Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 with the Terminal City Rollergirls' Faster Pussycats. I could probably kick your ass.

My Interests

I like stuff! Rollerderby!, crafting, aquarium-keeping, Day of the Dead art, lowbrow art, tattoos, gardening (indoors and out), sideshow, vintage cars (at the moment, my '61 Bel Air and '63 Fairlane.....will be selling the Fairlane in the not so distant future), tiki, vintage clothes and furniture hunting, skiing, going to see live shows, generally hanging out with good friends and having a good time. "I work hard; I play hard!"

I'd like to meet:

Fun people, smart people - my kinda people.Living: Tom Waits, David Bowie, Iggy Pop (think they'll add me to their "friends list"??) ;)Dead: Hunter S. Thompson. (no myspace in....wherever....that I KNOW of....)

Music:

Old blues, old country, surf, psychobilly, rockabilly, 60's garage, exotica, old punk, some kick ass 70's stuff like T-Rex and Patti Smith - basically anything with some soul to it. More specifically: Howlin' Wolf, the Centurions, the Sonics, Girl Trouble, Link Wray, the Stranglers, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, the Clash, Patti Smith, MC5, T-Rex, Gary Numan, Sonny Boy Williamson, the New York Dolls, Tom Waits, Leadbelly, the Cramps, the Specials, Madness, Bill Justis (the unsung talent of Sun Records), Devo, David Bowie, the Mysterons, Herald Nix, the Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, Mike Ness, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Hank Williams III (can we just pretend Hank II never happened??), etc., etc........

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Casino, The Party, Pink Flamingos, Todd Browning's Freaks, Psychout, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Dirty Shame, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Seven, Poltergeist (I and II), FUBAR (woo!) shark movies (yay shark movies!!), (and lots, lots more that I can't think of when under the gun.....)

Television:

Anything good.......the Gilmore Girls....heh.

Books:

Hunter S. Thompson, John Steinbeck, Jim Carroll, Tom Robbins, John Irving, Joseph Wambaugh, Geek Love, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Strewwelpeter(best childrens book EVER - trust me. Written by a guy who was running an insane asylum in Berlin in the industrial age....think about it), The Great Gatsby, etc., etc..... I read almost everything (trashy crap too), obsessively.

Heroes:

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (RIP), William Shatner

My Blog

What Would Skinny Minnie Miller Do?

I got my first email asking for my blessing for a girl in another roller derby league to use elements of my derby name. Thought about it.....then emailed back. STEP OFF BEEYOTCH! Find your...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:03:00 PST

Rollerskating = Lesbianism?

I was walking home from the Skytrain this afternoon, rollerskates and gear slung over my shoulder. I passed by a skateboarder who either said "hardcore lesbian" or "don't go lesbian" (I couldn't...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:26:00 PST

roller derby

Yes, I've finally joined a gang. Terminal City Roller Girls - just signed up! Stay tuned.....
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 03:12:00 PST

WTF???

It's only 10:20 a.m. on a Friday, and so far I've managed to punch myself in the gut (??) with a binder, and punch myself in the nose with a file folder (??), resulting in a papercut at the end of my&...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:20:00 PST

Which Star Trek personality are you?

Your results:You are UhuraUhura 70%Jean-Luc Picard 65%Will Riker 65%Worf 60%An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 60%Geordi LaForge 55%Spock 52%James T. Kirk (Captain) 50%Mr. Scott 50%Deanna Troi 50%Data...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:59:00 PST

Easy to please......

I wish everyone was as easy to please as my friend's 3 year old. I haven't seen the kid since he was a baby, until today, when my friend/co-worker brought him in to work for the morning. I...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:24:00 PST

An open "letter"........

....to the woman from New York who asked what kind of a freak I am. THE KIND WITH A SENSE OF HUMOUR!!! Gawd! Did Tom die and make you the Myspace police?? I don't think so!&nbs...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:57:00 PST

Wrong.....just...wrong.

So I'm quitting smoking again. I've been replacing cigarettes with Smarties while at work. For some reason, I feel the need to smoke at work more than at home (s..t...r...e....s.....s...!)...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:12:00 PST

It was a plant!!

.....Or rather, a plate for underneath a plant. Huh. Not so exciting as a cat.
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:31:00 PST

Is it plants or cats?

I feel bad. I live in a multicultural city, and yet I can't understand the cleaning lady at my office no matter how hard I try. She has a pretty strong accent (of indeterminate origin - to...
Posted by Rowdy Ruby Roundheel, #42 on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:03:00 PST