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HiMyNameIsRob

My Name Is Rob, I Wear Hats and Listen To Ska.

About Me


I Fucked With My Profile With nUCLEArcENTURy.COM Bet YOU wanted to know that...
I'm Rob. I write intriguing introductions to 'About Me' sections.
I live in Daventry. Whatever twist you attempt to put on this place, you cannot escape the fact that it sucks the big one to be here. One day i'll be gone. And I won't miss it one bit. SO. HA. Ahem
I like punk rock. I listen to other music too, would you believe. Variations-galore, pop punk, ska punk, punk rawk. I like to dance. I like my Hardcore every so often too. Hardcore is probably the wrong word, so check out the bands I like and you can decide. hXc!! an all that
I have no talent when it comes to singing/dancing/any form of music, therefore I feel it necessary to do it all a lot.
I somehow finished a B-TEC in Music Practise at Rugby Coll with Merit/Merit/Merit. I know. I don't understand either. I went to the college to Media and, organized as those people are, I ended up on the Music course. And so my life is music-orientated, one way or another... and I still suck...more than you...
I’m generally pretty friendly. Come talk to me. Chances are I’ll scare you.
However if you can see past/share the humour in my unbelievable cynicism and occasional sarcastic comments then you and I sir/madam will get on famously.
That said, I’m reserved in a new place usually… I’m inconsistent when it comes to confidence. Its damned annoying donchya know.
I laugh at stupid thing’s no one else laughs at…sept Rich
Boredom will one day turn us all into dead-eyed Myspace zombies.
I passed! Hurrah for me. I bought a car! Hurrah for me twice! Rover 200 in dark green and I fucking love it. Pictures he soon car geeks
I try not to take myself too seriously. Life’s for living, right?
My accent comes up in conversation a lot. It’s weird. Thanks for reminding me. Here’s the story. I was born in t’Leeds, moved up to Newc’astle like ha’way man then down to this lovely little town I call ShitHole every once in a while. I'm glad I did though, ultimately.
Cynisism is knowledge, expect the worst in people and you'll usually be right.

The truth!
THERE'S NOWT S'QUEER AS FOLK
That means people are weird. I’d know.
Things You Probably Don’t Care About.
* I play bass. Cos I’m that kinda guy. Mine’s bigger, plus I have amazing finger technique… shyeah like any of that’ll apply to me. This generally means I jump around at the back whilst continually getting ignored
* ‘Don’t hate us because we make you smile!’ People should cheer up. It’s not the end of the world just yet (Oh how I wish we could shut up and smiiiiile!)
* Local music is awesome. Rugby music is on the way back up. You’ll see. You’ll ALL SEE
* I write RockPaperScissors. Fanzine to Rugby music. Check out my scribbling’s at www.myspace.com/rockpaperscissorsmusic - there's a full website coming REAL SOON involving stuff I like. Music/Video Games/Ranting unnecessairly about unimportant things etc. Keep em peeeeeled.
* I can write. I’m not a moron. I put the two together because I actually don't have anything else to do. Don't you know.
* I write too many joke songs. Fuck the kids fuck the kids fuck the kids! (clap if you know who’s song that is!)
* I hate autoformat
* I try to be upbeat and optimistic. That doesn’t always work and I end up the happiest most upbeat cynic in the world. This means, I'm more than aware shit happens and am likely to make some sort of sarcastic comment about it if brought up in conversation. Maybe.
* I’m a loser. Proud of it too. Alternative music/lifestlye is about being a loser/geek/outcast. About having a sense of individuality. Not the most popular kid with a hundred thousand friends who likes to get fucked on Acid every other minute and generally being a stuck up little bitch. These people, who know who they are, are fucking up the word ‘alternative’ with every breath they take.
* Sorry, got carried away there, besides, what do I know. We're all hipocrits at heart. Maybe.
* I'm undecisive in a decisive kind of way. Figure that one out.
* Guess I’m quite opinionated, but I keep it to myself unless I’m challenged. And I still tend to let you walk all over me.
* My confidence is annoying. It’s inconsitant. In general I’m in severe need of some more. In a new place, I’m screwed. Most of this is void when I hang about with fuckface for some reason… I still don’t know why.
* * EMO. 1) STOP BEING SCARED OF IT 2) STOP TRYING TOO HARD. Emo is not the WORST THING IN THE UNIVERSE. It is also not the only thing in the fucking universe.
* if u tlk lyk dis I prblee wnt tlk 2 u cos ur a moron. LOLz OMGbrb. Congratulations, you’re an illiterate idiot. Learn to type, then we’ll talk. Type in fuckwitt, and you will be blocked.
* * Chavs. And by this I mean the loud, violent, drenched in sportsgear, looking to cause trouble knobs that plague the streets of Britain. One day you'll all burn... I get told i shouldn't hate them all, and as soon as I start to do that, some twat comes up with his mates, twats me one and then fucks up the rest of my night, so call me stereotypical or whatever, I generally fucking hate them. And won't ever stop untill they stop being retarded ignorant little tards who think society owes them everything. All kindness. Fuck off and die
* I’m nice really. I’ll probably update this when, once again, boredom destroys another few brain cells.
Musical Endeavours...Pfft.
No Expense
No Expense was my first band. I mention it because it's the only pop punk band i've ever been in, and I fucking loved every second. We played for the sake of saying retarded things into microphones and jumping about. And also cause we all listened to Screeching Weasel, and thought it was the most amazing thing in the world. We then convinced ourselves, for the first time in our lives we actually had a chance of making something just as awesome. We were wrong, but y'know... that was sort of expected too. Maybe one day we'll get back together, if it's got anything to do with me we will. But who knows. NE. I salut you.
No Expense on Myspace!
In the last two years my talent has stretched beyond NOT THERE, almost reaching the, WELL IT'S THERE, BUT YOU STILL SUCK stage with what was my third band
Lavondyss
I joined Lavondyss in 2006, quite out of the ordinary, and was going to leave until we played a gig. And then found it was one of the most intense things I've ever done. The musicians in this band are awesome and surpass anything I thought technically possible for people I KNEW. My duties involve screamed vocals and climbing on things i'm not supposed to. Excellent eh, I tag along. This has become my main venture, just because without trying too hard we did fairly well in our first year, and I still get that first-time feeling everytime I get on stage and loose my mind for half an hour. It's undescribable... a bit like my inability to write about my band(s) (see above)
Lavondyss on Myspace!
Rock Paper Scissors
As I mentioned up there somewhere, I write, and this is the result. It started off as a fanzine devised by myself and Lavondyss Bassist Seb, however i'm all alone now, sob. So it's all changing. There will be a full website soon, not only exploring the local music scene, put pushing out into the national music scene and encompassing other things I like. Namely video games, and i'll be posting all my pointless rants that end up in my Myspace blogs on there soon too. The website's sorted. I just need cash to get the webspace sorted. Cheers to Tobes for all the help so far, keep em peeled for more you all
Rock Paper Scissors on Myspace!
I've played bass and done other things in other random bands and projects around for the last few years. Some of them were good, and the majority were not so good. But that's the way things go. Don'tchya know.
I’ve done this for too long. I’m questioning my own sanity. I’d have done lots of fancy stuff if I wasn’t so lazy…also I have a life every now and then. More soon ladies and gents, until then….
JOIN US NEXT WEEK ON LETSMAKENOFUCKINGSENSE WHERE I WILL BE WAXING AN OWL
I like to cause trouble =)
I ain't gonna take it no more. I ain't gonna take it no more. I ain't gonna stand idly by while the bridle reply of a marriage of styles is...'yeah but, what's their demographic?' I ain't gonna take it no more. I ain't gonna take it no more. I ain't gonna take it no more. I ain't gonna stand idly by while they're trying to decide while inside we all cry out, for something new. I ain't gonna take it no more. I ain't gonna take it no more. Soulless music, artless lyrics. Goalless movements, heartless gimmicks. Controlled and clueless, careers lasting a minute. If this is the big life well I ain’t looking to live it. We ain’t pushing the boundaries, we’re blowing them up. We ain’t trying to expand the scene we want the scene to erupt. So make some room on the floor and somebody bolt the doors 'cause tonight, we ain’t seeking applause. Tonight? Well gee, just wanna have some new fashioned fun y’all."

My Interests

Here's more information that, for absolutely no reason, I missed off the About Me section and has been here since I owned a myspace profile. I'd move it. But I really. Really. Can't be bothered. It's all probably outdated anyways, but oh well, have a read if you've lost your mind (you're at least half way there... I mean... you're on my profile...)

x I can't sing, I can't dance. But I do them anyway... alot...
x I'm a loser. But i'm proud of it. I suck at most of the things I try to do. I'm a general Waste of Space.
x 'I'm not gay, lots of people think i'm gay... I have a girlfriend... she thinks i'm gay too.' x I don't care what you think. So fuck you
x I love you really :D
x I sleep in the weirdest positions
x I'm NOT a morning person. My parents/family are still yet to learn from this
x I tap too much with anything I can get my hands on
x I don't sit still that often
x I have the energy of a little kid... sometimes...
x I forget to remember
x I annoy people for the fun of it
x I get annoyed for the fun of it
x I like the rain when I'm inside, and occasionally when i'm outside
x I don't do shorts
x Sometimes I do now. Low Dickies and high cons = practically no leg. Score.
x LOL
x I've ran out of ideas, i'll add more when I have a BURST of inspiration (unlikely)

OTHERS

Video games

Laughing at people
Being Laughed at
Ducks, especially ones with umbrellas or tophats

Filming random crap then making lame videos
VIDEOS OF 2005 WILL BE HERE SOON. YOU ALL. Sept I don't know how to make YouTube videos super small. I was going to take this down... this is the old crew. And fuck I miss em.

Guesty's external anatomy
Banana's that ride giant gerkins

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"Fun Things To Fuck (If You're A Winner)"
fun things to fuck. fun things to fuck. fun things to fuck. fun things to fuck. fuck the front door, fuck the back. fuck the good girls with the knack. fuck the government until they fuck you back. fuck a muslim, fuck a jew. fuck fans of blink 182. that's illegal if you were born in '83. yeah, yeah, yeah. fuck a bean cheese burrito. fuck a bowl of cookie dough. fuck the space between the big and neighbor toe. fuck a cop, fuck a marine. fuck a jar of vaseline. fuck a calzone with pepperoni. fuck a midget, fuck a dwarf. fuck chris cringle with an elf. but before you fuck it all... go fuck yourself!

blink... the good old days.
...

There's sposed to be a picture here, but it's not working and I can't be bothered to fix it. But fuck me, I miss that band. Definitely before their last album, and alot even before EOTS. Genius up until TOYPAJ, t'all went a bit down hill from there eh. Sob.

I'd like to meet:

People who don't like the same people as me.

Rowan Atkinson. Stephen Fry. Hugh Laurie. Bill Bailey. Ben Elton. Richard Curtis. Mike Herrera (Oh wait...)Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge (to ask him what went wrong)The Loser Bunny, George Petit, Spencer Chamberlain, Someone who can perform the miracal of making me good at what I do
yeadyyeadyyeady you've heard it all before. i'm sure you all get the gist by now.

want to kick my ass at Halo??
360 GT - Fishguts82
;)

Music:

No matter how much I love anything else, nothing will ever make me feel quite the way most ska punk, pop punk and punk rock does. This world would be a better place if everyone was in a ska band ;)

Undeniabley though, over the last year i've developed a love for technical progressive post hardcore metal. Hows that for a fucking sub genre!?

There's no way I can list every band I like.
BUT GODDAMNIT I CAN TRY!!
So here goes.
The Big, The Signed, And The Punky
blink-182
Bowling For Soup
How come nobody plays Ska anymore, guess we all forgot what we were fighting for!
Less Than Jake
Reel Big Fish
The Forces of EVIL!
The Queers
Screeching Weasel
Anti-Flag
Good Riddance
+44
MxPx
NOFX
No Use For A Name
The Descendants
Bracket
Relient K
Propaghandi
Sugarcult
Rancid!
Flogging Molly
Unwritten Law
Misfits
Saves The Day
Rufio
New Found Glory
Goldfinger (old style)
Fenix TX
Dropkick Murphys
Bloodhound Gang
Allister
Fall Out Boy
Bouncing Souls
Zebrahead
Sum 41
Alkaline Trio (old stuff)
The Aquabats!
The Ataris
Bad Religion
Biffy Clyro
4Ft Fingers!
Face To Face
H20
The Lawrence Arms
Guttermouth
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Millencolin
My Awesome Compilation
Nerf Herder
Pennywise
MC Lars
More when I can be bothered y'all!

The Huge The Heavy and the Hardcore

Alexisonfire
Underoath
Hondo Maclean
Atreyu
Fordirelifesake
Between The Buried And Me
Thrice
Sikth
The Architects
bmth
Sleep Terror
36 Crazyfists
As I Lay Dying
Avenged Sevenfold
Bullet For My Valentine (occaisonally)
more soon!
The... Others
Biffy Clyro
Billy Talent
Box Car Racer
CKY
Dashboard
Death Cab
Finch
Foo Fighters
Funeral For A Friend (everything before Hours)
Halifax
Hidden In Plain View
Hoobastank
Kid Rock
Linkin Park
Nickelback
Taking back Sunday
The Used
Yellow Card

The Underground!

3 Storeys High!
4 Ft Fingers
Bullets To Broadway
Enter Shikari

CryForSilence

Fandangle!

Phinius Gage

Fleeing From Finales!
A Man Down
Never Say Die

This needs largely updating, soon...

SWING
Frank Sinatra is better than you.
Swing music is something i've grown up listening to, and so whilst I like more style's of music than i've mentioned here, there's nothing that really gets me going like swing music. My passion for ska may be influenced by this too. When music is upbeat and positive it's at its best, and the big-band stuff does it brilliantly... i'll write this up better when I get five minutes ;)
Long live The Rat Pack.

Movies:

Tarantino. Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction. The Kill Bill movies are brilliant too. Tragically, i've never seen Jackie Brown. He helped with Sin City too. Another little gem.

V For Vendetta
Snatch and Lock Stock
Basketball
Man On Fire
Silent Hill
Big Fish
Lucky Number Slevin
300
LOTR
And plenty, plenty more...

The path of the rigtheous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepards the weak through the Valley of Dsrkness, for he is truly his brothers keeper and finder of lost children. And I shall strike down upon thee with great vengence and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy by brothers. And you will know I am The Lord, when I lay my vengence upon you

Television:

Blackadder. Greatest comedy ever created. You want to laugh. Watch this. Want to be a cretin, watch Bo Selecta. Little Britain'll make you look equally moronic

Fawlty Towers (another work of genius)
The Thin Blue Line
Al Murray, generally, anything to do with him.

Family Guy and Futurama, The Simpsons have had their day.

I was hooked on Lost. Then they went all SKYONE BRUV.
Scrubs is ace..

Documentries are the sex too. Get bored and flick em on. You won't regret it.

Books:

Tales From Beneath Your Mom - blink 182's book my Marks sister
Tom Clancy stuff....
To Kill A Mocking Bird....though i've never actually finished it
High Society (Ben Elton)
Past Mortem (Ben Elton)
Dilbert books
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Hit List (Chris Ryan)
Land of Fire (Chris Ryan)
Bill Bryson is awesome. Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There, Mother Tounge and the rest.
Is It Me Or Is Everything Just Shit? (Steven Lowe) I dug the ParryHotter stuff till it became the worst movie and the worst franchise in the history of, um,ThingsThatAren'tVeryGood.

Thats about it right now.

Heroes:

Guesty. I don't aspire to be Guesty... mainly because tragically i'm already too much like him. If anyone points this out, prepare yourself for an eternity of pain. He's here cause he's still there, unlike most of the people I knew at school. You know the kinda person you turn to when the entire world is pissing you off. We've been through a lotta stuff together on reflection, from treking over to Welton every single day Summer '05, to pissing off EVERY friend we had in Rugby because of girls, and pissing an even larger collection of people off in Daventry... I actually do not know what I'd do without the dude, he ultimately, is my best friend. He's also so fat he has to be mentioned numerous times just to squeeze in all his lard.
Hannah Morgan-Brown. One of my best friends for the longest time and someone who has changed me for the better. She's been there for me when otherwise I would have had literally no one to turn to. It's odd to think what i'd have done without this sometimes. I can't really thank her enough, except to give her this o-mazing paragraph failing to describe why she's a hero of mine. I hope we can always be friends.

My Blog

That Time I Went On CHANNEL 4!

That Time I Went On TVLast September, my band, in another blind attempt to help promote ourselves to people who won't like us ended up entering Channel 4's Mobileact Unsigned. Why? Who knows. Maybe it...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:48:00 PST

Were Gonna Crash!

Let me take you back to a couple of days ago. "I need a new blog to write about"Just so you're aware, Powers That Be... I wasn't that desperate.So it turns out being the only member of the band that w...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:13:00 PST

2007: A Failed Attempt At Retrospect, and a Bad Pun About A Fish Market

Here it is both of you. The dreaded year-synopsis.  'So last night saw in the New Year and waved goodbye to a, to say the least, eventful 2007. Though I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to writ...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:49:00 PST

Christmas: Goodwill To All...GAME SHOPPERS??

Christmas: Goodwill To All GAME SHOPPERS   I love this time of year. If, of course, you're one of these people that replaces the word love with 'have a strong dislike for', and I'm sure that, s...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:01:00 PST

Interviews, Identical Villages and Peacocks.

My day today began with an arising I had certain distaste for. The hour of 7.30am leaves me, as i'm sure it does you, with little positivity, optimism, and above all, patience. So what better to do wh...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:00:00 PST

The Week’s Shopping: A Unique Experience

With Hannah's parents away for the next couple of weeks, she needed me to drive her to the local Tesco to do the big week's shop so we could bring it back easily. I, of course, leapt at the oppor...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:16:00 PST

University (update)

What the hell is it with this godforsaken instituton? And why can't people wise up to it? Uni, or even college is something you can do at ANY point in your life. ANY. You could do it when you're 19.....
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:47:00 PST

(Review!) Silverstein + Support @ Northampton Soundhaus 17.11.07

'Silverstein @ The Soundhaus, NorthamptonW/ Bless The Fall + The Vincent Black Shadow The large room of the Soundhaus is a nice place when the fine folk who run it get it right. Tonight, Silverst...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:40:00 PST

Robcast!

I started a Podcast today. Mainly for laughs and stabs... but it wasn't as ridiculously abmismal as it could have been. Plus it was fun. So i did a twenty minute show with 5 or 6 tracks from Rug...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:29:00 PST

Car!

Incase you haven't read my profile recently because you're... you know... sane... I have a car! Rover 200 in Greeen. Check it   I like her.   More pics soon. Also, found this funny when ...
Posted by HiMyNameIsRob on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:02:00 PST