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Robert

directionally impaired

About Me

My favorite colors are cobalt blue and emerald green; however I'm color blind and these colors are really probably black and grey. I like spicy food. I like to play like a 12 year old kid. I like music. I like Flying Saucer.

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My Interests

Generally being odd; doing stupid things that Keith and Russell suggest; reading; expanding musical horizons at an exponential rate; destroying taste buds through continual exposure to spicy foods; the amazing world of orchids.

I'd like to meet:

st.alfonzo's pancake breakfast house; planet gong; a talking platypus

Music:

Music for the week: Aphex Twin--Bubblebath 3; Fred Frith--Allies

Movies:

Monty Python's The Holy Grail; A Clockwork Orange; Brazil; Caddyshack; Dr. Strangelove; The Princess Bride; and then some idiotic ones like Krull and Tron.

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, Seinfeld reruns. I miss the following shows: The A-Team, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, V, Land of the Lost, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Pinky and the Brain, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead. I also really like the old cartoons: Thundarr the Barbarian, G Force, GI Joe, Transformers, Space Ghost, Thundercats, He Man.

Books:

William Blake: All of his stuff is so amazing; James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and one day I will plow through Finnegan's Wake; Dan Simmons: The Hyperion Series; Philip K. Dick: All of his stuff, but the Valis trilogy had a huge impact on me; George Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984; Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test; Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Hermann Hesse: Magister Ludi, Narcissus and Golmund, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha; Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar; William Golding: The Lord of the Flies; Richard Adams: Watership Down; Lewis Carrol: Alice in Wonderland; Tom Stoppard: Rosencranz and Gildensturn are Dead; Tom Robbins: Skinny Legs and All; Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell; Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Arthur Rimbaud's poetry; Charles Baudelaire's poetry; Charles Bukowski: all of his novels and poetry.

My Blog

text wars

    Hello all.  You.  We weren't too busy yesterday afternoon, though we were in the morning.  Sometime around 2 or 3, Russell called me to inform me of a text war going ...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:25:00 PST

the inevitable return to work

    Yes, apparently I do still have to work.  I did not win the lottery while I was away.  That's ok.  I get a little restless anyway with too much time off and not much ...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:12:00 PST

snowmen in april

    Yesterday was my last day of mini vacation.  I rested most of the day, and met up with Russell and Jess at the par 3 off broad river for some golfing.  As is usually the c...
Posted by Robert on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:47:00 PST

come on in, the water's fine

    I'm off today too!  Yes, it's kind of crazy, but that's the way things worked out.  Plus, I'll have to work the rest of the week.  So maybe I should mow the grass or ...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:16:00 PST

pillow pants as a topic of conversation

    Yesterday was about as unproductive as it gets.  I slept in until at least 7.  Went to Papa Jazz and picked up Brian Eno/David Byrne "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" used.&...
Posted by Robert on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:39:00 PST

part 2, the music I listened to on my trip

    aorta--aorta; I.U.D--S/t; The Scratch Orchestra--two tracks; Talking Heads--Speaking in Tongues; Jac Berrocal--musiq musik; Anton Bruhin--In out; Sunn O)))--the Grimm Robe Demos; Fr...
Posted by Robert on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:34:00 PST

bobble goes to birmingham. and comes back alive: part 1

    Ha.  I came back.  Here's the story of my trip to Birmingham.  I left early Thursday morning.  Getting to the general vicinity was easy--lots and lots of I-20. T...
Posted by Robert on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:26:00 PST

in which it's clearly time for a break

    Thank freaking goodness I am going to have a break.  I'm emotionally and physically exhausted right now.  Last night I went to saucer and it was evident to everyone that t...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:20:00 PST

quantum tunnels to parallel universes

    The longer I live, the more convinced I become that there must be a parallel universe.  And my counterpart in the parallel universe and I got switched early on...I should be th...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:20:00 PST

return from the living dead

    Yesterday, I feel certain that I was a zombie.  Detached from all things (but fortunately not craving brains).  Didn't feel bad hungover, but clearly I was not in fully fu...
Posted by Robert on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:52:00 PST