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About Me

I moved to Agoura Hills two years ago and I really miss Long Beach- the nearest Irish pub here is a 30-minute drive away, and I used to have 3 within staggering distance from my place in LB!!! Despite that, life is good and I'm a happy guy. I'm an American mutt with predominantly Irish and Scottish ancestry. If you haven't figured it out, I LOVE Guinness, Irish punk/folk music, bagpipes and wearing my kilt!! I love Jameson's Whiskey and Irish Car Bombs too, come to think of it. I work long hours in IT and commute like a motherfucker which doesn't leave much free time to do what I love most, which is being a drunken lazy bastard, and going to as many American Wake shows as I can. I'm a former Marine, I lift weights when I'm not being a lazy shit(which lately is all the damned time), I have a red belt in Sin Moo Hapkido, compete in Scottish Heavy Athletics (caber tossing etc), and take advantage of any chance to wear my kilt(Clan MacFarlane) and toss back a few pints and listen to Johnny Cash or some good ol' Irish punk. In what little spare time I have you can find me drinking Jameson's and playing my Irish Whistle or plunking away on my new mandolin. Sure, I have the musical ability of a goat and I suck ass, but I do love playing and maybe someday I'll be halfway decent. If you know of anyone in the LA area that teaches Irish music, do us all a favor and please let me know ;)

My Interests

"Here's to women's kisses, and to whiskey, amber clear; Not as sweet as a woman's kiss, but a damn sight more sincere! "

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." - Dean Martin

I'd like to meet:

Dropkick Murphys - Amazing Grace

The Tossers - Madrin Rua/I'll Tell Me Ma

The Pogues - If I should Fall From Grace With God

The Real McKenzies - Loch Lomond

Music:

Johnny Cash, The Pogues, Shane MacGowan and the Popes, The Ramones, Dropkick Murphys, The Tossers, Blaggards, Flogging Molly, The American Wake, The Wicked Tinkers, The Pubcrawlers, Darby O'Gill and The Little People, Split Lip Rayfield, Reverend Horton Heat, The Dead Milkmen, The Gobshites, Mojo Nixon, Jackass, The Cramps, Supersuckers, Saint Bushmill's Choir, Dust Rhinos, Great Big Sea, The Skels, Neck, Cake, The Mahones, David Allan Coe, The Real McKenzies, Ministry, Hank Williams III, Disturbed, Oingo Boingo, Dead Kennedys, HorrorPops, Violent Femmes, Rob Zombie, Social Distortion, Nekromantix, Jerry Lee Lewis, AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Meatloaf, Corvus Corax, Thanateros, Adivarius, just to name a few

Books:

There are just way too many to list because I've been an avid reader all my life. Lately I've been reading The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, the Harry Potter books, and the Dresden books by Jim Butcher. Some of my favorites have been the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert and Anne Rice. I also like to read some of the classical mythological and philosophical works, and I have some Plato, Homer, Marcus Aurelius, Ovid, Hesiod, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, and Aristotle in my library. Being a little on the geeky side I also have some Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking. On a more mundane note, I also like to read the Rich Dad/Poor Dad books by Robert Kiyosaki, and I've read both "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason and "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill cover to cover too many times to count.

My Blog

Wow

I find myself completely besotted with a dancing Jester who has hair the color of fire and eyes like emeralds.
Posted by Robert on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:23:00 PST

Penny Whistle

I've been trying to learn the whistle for a while now. It's been a bit rough since I have the musical ability of a goat, but I've learnt me a coupla songs this past week or so. I don't understan...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:52:00 PST

I'm in.

Well, I got accepted to CSUN's Finance Program and I'll be starting there in the fall. I still have to get with an advisor and see about getting into the Applied Mathematics program too, but tha...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:03:00 PST

Finals are over!!

Woohooo!!!! I had my last final yesterday afternoon and now I have a month off from school. I'm so wiped out. And I couldn't even sleep in today to recover from all the cramming because for some rea...
Posted by Robert on Fri, 18 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

WTF is wrong with people?!

Ok this makes me fucking sick. We all know about the asshole that shot all those people at VT. Anyway, some of the students put out memorial stones for the people that were killed, and then someone el...
Posted by Robert on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:45:00 PST

SCORE!!!!!!

Proof again that the gods conspire to make me an alcoholic. I stopped by the grocery store a little while ago on the way home from school and they had Bushmill's on sale for $10.00 off the regular pri...
Posted by Robert on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:28:00 PST

assholes

So I was taking a break outside at work the other day and as I was standing there smoking a cigarette and minding my own business in a DESIGNATED SMOKING SECTION; within a two-minute timespan thr...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:04:00 PST

Ah, home, sweet home.

From Hesiod's "Theogony" An anvil made of bronze, falling from heaven,Would fall nine nights and days, and on the tenthWould reach the earth; and if the anvil fellFrom earth, would fall again nine nig...
Posted by Robert on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:48:00 PST

meh.....

FUCK CHRISTMAS
Posted by Robert on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:39:00 PST

Yeah, quit being such a whiny little bitch!

"Do not disturb thyself by thinking of the whole of thy life. Let not thy thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles which thou mayest expect to befall thee: but on every occasion ask thyself, ...
Posted by Robert on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:49:00 PST