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SF WEEKLY - Best of San Francisco ® 2005: People & Places
Best Audio and Visual Collagist
San Francisco has one of the highest DJ-per-square-inch ratios in the country: We're famous for it. Many DJs are insincere victims of a trend (we may be famous for this as well). But Rob Cole, aka KrOB , is a man following his vision so tenaciously that San Francisco ought to be famous for housing him. In fact, it may not be accurate to call him a DJ; he runs two, sometimes three radio shows and provides mixed sounds for a variety of events (the best known is the Odeon's weekly"Ask Dr. Hal " show). His talent even extends to video manipulation and other entertainments. Cole himself uses purposely vague language to describe his work: "I'm doing a multithingy after the St. Stupid's Day Parade," he'll say, or, "I'm going to play noise and shit in a band and do video DJing, too." Then there's his video work with Loop!Station , a tech-heavy act fronted by Robin Coomer, aka Ruby Iron. Cole's making videos and working on a DVD for the duo, and sometimes does projections during performances. Heavily influenced by the oddball pseudo-religion the Church of the SubGenius, Cole reflects, through his incessant antics, the group's love of free-form creativity; as for the sacred imperative to "slack," however, he's not exactly with the program . He's too busy.
Special ED : "the story of the naivete" (( 1 )) (( 2 )) (( 3 )) (( 4 )) (( 5 )) (( 6 )) (( 7 ))
The Christopher Recordings on SEX INSTRUCTION (( 1 )) (( 2 )) (( 3 )) (( 4 ))
Naomi Barfield - THE OLD PUMP ORGAN
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KrOB RaDIO DRIVE-IN with LOOP!STATION - AUGUST 31
THANKS TO ROBIN AND SAM!!
The show was definitley a first...and it was great. "obey your signal", set to a variety of choices.
testing the lame fm transmitter and trying to find a compatible signal: taylor mead from "coffee and cigarettes", used as test audio... mahler in the armory, nicola tesla and "the earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance" and finally "did you hear that?...oh it's gone now", served as an interesting narrative for our radio tests. scrapping the fm transmitter 20 minutes after showtime, we defaulted to the use of car stereos to blast the record manually. cueing up every song, many times, in some cases, for the huge wall projections. for "lucky me" we had 2 stereos going. that was cool, but we should've had more cars doing the music. the continued interruptions in the power and music actually served the show well. finding the show's capacity and the combination of efforts made everything fuse and swing. robin brought her merch box of cds. nate helped with the sound. pete supplied the car that the inverter could generate from and doug supplied me with the ride to get everything there. treat and mistral, a location never thought of, until only a few days before the show, when the plans changed from pirate cat, was great. as bright as the streetlights were (we had a constant shadow of a telephone pole on the projection wall, not unlike an image burn on a plasma screen...a nice thematic bonus), the video still looked really good. and there were pigeons. a cloe moment. no popcorn and no taco truck, however. a small but generous audience of freinds and music-loving loiterers had to make do with beer and brownies. as far as unauthorized art installations go, this is one that won't be in the suckipedia. "lucky me" looked great, and "towering" got some applesauce. left them wanting more. mongo-lloyd showed up late and freinds were made. all in all, a smoker's patch for my cloe jones of burning man.
next summer, the 2nd annual! be there or be anamorphic!
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
People Like Us, Wobbly and Don Joyce - Baby Makes Three 2 on Over The Edge
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The House On The Rock - AUTOMATED MUSIC
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Hans Grusel's KRANKENKABINET
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the return of the curse of the son of the bride of the quickening of the ask dr. hal show - soon
David Lynch - THE AIR IS ON FIRE
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my space....get it?
ok, for those of you interested in the blog
PIRATE CAT RADIO ARCHIVE -- ASK Dr. HAL
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PIRATE CAT RADIO ARCHIVE --
S T I M U L U S REGRESSION PROGRAMMING
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Margie Brandon - LIVE AT CLANCY'S
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/2/2006
Band Website: krobradio.blogspot.com/
Band Members: "I'm a Human Radio Station!"

Influences:

Sounds Like:

Every time there's an Ask Dr. Hal! show, there'll be a KrOB's
Film Farm two days later. Remember that irreducible maxim.

With added features:
EYENOISE du JOUR (to be announced)
SUPER-SECRET SPY Specials!
FREE Hot-Buttered POPCORN!
DRINKS of All Colors and tempting Movie Theater SNACKS!

10.10.07 - PARENTS
(dir. bob balaban, 1989)

10.17.07 - ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
(dir. erle c. kenton, 1933)

10.30.07 - ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
(dir. charles barton, 1948)

11.07.07 - EVIL DEAD 2
(dir. sam raimi, 1987)

Record Label: Crisper Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING - VERSION.27

no, but seriously...eight, eight hundred, eight hundred and eight, eight hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and eighty, eight hundred and eighty-eight, eight hundred and eighty-five, eight hundred an...
Posted by K r © B on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:39:00 PST

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING - VERSION.26

college radio hazing, krob (not a charming drunk), "harry potter and the black leather cunt" by j.k. rowling, i wish i were dead, (and yes) even more excerpts from "do or dyi", the reluctant intellect...
Posted by K r © B on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:21:00 PST

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING -- VERSION.25

sunset stripe hullabaloo, dustin hoffman as lenny bruce, daniel johnston - don't play cards with satan--the beginning of the end of thanksgiving--language we (americans) still supress, into the ether,...
Posted by K r © B on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:16:00 PST

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING -- VERSION.24

leon redbone - shiek of araby-> apathetic identification / KrOB (sfx for gotham)->lenny bruce - the palladium -- (background: miles davis - kind of blue, bill laswell & pete namlook - psychonavigation...
Posted by K r © B on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:13:00 PST

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING -- VERSION.23

a chunk (four minutes and twenty seconds) of "the goonies", sfx loop from "god of war", igor wakhevitch, walt disney (anything's possible in disneyland)harry nilsson - early in the morningdavid bowie ...
Posted by K r © B on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:10:00 PST

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING -- VERSION.22

soon
Posted by K r © B on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:08:00 PST

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING -- VERSION.21

(railroad intro)the button - merry christmas everyonequiet american - circumlocution- dj shadow - murari - easy journeythe murmurs - you suck(walter matthau bit from "a face in the crowd")-national la...
Posted by K r © B on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:06:00 PST

STiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING -- VERSION.20

cub - the day i said i goodbye, negativland - guns, i don't believe (i put a candy-coated shell on) you, beat happening - teenage caveman, try to be a listener - remain inside the sound collage, morph...
Posted by K r © B on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:28:00 PST

StiMULUS REGRESSION PROGRAMMING -- VERSION.19

THiS WEAK VERSION.19 minus .05 - "loop this" 9/28/068pm-10pm:robin coomer from loop!station (the best band in san francisco) is my guest for two hours. all things robin and sam, with a kr...
Posted by K r © B on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:49:00 PST

I went to burning man for my girlfriend. (pt. 1 & 2)

there's a ticket with your name on it.that was all that prepared me for what would be my first burning man. it had been weeks of missing cloe and feeling lost and miserable since my birthday of augus...
Posted by K r © B on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:28:00 PST