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Robert

all alone at the '64 worlds fair

About Me

i love music, pretending im a professional chef, games of chance and my cat newman.

My Interests

writing, playing and listening to music, movies, reading, crosswords, cooking, baking, drawing, biking, walking, sitting, jumping, throwing, laughing, joking, sweating, tumbling, drinking, making fun, being made fun of, water, air, space, land, maps, macs, light, shadow, hardwood floors, dice, sundays, thursdays.

I'd like to meet:

daydream believers and merchants of soul carrying pictures of matchstick men. NO CLOWNS.

Music:

walker lundee, ricky nelson, decemberists, clem snide, willie nelson, foxymorons, wilco, elvis, elvis costello, merle haggard, camper van beethoven, the everly brothers, grandaddy, the shins, neil finn, crowded house, flaming lips, yukio mishima, the postal service, aimme mann, johnny cash, big star, michael penn, eels, elliot smith, sparklehorse, tom waits, sorta, blur, new pornographers, calexico, neutral milk hotel, old 97s, elivs perkins, pernice brothers, walkmen,

Movies:

bottle rocket, rushmore, best in show, a mighty wind, pee wees big adventure, cabin boy, dr strangelove, third man, vertigo, better off dead, french connection 2, The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Television:

the wire, dexter, did i say the wire?

Books:

me talk pretty one day, american pastoral, the elephant vanishes, fake books, rizzo, joy of cooking, the roaches have no king, the ark sakura, the wind up bird chronicle, killer on the road, prayer for a city, book of illusions

Heroes:

spartacus, zeus, conan (obrien), superman, spiderman, douglas macarthur, winston churchill, sam adams, ben franklin, william penn, plastic man, chris elliot, abigail adams, orson wells, james michner, leo tolstoy, tammy wynette, george jones