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John Robie the Cat

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About Me



To Hell with "About Me" and have a look at some Likes and Dislikes. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'm a vegetarian. No I'm not. Don't be stupid.

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My Interests

When in doubt, guess "C"
You Are Kermit
Hi, ho! Lovable and friendly, you get along well with everyone you know.
You're a big thinker, and sometimes you over think life's problems.
Don't worry - everyone know's it's not easy being green.
Just remember, time's fun when you're having flies! The Muppet Personality Test

I'd like to meet:



Mark Twain
Jim Henson

George Clooney

Andrew McCarthy

Kermit the Frog

And yes, it's true: it really ain't easy being green.

My lil' baby dog Wheenie

Dan'T --
[noun]:

A real-life Muppet

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Music:



First of all, there is no space for favorites among Radio. That figures. But I'd like to mention before listing all my musics that I also love listening to LoveLine and have since it existed. I actually have to think about it a moment when I wonder if I'd buy "LoveLine Season One" on DVD. Remember the show? Oh well. The bands I cannot live without are the ==

Pixies
Siouxsie and the Banshees
the Creatures
Joy Division
New Order
Morrissey
the Smiths
the Cure
the Arcade Fire
Bell Orchestre
Beirut
Michael Nyman
Editors
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Echo and the Bunnymen
Bauhaus
Maxïmo Park
My Bloody Valentine
Smashing Pumpkins
Mogwai
Interpol
Nada Surf
Sigur Ros
Placebo
Suede
Brett Anderson
Bernard Butler
the Tears
Explosions in the Sky
the Decemberists
Rolling Stones
NoFX
Gary Numan
the Cramps
Radiohead
Bjork
Rasputina
Unsteady
The Inspector (SD)
The Hi-Lites
Jeff Lewis
Low
Cocteau Twins
Oingo Boingo
Polyrock
the Clash
Band of Horses
the Mars Volta
Depeche Mode
British Sea Power
Johnny Cash
the Fall
the English Beat
Skatalites
Sunny Day Real Estate
Pavement
blur
Portugal. The Man
Silver Jews
Modest Mouse
Clinic
Cancerslug
Flaming Lips
Roy Orbison
the Doors
the Specials
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin
FUGAZI
AFI
Iggy Pop
Minor Threat
Ben Harper
Ladytron
Kings of Convenience
Chameleons UK
Air
Weezer (I've never not been a fan, I'm loyal that way...)
Ozma
the Family Cat
Elliott Smith
Rilo Kiley
Jenny Lewis
the Elected
the Strokes
the Postal Service
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Wolf Parade
Handsome Furs
Sunset Rubdown
Blonde Redhead
Portishead
Moloko
the Velvet Undergroud
Goldfrapp
Frost
Goldspot
Ratatat
Mew
and there are others, of course...

Movies:


GATTACA
Rushmore
Fight Club
12 Monkeys
Ed Wood
Brazil
Memento
the Royal Tenenbaums
Bottle Rocket
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Hotel Chevalier
the Darjeeling Limited
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Atonement
The Apartment
A Face in the Crowd
Suddenly, Last Summer
A Streetcar Named Desire
baby doll
Sweet Bird of Youth
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Donnie Darko
Punch-Drunk Love
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Being John Malkovich
Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Gangs of New York
TAPE
To Catch A Thief
Charade
Amelie
the Birds
Vertigo
Notorious
Rebecca
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Dark City
Elephant
Reservoir Dogs
Solaris
Trainspotting
the Rules of Attraction
Less Than Zero
St. Elmo's Fire
Blade Runner
Heat
Minority Report
the Last Picture Show
Texasville
A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon A Time in the West
3:10 to Yuma
Hi-Lo Country
No Country for Old Men
Rubix Cube Dinner
Bringing Out the Dead
the Big Lebowski
Dazed and Confused
Slacker
A Life Less Ordniary
Clerks
Clerks II
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Old School
the Truman Show
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Road to Perdition
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Stand By Me
Mosquito Coast
Sneakers
The Thing Called Love
I Love You to Death
Explorers
Silent Tongue
Little Nikita
running on empty
My Own Private Idaho
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Dogfight
Hot Shot (soccer)
Labrynth
Dark Crystal
the Muppet Movie
Muppets Take Manhattan
the Great Muppet Caper
Muppets From Space
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Shaun of the Dead
Crash
Shopgirl
Walk the Line
Brokeback Mountain
Cashback
the Departed
A History of Violence
Eastern Promises
Tideland
the Fountain
Perfume
300
Election
Grindhouse: Planet Terror & Death Proof
Meet the Robinsons
Sunshine
Superbad
Control
Gone Baby Gone
Days of Heaven
My Favorite Wife
the Good Shepherd
- I can't pretend that it ends there...

Television:

Kids in the Hall is a favorite. Tom & Jerry makes me laugh like a little schoolgirl. A manly schoolgirl, but a schoolgirl, nonetheless. Sometimes it's same with Family Guy and Simpsons and Futurama, but results vary. [adult swim]-wise, Home Movies is just cool to me. I think of Dr. Katz and just laugh and laugh......
Lemme tell you, though, C o u p l i n g is easy as bloody hell to get into. And I don't even feel bad about it. I don't. It's another new favorite. I wish I'd lived in England at the time so I could've watched it on the telly, perhaps turning the channel to BBC 1 or 2, or whichever channel aired the show.
And I've recently acquired the complete series of Planet Earth by the BBC
Someone I know tricked me into watching all six seasons of "OZ"... it was a dirty trick... especially the part where I really got into it. It's a complicated bunch of crap flyin' around that show!
And here's one that's so very important to me
And the best show EVER:

Books:


BOOKS!!
and the Like: by
Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
Caves of Steel
Will Christopher Baer
Kiss Me, Judas
Ray Bradbury
the Halloween Tree
Fahrenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes
From the Dust Returned
Kevin Brockemeier
The Brief History of the Dead
Augusten Burroughs
Sellevision
Albert Camus
the Stranger
Craig Clevenger
the Contortionist's Handbook
Jon Clinch
Finn
D o u g l a s
C o u p l a n d
Girlfriend in a Coma
Hey Nostradamus!
Eleanor Rigby
Generation X
All Families Are Psychotic
Miss Wyoming
Life After God
Microserfs
Shampoo Planet
School Spirit
Steven Coy
Sandwich
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Minority Report
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Alexandre Dumas
Count of Monte Cristo
Katherine Dunn
Geek Love
Why Do Men Have Nipples?
B r e t
E a s t o n
E l l i s
Less Than Zero
the Rules of Attraction
American Psycho
The Informers
Glamorama
Lunar Park
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
C. S. Forester
The African Queen
Neil Gaiman
Coraline
the Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
the Wolves in the Walls
GOOD OMENS
Alex Garland
the Coma
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Mark Haddon
the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Daniel Handler
the Basic Eight
Thomas Harris
Hannibal Rising
Red Dragon
the Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Ethan Hawke
the Hottest State
Ash Wednesday
Amy Hempel
Reasons to Live
Ryan Kennebeck
How it Changed His Sense of Humor
Walter Kirn
Thumbsucker
Lee Klein
Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
Steve Martin
Shopgirl
W. Somerset Maugham
Up at the Villa
the Razor's Edge
Armistead Maupin
Tales of the City
Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
The Road
Ian McEwan
Atonement
On Chesil Beach
Patrick McGrath
Spider
Asylum
Larry McMurtry
the Last Picture Show
Texasville
C H U C K
P A L A H N I U K
Invisible Monsters
Fight Club
Survivor
Choke
Lullaby
Fugitives and Refugees
Diary
Stranger than Fiction
HAUNTED
R A N T : An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Edgar Allan Poe
(favorite stories are "Berenice" and "Premature Burial")
Annie Proulx
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials:
The Golden Compass
Gwendoline Riley
Cold Water
Tuesday Night & Wednesday Mornings
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter
J. D. Salinger
Franny & Zooey
the Catcher in the Rye
Nine Stories
Rich Smith
You Can Get Arrested for That
Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Brian Strause is awesome
Maybe A Miracle
Patrick Süskind
Perfume
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Mark Twain
Hucklberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
The Diary of Adam & Eve
Kurt Vonnegut
Hocus Pocus
God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian
Cat's Cradle
A Man Without A Country
Tennessee Williams
Sweet Bird of Youth
and the other authors on my shelf... I should post a picture or something...

Heroes:

That freakin' guy
&
Jim Henson, William Shatner, Hunter S. Thompson the sumbich

" You are forgiven. "

" Time to die. "

My Blog

This is your life in 16 short bursts

Yes, I agree this is impossibly good. And I would have changed a couple to slightly more appropriate songs from the same bands, but Why? These are so vaguely flawless!Opening Credits:"Have you Forgott...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:13:00 PST

Drip-dry what we do O, so well

I just saw I Am Legend tonight by myself, appropriately. It's the end of the world, you know.And don't be surprised something's always creeping in the shadows. Alive or dead or in your head.When we dr...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:47:00 PST

Smokin’

This is for all the smokers, and that includes everyone who might not smoke cigarettes but inhales smoke in any nature, except while making s'mores by a campfire.This doesn't mean that clove-smokers,...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:07:00 PST

Batman, man

This is, by far, one of the best rendtions of Batman ever. Which is sad.But only in the way that during the holidays customers tell me I'm the first one to ask for their ID when they're purchasing bec...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:55:00 PST

Passive in an intense sort of way

Some assignment I did in High School... 50 things to do List 30 March 2000 1. Build a birdhouse 2. Save $350 for no reason at all 3. Take a beautiful photograph 4. Drive at 130 mph safely 5. Regulate...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:24:00 PST

Cooler than Sliced Peanut Butter

It's hard living with the fact that I'll rarely see such a stupendous show ever again.Pack it in. We're going home. Basically nothing else to see after this......
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:35:00 PST

Oh. My. Dog.

Some Bible-thumpers want to send a giant cross into space to orbit the earth. http://www.blessitt.com/crossinspace/index.html And then I laughed my head off and had to put it back on manually. You'll...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:40:00 PST

My review of a review

This is something I just on a whim felt like e-mailing to Rollingstone magazine about one of their reviews: I've already managed to hear the whole of the Arcade Fire's new album "Neon Bible" so I rea...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

Thank DOG (Oscar spoilers - I warned you)

Babel didn't win Best Picture. I would've had to swear some outrageous oath against ever watching the Academy Awards ever again and quite possibly sell my soul to the Cause. The Cause being a somewha...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:36:00 PST

Last night I dreamt of tourism in space and making cardboard robots.

At the eve of turning 25 thinking of how I'm not ready for it. Another birthday. I'll have many more and this one doesn't really change things, but you'd begin to wonder why you still just plain feel...
Posted by John Robie the Cat on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:03:00 PST