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Robin Samples

You are no match for my Tae Bo style!

About Me

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I don't use drugs, I'm just creative. I'm not really all that talanted, I'm just cool. ...................You know you wanna listen, baby.I made my MySpace layout by Robin Samples!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/29/2005
Band Members: V'Johnny Monologues - raps and other vocals 9:39 - raps, vocals, beats, ukelele, keyboards, bongos, wooden flute, chimes, beatbox, recorder, harmonica, ocarina, spongebob plastic glittery drum, 1993 Subaru Impreza ash tray wah thumb piano Robin Samples - beats, vocals, scratches, samples Laughing John Cox - poetry Barry (we think that's his name) - high-pitched suggestions
Influences: Barry, anyone on the Droplift Project, Peru Inka, Deerhoof, Lederhosen Lucil, Beat Happening, anything lo-fi, White Trash Superman, Pixies, Fugazi, Yall So Stupid, The Dwarves, anyone on MySpace.com (extra points if you suck), Lightnin' Hopkins, Jolie Holland, Jamie Janover, Robert Johnson, GG Allin, Charlie Seaside, Elliott Smith, John Hartford, Tom Waits, Bela Bartok, Doug Martsch, Luke Sick, Claude Debussy, Charlie Hunter, Jimmy Cliff, anyone who has recorded with me, Chicks On Speed, Lil Pocketknife, Beck, anyone who made it onto one of my mixtapes, anyone who has been a lucky recipient of one of those tapes, tapes in general, Ween, Special Ed, The Unicorns, A Tribe Called Quest, Grandmaster Chul Woo Jung, Grandmaster Charles Mattera, Master Clark, White Dynamite (when their drummer was Nick), Cephalic Carnage, Forth Yeer Freshman, the schmuck at the pawn shop that sold me my Tascam, the indy fash guy at Robbs that fixed my keyboard, Melvins, Heavy D. and the Boyz, Minor Threat, Boards Of Canada, Hot Snakes, anyone who's as avant garde as I wish I was, Grandma M. (R.I.P.), Charles Bukowski, Gary Snyder, Jason, Led Zeppelin, Kool G. Rap, God, Jose Canseco, and any rapper who sold their cassette tapes with photocopied, hand-drawn cover art on the Atak website in the late Nineties
Sounds Like: an ibex on yerba mate practicing Shaolin Sh'uan Fa
Record Label: I dare one to sign me.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Jack

Jack works at a large corporation. This year at the company Christmas party, his coworker's date was an old friend of Jack's from high school. These two used to have deep conversations about philosoph...
Posted by Robin Samples on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:06:00 PST

I think Ill be a rapper for Halloween

I think I'll be something different for Halloween this year. I thought I might be a pumpkin for Halloween, or a vampire, or a clown, or Bugs Bunny, or a ballerina, or a politician, or a werewolf, or K...
Posted by Robin Samples on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:47:00 PST

intellectual

i was drunk and rapping poorly, but everybody screamed "wooo!" when i said "let's hear it for...[anything, really]". i could have given a shout out to barney the dinosaur, and probably did, and everyb...
Posted by Robin Samples on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the bunny and the hills

a bunny hopped over hills cut from green construction paper, much like a uzilevski landscape, but with a bunny. the bunny was cottonballs and googly eyes with corn for teeth and candy corn for ears, h...
Posted by Robin Samples on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:01:00 PST

box of stuff

i was moving. i was packing boxes in my basement. i threw some pants, shoes, sticks of incense, a book about metaphysics, some 45's, tapes, magazines about computers and art and screenprinting and rec...
Posted by Robin Samples on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:23:00 PST

a spirit?

it was dark. i was in my basement. the dim glow on the ceiling from the lights on my mixing console danced like a candle. was i drunk? on what? i had consumed no alcohol for over a week. i began to he...
Posted by Robin Samples on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST