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Rob

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About Me

Terror of the Seven Seas. Pillager of the Spanish Main.

My Interests

Well-designed book covers. Graphic art and design. Cheap Chinese food. 10th Century Peruvian Moche art. Cameras and other things that go 'click'. Critical theory. Being scatter-brained. Trailers, both the sort that preview movies and the sort that people live in and which often get destroyed by various and sundry natural disasters. Bad, nay, horrible cinema. Rifling poker chips. Black and white photos, black and white ideologies. Poking raccoons with sticks.

I'd like to meet:

Peter Pan, so I can cut the little bastard's black heart out. In lieu of that, anyone who can hold a conversation. Bonus points if you like dive bars and cheap beer.


adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

Right now, The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven' is making me do the head-bop dance. I've also got Belle and Sebastian's 'Fox in the Snow' on a loop right now.

Movies:

The entire Steven Seagal ovure. His incorporation of Lyotardian play and lessons on semiotics in his films really speaks to me.

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Hitler Channel. Firefly, because it was short and brilliant. Ice Road Truckers has a strange appeal. Bear Grylls is pretty awesome.

Books:

Pattern Recognition, Gravity's Rainbow, Cryptonomicon, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I'm re-reading Harry Potter, I want a wand of my very own to jinx people with.

Heroes:

"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it."Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786
"I was building another science, my science, wild science, robots and lasers and disembodied brains. A science that buzzed and glowed; it wanted to do things. And it was angry. It was mad science." - Doctor Impossible
"I like a man who knows what he's drinking." "That's a sick thing to be attracted to."

My Blog

New blog for the odd

If you're a fan of off-beat and or quirky news stories, I'm baisically taking the odd from AP and putting it in a blog with a tiny bit of commentary. I'm calling it strange world. Today, some dude p...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:55:00 PST

movie movie movie

'Once' is finally playing in Boulder. Who wants to go!? Took long enough for the flick to release here. One would think with a Landmark Theater here (which is the *only* theater here) it would have be...
Posted by Rob on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:18:00 PST

So long Ingmar Bergman

Hope you win that game of chess with death, man. 
Posted by Rob on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:02:00 PST

Worst thing ever:

Fixing a super tasty looking salad, pouring the dressing on, and realizing you just popped the last clean fork in the dishwasher. 
Posted by Rob on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:28:00 PST

Don't blow up rats, plz

Sometimes, I like to search the AP wire with the wildcard "Odd" in my search field, cause I get little gems like:BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)  Who says Tom and Jerry can't be friends? For the past year, a ...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:14:00 PST

Foxy Mama

So, I'm procrastinating writing up the week's DVD preview thing I do (due in 2 hours, it's on "300," Banana hamocks, that's all I got right now). I decide, instead, to cruise some AP love. Not that I ...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:34:00 PST

Yum

Lumpy home-style mashed potatoes: Look like something a sick bear sneezed out, taste like a little slice of heaven. 
Posted by Rob on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:02:00 PST

Huh

Not to sound like a *total* carzy cat-lady type person, but I find it insanely amusing how excited tiny turtles get when i come home. This is my squishy thought of the day, enjoy. Also, why does myspa...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:14:00 PST

I may not ber vader, but I am...

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Posted by Rob on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:16:00 PST