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Robbb

Atheism requires just as much faith as fundamentalism.

About Me


I am a sloppy plate of Mexican food.
Easy to love, and hard to leave.
How you like me now, ese? What Kind of Leftovers Are You?

My Interests

"Remind Me" by Royksopp

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I'd like to meet:

I've actually already met this guy, but would love to have a conversation like this with him sometime:

Music:

Claude Debussy
Cole Porter
Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Beatles
Brain Eno
Cocteau Twins
The Pixies
Ween
Jon Brion
Dan the Automator
Recently: Melissa Kaplan, Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, Iron & Wine, Stars
Ipodded: "Child Psychology" - Black Box Recorder
Last amusing show: Van Hunt & Jesca Hoop @ Temple Bar, Santa Monica, CA, 19 Feb 2008
The Minibosses at The Smell, Los Angeles, CA

Movies:

The Godfather (1-2)
L.A. Story
Slacker
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Big Lebowski
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Memento
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Bad Santa
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Recently: There will be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Beowulf, Into the Wild, Superbad
Netflixed: The Triplets of Belleville
Onscreen: My Blueberry Nights
Buster Keaton montage (set to The Pixies' "Down to the Well")

Television:

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Saturday Night Live
Twin Peaks
South Park
The Daily Show
It's Like, You Know...
The West Wing
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Six Feet Under
Undeclared
Recently: The Colbert Report, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, 30 Days, Weeds
Tivoed: Lost
Geico Cavemen (Commercials only; Don't bother with the sitcom)

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Books:

Lolita (Nabokov)
V. (Pynchon)
Hell's Angels (Thompson)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
City of Quartz (Davis)
Et Tu, Babe (Leyner)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Hoeg)
Into the Wild (Krakauer)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris)
A Song of Ice and Fire (1-4) (Martin)
Recently: The Age of Turbulence (Greenspan), Positively 5th Street (McManus), Doolittle (Sisario), Freakonomics (Levitt/Dubner), Mad Money (Cramer)
Beside table: The Road (McCarthy)

Heroes:

What greater hero than Takahiro ?
Takahiro wins 2006 Dance Challenge on "Showtime at the Apollo"

My Blog

Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Best Films

As referenced in Barany's open letter (quoted in my last post), below is Time Magazine's "All-Time 100 Best Films," as chosen by critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel.  I've placed it here...
Posted by Robbb on Sat, 19 May 2007 05:26:00 PST

Dear Aspiring Artist...

On H.R.Giger's website, agent Les Barany has written a rather cheeky generic response to all aspiring artists seeking his advice.  It reads a little like that "Always Wear Sunscreen" bullshit fro...
Posted by Robbb on Sat, 19 May 2007 04:53:00 PST

Uninspired by Hillary & Rudy? How 'bout a guy named Olé?

The press is fond of grouping presidential primary candidates into "tiers," usually two or three per party.  At the top we find candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani.  At the ...
Posted by Robbb on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:55:00 PST

Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" Coming to HBO!!

I am not ashamed to admit that I am a HUGE fan of George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire."  This is an epic series, vaguely based on the Wars of the Roses, about a kingdom rapidly degenera...
Posted by Robbb on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:36:00 PST

He Gassed His Own People

From The Boston Herald, August 24, 2006: Oilman Bush has gas in backgroundBy Margery EaganBoston Herald Columnist Thursday, August 24, 2006 - Updated: 02:19 AM ESTMaybe if Iraq were going better, I...
Posted by Robbb on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:50:00 PST

The Most Awesome Clip Ever

I think it's charitable to say that MTV's target demographic is 12-24 years of age (some would say it skews much younger).  So it makes sense that I tuned out around 1997 and haven't looked back ...
Posted by Robbb on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:31:00 PST

Big Blue Bus Blog .3

Apologies for the late posting of this. Last Friday, the #5 was pretty crowded at 8:24 AM, so I sat in one of the parallel seats in the back and flipped on Carolla on my headphones.  My respite ...
Posted by Robbb on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:23:00 PST

When true satire bubbles up in a restless pop culture...

...it means a hard rain's gonna fall for that moron in the White House. Check out Stephen Colbert At The White House Correspondents Dinner. I mean, right to his face!  Frickin' brilliant......
Posted by Robbb on Thu, 04 May 2006 05:03:00 PST

Big Blue Bus Blog .2

Gas is past $3.20 in these parts, so there will be many more of these entries.Today was the "Day without Immigrants," so needless to say, the BBB was pretty dead at 7:20PM.  Attendance averaged a...
Posted by Robbb on Tue, 02 May 2006 12:07:00 PST

...And my freezer has Lojack, too.

Tonight I had to grab a big bowl of wild rice out of the refrigerator on my way out to a dinner party.  After closing the refrigerator door, I instintively whipped out my car keychain and pr...
Posted by Robbb on Tue, 02 May 2006 06:33:00 PST