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Bob

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About Me


I was named after Bob Hope.

I have over 1500 illegitimate children.

My superpowers include Invisibility, Pencil-Sharpening and Hovering (but not forward flight).

I look human, but have the DNA of an owl.

The Holy Grail is in my kitchen. It's right at the back behind the sandwich toaster and the pressure cooker, so it's hardly surprising that nobody can find it.

I was named after Bob Marley.

It was me that suggested the name "Windows" to Bill Gates. He was going to call it "E-Z-Kompute 2000".

This one time, I totally killed a spider with my bare hands. Oh yes.

I was named after Robert Louis Stevenson.

My Interests

Stand-up
History
Typography
Comic improv
Art
Naps
Squirrels
Charcuterie

I'd like to meet:


You. See my design site: Honest-Bob

Music:

This is a long list and I can't see why anybody would be interested in it. The alphabetical order just shows that I had to look at my iTunes to remember what I like.

So... while we're here, do you want to know how to put line breaks in your lists to make them look like lists? You do? Ok. Put the following in between items on your list: open pointy bracket (the "less than" mathematical symbol), then type "br", forward slash, close pointy bracket ("greater than"). (I can't write the code or it will just come up as a line break and you won't be able to see it.) Then copy and paste.

the list already:
Air
Amadou & Mariam
Ambulance
Antony & The Johnsons
Augustus Pablo
Beck
Belle & Sebastian
Bhundu Boys
Björk
Blackalicious
Blur
BOOTLEGS
Brassy
BREAKBEAT
Broadcast
Chicks On Speed
Client
Danielson Family
D&B
DUB
ELECTRONICA
Derrick May
DJ Shadow
The Fall
Franz Ferdinand
Freq Nasty
FUNK
GARAGE
Global Goon
Goldfrapp
Gorillaz
Graham Coxon
Grandaddy
GusGus
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Handsome Family
Hives
Hot Chip
Human League
Ian Brown
James Brown
Joy Division
Jurassic 5
Kaiser Chiefs
Kate Bush
The Kills
Kraftwerk
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Leila
Mains Ignition
Massive Attack
The Meters
Mirwais
Missy Elliott
Moloko
Money Mark
Mötorhead
Múm
New Order
NORTHERN SOUL
Orbital
Peaches
PJ Harvey
Prodigy
Public Enemy
RAGGA
Robots in Disguise
Róisín Murphy
Röyksopp
Saian Supa Crew
Saint Etienne
Sigur Rós
The Smiths
Soft Cell
Soulwax
Stereolab
The Streets
The Strokes
Sufjan Stevens
Talking Heads
The Upsetters
White Stripes
YeahYeahYeahs

Now you've read that list, do you feel we know each other better? Are you judging me on my declared preferences?

Movies:

Too many movies. Can't think. Head hurts.
Anything with Paddy Considine in it, except that short he did with Chris Morris.
Erm, what else? I liked A Cock And Bull Story and 24 Hour Party People but 9 songs ? Shame on you, Winterbottom.
Me And You And Everyone We Know, Napoleon Dynamite, Being John Malkevich, Adaptation, American Beauty, Sean Of The Dead, Eternal Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees... you get the idea.
... will that do?

Television:

University Challenge
Six Feet Under
Green Wing
Sopranos
The Simpsons (obviously)
Mighty Boosh
Arrested Development

Books:

Fiction:
Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stevenson
most stuff by Douglas Coupland
The Bone People, Kerry Hulme
Songs From Big Pink, John Niven (in the 33 1/3 series by Continuum)
the Space Trilogy, CS Lewis
Captain Najork books, Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Nonfiction:
Europe: a history, Norman Davies
Black Athena, Martin Bernal
Power of Babel John McWhorter
Peter the Great, Robert K. Massie
Black Sea, Neal Ascherson
The Histories, Herodotus
The Times Atlas of World History
That book with the three wise men and Noah's Ark and "In the beginning" (Yes, I've got it under nonfiction but I'm aware that it has made up bits.)

Heroes:

Dr Doom
The Green Goblin
Magneto
The Joker
Lex Luther
anyone else who lives the dream of ruthless world domination.

My Blog

Comedy

I'm going to do some stand up comedy. That's not a joke.I've been doing an evening course and I'm very nearly Qualified To Be Funny.Why I didn't do this ten years or more ago, I don't know. Now I have...
Posted by Bob on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:20:00 PST

You can't leave the subject-line blank. Everything falls apart if we don't categorise.

I tried to post here yesterday, while I had an incipient migraine and a weird swimmy eye. MySpace stiffed me with a code spaz-up and an apology which was not heartfelt.I spent the last week and a half...
Posted by Bob on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:26:00 PST

Decision

Another thing. I have a difficult decision going on. Been back and forth on it on a daily basis for a couple of months.Do I stay in my insecure, generally un-lucrative, flexible freelance life and the...
Posted by Bob on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:33:00 PST

Fight the power

So, a couple of days ago I emerged from the tube at Holborn in the morning and there was some sort of power failure on Kingsway. The traffic lights were all dead. On a normal morning, one either cross...
Posted by Bob on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:26:00 PST

Supernatural creatures that aren't really.

I've been without my phone all day. A neighbour gave me a lift home last night after seeing me at the bus stop, so this evening i knocked on his door to say that I may have dropped my phone in his car...
Posted by Bob on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:16:00 PST