rob B. - ProfilesArchive

About Me

"Why pluck one string? What good is just one note? Oh, one string sounds fine, i guess. We were once 'One Note', We were lonely wheat quietly ground into grain So why this safe distance, this curious look? Why tear out single pages when you can throw away the book? Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?"

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My Interests

eating food. drinking beer. playing guitar. watching people. saying the wrong thing. sleeping 5 to 9 hours a day. bartending. this damn computer. driving too fast. pretty girls. maceo the cat, eagles football, yankees baseball, travelin', cookin', walkin', collecting vinyl, driving all day in a van, playing a forty minute show, getting back in the van and driving all day again.kickin' up a cloud of dirt, traversing the U.S. highway system, talkin' 'bout a revolution... i am the good doctor.

I'd like to meet:

Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumer, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Rubella Scabies, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sascha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Q-bert, Condoleezza Marie, and Phil

Music:

mewithoutyou.

Movies:

the hudsucker proxy, big lebowski, star wars (duh), punch drunk love, the godfather, the truman show, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, big fish, kill bill, anchorman, the graduate, the apartment, nausicca of the valley of the wind.

Books:

this perfect day, the lord of the rings, still life with woodpecker. the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy, the autobiography of malcolm X.

Heroes:

john coltrane, gustav mahler, howard zinn, my closest friends, harry s. owens, trixie greiner.

My Blog

XPN artist to watch july 2007

hey! look at us! or... watch us!http://www.xponentialmusic.org/atw/atw_2007_07.php
Posted by rob B. on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:40:00 PST

yartzeit

two years ago. two years ago and zero days, zero hours.two years ago at more or less this exact moment, the culmination of two months and thirty days that redifined the meaning of family, pushed me t...
Posted by rob B. on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:25:00 PST

frightening.

the 9 people of my immediate family were off camping on the islands of lake george, nestled in the foothills of the adirondack mountains. we were out there camping, sitting around the campfire as cam...
Posted by rob B. on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:13:00 PST

me and my phone.

august 20, 2005: i lose my phone somewhere on the septa system. i jump out of the train at suburban station to try to find it. i run back to market east station. it's gone. i miss my chance to go ...
Posted by rob B. on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:24:00 PST

READ THIS

this is an ongoing blog by my cousin's best friend, who, despite being ill and raising a young girl is trying to get published in the new yorker. it is funny and sobering and everything in between. ...
Posted by rob B. on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:27:00 PST

stolen from lori (i mean elle - i blew your cover!)

When you first attended, where did you live?105 squire hallWho was/were your roommate(s)?jeffery C. root. a raving lunatic. Do you still talk to them?sarah keeps running into him but doesn't get his ...
Posted by rob B. on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:04:00 PST

the epic and poignant saga of the matzo ball soup.

tonight i went into brooklyn to meet up with brooke (yes her name is brooke and she lives in brooklyn) at zebulon: the bar that sounds like another planet.anyway strapped for cash as i am, i decided t...
Posted by rob B. on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:53:00 PST

last day.

so next wednesday is my last day at the restaurant i work at. it will be the first time in over ten years that i have been without a restaurant job. that means no quick cash comin' my way a couple o...
Posted by rob B. on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:22:00 PST

pretentious preening.

i was watching this madonna video and thinking about how long she's been around, thinking about how, at 30, i still think she's about as hot as i did when i was 10. now, this isn't one of those how-d...
Posted by rob B. on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:35:00 PST

upbeat music for downtown kids.

yesterday i made it to the dentist. no cavities. i feel like the kid in the crest commercial. but my mom was not there to beam proudly. nope, only the receptionist, who wanted my $80 and wanted it...
Posted by rob B. on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:29:00 PST