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Bob Powers

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About Me

My name is Bob Powers.

My website is Girls Are Pretty .

I co-host and co-produce a monthly comedy reading series called How To Kick People .

I have a book coming out called "Happy Cruelty Day."
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Happy Cruelty Day!: Daily Celebrations of Quiet Desperation - ON AMAZON!

I'm trying to learn to heal with my hands so I keep having to touch blind people on the eyes. Nothing happens.

I gotta girl with red hair called Amanda who owns me.

My Interests

Weddings and Funerals. Parties of any kind, really. I love to party.

I'd like to meet:

My dad.

Music:

Whatever your current ringtone might be, that's the song I wanna hear. Cause I'm gonna call you up. And I'm gonna ask you if I can borrow some money. Say yes.

Say yes.

Also, Pavement. And Destroyer. And who else. Oh, Wolf Parade. Oh, right, and Bedhead. I used to love Pulp, but now I couldn't give a rat's ass. You heard me Pulp. Those days are over. The Pixies are really good, have you heard of them? I hope that Built To Spill album is as good as the Built To Spill albums that I enjoy. I hope it's better than the ones I don't enjoy. Cam'ron is good too. Cat Power is good too. I am required by law to like the Arcade Fire. It's a condition of my release. I have to go door to door and say, "The Arcade Fire is way bitchin. I live down the block." Common is good too. So's Creedence, but not Foghat. That last Deerhoof album, whadjathink because I thought it was fab! I think the Dismemberment Plan were awesome, but Travis is kind of a dummieface. I like Eminem but that doesn't mean I'm mean to people. Iron & Wine and Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart all like to roll around in mud and do it while people pass by and leave foodstuffs as an offering. The Long Winters. Go listen to them, jerk. Modest Mouse and My Morning Jacket and Nas are good at music. I'm done with Rilo Kiley. I was going through some shit back then. Sinead O'Connor's two albums are still two of the best ever recorded. The Smiths and and Spoon and The Stone Roses. The rest of it can go to hell.

Movies:

I first touched a breast in the middle of Jumpin' Jack Flash with Whoopie Goldberg. After the movie Monkey Shines , I got to third. We found a bush near the theater and went behind it so that I could get to third. I nearly went all the way while watching Woman of the Dunes . In the theater even. I've seen Road House over 100 times, but against my will. For a long time, my favorite movie was Naked by Mike Leigh. Now, I'm not so sure.

Television:

Sopranos. Freaks and Geeks. Buffy. Sealab. 24. Project Runway. South Park. Daily Show. Friday Night with Greg Giraldo.

Books:

James Baldwin. Donald Barthelme. Raymond Carver. George Saunders. Zadie Smith. Sam Lipsyte. Jonathan Lethem. Carol Shields. Ian McEwan. Lorrie Moore. AM Homes.

Heroes:

Kurt Cobain, Hillary Clinton, and James Baldwin. But only when all three of them were working together.

My Blog

These people are awesome

I love it when folks repost my stuff on their blogs and their bulletins. And so I am deeply enamored with Denton's Next Top Model, HuffdMagicDragon, Sir Michael Charles Patrick Junior II, Chels, Faux...
Posted by Bob Powers on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:33:00 PST