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& roo

incoherent

About Me

magician's assistant, grad student, folk dance caller, environmental organizer, trombonist, bodhran player, cat herder, wheel reinventor


(Saint Jude's Infirmary)

My Interests

reclaiming the ampersand

dancing, saying goodbye to everyone in the room, telling complicated stories

I'd like to meet:

people i've already met in real life (or maybe their friends)

well, it's not to be anti-social—it's just that i think of this as a supplement to face-to-face interaction, not a replacement for it.

Music:

heavenly, the orchids, q and not u, orange juice, strawberry switchblade, camera obscura, belle & sebastian, saint etienne, radio 4, franz ferdinand, felt, the dismemberment plan, black eyes, !!!, johnny cash, dr. teeth and the electric mayhem, john hartford, calexico, iron and wine, the brian jonestown massacre, the evens, ladytron, gang of four, trachtenburg family slideshow players, mogwai, stereo total, le tigre, neko case, the delgados, black box recorder, neutral milk hotel, dressy bessy, of montreal, dark meat, the casual dots, beauty pill, slant 6...so you can see why i'm an anomaly among traditional celtic musicians: someone asks me about scottish music and i'll get talking about the postcard label

Books:

Milking the Moon, Eugene Walter; most e. e. cummings; Montaigne's Essais; Underworld, Don DeLillo; Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Freire

Heroes:

Eugene Walter, Quincy Jones

My Blog

Democracy for Two Hours

I went over to Daily Co-op this evening to pick up some coffee, and I saw a sign on the counter reminding members to vote if they missed the annual meeting last night.  It pointed over to an empt...
Posted by & roo on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:33:00 PST

american history shot to shit

went to the smithsonian and got mad at larry small.  not that i haven't been mad at him before (i used to work for the smithsonian), but the museum of american history was a mess.  the only ...
Posted by & roo on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:24:00 PST

crazy summer

so despite the attempts to label this summer after a food (a la guacamole summer 2002) or hair (a la moustache summer 2005 or mohawk summer, the alternate name for 2002), i really think this is crazy ...
Posted by & roo on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:28:00 PST

looking forward

it'll be good to get back to dc.  go to the smithsonian for an exhibit i've been looking to see, going to fort reno for the evens, visiting friends.  it should be good.  i might even ge...
Posted by & roo on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:17:00 PST

scotland in the world cup

.. width="425" height="350">..>irn bru - the soft drink that's more popular than coke in scotland and illegal in the united states...
Posted by & roo on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:45:00 PST

something in me

...is unsettled.  i've got to bee in atlanta tomorrow, and i was in clayton yesterday, but i don't think it's merely travel.  i'm really domestic, but i'm two weeks shy of 25.  i can ha...
Posted by & roo on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:02:00 PST

hype machine

go try the hype machine, a search engine for mp3 blogs.  you can read the newest posts, search by artist or song, or see the most frequently blogged songs....
Posted by & roo on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:31:00 PST

An end to the world's case of OCD

I read the most recent Dean's Statement by Michael Dink at my undergraduate college. The college has an unusual program, conceived as a process for developing as a free person. In the Statement, he ...
Posted by & roo on Wed, 31 May 2006 12:31:00 PST

gotta love myspace

i'm just leaping into the 21st century, huh.  you can either ask me or just ask owen about what i was joking about.  yesterday's joke becomes today's reality.  long live the electronic ...
Posted by & roo on Sat, 20 May 2006 11:41:00 PST

thank you

to mel, shanna, mary jane, natalie, natasha, becky j., jessica j., davey, and mandy for keeping me sane (and drunk) over the past several days.to jim and dave for not being bothered by the dirty dishe...
Posted by & roo on Wed, 17 May 2006 07:25:00 PST