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Robin

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About Me

I'm an undergraduate history major at Texas State University, because to know where we're going, we must know where we've been. I play bass in a rock band called SunMachine, and I'm a cellist of no mean skill. Between the two, I hope to take a permanent hiatus from day jobs. I am an informal student of religion and philosophy. I wonder each day why we are here, myself especially; if someone has a definitive answer, I'd like to hear it. My brain is a repository of useless trivia on books, music, movies, and the subtle yet powerful effects they have in shaping our thought processes. I distrust authority because authority is human too, but doesn't realize it. I hope to one day publish my collected writings so they can sit on the back shelf at Half Price where no one would think to look for them, and to be president. I know that pigeons are planning a secret overthrow of the government. If you don't believe me, just listen carefully to any group you pass; all they talk about is, "Coup, coup!"SunMachine

My Interests

Music, history, religion, writing, philosophy, astronomy, quantum physics, theater, coffee, strategy, literature, Altoids, bass, guitar, cello, singing, Monty Python, Brahman, revolution, evolution (if people were intelligently designed food and air wouldn't go in the same place), poetry, movies, songwriting, people-watching, civil war, anything Irish.

Music:

Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Astor Piazzolla, Arcangelo Corelli, Alice in Chains, Black Label Society, Joe Satriani, Tom Waits, J.S. Bach, Solace, Queens of the Stone Age, Dream Theater, Monster Magnet, Led Zeppelin, Galactic Cowboys, In Flames, Megadeth, Tool, Austin Lounge Lizards, Mudvayne, The Who, The Beatles, System of a Down, Mad Season, Sevendust, Clutch, King's X, Corrosion of Conformity, early music.

Movies:

Yellow Submarine, Wargames, History of the World Part 1, Donnie Darko, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hellraiser, The Big Lebowski, American Beauty, The Last Samurai, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Wall, Dazed and Confused, Good Morning Vietnam, The Manchurian Candidate (both versions), Requiem for a Dream, Ghostbusters, The Crow, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Exorcist, anything by Monty Python, Rushmore, The Omen.

Television:

The Simpsons, American Dad, Family Guy, Cowboy Bebop, Star Trek: DS9, King of the Hill, Red Dwarf, Ken Burns, Metalocalypse, Nova, anything on the History and Discovery Channels.

Books:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), The First Man in Rome (Colleen McCullough), Imajica (Clive Barker), The Jugurthine War/The Conspiracy of Cataline (Sallust), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien), Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis), History of God (Karen Armstrong), The Sandman series (Neil Gaiman), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon), Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce), The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara), To the Last Man (Jeff Shaara), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), Memnoch the Devil (Anne Rice), Allen Ginsberg, W.H. Auden, and many others.

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Dave Mustaine, Mr. Rogers.