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Rob

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About Me

living through early-30's mid-life crisis... wandered a lot in my 20's & now seemingly home to roost in my lovely baile atha cliath... restless soul who likes his comforts... dreams alone (& with others) about creating wonderful music... enjoys fiddling with electronic sounds & occassionaly with a normal guitar... obsessed with buying & listening to music... worried about not having enough years left in my life to listen to everything... used to be in a death metal band, then a doom band... regret getting my long hair cut, yet think I look ridiculous in all my old photos... regret spending so many years playing metal, yet always reminisce fondly (& even listen to a few of the old cds too...)... loving lots of lovely electronic music these days, yet sometimes feel too old & too uncool... maybe should stop wearing the hoodies & baggy trousers, yet get pissed off with the suit & tie during the week in work... anyone get the idea i may be lost..?


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My Interests

weird music, weird movies, weird books, weird tv shows... and my dog... and some guinness... and some whiskey... and man utd...

I'd like to meet:

most of the interesting people in life are dead, so will have to start believing in the afterlife first...

Music:

pretty much anything that evokes a dreamy, ethereal or dark atmosphere, especially a few names like... boards of canada, biosphere, eivind aarset, nils petter molvaer, aphex twin, amon tobin, fsol, orb, khonnor, jesu, bjork, eno, hassell, laswell, murcof, gravenhurst, dj shadow, dead can dance, lisa gerrard, cinematic orchestra, damien rice, david sylvian, arve henrikson, dhafer youssef, jan garbarek, dj food, fat freddys drop, four tet, harold budd, james yorkston, mogwai, kyuss, miles davis, mum, sigur ros, natacha atlas, nick cave, much from ninja tune & warp records - think i'll stop now! & frank zappa...

Movies:

dr strangelove, big lebowski, apocalypse now, spirited away, team america, evil dead trilogy, texas chainsaw massacre, amelie, being john malkovich, citizen kane, amores peros, blade runner... all i can think of at the moment

Television:

The Mighty Boosh (at the moment watching these dvds to death!), Family Guy, American Dad, Father Ted, Nathan Barley, Jam, Brass Eye, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Alan Partridge, Monkey Dust -spot the trend... generally left of centre comedy...

Books:

have so many half-read & unread books at the moment... recently remembered ones that effected me (look 'em up if you're interested)... house of leaves (reading this for years very slowly!), rumo (for the kid in me), all by david mitchell (esp. number9dream), the dice man, garden of earthly delights, red earth pouring rain, amazing adventures of kavalier & clay...

Heroes:

don't believe in them...

My Blog

Musical adventures...

as you might gather music is quite important to me, and despite having too much to listen to, I have found time over the years to make some of my own... So, I felt I may as well bring some attent...
Posted by Rob on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:26:00 PST