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Robert John

Om mani padme hum.

About Me

"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a nay-sayer and hatchet man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another, because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method…is love. I love you."

My Interests

I love to read and do it as much as I can. I love to learn new things about anything. Learning is the art that keeps me happy. I love art museums and live theatre, horror movies and lunch in Rhodes Park. I am also a struggling writer. I have written one novel that I keep editing in perpetuity. One day it will be ready for publication, though.

I'd like to meet:

"I am a man and men are animals that tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that came before: which is to say, our lives?So we make stories of our own, in fevered and enviuos imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we born."

Music:

Tori Amos, Smashing Pumpkins, Teitur, Melissa Etheridge, Bjork, Linkin Park, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Mozart, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Melissa Williamson, and so many others I can not begin to name them all.

Movies:

Donna Hayword - "Laura, if I had a nickel for every cigarette your mom smoked, I'd be dead." Anything by David Lynch. Fire Walk With Me, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, etc. I have an affinity for French films, too. Horror movies: Poltergeist, Identity, Silence of the Lambs.

Television:

Previously on Twin Peaks... Other than a few shows I catch when the tube is on I don't watch much television. I do own the complete series of Twin Peaks and The Critic and have a special place in my heart for The Kids in the Hall. The Simpsons is the greatest show of all time. I love Doctor Who, the old stuff and the new.

Books:

I love to read!!! I loveit, I love it, I love it!!!!Richard Bach, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Bentley Little, C. S. Lewis, Clive Barker, Truman Kapote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Robert Jordan, J. K. Rowling, Peter Straub, F. Paul Wilson, Neil Gaiman, Robert McCammon, Terrance McNally, Tony Kushner, Larry Kramer, Thomas Harris, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Agatha Christie, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, John Gardner, this is just to name a few that I see sitting on my shelf

Heroes:

My little brother, William Issac Holmes, who is now serving in the united states military and stationed in Iraq. I love you, bro. Stay safe and come back home, soon.

My Blog

This momentous day

Where do I begin?    Faith, that's where I will begin, because faith is something that one does not plan; it simply happens. It is not something that one simply gives up on; there are events...
Posted by Robert John on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:55:00 PST

Finally, a new blog

This semester has been hell from the start.    Last week I got sick, had two tests, clinical orientation, an arguement online over abortion, and the lowest amount of time studying I have eve...
Posted by Robert John on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:34:00 PST

Books I've read in 2006

To be amended as needed 1. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis 2.Veolcity - Dean Koontz 3. The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien 4. "Riding the Bullet" - Stephen King 5. To Kill a Mockin...
Posted by Robert John on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:34:00 PST

Over, done with, gone, fuck it, move on.

   I have never been as relieved as I was yesterday when I saw that I had passed my Nursing 105 class.    After the test was over we all waited in the hallway while the teacher ran...
Posted by Robert John on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:07:00 PST

Almost over

Well kids, there are two weeks left in the semester and I will never be as glad in my life to have this semester trailing in my dust. I have actually written something this week other than c...
Posted by Robert John on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:03:00 PST

A small cry for help

             I was sitting at home last night studying a massive amount of material on a subject that I hate when I decide to call my mother. &nbs...
Posted by Robert John on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:15:00 PST

On friends and lovers

There are many different types of love in the world. There is sexual love and brotherly/sisterly love. There is conditional and unconditional love, unexplainable and defined love. Love that comes from...
Posted by Robert John on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:26:00 PST

Finals finally finished

I am so sick of finals and tests and validations and patient care plans that I could vomit and nothing would come out except my fundamentals book. Tuesday (Aug. 2) I have my fundamentals final. I...
Posted by Robert John on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:52:00 PST

Chapter One : Punk Bitch

             Ricky stepped out of his apartment into the bright sunshine and hoped that he would not see anyone that he knew. Wearing a short plai...
Posted by Robert John on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:37:00 PST

Frustration

I am so angry right now! Bad Buddhist, I say to mayself and squirt my face with a mental water gun. The source of this frustration comes from my inability to do the one thing that I want to do more th...
Posted by Robert John on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:39:00 PST