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Rob

Rock And/Or Roll

About Me


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Rob
Birthday: 10 April
Birthplace: Leicester
Current Location: Birmingham
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blondish (at least what's left of it is...)
Height: Bigger than a bread bin
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Mixed white people
The Shoes You Wore Today: Sneaks then me boots
Your Weakness: Big brown/blue/green eyes
Your Fears: Not keen on clowns (creepy bastards)
Your Perfect Pizza: Sloppy Guiseppe
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Get paid more
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: What's that then?
Thoughts First Waking Up: Christ, I need a piss
Your Best Physical Feature: Legs and fantastic beard
Your Bedtime: Usually too late
Your Most Missed Memory: Can't remember
Pepsi or Coke: Depends
MacDonalds or Burger King: BK
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Uh?
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: BOTH!
Do you Smoke: Not if I can help it
Do you Swear: What the f**k do you think?
Do you Sing: Yes
Do you Shower Daily:
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Been there, done that, got the knackered liver
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: What, existence wise or abilities wise?
Do you get Motion Sickness: Yes
Do you think you are Attractive: Possibly, some people are in to weird shit
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: Yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: A what !?
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No, goddamit
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Frequently
Ever been called a Tease: Not to my knowledge
Ever been Beaten up: Only once
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: Quietly in bed, or in a massive explosion
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Old
What country would you most like to Visit: Narnia
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: Dark
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: Some height is good
Weight: As is some weight
Best Clothing Style: What ever suits them
Number of Drugs I have taken: No comment
Number of CDs I own:' Lots
Number of Piercings: 3
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Where do I start...?
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My Interests

Music bass guitars books beards(mine really, and definitely not lady facebeards) films art alcohol people places things and ignoring puncuation

I'd like to meet:

Like minded individuals. What a f**kin' terrifying thought... And some ladies. Ladies whats I'm not saying.

Music:

Tool, deftones, Grails, Isis, Pelican, Neurosis, Tool, Bee and Flower, Red Sparowes, The Cure, Mastodon, Tool, Nina Simone, Lynrd Skynrd, Faithless, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Portishead, Una Corda, Zebulan and Wise Blood. Oh, and Tool.

Movies:

Anything by David Fincher, David Lynch (I don't pretend to understand, I just dig the trippy visuals) and Guillermo del Toro, Batman Begins, Star Wars (mainly the proper ones), Martin Scorsese, The Indiana Jones Trilogy (please don't make another one, he's too old!), M*A*S*H, Coen Brothers stuff (except Fargo, never got that one), The Matrix (only the first one), Memento, V For Vendetta, LOTR, Blade and Blade 2 (see above), Wise Blood (like the band), Blade Runner, The Alien Films, even Resurrection, and loads more I can't be arsed to remember at the minute

Television:

Mostly stuff that isn't on anymore, cuz my tv aerial's bust. The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, Lost, even though I haven't seen ANY of this series (I'm saving them up for when I get the DVD's), Blackadder, CSI, BBC 2 and Channel 4 documentaries. I try to avoid reality TV like I try to avoid stepping in dogshit.

Books:

Steve Aylett, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Frank Herbert, Brian Lumley, biographies and autobiographies and numerous, numerous others (I'm usually reading three books at a time. I'm not bragging, I'm just clever)

Heroes:

Boba Fett, my Dad, Henry More Smith

My Blog

Gathering

I work in a science museum called Thinktank, which is housed in a larger soulless edifice know as Millennium Point (remember the Millennium? 'Aaarggh, we're all gonna die! We're all gonna& oh it's ok!...
Posted by Rob on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:18:00 PST

Ramble

"To die a little less ignorant of mysteries than he'd been born" Clive Barker, 'The Inhuman Condition' The Books of Blood Vol. IV I think that's what I want carved on my gravestone. At least I would ...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:40:00 PST

A Response

I used to have a really vivid nightmare every Sunday night. My mum used to say that it was because I hadn't done much during the day (some things don't change) and so when I fell asleep my mind was ov...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:44:00 PST

Bleedin' Obvious

Someone asked me today, "What makes a noise like a train?" You can imagine my response. It was not appreciated. Balls...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:19:00 PST

Creepy

Tom WaitsMule Variations (1999)What's He Building?What's he building in there?What the hell is he buildingIn there?He has subscriptions to thoseMagazines... He neverWaves when he goes byHe's hiding so...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:25:00 PST

Return

Just returned from my hols in the Lakes. Yes, I've had another on. This one was a vast improvement on the last though. Similar weather, but only for one day. Walked along a valley and explored an old ...
Posted by Rob on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:52:00 PST

Splat

Made the leap, and ended up going splat. Bits of me in a couple of different places. On the positive side, I now know where I am. On the negative, it's smeared all over the fuckin' scenery. Think this...
Posted by Rob on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:11:00 PST

Blah

Sunday evening, outside of Birmingham, standing on the edge of a (metaphorical) ledge, about to make a (again metaphorical) leap. Scary. I wonder whether other people have the same doubts that I do an...
Posted by Rob on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:06:00 PST

Henry More Smith -DUDE

Henry More Smith From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Henry More Smith was a confidence man, master puppeteer, hypnotist, seer, liar, and above all else a superlative esca...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:23:00 PST

Snot

I am offically a germ magnet. I have a cold AGAIN. That makes three in almost as many weeks (I had a week off from the snot at the beginning of October). What gives? This is the bit where people tell ...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:23:00 PST