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Robin

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About Me

Quick as a cat, smart as a whip, softer than silk and mean as a snake.


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My Interests

"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive." -Albert Einstein..................Napping. Reading. Sleeping. eBaying. Pizza. Music. Birds. Gardening. Cats. Dogs. Old cars. Pretty guitars.

I'd like to meet:

We've already been introduced.

Music:

The Clash, The Damned, The Flamethrowers, The Cramps, T. Rex, X, The Joneses, The Felice Brothers, The Knitters, Joe Jackson, The Gun Club, Richard Hell, Los Duggans, Link Wray, Cheap Trick, Freakwater, The Heartbreakers, Neil Young, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Flogging Molly, The Rolling Stones, Mott the Hoople, Sweet, Hank, Sr. but not Hank, Jr., Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Rosemary Clooney, Joe Jackson, Glen Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Lyle Lovett, Billy Bragg, The New York Dolls, Elvis Presley, Neko Case, Dwight Yoakam, The Ramones, Blondie, The Jam, Talking Heads, Gillian Welch, Bob Wills, Flying Burrito Bros., Don Gibson, The Specials, Stray Cats, Madness, Squeeze, Rose Tattoo, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, The Buzzcocks and most anything by Mozart, Greig, Copland or Smetana.

Movies:

Dead Man, Thin Man, Third Man. Hobbits. Boy wizards. Sayles. Maysles. Coens. Burton. Sturges. Hitchcock. Selznick.

Television:

Anything involving Eddie Izzard.

Books:

"We read to know we're not alone." - C.S. Lewis Haven Kimmel, Truman Capote, James Michener, Larry McMurtry, Mark Twain, J.K. Rowling, John Fante, Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, John Irving, Harper Lee, Harlan Ellison, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Carolyn Keene, John Irving, Stephen King, Bronte Sisters, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Parker, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.D. Salinger, Leonora Mattingly Weber, Amy Sedaris, George Eliot, Mark Haddon, J.R.R. Tolkein.

Heroes:

Nancy Drew. Aldous Huxley, Noam Chomsky, Albert Einstein, H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Ambrose Bierce, Dorothy Parker.

My Blog

Clean-up Time

Things reach critical mass.  Your closet, the kitchen junk drawer, your brain, your heart.  A little prioritizing is a good thing....
Posted by Robin on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:42:00 PST

You can wish, you can hope,

you can scheme - but it's all better kept to yourself.For the time being, at least.
Posted by Robin on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:34:00 PST

View from a dolls house

Some of you may know that the best Christmas gift I received as a kid was the doll house I'd coveted for most of my tenth year. At least once a week I could be found on the 2nd floor toy department of...
Posted by Robin on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:00:00 PST

Lack of Heart

Do you sleep with your wife because you find the scent of her intoxicating? Or just because she's there?When the wind leaves your sails, what do you do then? When you're fairly certain you're not a ...
Posted by Robin on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:47:00 PST

Some things.

Some things you know in your gut.Some things you know in your heart.Some things you know in your bones.Your gut is louder. Your heart, more insistent.But your bones, they know more....
Posted by Robin on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:35:00 PST

Determination as a theme

Twice within the last ten minutes I've read something about "determination", one in a blog and one in a message, both people I care about. And that got me thinking (run, duck for cover, now!)...Autum...
Posted by Robin on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:42:00 PST

Its all good

Music. It's always...music. Tracy Robar and what he can do with a Bigsby. The Chili Peppers don't know what they've got. It's more fun to watch guitar players when you're surrounded by and drink...
Posted by Robin on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:25:00 PST

It’s the funniest thing...

...how our bodies insist on remembering things our hearts and minds would rather forget.  Would rather sweep under the carpet, stuff into the closet, or otherwise do whatever it takes not to reme...
Posted by Robin on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:01:00 PST

Is this week over yet?

Got stung by a wasp.Locked my keys in my office and had to break into my apartment.Bit the hell out of my tongue.What fresh hell, indeed.There were, of course, moments of delight and great people (you...
Posted by Robin on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:42:00 PST

Observation

No guy worth his salt will date a girl who can justifiably critique his guitar playing.I'm just sayin'.
Posted by Robin on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:03:00 PST