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[rob]

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About Me

creator of twentythirdhour.com.
guitarist for Meisce and City of Dust
co-owner of Aborted Society Records.

My Interests

pre-apocalypse.
collecting and occasionally creating vinyl.
wondering why I got an English degree.
the 1970's world view of what the future will look like.
the geetar.
scrabble.
spacing out at work.
spacing out during practice.
spacing out over London.
spacing out over France.
Colt 45, works every time.

Music:

adverts.
tranzmitors.
neurosis.
wipers.
baroness.
16 Horsepower.
schifosi.
einsturzende neubauten.
whiplash.
mountain.
the vanishing.
ludicra.
totalitar.
nick cave and the bad seeds.
econochrist.
CCM.
kakistocracy.
the dagda.
mutiny.
amber asylum.
blood & time.
firewater.
black heart procession.
joy division.
new model army.
tom waits.
wake up on fire.
rudimentary peni.
lost sounds.
the phantom limbs.
asschapel.
fugazi.
sage francis.
billie holliday.
godspeed! you black emperor.
zero hour.
grails.
g-anx.
antisect.
zounds.
the mob.
amebix.
pestilence.
gorgoroth.
counterblast.
graves at sea.
dalek.
le shok.
hiretsukan.
mala sangre.
sole.
reverend glasseye.
lynched.
violators.
order of the vulture.
world/inferno friendship society.
nux vomica.

Movies:

70's spaghetti post apocalypse flicks.
anything David Cronenberg.
documentaries.
incomprehensible sci-fi anime.
The Lord of the Rings series is overrated. Get over it Frodo.

Television:

Iron Chef.
Top Chef.
Good Eats.
Daily Show.
Colbert Report.
Family Guy.
The Simpsons.

Books:

daniel clowes.
joe sacco.
david sedaris.
arhundati roy.
rohinton mistry.
jon krakauer.
ben okri.
fyodor dostoyevsky.
anton chekov.
trace ferrell.
hunter s. thompson.
irvine welsh.
victor hugo.

Heroes:


tom waits.

joel peter-witkin.

fast eddie clark.

charles bukowski.

james nachtwey.

bobby sands.

My Blog

this year

needs to end.
Posted by [rob] on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:36:00 PST

The KKK took my baby away.

Well, our place got broken into this afternoon and whomever the bastards were made off with my beloved camera equipment, mylee's computer, some DVD's and some CD's, and a power drill. If any of you ou...
Posted by [rob] on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:51:00 PST

comedians of comedy

My first foray into the world of live stand-up comedy was excellent and worth every penny.  We were lucky to secure tickets online as the show quickly sold out at the showbox day of the event, an...
Posted by [rob] on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:56:00 PST

Yet another near auto mishap

On my merry way into work this morning some asshole peeled out of a tight corner and I came within an inch, literally, of crashing right into him.  Onlookers were stunned when they weren't pelted...
Posted by [rob] on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:09:00 PST

moving once again

So, keeping in spirit with my inability to stay in one place for more than a year at a time, The Douglas and I are relocating to a bottom-floor duplex on Capitol Hill at the end of the month.  Co...
Posted by [rob] on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:14:00 PST

Saturday

The pre-emptive strike celebration of my birthday Saturday was fantastical.  It started with a surprise one of these: Followed by some of this: then immediately afterwards a little bit of this...
Posted by [rob] on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:00:00 PST

Never trust an astronaut

First Operation Deep Impact, then this...  When will we begin to eradicate the astronaut menace from our celestial community? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19910584/?GT1=10150 ..> ..> MSNBC..>...
Posted by [rob] on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:18:00 PST

you may have won this time cilantro, but the battle rages on...

Celebrating Douglas's post - birthday hangover, we decided to break in her super awesome new blender by making strawberry margaritas, immediately followed up by a TVP taco mission w/ two kinds of sals...
Posted by [rob] on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:07:00 PST

The Sopranos

Was just a television show.  It's not news.  Get the fuck over it.  I turn on NPR this morning to hear about exploding things and I get a call-in commentary on what really happened in t...
Posted by [rob] on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:50:00 PST