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Rob

It'sGettingHardToBeSomeone,ButItAllWorksOut

About Me

- I'm 24 years old, I live in Nyack, NY and I write for a newspaper in northern New Jersey...- I enjoy reading, writing, music, and reading and writing about music. (I pretend to enjoy philosophy, opera and Egyptian history)...- I'm casually vegetarian, charmingly misanthropic and I openly dislike both America and eating while wearing a suit, blazer or sport coat...- I'm regrettably vain, comfortably self-involved and I have a subtle yet untrained appreciation for un-metered poetry and unframed contemporary art...- I aspire to be a failed (yet sovereign) novelist, an unsuccessful (yet handsome) revolutionary and/or Bob Dylan...- I'm openly heterosexual, yet I have an admitted man-crush on Johnny Depp...- My favorite cereal is Oatmeal Crisp, my favorite Beatle is Paul and if the fabric of time, the restriction of qualifications, and all overriding political atmospheres didn't interfere with the actualization of dreams and wishes, I'd marry Grace Kelly and run a non-profit organization on the tropical shores of a free and democratic Cuba...- I'm shy in a loud sorta way: outgoing enough to initiate eye contact with a stranger but self-conscious enough to make it appear accidental after doing so...- I read too much into coincidence and only enjoy being alone if I know I have to option not to be...- I hate when the cheese falls off my pizza...- I've yet to master the art of transferring between callers when using call waiting and sadly, I'm slowly learning that the spinning, blue world doesn't revolve around me...Hi...

My Interests

Music:

In no patricular order:Bob Dylan, Daft Punk, Jeff Buckley, Jon Brion, Joni Mitchell, Hayden, Johnny Cash, Matt Nathanson, Nick Drake, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Damien Rice, Josh Ritter, The Doors, Miles Davis, LCD Soundsystem, The Frames, Neutral Milk Hotel, Led Zepplin, Cream/Eric Clapton, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon, Kings of Convenience, Townes Van Zant, Patti Smith, Jem, Arcade Fire, David Gray, Tom Petty, Ellis Paul, Kris Delmhorst, Tracy Chapman, Billy Bragg, Tom Waits, The Who, Donovan, Brian Eno, Rolling Stones, John Coltrane, Counting Crows, Dido, Faithless, Xavier Rudd, Josh Joplin, Thelonious Monk, Damien Jurado, Rufus Wainwright, Billy Holiday, Van Morrison, Sufjan Stevens, Eva Cassidy, Atmosphere, Wolf Parade, Mia Doi Todd, Four Tet, Bruce Springsteen, George Gershwin, Boards of Canada, Ron Sexsmith, !!!, Bonnie Prince Billy/Wil Oldham, Pedro the Lion, Jackson Browne, Nick Cave, Adem, Pete Yorn, Dvorak, Joseph Arthur, Norah Jones, Lambchop, The Killers, Woody Guthrie, The Roots, O.A.R., Frou Frou, 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant, REM, Matthew Good Band, Bjork, Beachboys, Pixies, Warren Zevon, Vivaldi, Old97's/Rhett Miller, James Taylor, Rusted Root, Richard Buckner, John Vanderslice, Common, Wrens, Gordon Lightfoot, CocoRosie, Iron and Wine, Elliott Smith, Flunk, Phil Ochs, Acid House Kings, Creedence Cleerwater Revival, Kings of Leon, Moby, Michael Franti, Architecture in Helsinki, Billy Joel, Air, Belle and Sebastian, Andrew Bird, David Bowie, Neil Halstead/Mojave3, Bright Eyes/Desaparecidos, Built to Spill, Sebadoh, Mishka, The Clarks, Coldplay, The Books, The Unicorns, Pachabel, Bob Marley, Rage Against The Machine, Teitur, Oen Kennedy, Guided By Voice, Beethoveen, Yo La Tenga, Nellie McKay, Azure Ray, The Streets, Songs:Ohia/Electric Magnolia Co., Temptations, Cat Stevens, Tori Amos, Gram Parsons, Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, DJ Shadow, Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown, Martha Wainwright, Clem Snide, The Weakerthans, The Decemberists, Dntel, Doves, Magnetic Fields, Sex Pistols, Ani Difranco, Bloc Party, M. Ward, The Microphones, Modest Mouse, The Clash, Pavement, Simon & Garfunkel, Postal Service/Dntel, U2 The Shins, Talib Kweli, Sigur Ros, MatisYahu, The Go! Team, The Smiths/Morrissey, Sparklehorse, Kanye West, Spoon, Velvet Underground, Traveling Wilburys, Beth Orton, Jonathan Pointer, Jim's Big Ego, Neil Young/Buffalo Spingfield/CSN&Y, Queen, Nirvana, Wilco.

Movies:

Baraka, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Cool Hand Luke, Dead Poet's Society, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Apocolypse Now, Citizen Kane, Virgin Suicides, Vertigo, City of God, Bottle Rocket, Carnage, Don't Look Back, The Source, Closer, Rear Window, Requim For A Dream, Cinema Paradiso, Clockwork Orange, Jesus' Son, Fight Club, Adaptation, Broken Flowers, Silence of the Lambs, Leon, Masked & Anonymous, Magnolia, Boondock Saints, Pi, High Noon, I Heart Huckabees, Tape, Taxi Driver, Wonder Boys, Trainspotting, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The Great Dictator, Sideways, The Dreamers, SpringSummerFallWinter..andSping, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, JFK, Snatch, American Beauty, The Godfather I & II, Donnie Darko, Northfork, Shawshank Redemption, Seven, Secret Window, Amores Perros, Big Fish, Down By Law, The Sting, Easy Rider, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Memento, Following, It's a Wonderful Life, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, I Am Sam, Nobody's Fool, Dead Man, Serendipity, Shakespeare in Love, Station Agent, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, Duck Soup, Finding Neverland, Garden State, Blow, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dial M for Murder

Heroes:

Jack Kerouac/ Bob Dylan/ James Dean/