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Rob

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr

About Me

StarFish Poetry++ Peoples' Global Action ++ Warren Ellis ++ Anti-Politics Forum ++ The Space Collective ++ Food Not Bombs Toronto ++ DataCide (Noise and Politics)++ Discordian Communism++ LinchPin++The Lazarus Corporation++Infoshop++ New Net Music ++Ubu Web+++ Toronto Discordian Society++ Perforations ++ Point Of Departure++ Dreaming Methods ++ Urban Dreamscape++ Labor Radio++ Vugg Books++ Homeless Nation++ Grinding +++ Art Anomaly ++ The Remix Project++ Free Tekno Toronto ++ Void Network ++ Young Wine

My Interests

anarchy, poetry, music, cultural theory, art and anti-art, sex, drugs, books, walking about, reading, writing, zines and zine-making, squatting outside the movement

I'd like to meet:

those on the margins...shiftless visionaries, dreamers...artists, poets, creative writers and subway ranters...noise-makers...readers of anything they can get their hands on...too much coffee people...malcontents...drifters...the largely misunderstood, the hopelessly drug-damaged...those with a theory and the will to communicate it...the inveterate enemies of things as they are.

Music:

Black Flag, Ornette Coleman, Augustus Pablo, Sonic Youth, Lee Perry, Pere Ubu, Third Eye Foundation, Sun Ra, Cul De Sac, Autechre, My Bloody Valentine, Blackalicious, MotorHead, Can, Horace Andy, PanSonic, Faith No More, Jah Shaka, The Aphex Twin, Joy Division, MuslimGauze, Celtic Frost, Albert Ayler, The Ex, Sly and Robbie, John Coltrane, Acid Mothers Temple, The Jesus Lizard, Desmond Dekker, KYUSS, PIL, The Wu Tang Clan, Photek, MachineHead, Mouse on Mars, SkullFlower, James "Blood" Ulmer, King Cobb Steelie, Prefuse 73, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Faust, Jimi Hendrix, Techno Animal, Nels Cline, Keith Hudson, Enslaved, Simply Saucer, Husker Du, SpringHeel Jack, GodSpeedYouBlackEmperor, The Refused, King Tubby, No Means No, TackHead, DJ Rupture, Opal, AntiCon, The Butthole Surfers, Neurosis, The Bad Brainz, The Roots, Dennis Brown, Fugazi, GuruGuru, Sepultura, Les Thugs, Cecil Taylor, Blind Idiot God, Kid 606, Fela Kuti, Napalm Death, Public Enemy, Neu, The Pop Group, Miles Davis, The Mad Professor, and all points in between

Television:

Fuck TV!

Books:

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, Death to the Pigs by Benjamin Peret, Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs, Anarchy In Action by Colin Ward, Molloy by Samuel Beckett, The Poetry of Surrealism by Michael Benedikt (ed.), House of Leaves, Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner, Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, The Culture of Make-Believe by Derrick Jensen, Valis by Philip K. Dick, Against the Megamachine by David Watson, That Dada Strain by Jerome Rothenberg, Communicating Vessels and Nadja by Andre Breton

My Blog

Preliminary Notes on a Project for the Construction of Oarystis, the City of Desire by Raoul Va

The conception of this city[1] takes its inspiration from the worlds of childhood and femininity, on a quest to free themselves from their secular oppression. It thus gives preeminence to the pleasure...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:36:00 PST

Every Single Day by Warren Ellis

Today we learned that our universe may well have "bubbled off" from a previous one. That, in fact, our universe may well be nothing but one of a chain of entire serial realities. Or, perhaps, universe...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:27:00 PST

My Chapbook Can Now Be Purchased Online Via PayPal!

Just letting people know that my first chapbook "Every Exit Impossible To Imagine With Wings" is now available through TrainWreck Press and can now be purchased online via PayPal. All the information ...
Posted by Rob on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:44:00 PST

Ejaculate The World

Dark, to evolve in secret. Shadowed, tormented amidst neurons to test the twirl of each transient event.Reverence for what falls from the pearled vagary. A leaden noose to ejaculate the world. Polishe...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:56:00 PST

RIP to one of the good guys

Kris,you were hereyou mattered pour a little liquor out for the guy...
Posted by Rob on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:20:00 PST

God Forbid "Better Days"

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!
Posted by Rob on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:45:00 PST

Short Hiatus

Several people have already noticed that I don't seem to be around or as available here as much lately. And, it's true. While I pop in briefly several times a day to see what's up, I don't quite live ...
Posted by Rob on Fri, 23 May 2008 11:31:00 PST

The Grammar of Dry Land

Mirage curls on sand. Peacock feather chariots inside her eyes.Another deconstructed squiggle passes by (it must be the third listening that causes it to sting the air like that), and I light another ...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 21 May 2008 06:44:00 PST

Ear Damage

KTL "Live In Rhiz, Vienna" Amon Tobin "Verbal" Borbetomagus "Soundtrack For RawBits Experimental Video" Ice Bird Spiral "The Cube" Amon Duul 2 "Between The Eyes" ...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 19 May 2008 05:26:00 PST

A Loaded .45 Back From The Dead

You're a loaded .45 back from the dead, long-legged and outlawed in 41 countries for tearing the wings off of angels who were only looking for a kiss. You would've fucked them gladly, joyously, dragge...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 17 May 2008 04:52:00 PST