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robert

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

There's always mischief towards the left side.

My Interests

Music, Film, Theatre, Writing, all art in general. DJ indie/eletrical/and dance art sound around town. These things I dig- Bullfights, Foosball, Eastern European automoblies, Carrot Cake Icecream, Socialism, Panettone Cake, Peach Julius, Verfremdung Effects, Air Fields, Post reconstruction of Expo theme parks, reading up on airline industry shit, Tic-tacs, Baking and posting Birthday Cakes, Port wine, Coffee, Futebol Clube de Porto.

I'd like to meet:

Werewolves and Catwomen. If you're in the mood to shake a leg, I'll be spinning at these following events. Rip 'er up and start again

Music:

David Bowie, Roxy Music, Tindersticks, Smog, The Fall, Pavement, Joy Division, New Order, Josef K, ESG, Yo la Tengo, Cat Power, Serge Gainsbourg, Sun Ra, Flying Saucer Attack, Sonic Youth, Wire, Pere Ubu, Rocket from the Tombs, Silver Apples, PJ Harvey, US Maple, Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, James Brown and the JBs, Chic, Isaac Hayes, The Birthday Party, Einsturzende Neubauten, Echo and the Bunnymen, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Nico, John Cale, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Queen, PiL, Wilco, lcd soundsystem, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Christina, Lio, The Contorsions/James Chance, The Red Crayola, Mars, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Flipper, Lake of Dracula, Old Time Relijun, The Clean, Mouse on Mars, Stereolab, Chicks on Speed, The Wedding Present, Mission of Burma, The Volcano Suns, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Slovenly, The Feelies, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Meat Puppets, The Minutemen, Suicide, The Dream Syndicate, Black Heart Procession, Pulp, Richard Hell and Voidoids, Television, Devo, The Slits, Kleenex/Liliput, Blonde Redhead, The Cramps, Roy Monygomery/The Pin Group/Dadamah/Dissolve, Neu!, La Dusseldorf, Harmonia, Cluster, Can, Faust, Bardo Pond, The Smiths, Deerhoff, Yoko Ono, Beat Happenings/Halo Benders/Dub Narcotic Soundsystem, Nikki Sudden/The Swell Maps/Jacobites, The Raincoats, Young Marble Giants, Essential Logic, The Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire, Spacemen 3, Oneida, Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy, Belle and Sebastian, Caetano Veloso, Migala, Fad Gadget, A Certain Ratio, Marine, Crescent, Fiery Furnaces, Six Finger Satellite, This Heat, Gastr del Sol, Nuno Canavaro, Oval, Fennez, Boards of Canada, Labradford, Stars of the Lid, Storm and Stress, The Walkabouts, Interpol, Child's View/Nabukaso Tukemura, Dean Roberts, Erase Errata, Out Hud, !!!, Gang of Four, Metal Urbain, The Metal Boys, OMD, Kraftwerk, Os Mutantes, Captain Beefheart, Breath Gernades, Debris, Godspeedyoublackemporer!, Simply Saucer, Lambchop, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, The Cure, The Organ, The Pretenders, The Buzzcocks, Magazine, The Jam, Raphael Toral, Loren Mazzacane Conners, The Pixies, The Rolling Stones (up to and including Tatoo You), Calexico, The New Year/Bedhead, The Ex, The Kinks, The Who (up to and including It's Hard), Love, Blunderspublik, duul_drv, vitaminsforyou, Patrick Keenen, Steve Bates, The Twilight Hotel, Vav Jungle, Thinking Fellows Union Local 282, Scott Walker, Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, Brigitte Fontaine, The Cars, Freescha, Montag, Ladytron, Liquid Liquid, Manitoba/Caribou, Glass Candy, Phillip Glass, Bjorn Olsson, Jacques Brel, Blurt, Blur, Aerial Pink's Haunted Grafitti, Multiple Partners, Sparks, Split Enz, Arcade Fire, Vitalic, Giorgio Moroder, Arthur Russell, David Axelrod, Adult., So So Many White White Tigers, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, As Mercenarias, Akron/Family, Angels of Light, Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom, The Black Lips, The Dirt Bombs, The Drones, DFA, DAF, The Au Pairs, Serena Maneesh, Seu Jorge, Wax Mannequin, Television Personalities, Da Da Da Da Lazers(r.i.p.), Spank Rock, The Untrained Eyes, The Normal/Silicon Teens, The Monochrome Set, Art Brut, The Knife, Les Georges Leningrad, Minny Pops, Lindstrom and Prinz Thomas, 20/20, Glaxo Babies, T-Rex, Mudhoney, Suede, Chromatics, Stereo Total, Maximum Joy, Royal Trux, The Gun Club, The Whitest Boy Alive, TV on the Radio, Charles de Goal, Intelligence, Fela Kuti, Grand Analog, Add N to X, Black Devil Disco Club, Gravy Train!, The Make-Up, Soulwax, Ruth, The Country Teasers, Hot Chip, Datarock, Come, The Vaselines, Ike Yard, The Replacements, Guided By Voices, Pan(a)sonic, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Antena, Selda, The Rapture, E.L.O., Love is All, Panico, Grauzone, Chromeo, Chrome, Les Ritas Mitsouko, The Associates, Justice, The Sea and Cake, Japan, Human League, Think About Life, My Sister Klaus, Emperor Machine, Egyptian Lover, In Flagranti, Von Südenfed , The Dead C, Super Furry Animals, TTC, Daniel Johnston, The Ponys, Gino Soccio, Be Bad, Tim Hecker, The Gorgon, Sarolta Zalatnay, Savage Rose, Sleater Kinney, Digital Leather, Gary Wilson, Gina X Performance, Tyvek, caUSE co-MOTION, Patti Smith, Pylon, A Place to Bury Strangers, Numbers, Michael Dracula, New Young Pony Club, Parson Sound, Quix*o*tic, The Flying Lizards, Man or Astroman, Tigerrr Beat, Holy Hail, Erik Satie, Klaus Nomi, The Undertones, Of Montreal (nothing before'04), Yo Majesty, Mustafa Ozkent, Godzuki, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Matthew Dear, Sebastian Tellier, The Cosmic Jokers, Pink Skull, Legowelt, Botox, Autokratz, Hercules and Love Affair, Low, Tav Falco, Roy Orbison, Goblin, Sally Shapiro, Cut Copy, M83, Spektrum, Fucked-Up, Disco Inferno, Pas Chic Chic, etc etc.... including 70's reggae/dub(King Tubby, Lee Perry, Augustus Pablo, Max Romeo, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dillinger, Jackie Mittoo), some moody jazz and free jazz, old european soundtrack stuff, and 1930s and 40s radio AM music.

Movies:

8 1/2 (my favorite film), Taxi Driver (my favorite american film), Apocalypse Now, La Stada, Godfather 1 & 2, Dog Day Afternoon, One flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest, Do The Right Thing, Being There, The Party, A Clockwork Orange, Amelie, LA Confidential, Dr. Strangelove, Putney Swoop, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, Nights of Cabiria, Alphaville, Bladerunner, Ed Wood, Band of Outsiders, Breathless, Juliet of the Spirits, I Vitelloni, City of Women, Rushmore, Royal Tennebaums, Life Aqutic with Steve Zizzou, Man Who Fell to Earth, American Beauty, Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy, Groundhog Day, Naked, The Usual Suspects, Raging Bull, King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Snatch, M, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Playtime, Mon Oncle, The American Friend, My Best Fiend, Branded to Kill, Adaptation, The Yes Men, The Corporation, City of God, And the Ship Sailed On, Animal House, Down by Law, The Antoine Doniel cycle, Day for Night, Jules and Jim, Scarface, This is Spinal Tap, Morvern Callar, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Badlands, Napolean Dynamite, In the Praise of Love, Divorce Italian Style, Get Carter (original version), It's All Gone Pete Tong, Good Will Hunting, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Buffalo 66, The Seventh Seal, Smiles of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, Billy Liar, Good Night and Good Luck, Le Samouraï, Throne of Blood, Le Notti Bianche, Why We Fight, Borat, The Devil and Daniel Johnson, Stroszek, Diary of a Chamber Maid, Vanishing Point, Lost in Translation, We Jam Econo, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Passenger, The Big Sleep, Pump Up The Volume, Radio On, The Departed, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Super Bad, Blue Velvet, 3:10 to Yuma, Midnight Run, Night and the City, The Blue Angel, Crumb, After Hours, Who Killed the Electric Car?, American Gangster, La Haine, Belle de Jour, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Burden of Dreams, Firemen's Ball, The Kids Are Alright, Two Lane Blacktop, The King of Kong: a fistful of quarters, If..., Persepolis, The Man Who Loved Women, Michael Clayton, Army of Shadows, Wings of Desire, Viridiana, Death By Popcorn (the tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets).

Television:

Simpsons, Futurama, The Sopranos, Trailer Park Boys, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Mr. Bean, Benny Hill Show, Little Britain, The Office (bbc), Da Ali G Show, The Young Ones, 40 Rock, South Park. European soccer with my dad from time to time. Sometimes perversly I get alot of comical pleasure from watching religious shows with horrible production standards.

Books:

I don't really read.

Heroes:

The character of Antoine Doniel as portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud. Egyptian Lover Boston Celtics

My Blog

dj set on Phaze One radio w/ audio link & setlist

Here's a set I did on Anthony Augustine's long standing dance music program Phaze One radio (a show I use to follow for a number of years with my own show Dream Weapon on CKUW, thursday nights).&...
Posted by robert on Fri, 16 May 2008 10:49:00 PST

favorite album covers pt. 2

Continuing on from part one.. The Kinks- Give The People What They Want http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q312/exitthebody/thekinks .jpg Ray Davis and this album cover are the epitome of cool. Right o...
Posted by robert on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:38:00 PST

my first directorial short- "Suffragette City" starring ActionPacked

Last month a friend of mine Kier-La Janisse, who was organizing a David Bowie sing-a-long night at cinematheque, asked some of us to make "Bowie videos" to certain songs that there didn't exist v...
Posted by robert on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:01:00 PST

favorite album covers pt.1

Here’s a few of my favorite album covers I like to share with you all.  At least three of these records I’ve yet to listen to in all its entirety, but their covers are inching me clos...
Posted by robert on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:07:00 PST

Song of the Year 2007

No song has given me a greater high continually throughout the year than this one.  "Mind Hole" by Numbers.  Beautiful. Numbers- Mind Hole...
Posted by robert on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:37:00 PST

THE TRUTH ABOUT DAVID BOWIE (unpublished, 2003)

Me and my friend Ted Turner always used to ponder how did Bowie (our favorite artist to this day) went from being so on the pulse of things in the 70's to afterwards becoming so..off.  Here'...
Posted by robert on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:04:00 PST

Stylus (Wpg)- Top Ten albums, Top Five shows 2007

Near the beginning of November each Stylus writer hands in their Top 10 albums & Top 5 shows for the December issue.  Even though there are two months remaining in '07 when these l...
Posted by robert on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:29:00 PST

Stylus Wpg. interview- Tigerrr Beat

Interview with local Wpg. band Tigerrr Beat.   www.myspace/tigerrrbeat. TIGERRRS IN THE JUNGLE: An Interview with Tigerrr Beat. by Robert Vilar Rising out of the ashes of defunct noir noise...
Posted by robert on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:42:00 PST

Stylus Wpg. reviews- Gravy Train!!!, Edu K, Les Amis au Pakistan

Took a break the last two issues, back in the swing of things... New issue comes out next week Oct 4.  www.ckuw.ca/stylus/   GRAVY TRAIN!!!!- All The Sweet Stuff Back for album number thr...
Posted by robert on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:09:00 PST

fringe 2007

I'm sitting at the beer tent listening to my mp3 device and drinking my labatts lite ('till its half full) and feeling good...a friend comes over, talk with him for a couple of minutes, he leaves...
Posted by robert on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:18:00 PST