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KevRock

Behind the sun, a yet lonlier sky

About Me

I am in Grad School!

My Interests

Writing. Reading. Talking about Writing and Reading. Playing Music. Listening to Music. Talking about Listening to and Playing Music. Sipping Fine Tequila over Ice. Drinking Tallboys of Light Beer in Dolores Park on Sunny Days. Perfecting my Curry Recipe (still needs much work). Thinking about Advertising and the Colonization of Human Desire. Thinking about Products I Might Like To Buy. Laughing at Hipsters. Being a Hipster. Irony. Ironing. Cats in Sinks and/or Wif LOL Capshunz

I'd like to meet:

Top Friends Theme: Inspiration--My Family, My Writing Colleagues, My Musical Partners, My Ecstatic Monkey Partners, My Co-Workers (who inspire me NOT to go postal and kill everyone in our office...), My Housemates and Neighbors...

Music:

Best Albums of 2007 (so far, in no particular order): John Craigie, "A Picnic on the 405," (Of course, but I'm biased.) The Arcade Fire, "Neon Bible," The Shins, "Wincing the Night Away," Blonde Redhead, "23," Kings of Leon, "Because of the Times," Andrew Bird, "Armchair Apocrypha," Spoon, "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga," The National, "Boxer," Amy Winehouse, "Back to Black."

Movies:

Who wants to start a Hitchcock club with me?

Television:

Thursday is TV nite!!

Books:

Hell yes. I just finished "Rid of Me: A Story" by my pal Kate Schatz and am working though Ultravioleta by Laura Moriarity and AutoBioDiveristy, a ZYZZYVA collection of non-fiction. More books to follow as it's back to school time.

Also keep and eye out for Page McBee, Amick Boone, Anisse Gross, Ana Maria Ventura, Maureen Turner, Amanda Davidson, Julie Stefan Lindsey, Gravity Goldberg, Laura Wolfe and Lindsey Wolkin.

Heroes:

People who still aren't on MySpace.

My Blog

Pssspsssp! Literary Gossip!!

OMG you guys, like, SUCH the drama the other night!! Stephen Elliott TOTALLY threw a beer all over Howard Junker!! I know, FOR REALSIES!! So I was at this Literary Death Match thingy? With Amick, G...
Posted by KevRock on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:20:00 PST

I am not the buyer of mugs, rather, I am the eater of motorboats.

Okay, so like most people who work in offices, I spend a lot of time at work perusing the interwebs for random, interesting, amusing and/or time-wasting crap. As I'm sure you all know, youtube is one...
Posted by KevRock on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:45:00 PST

Jumping Out of Airplanes, etc

So yeah, I went skydiving on Friday.It was my friend Bowen's birthday and he organized a group of us to go out to Byron and pay $185 each to throw ourselves out of a plane at 14,000 feet. The night b...
Posted by KevRock on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:28:00 PST

Student Aressted for Creative Writing Piece??!?!

Disturbing News From the AP Wire:"CARY, Ill. - Authorities have filed a second disorderly conduct charge against a high school senior arrested for writing an essay officials described as disturbing an...
Posted by KevRock on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:14:00 PST

So It Goes: RIP Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Your work challenged, and ultimately disposed of, the notion that "literary" fiction and "science" fiction are mutually exclusive."Slaughterhouse Five" was a masterpiece of black comedy and gloriously...
Posted by KevRock on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:32:00 PST

Perfect Harmony and Other Science Fictions (part 1)

Once upon a long time ago, in a strange and distant land, there lived a robot named Sandra, whose programmed function was to garden. Pruning, fertilizing, grafting, pottingall of these things made Sa...
Posted by KevRock on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:09:00 PST

My Top Friends

Of all the gratuitious ego massaging that MySapce offers us, nothing is quite so gratifying and reaffirming as getting play in someone else's top friends list.  But it's also one of the...
Posted by KevRock on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:11:00 PST

To All My Future Former Friends

Here is my rant: I am so over using MySpace as an ego massage, stressing vainly about aquiring "friends" that I've never even met or talked to, just to up the number counter on my home page. Well g...
Posted by KevRock on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

it's blog

what's boring and wrong, a thousand words long, as clearly composed as fog? it's written right there, but nobody cares, it's blog, it's blog, it's blog! it's blog! it's blog! it's trite, self-i...
Posted by KevRock on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST