.

Los Angeles, CA, May 28, 2010 — Gary Coleman, the star of the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, died this morning, after suffering a brain hemorrhage.

The news of Coleman’s death has deeply saddened Roger Gastman, creative director of R. Rock Enterprises and co-founder of Swindle and While You Were Sleeping magazines.

In 1999, Coleman was featured in issue 9 of Gastman’s While You Were Sleeping magazine. In the article, Coleman discussed his career, spirituality, and openly admitted that he was still a virgin at 32. “Still a virgin and counting,” he laughed. “Women just don’t pay attention to me.” He also discussed his two kidney transplants, saying, “Having a kidney is like having a pet, and I don’t like pets.”

In 2001, Coleman and Gastman team up for three days during the Magic Tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV, to promote While You Were Sleeping magazine. “It was the best three days of my life,” Gastman says.

Gastman grew up watching Diff’rent Strokes, and admired the child actor in his role as Arnold, as well as Coleman’s work in movies such as Midgets vs. Mascots.

“This is a sad day,” Gastman concludes. “I miss him already.”

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Buy music online? Listen to it on myspace – all lame – so I told myself for like a way long time. Then for some random reason – i’m sure it had something to do with me checking the Dischord Records site, I found the Title Tracks. It was catchy – all most in like a girly way, like I questioned my manhood (what little I have left) for listening to it. Over and over and over again. But crap, it was like real real good. Then I saw that my old buddy was the drummer – Andrew Black. Andrew even interned for me at While You Were Sleeping. Played drums for the Explosion among a bunch of other neat stuff. Basically I am telling all of you that I am a music critic – and I know what all of you like. I mean just check out my sound advice I did for this crappy website you are reading and wasting your time on now instead of mine: rogergastman.com. Anyway, my sound advice was the most downloaded one ever. It even crashed the servers at world’s best ever. In fact it was so great dave is going to repost it right now after this title track post. Go buy my friend andrew’s music – he has mouth’s to feed.

http://www.myspace.com/titletracksdc

http://www.dischord.com/band/title-tracks

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Rooms is a new exhibition that opens up at Scion Space this Saturday (4/24) in Los Angeles. Curated by Roger Gastman, the show features 8 individual installations by artists Adam Wallacavage, Bill Daniel, Chris Stain, Dan Monick & Caitlin Reilly, Dueling VHS, Justin Van Hoy, Kime Buzzelli, and Rocky Grimes.  I sat down with Roger via the internet and asked some questions.

Why “Rooms”?

I wanted to do something that creatively utilized the 4,500-square foot space at the Scion Gallery.
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Make your way to a movie theater. I haven’t seen this yet, so don’t tell me anything if you see me (which you won’t, cuz I’m a recluse.)

After the jump are some randy pics that Roger took at the opening in LA.

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I went and saw The Runways on opening night. If ya know my ass, you know I really like punk. Like I love it. Like I have mad punk rock collections of shit. Like old shit – not new stuff. New stuff is not so hot.
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