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Robin

R.I.P. KV 1922-2007, Poo-tee-weet? indeed.

About Me



Current wish: That my profile will make the rounds of the local Orlando Hipsterati so as to catch the attention of that dipshit who was randomly crossing in front of my car while reading a book (yes, you in the "Flamboyant Unabomber Trust Fund Baby" get-up - your dreams of tighter pants may come true!) and responded to my polite pooch honk with a middle finger that was so violent he was visibly shaking - shaking! What a great American hero he was, standing up for the right to be hit by a car while being an ignorant twat; we salute you! I believe your mother would have been proud. That is, if she didn't think you were such an asshole. So, Orlando Hipsterati, I beseech you: help me honor this brave patriot before he is rightfully killed for being an imbecilic pedestrian by forwarding my profile to his attention, after which, my work here will be done.



UCF: A FINE Place to Park

My Interests

Absolutely NO core graphics in this profile created using Macs. Textual content undoubtedly plagiarized from pop cultural influences.

I'd like to meet:

People peopleFun locals
Anyone who agrees that DC's Infinite Crisis was ridiculously good.
Anyone who remembers this:

These people from Barcelona:

Scrawny guys who wear supertight jeans - you are truly urbanly outfitted. You know that the person who brought this style in was only trying to get extra use out of his grade school wardrobe, right?
The interminably hip, who have loved and left a fad long before I can finish hearing about it on NPR.
Down with Mac elitism! (Thanks to Ana [pronounced AH-Nah]):

I am the sum of my parts:

Music:

The award for "Most Over-Played" goes to:

-Belle and Sebastian
-Camera Obscura
-Mates of State
-Rilo Kiley
-Of Montreal
-The Fiery Furnaces
-Tullycraft
-Architecture in Helsinki
-Tilly and the Wall
-Decemberists

Runners up:
(scroll, scroll)acqueduct, add n to x, adult, air, aislers set, anniversary, architecture in helsinki, arrogants, atari teenage riot, beastie boys, beatles, belle and sebastian, beulah, bikini kill, boy least likely to, breeders, bright eyes, broadcast, broken social scene, buzzcocks, , cars, casiotone for the painfully alone, chicks on speed, cibo matto, clap your hands and say yeah, clash, cocteau twins, comet gain, daft punk, dandy warhols, david bowie, de la soul, dear nora, death cab for cutie, decemberists, del the funky homosapien, digable planets, dj shadow, dr dre, dr octagon, dressy bessy, edan, elastica, elected, electrelane, elvis, enon, faint, fannypack, feelings, fatlip, figurine, fischerspooner, franz ferdinand, freezepop, fugazi, galactic heroes, gang starr, gaze, gentle waves, giant drag, go sailor, goldfrapp, gorillaz, grandaddy, gravy train, guv'ner, gza, handsome boy modeling school, heavenly, hermit crabs, his name is alive, hives, hot hot heat, iron and wine, joan jett and the blackhearts, joggers, johnny cash, kid koala, kinks, kissing book, kittycraft, ladytron, le tigre, liars, libertines, lunchbox, lush, magnetic fields, maybellines, melt banana, morrissey, moving pictures, mr lif, mr quintron, murs, my bloody valentine, my favoirte, new order, numbers, of montreal, okkervil river, ol' dirty bastard, outkast, owls, papas fritas, pharcyde, photek, pixies, pizzicato five, polyphonic spree, portishead, postal service, pretenders, pretty girls make graves, prince paul, pulp, quasi, radio dept, rainer maria, rapture, ratatat, raveonettes, rentals, rjd2, rocketship, rondelles, saturday looks good to me, shermans, shout out louds, skywriters, sleater-kinney, smiths, snow machine, softies, sonic youth, soviet, spoon, stereo total, stereolab, tilly and the wall, tribe called quest, tullycraft, velvet underground, weezer, whirlwind heat, white stripes, wiseguys, wu-tang, yeah yeah yeahs, zombies, and a cast of dozens more that are just so cool i can't remember them....
Special Mention: the nameless hordes of indie twee pop bands

Movies:

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My favorite films include:

-Brazil
-The Empire Strikes Back
-Lost in Translation
-Broken Flowers
-Wes Andesron's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket
-Blade Runner
-Gattaca
-Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1 & 2
-Oldboy
-Elephant
-Hero
-Ghost World
-Buffalo 66
-Robocop
-City of God
-Todd Solondz's Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, and Storytelling
-Being John Malkovich
-Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Science of Sleep
-Of course, blockbuster films of the 80's (but not necessarily the "hip" ones - Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, etc.) Napoleon Dynamite or Garden State = "Film" = Poop.
Awful pieces of celluloid atrocity masquerading as palatable cinema.

Television:

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Firefly
The Sandbaggers
MI-5
Adult Swim
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Sealab 2021
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
The Venture Bros.
Metalocalypse
Robot Chicken
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Home Movies
Futurama
Family Guy
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Mr. Show
The Sarah Silverman Show
Strangers with Candy
The Sopranos
The Shield
Deadwood
King of Queens - seriously
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So what of it?
House, M.D.
Food Network
Alton Brown's Good Eats
Iron Chef
C-SPAN
I hate reality shows. I especially hate network and cable "news."

Books:

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Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Mark Twain
Richard Brautigan
J.D. Salinger
Phillip K. Dick
Individual Titles
-The Iron Heel by Jack London
-High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
-Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
-For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
-The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
-Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
-The Rules of Attraction by Brett Easton EllisComics by (in no particular order)
Garth Ennis
Grant Morrison
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore
Frank Miller (All-Star Batman notsomuch)
Brian Michael Bendis
Mark Millar
Geoff Johns
Judd Winick
Greg Rucka
Ed Brubaker
Brian K. Vaughn
Doug Mahnke
Luna Brothers
Bryan Hitch
Arthur Adams
Frank Quitely
Steve Dillon
Mike Mignola
Howard Chaykin
Harvey Pekar
Robert Crumb
Daniel Clowes
Chris Ware
Bill Willingham
and more
Not really in love with any particular characters; great writers can take even the most obscure or expectedly lame ones and give them incredible depth.
I was once a Marvel man, but now I'm all about DC.Non-
-America: The Book
-A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
-The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
-The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
-Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
-Fortunate Son by J.H. Hatfield
-The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
-How Not to Be a Smashing Financial Success by Robin Chan

Heroes:

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Snake Maxenblast
Stetson Kennedy

Jimmy Carter

James Kim

Rachel CorrieWilliam Edward Burghardt Du BoisTed Rall , political cartoonist, receiver of death threats from right wing flag-masturbating psychos.The Onion . "I Just Wish I Could Stop Shitting Blood"
The Congressional Black Caucus
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - smoke 'em if you got 'em!
Howard Zinn
Workers of the WorldMy friends, my unfortunate friends.

My Blog

Not a real blog, just some video clips

Would I lie to you? Here's Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner earlier this year. Some of the stuff he says in Bush's presence is so extreme that it's difficu...
Posted by Robin on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:40:00 PST

Rote

Another fine night spent standing around in a bar filled with people I don't know, looking around for people I know. It doesn't make sense, this. We feel the need to be out, have drinks, and listen to...
Posted by Robin on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:14:00 PST

Saturday Night's Vulgar Criticisms (You were warned!)

To you, the lousy bartender, who took our money for the seriously watered-down drinks you served... fuck you. To you, the overzealous bar back, who took my drink and threw it out j...
Posted by Robin on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:31:00 PST

DASH Class of '96 in Giant Pixels

First of all, let me warn you that whenever you upload a video to a free host like youtube.com or MySpace, it will be totally butchered into a pixelated, ugly mess. I somehow ended up with the respons...
Posted by Robin on Tue, 30 May 2006 08:18:00 PST

Observations from a Young Me on the 'S' Bus

Found this stuff lurking in the cracks. Old (Current) Me comments are in BOLD. 01.05.01 A special hello to Bro! and Yo!, the two gangsta buddies who won't sit next to eachother on&...
Posted by Robin on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:39:00 PST

Is nothing sacred?

Yesterday morning I went to the 'quiet' bathroom on the third floor of the UCF Library to do my seated business. The place was rather quiet, considering. I headed to ...
Posted by Robin on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:56:00 PST

Cult Video

For those of you who may have missed it, I've begun my Windows Movie Maker career. Here are my first four films presented in chronological order: Wallace P. Squirrel's Treatise - Arthaus Squirrel segm...
Posted by Robin on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:57:00 PST

Comic Book MegaCon!

Last weekend my friend Michael and I felt that our comic book nerdiness had reached acceptable standards for us to attend Orlando's greatest gathering of acne/backne and cardboard swords: MegaCon...
Posted by Robin on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:52:00 PST

Tom Ridge's Wet Dream or Terror! on Bus 13

Today when I got on the bus I noticed that there was an abandoned paper bag sitting on a seat. My initial reaction was subdued panic, the irrational fear chemicals began pumping. I was taken...
Posted by Robin on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:45:00 PST

I am calm, I am at peace....

I don't want to beat the fucking shit out of that fucking scumbag diaper dish pissant wannabe fuckturd. So I was walking back to the library and I saw this fucking douche bag - no a fucking douch...
Posted by Robin on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:07:00 PST