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Rob

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About Me

Porcupine Or Pineapple
Male, 19, seeks similar for good natured fun, family outings, 1960s kitchen sink melodramas and heavy petting. GSOH essential. OHAC. Not really.
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My Interests

Dimes. Dames. Deception.

I'd like to meet:


Music:



The Byrds / The Velvet Underground / Cymande / The Raveonettes / Richard Hawley / The Tiny Dancers / France Gall / The Smiths / Michael Nesmith / The Libertines / The Magnetic Fields / Sam Cooke / Adam Green / The Stooges / Slow Club / Monkey Swallows The Universe / British Sea Power / Beirut / Roxy Music / Fairport Convention / The Hidden Cameras / Francois Hardy / The Cribs / Pulp / The Rolling Stones / Billy Bragg / The Strokes / Guided By Voices / Belle and Sebastian / Dusty Springfield / My Latest Novel / Nancy Sinatra / Jarvis / The Human League / Camera Obscura / The Moldy Peaches / Phil Spektor / Pink Grease / The Thermals / The Kills / Lindisfarne



Currently listening to:
Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra - Lee & Nancy
V/A - Nuggets
Nick Drake - A Treasury
Michael Nesmith - Magnetic South
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
M. Ward - Post War
Gene Clark - No Other
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Magnolia Electric Company - What Comes After The Blues
Gram Parsons - GP

Movies:

Easy Rider, Chronicle of a Summer, The Breakfast Club, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Metropolis, One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest, Italian Job, Blow Up, The Edukators, Goodbye Lenin, The Commitments, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Indiana Jones 1&3 but definately not 2.

Television:

Brass Eye, The Corner

Books:

On The Road, Notebook of a Naked Youth, The Picture of Dorian Grey, High Fidelity, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Treasure Island, England Is Mine, 1984, The Colour Purple, Brave New World, Utopia, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, The Princess Bride, Naked Lunch, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Little Prince, The slightly ridiculous works of Erich Von Daniken and Graham Hancock

Heroes:

WE CAN BE HEROES
JUST FOR ONE DAY

anyone who wears a wolf fleece

My Blog

life affirming

I'm not kidding. Religious. After seeing Steve's Travelling Band at the cornerhouse, I was guestlisted at the Music Box for the Bootle Street Circus, not to brag or owt. Was in the smallest room, havi...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:16:00 PST

Woody Allen...

Thankyou God.
Posted by Rob on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:05:00 PST

Manchester, so much to answer for...

well i got my grades so i'm off to manchester uni next month. 3 A's and C. History, Sociology and General Studies, and the C in Geography. Useless bastard Hinchcliffe. i'm well chuffed. saved going in...
Posted by Rob on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:25:00 PST

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

just a quick one about yesterday really. went to duncan's for the bbq with joel in the afternoon which was pleasant, and then caught the bus into town to go to lorelle's. we were there a little early ...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:42:00 PST

jim fixed it for me!

Jingle Jangle! guys and gals! yeasterday i saw the god amongst men that is Jimmy Saville! i got a last minute invite to the recording of C4's transmission at the city hall and Jim'll was being intervi...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:34:00 PST

Everyday feels like sunday...

just a quick blog to tell all about my weekend. went to town on saturday and bought a flash gordon dvd for madz, oh my, it was something. tow shite films for a pound? yes please. went to manda's that ...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:23:00 PST

nothing imparticular

I havn't got anything particular to say or any groundbreaking news but i realised i hadn't blogged for a while. My exams have started, which i'm glad about cos i was beginning to get cabin fever sat i...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:34:00 PST

a new hat

i have a new hat. its somewhere between a panama and a trilby its looks a little like this... very dapper.  ...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 30 May 2006 02:17:00 PST

It Ended On an Oily Stage

British Sea Power I Love You. Fran, you are also womderful for getting us tickets. Not only did we get in free to see them, we got backstage and met them. me and eben with noble. back to the geogr...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 29 May 2006 07:07:00 PST

adventures in the beetroot fields

i've finished school for ever dammit. no more lessons. more more registration. no more bloody common room. after doing very little for fpur lessons yesterday we went to the pub and stayed there until ...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 27 May 2006 04:04:00 PST