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About Me

ecstatic anglophile living in madrid in his fourth year who is hopelessly addicted to music in all forms (minus pop country, happy hardcore and opera) and working on a great american short story in between maintaining an overloaded social life, occasionally DJing, writing for FODOR's, TimeOut, Night&Day, Songlines, The Broadsheet, and The Nervous Breakdown while somehow still managing to cook about 7 times per week.

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My Interests

approximate, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, indefinite, loose, not partial, not particular, not specific, uncertain, undetailed, unspecific, vague

I'd like to meet:

enigmas, beings who have malleable yet resolute stances about the world, people who raise my level of consciousness or challenge me and my beliefs, abnormals, reprobates, dissenters with real motivations, people unaffiliated with the one political party (in the US - the Republicrats/Democlins), those who are sick of where they are and do something about it, doers, genuine/sincere/trustworthy/ecstatic people.we are all merely characters in each others' books, even if those books will never be written or read...

Music:

tom waits, guided by voices, tobin sprout, van morrison, the diableros, the killers, beck, m. ward, two gallants, the spinto band, CYHSY, muse, calexico, iron and wine, man man, migala, MMW, mew, public fucking enemy, my morning jacket, bright eyes, moth, sugar, manu chao, gecko turner, nightmares on wax, PLUMP DJs, tribe called quest, people under the stairs, okkervil river, new pornographers, arcade fire, postal service, paco de lucia, pinback, primal scream, tripping daisy/polyphonic spree, kyuss, early radiohead, rage against the machine, josh rouse, stereo mcs, spoon, secret machines, superchunk, snow patrol, james, sunny day real estate, sigur ros, cat stevens, buddy holly, dylan, cash, joselé santiago, springsteen, early tool, tv on the radio, 3rd eye blind, faith no more, urban dance squad, twilight singers, teenage fan club, tapes n tapes, the thorns, ugly cassanova/modest mouse, unida, wilco/golden smog/jayhawks, the walkmen, yo la tengo, weezer, neil young, year of the rabbit/on/failure, chicken lips, the anniversary, built to spill, blues explosion, lyrics born, belle and sebastian, solomon burke, antony and the johnsons, broken social scene/stars, david byrne, caviar/figdish, nick cave and the bad seeds, calla, louis XIV, eagles of death metal, catherine wheel/rob dickinson, crystal method, desaparecidos, del the funky homosapien, gorillaz, delgados, gregorian chant, elvis, gomez, galactic, idlewild, helmet, ali farka toure, ry cooder, jets to brazil, jack johnson, jane's addiction, kent, kings of convenience, kid loco, led zepplin, los planetas

Movies:

the big lebowski, life aquatic, royal tenenbaums, v for vendetta, pi, team america, the three burials of melquiades estrada, infiltrados, el laberinto del fauno (pan's labyrinth), babel,

Television:

rarely or in winter when the frigid depression sets in (and then waaaay too much of nothing). 6'under, the office (british version only)

Books:

"rayuela"/"hopscotch" cortazar. "falling man" delillo, "no country for old men" mccarthy, "slow man" j.m.coetzee, "the language instinct" s. pinker, "infinite jest" and "oblivion" by DFW, "if on a winter's night a traveler" calvino, "unbearable lightness...", "immortality" and "identity" kundera

Heroes:

jim tobin, auster, king (stephen), bukowski, beckett, coetzee, saramago, carver, pk dick, camus, delillo, dahl (roald), carlos fuentes, miller (henry), heller, hemingway, kundera, marquez, palahniuk, listi, vonnegut, bellow, orwell, kerouac, kosinski, campbell (joseph), batchelor (stephen), zinn, chomsky, mailer, salinger, faulkner, ackerman (diane), dostoevsky, bowles (paul), saunders, diamond (jared) and way too many other GMNs (Great Male Narcissists), especially the one who coined that term - DFW

My Blog

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Klein has been described as the "new, funky heiress to Noam Chomsky" by some important media outlet. This is good because Noam's gettin' up there in age and will kick it sooner than later. Let me firs...
Posted by kip on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:53:00 PST

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick

I picked this up around October of aught-seven and kept it on my nightstand, reading it slowly and not necessarily savoring it. Lately I've been reading about 4 or 5 books at once, something I hope to...
Posted by kip on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:41:00 PST

Killing Yourself To Live by Chuck Klosterman

This man is a genius in a wry, pop-culture observing way. The travelog takes Chuck from NYC throughout the US in search of famous sites where rock stars died. Along the way he explains his various woe...
Posted by kip on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:50:00 PST

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy     The Road06's Pulitzer prize winning book does not dissapoint. The Road follows a father with his son, on a road in post-apocalyptic America. It's freezing, dark, per...
Posted by kip on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:38:00 PST

Neil Boorman, Bonfire of the Brands

"&addicted to brands&they bolster my self-esteem&lost without them&must make amends&cathartic experience etcetera". This is why Neil Boorman burned all his brands (in soundbite format). Sure, the firs...
Posted by kip on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:46:00 PST

Falling Man by Don Delillo

I read Underworld in about a month. It was voted as the second or third most best novel of the 20th century by contemporary writers. I can't really see why. It wasn't bad but damn, 1,000 pages to tell...
Posted by kip on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:05:00 PST

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

About 40 years after it was written, this very-autobiographical account of Hunter in Puerto Rico as a drunken out-and-out journalist is a very quick read and is imbued with the style not unlike Bukows...
Posted by kip on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:41:00 PST

recently modified BOOK list for 2007 (Aug 14, 07)

NOTICE. (Not that anyone reads my myspace blog, but anyway...) I slacked off in writing these, though it's not true that I stopped reading. I hit a sort of bump just after Travels in the Scriptorium a...
Posted by kip on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:43:00 PST

www.thenervousbreakdown.com/kip_tobin

TNB - the nervousbreakdown.com/kip_tobinit's all i got. can't keep up two blogs, especially mindless drivel about me, myself and the "I" we writers find it so hard to get away from. ...
Posted by kip on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:57:00 PST

(modified) personal stance on blahgs

a part of me is totally against this type of narcissism - blahg culture and all its underpinnings. as a friend noted, it's like we all think we are superstars and this is the medium, copiously engorgi...
Posted by kip on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:55:00 PST