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rahb

One by one they were all becoming shades...

About Me

I'm ambitious, thoughtful and a thouroughly damaged human.

Anzaldua's "La Frontera" Plath's "Bell Jar" Sartre's Exit

Musician, painter, writer, consumate dork. Political junkie, activist, recluse. I am hopelessly jaded, bitter, and sarcastic.

my piddling thoughts may also be found at my livejournal

My Interests

Music, Art, Literature. The club-scene. (Goth, Industrial, EBM and Darkwave). Guitar/synth/bass/drum player.

Antonin Artaud, theater in general. acting. performance.

Collects: books CD's Jesus figurines guitars

Coffee, Wiskey, or any combination of the two at any time, or evironments condusive to the consumption of either.

androgeny, horror, modernism, post-modernism. Judith Butler and Marjorie Garber in a fist-fight with Michel Foucault.

I play guitar for Doomsday Virus. Check 'em out.

I'm also a contributing writer for Grave Concerns E-Zine check it out: http://www.graveconcernsezine.com

I'd like to meet:



Other writers, musicians and deserving social outcasts. Other victims of modern psychiatry.

Please, DO NOT ASK ME TO ADD YOUR BAND! i'm sure you guys rocked the elks lodge last september, but don't bother. i have friends that are DJ's, friends in bands, i read the play-lists and the fanzines, if your music is something i want to hear, i will find you. don't ask me to add you band, because, most likely, you'll be wasting you time.

Music:



Chopin

Most recently I have been listening heavily to dark EBM/Industrial, some death rock, and metal. I am also a huge classical music freak, especially classical piano music. Some of the music I've been listening to most recently are Velvet Acid Christ, Suicide Commando, Psyclon Nine, Unter Null, Grendel, God Module, Amducia, Hocico, :Wumpscut:, Skinless, the Cruxshadows, Funker Vogt, Das Ich, Razed In Black, Cinema Strange, Lamb of God, Deep Eynde, and Children of Bodom. Some of my older favorites are My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, Nietzer Ebb, Front 242, VNV Nation, Wolfshiem, Fudge Tunnel, Ministry, Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Bella Morte etc.

Movies:



Some of my favorite movies are Fritz Lang's "M", "Nosfuratu", and all the George Ramero movies. Loved "I Zombie," good movie. feels like my life. I thought "House of a Thousand Corpses" was a great modern horror movie. As far as comedy, I love Monty Python movies. I think most of what comes out of Hollywood today is garbage. I've watch a lot of foriegn films, documentaries and art-films.
Call me a snob, I don't care. I liked Pi.
Shauwn of the Dead: great movie. those crazy brits...

Television:

fuck the mind control machine.
I don't watch T.V. Except for the History Channel, C-Span, and a little Comedy Central on my down-times at work. I don't even have cable at home. Reality T.V. makes me vomit. I'd generally rather read a book, or catch up on dentistry that I have been putting off than watch T.V.

Books:

I'm in Grad School right now so I generally don't have a lot of time for pleasure reading because my reading during the semester is generally pretty heavy.
some books i really love and that have influenced my writing are: The "Wake," Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" Barth's "Welcome to the Funhouse" and the plays of Pinter, Beckett and Sartre. also, (in no semblence of order, or consideration of genre) Goa Xingjian, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Henry James, Coleridge, William Langland, Orwell, Wilde, Douglas Copeland, Carolyn Forsche, Pynchon, Plath, Sexton, Luaren Slater, William Blake,
i just read "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, that's a great book, you should check it out.

Heroes:



James Joyce,

Antonin Artaud

My Blog

some thoughts.

maybe it's because i spend much of my time around well-educated people, and even the kids i teach on a daily basis, seem to have it a little more together than this. but according to a recent study by...
Posted by rahb on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:09:00 PST

fuck, fuck, fuck.

life keeps shitting on me in fantastic ways. some people seem to bear an inordinate amount of the world's misery. i'm getting fucking tired of always getting shafted. that's all i really have to say.....
Posted by rahb on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:08:00 PST

Personal Blog 2.23

you can just skip over this one if you really don't care what's going on in my personal life.it's saturday morning, i'm already on my third cup of coffee, and it's not yet 9:00, robbie woke me up pret...
Posted by rahb on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:25:00 PST

sad state of affairs

i was reading in the AP, there's a news article, about Black Americans "fear for Obama's safety." i work with a lot of kids out of Brooklyn and the Bronx, and this fear is not a fringe sort of thing: ...
Posted by rahb on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:10:00 PST

hump day

gah!tomorrow is thursday which means all i have to do is roll down-hill into the weekend. tomorrow is payday as well, and that couldn't have come soon enough, i've been smoking rollies for a couple of...
Posted by rahb on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:14:00 PST

the land of rahb

it's a lovely day for just sitting around, i think, i'm having a cheap-ass beer, and trying to get warmed up to write the play i'm working on. i want to flesh out the first scene, and to write as much...
Posted by rahb on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:58:00 PST

The Negligible Effect of Your Tender Mercies

the year of teen spirits, hello, hello, hell, no. i've come much too far to slip in that one. even if beauty, if beauty, at all beauty. i assure you, we are here to drive the nails in. to make good an...
Posted by rahb on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:32:00 PST

stupid, senseless.

there a local news story, Via CBS 6, of a 19 year-old Brunswick man, that got in the car after "5-6 beers" and got in a crash that killed his best friend. now, i can't play holier than thou, and say i...
Posted by rahb on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:16:00 PST

rob on the news.

i'm tired and stressed out for no real reason today, if i had had any sick time to use i probably would have ducked out at half a day today. anyway, that's pretty much how i felt at noon. (well, maybe...
Posted by rahb on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:00:00 PST

coffee thoughts.

it's a saturday, which means i get the joy of sitting around my apartment with my hair all a mess and sip coffee while robbie watches cartoons. for a little while anyway, in about a half-hour i'm goin...
Posted by rahb on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:34:00 PST