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røbín

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About Me

"owl, peacock, chameleon, donkey, and popinjay, fugitive from a medieval bestiary- was at the same time giant and dwarf, plenum and vacuum, admirable and contemptable"

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My Interests

dance- modern and ballet. yoga. sewing and knitting. taking pictures of my adventures, which are here . libraries and museums. wandering vast spaces and eerily abandoned buildings. giving people the eye and someties giving it to inanimate objects. good radio: this american life, radiodavidbyrne.com, weekend koop.

I'd like to meet:


You Are a Pegasus
You are a perfectionist, with an eye for beauty.
You know how to live a good life - and you rarely deviate from your good taste.
While you aren't outgoing, you have excellent social skills.
People both admire you - and feel very comfortable around you. What Mythological Creature Are You?
Your results:
You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 65% Superman 45% Supergirl 13% Batman 5% Robin 3% Wonder Woman 3% Green Lantern 0% The Flash 0% Catwoman 0% Hulk 0% Iron Man 0% You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

Music:

sexiest instruments: cello, drums, piano, deep voice
--my boys: Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Fugazi
--The Women!!: PJ Harvey, Bettie Servert, Mazzy Star, Cat Power, Cocorosie, Nina Simone, Bjork, Miho Hatori, Patti Smith, Liz Phair(old, old), Mirah, Luscious Jackson, Janet Jackson, Kathleen Hannah, Trost and other German electro-punk babes.
--lovers: Yo La Tengo, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Camera Obscura, Crass, Tendersticks, Nirvanna, NIN, Willie, Johnny, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, AmAnSet, Devendra Banhart, John Lennon, VU, Folk Implosion, Talking Heads, Violent Femmes, Elliot Smith, Stereolab, Neil Young, Phillip Glass, Magnetic Fields
--a lot of what David Byrne calls "glitchy, squiggly pop...folk songs for a cuture of zeros and ones"
- theme song from Sealab 2021 by Calamine
--Thanks for caring

Movies:

Rushmore. Down by Law. Solaris (Soviet). Superbad (except for the part where he dances with the woman and freaks out because of his pants - that pisses me off), Breakfast at Tiffany's (incidentally, Funny Face is the worst movie ever), Band of Outsiders. there are more.

Television:

Bevis and Butthead. King of the Kill. Big Love, The Wire, Twin Peaks.

Books:

Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, J.D. Salinger, John Barth, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, Joan Didion
books about medieval stuff.
Comics - Optic Nerve: Adrian Tomine, Demo: Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan, Sandman: Neil Gaiman, Meatcake: Dame Darcy, The Goon by Eric Powell, safely anything published by Drawn and Quarterly; Chas Addams

Heroes:

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My Blog

medieval period

"The female body, designed as it is for frequent purgation, is pierced with several holes, so that channels and passageways are open for the humors to drain out.  Through these holes the fumes of...
Posted by røbín on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST

a modern teaser

This is a teaser for the new Yellow Tape Construction Company dance melodrama. Plan to come.Check out Yellow Tape Construction Company's hillarious website / blog! Holly Lisa Doug torturing me Awe...
Posted by røbín on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:00:00 PST

changed my mind.

i love flickr. i conceded to pay them the money they wanted and they conceded to show me the world. my flickr pics
Posted by røbín on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:56:00 PST

Hanging out with the Dream King

Today I look like a character from a Russian novel.That's what Ed the philosopher said, and I believe him. I believe anything that Ed says, and for good reason. He is a good man.It's bacause of my hea...
Posted by røbín on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:07:00 PST

i hate flickr

They are stingy.We can be Flickr friends if you want.
Posted by røbín on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:39:00 PST

myspace affliction

This damn computer reduces my attention span to poo.
Posted by røbín on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:26:00 PST

Is this really appropriate?

"Congratulations on Your Purchace of SilentEar, FliteMate, or QuietEar Ear Plugs!"Thanks, I guess. Hey! You don't even know which plugs I purchaced!Boy... they are nice, though.
Posted by røbín on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:24:00 PST

why didn't the chicken cross the road, bitches?

did i ever tell you about the time when i saw a chicken trying to cross the road (Guadalupe St. in Austin!!) and the swarm of camera-phone wielding, would be peaceful if not pretentious patio-coffee-d...
Posted by røbín on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:30:00 PST

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

I have a dead, almost totally stiff spider sitting atop a sticky note on my desk. A philosopher of biology just walked by, took pause, and said that it looked like "a spaghetti monster".I laughed, and...
Posted by røbín on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:11:00 PST

This has happened to me before...

I feel a little sick in the tum. Less than queasy, really, just a little odd. Now that I really focus, it's not actually the tum at all. It's sort of an effervescent imballance, steeped deep in my ch...
Posted by røbín on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:50:00 PST