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Robert

Arcane Reference.

About Me

The Most Depressing Movie I Have Ever Seen is Alfie. Not the One with Jude Law.

These are some of the things that I hate in no particular order: Bluetooth, M. Night Shamalan, Ubiquitous Bad Remixes, Scented Deodorant, The Death of Civics, Facebook, Non-commital Facial Hair, Philip Jeck, Oakley Sunglassses, Memorial High School Graduating Class of 2005, Ignorance Bling, Banalizers, The Director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Death of Craftsmanship without a Computer, Billy Corgan, Lapses, Jeffrey Deitch's staff, Katie Couric, The Erasure of Cultural Representation, Most Dogs, Hot Chip, Unnecessary Trucks, Embarrassing Lotharios, Ringtones, Britt Hume, Facial Jewelry, Lifestyles Condoms, People who Stand Wavering in Doorways for Several Minutes While Finishing a Conversation, Vincent Gallo, Complicit Nationalism, Hedonists Without Decorum, and Ron Wood.See Pictures I Took. Click on The Strangler. (There are new ones up.)

My Interests

love hotels. laugh organs. the milgram experiment. the winter soldier tapes '71. the spyker c8 aileron. bob dylan's theme time radio hour. the pacemaker. curry. the good movie stand in silom. CB radios. tom yun goon. olfactory deja vu. petras lebonese cuisine. political satire. the boon rawd brewery. mail order bride catalogs. jacobson's defunked second floor men's apperal department. the weather underground. the winchester mystery house. nana burgers. all-girl roller derby. singapore slings. richard foreman. barry goldwater. the back bowls in vail. the friars club. illegal ways to develop film. mescal. the pontiac trans am 1977-1986. the banff castle. ski lodges. my theremin. jack benny's 1939 radio season. soi cowboy. faith domergue. yabba. eames chairs. bedroom eyes. running mascara. atlantic city. forehead implants. demi-whispies. over the top upper middle class living rooms from the 1950'-1970's(lots of wood and shag). department stores. scars on models. my grandmother's house. expense accounts. the maught gallery. burning leaves. gin. karl rove. human mannequins. abandoned light houses and resorts. firm female handshakes. pattaya beach. film grain. trinidad(not tobago). south dublin. old books about the future. edie sedgewick. fog and gotham. infantocracy. alcoholic magicians. non-linear editing. shopliftng from wal-mart. freemont street. christmas. nobuyoshi araki. hotel lobbies. most women. lots and lots of blood. the impending bush twins playboy layout. reinventing striptease music. the north channel. preventitive medication. the lido outside venice. cuckolds. negronis. odd seating. dior addict. topping the party scene in breakfast at tiffanys. taiwanese public health ads. playing guitar with wisks. another position.

I'd like to meet:

I've found the woman I am going to marry. I just have to find a Jet Blue flight to Kabul.

Music:

Currently...

"I Want to Be Your Driver" by Chuck Berry

Harem Holiday/Girl Crazy by Elvis Presley

Protest Anthology by Nina Simone

The Cockpit by Rudy Ray Moore

"Make Love" by Daft Punk

"The Party's Over" by Anita O'Day

Kissing The Beehive by Wolf Parade

"Little Girl" by DFA 1979

It's Never Been Like That by Phoenix

Soothing Sounds For Baby - 12 to 18 Months by Raymond Scott

"You Can Do It" by Ice Cube & Mack 10

"There Ain't Easy No Way Out" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

"Die Bitch" by Pussy Galore

Hot February Night by Neil Hamburger

So Cosmic by Cut Copy

"Hot Freaks" by Guided By Voices

The Budos Band II by The Budos Band

"Details of the War" by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

"Jolene" by Dolly Parton

"Elfin Orphan" by The Scene Creamers

Movies:

Lately...Mondo Cane, 2 Days in Paris, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocolypse, The Miracle at Morgan's Creeks, Die Hard, Caligula, Showgirls, War of the Worlds, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Arthur, The Darjeeling Limited, The Devil in Ms. Jones 6, Grindhouse, Jewel of the Nile, Oscar, Night On Earth, I Think I Love My Wife, The Comedians of Comedy, Ace in the Hole.

Television:

Entourage, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Soap, Six Feet Under, 30 Rock, Press Your Luck, The Colbert Report, Coupling, Fishing With John, Mystery Science Theater 3000, You Can't Do That on Television, The Simpsons, Democracy Now!, Ali G, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, House, The Price is Right, Knight Rider, The Sopranos, The Office(Both), Card Sharks, The Facts of Life, Count Duckula, The Prisoner, The Twilight Zone, Chapelle's Show, Kids in the Hall, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Jack Benny Program, You Bet Your Life.

Books:

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

The Psychic Soviet by Ian F. Svenonius.

Heroes:

Russ Meyer, Elmyr De Hory, Hemingway, Robert Diggs, Dean Wareham, Roger Corman, Philip-Lorca DiCorsia, Nikola Tesla, Greg Turkinson, HST, Cornel West, Chung Ling Soo, Fellini, Mick Jagger, Quincy Jones, Richard Pryor, Tracie Lords, Bishop, Chico Marx, Orson Wells, and John Rudy.

My Blog

News Clues.

Ok, so I found the story below and I think it's great. I read it in the Bangkok Post yesterday. They don't have the artical online, but it's an AP story so I figured I would grab a copy off of the int...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:51:00 PST

The Expatriates Quote Book

The other evening the quote below quote inspired this blog. New entries will be forthcoming.... "There is nothing more intimidating than the first time you meet a Cambodian cop. Then yo...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:46:00 PST

Revised Festival Line Up

Here are the bios of the artists coming to Thailand or showing their work in the festival I am working on. The new dates are Feb. 23- Mar.18 2007. I'm sure I'll see you there... Jackie-O Motherfu...
Posted by Robert on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:11:00 PST

Falling Asleep While I'm Ashore.

My half light eyes stretch open to a weird blonde Ukrainian twit slur honking at her boyfriend in the seat in front of me as our DC-9 bounces down the runway into Changi Airport. Christ. Blake ca...
Posted by Robert on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:29:00 PST

You See What Happens Larry!

This is why I don't fuck with the local female delights. Pattaya Beach is a wildly popular, morally bankrupt shithole founded after Vietnam by American GIs just south of town. It's where a l...
Posted by Robert on Tue, 09 May 2006 11:39:00 PST

48 Hour Film Festival Story.

A Strange Sickness: the 48 Hour Film Festival Hits Houston.   by Robert MacCready   mas"och"ism  (m s  -k z  m)   n. A willingness or tendency to subject oneself to...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 02:42:00 PST

How Will Walsh Burned His Hand.

Beware the Graveyard Shift: An Editorial By Robert MacCready Saturday. 3:10am. Houston, TX.  I had just returned from a night of drinking with two friends. Personally, I had nursed only two dr...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:34:00 PST

One Night in Bangkok

  A Go-Go Less Ordinary By Robert MacCready I walk exhausted through the exit gates of Bangkok International Airport for the first time. Without a chance to gulp down my first wet fist of Bangko...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:24:00 PST

Read this After the Socialite Play.

This is the best response to any piece of writing I've ever asked anyone to look at. If only professors could do this. This is Thomas Trull's reaction to the one-nighter play "Line" that I've recently...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Play for Houston Socialites.

NOTE:This and the other are VERY old plays, but I thought they'd be fun. Especially this one. This is not my ouvre, or something. LINE.(2000) by Robert MacCready Act 1 Scene 1 SETTING...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST