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skip roberts

My name's Skip James, bitch

About Me

i haven't updated this thing in 2 years and probably should.
i do the following:
-work as a counselor/therapist.
-fix/ride bikes (or the trolley when it's shit out).
-try to find good new music
-enjoy western PA autumn
-read books
-watch a lot of movies or tv shows on dvd (six feet under!)
-play scrabble (and sometimes monopoly)
-drink coffee & tea with cigarettes
i want to:
-play any kind of hockey again (anyone interested???)
-quit smoking
-work out (join a gym)
-go back to grad school (same field?)
-get the god damn book club going again
-get one of these big blow-up pools i saw in north philly for our back yard (done, oh yeah!)
-get another rat terrier
-burn all taxis and u.penn van drivers and their babies while locked in their respective vehicles b/c they have a hard-on for the extermination of all bicyclers
i do not:
-smoke meth
-enjoy clutter
-like rude people
-like talking on the phone very often
-like keanu reeves as jon fucking constantine
-have a finished joe greene keg-o-rater yet

My Interests

-hockey
-football/steelers
-ethiopian food
-indian food
-chinese food
-mexican food
-jamaican food
-chocolate
-social work
-zines
-writing
-literature
-pizza
-lucky strikes
-sweat pants and staying warm
-ping pong
-watching alias, anticipating season 2 dvds of lost

I'd like to meet:

though many of my friends are none of the following, i like meeting people that are:
-nice
-pleasant
-tactful
-considerate
-laid back
-flexible
-respect my personal space (ie "my bubble")
-not straight-edge...in the weird way where they punch you in the face (this one my friends do have covered)

i do not like:
-egotistical, pompous fucks
-irresponsibility
-irrationality
-church
-conservatives
-righteous liberal wingnuts
-overly competitive tendencies

Music:

-blues (wolf, house, hooker)
-old country (hank williams I, waylan jennings)
-jazz (ellington, gillespie, coltrane, parker, monk)
-metal, etc (motorhead, old metallica, slayer, sabbath, sleep, blue cheer(!))
-instrumental (god speed, do make say think, champs, oxes, dirty three, jon fahey)
-new music(black heart procession, arab strap, elliot smith)
-foreign items (hala strana,turkish/iraqi/australian/anything)
-older items (michael jackson, bobby womack, stevie wonder, rick james)
-old punk rock & peace punk (minutemen,crass, misfits, blitz, conflict, zounds)

Movies:

-threads
-easyrider
-zombie movies
-twin peaks (anything lynch)
-bladerunner
-cannibal the musical
-terminator movies
-zentropa
-pulp fiction
-high noon
-unforgiven
-high plains drifter (any old eastwood western)
-brazil
-fear and loathing
-officespace
-anchorman

Television:

-seinfeld
-simpsons
-six feet under
-alias
-battlestar galactica
-LOST

Books:

- sherlock holmes
-science fiction/fantasy (phillip k. dick, asimov, bradbury, tolkien)
-old fiction ("classics"- n. hawthorne, j. london, h.g. wells, dickens, t. hardy, r.l. stevenson)
-philosophy (greeks, jefferson, thoreau, emerson, spinoza)
-new fiction (gore vidal, gab marquez, kerouac, murakami, leguin)
-young adult fiction (outsiders, giver, kill a mockingbird, wrinkle in time)
-comics (preacher, v for vendetta, hellblazer, swamp thing, sin city, y the last man)

Heroes:

i'm not into heroes.

My Blog

Dinosauria, we (c. bukowski)

**Recently saw the documentary, really enjoy this piece (aka "born into this)  born like thisinto thisas the chalk faces smileas Mrs. Death laughsas the elevators breakas political landscape...
Posted by skip roberts on Tue, 16 May 2006 11:32:00 PST

www.aquariusrecords.org

if anyone sees this thing, you need to go to this site and check some shit out- amazing selection, awesome taste. barely ever been disappointed by bands compared to ones i already like. check out ha...
Posted by skip roberts on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST