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Robert

Who wants to be normal? Normal is boring!

About Me

Male, 53, Graphic Artist, Photographer, Drummer. By day I'm a graphic artist (Mac jockey), and by night I perform with Karachi Rocket, the percussion ensemble that accompanies Gypsy Red Tribe, an innovative tribal fusion bellydance troupe. Photography at: www.floatingworldimages.com
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Robert
Birthday: February 8
Birthplace: Trion, Georgia
Current Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'7"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right (though I do some things left-handed)
Your Heritage: Scots, some German
The Shoes You Wore Today: Black New Balance walking shoes
Your Weakness: wasting time (that's my ADD tendency)
Your Fears: wasting my life
Your Perfect Pizza: So many great combinations!
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Staying alive
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: I don't use an instant messenger
Thoughts First Waking Up: I hate alarm clocks!
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes
Your Bedtime: around eleven
Your Most Missed Memory:
Pepsi or Coke: Diet Coke (but not that stuff with Splenda!)
MacDonalds or Burger King: Ugh!
Single or Group Dates: Mostly single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Who knows what they put in those restaurant urns?
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee, with cream, no sugar
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: Only in writing
Do you Sing: Occasionally
Do you Shower Daily: Of course
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: Been, think it might be fun to go back
Do you want to get Married: Maybe, but probably not
Do you belive in yourself: Most of the time
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: About average
Are you a Health Freak: No, but I do make an effort to take care of myself
Do you get along with your Parents: For the most part
Do you like Thunderstorms: Exhilarating to run through a storm!
Do you play an Instrument: Yes: riqq, frame drums, recorders
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no. Don't eat sweets.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Yes. The water was cold!
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: I think I stole somebody's pen by mistake
Ever been Drunk: Yes, but that was many years ago. I don't drink much now--I'm usually too busy.
Ever been called a Tease: no
Ever been Beaten up: no
Ever Shoplifted: no
How do you want to Die: Many many years from now-when I've read all the books and heard all the music and seen all the places...
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: You mean I have to grow up?
What country would you most like to Visit: Ireland, Morocco, Scotland(again)... so many..
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue, grey, brown...
Favourite Hair Color: Dark, or red
Short or Long Hair: no preference
Height: no preference
Weight: average to thin
Best Clothing Style: sarong and sandals
Number of Drugs I have taken: Hmm...
Number of CDs I own: Too many to count. Not to mention the boxes of vinyl.
Number of Piercings: none
Number of Tattoos: none
Number of things in my Past I Regret: a few, mostly missed opportunities
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My Interests

Photography, Art, Music, Reading (and sometimes writing) Poetry, Movies, Gardening, Cooking, sweat lodges, Camping, Hiking, Roaming National Forests and wilderness areas; while trying to avoid mosquitoes and ticks. My primary spiritual path is Buddhism, but I'm too much of an ironist to actually call myself a Buddhist.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting, artistic, spiritual and creative people; models for photographic projects.

Music:

Karachi Rocket; Bach; Ravel; Bartok; Minoru Miki; Joseph Schwantner; Arvo Part; Stellamara; Azam Ali; Vas; Dead Can Dance; Vladimir Godar; Bellydance Music (especially drumming); Raquy Danziger; Helm; Early music, World music...

Movies:

David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, etc.), David Croneberg (Naked Lunch, The Fly, eXistenZ, Spider, Crash); John Waters; Guillermo del Toro (Chronos, The Devil's Backbone); Peter Jackson; Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book, Prospero's Books, etc); Kurasawa; Sergeo Leone; Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven; Badlands; The New World); Kill Bill, too many to list...

Television:

I rarely watch television (and recently had my cable turned off for that reason, so now I *can't* watch TV). Occasionally watch series disks on dvd: Carnivale is good.

Books:

Books are magical! You can't have too many books! Collections of poetry; spirituality, philosophy & religion; science; anthropology and culture; history & archaeology; photography monographs; occasionally popular novels for entertainment

My Blog

Getting Back to Normal

It is now Thursday, a dark rainy night. But I'm relieved that I'm finally getting over the nasty cold that's kept me home (except for work) for the past week and a half. It is good to finally be feeli...
Posted by Robert on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:39:00 PST

early morning on the front porch

Monday, 30 October 2006about 9:00 a.m.9:00 [Handwritten note]It is one of those beautiful, sunny cloudless fall days. I bring mycoffee onto the front porch and choose the chair in partial sunlight, to...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:51:00 PST

Sunday 10/29/06

Last night's sweat lodge went well. As always it was a lot of work, getting the house and the grounds ready, making seemingly endless trips with wheelbarrow carrying firewood to the ceremonial ground....
Posted by Robert on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:17:00 PST

So, what's in a blog?

Okay, so what's with this blog thing anyway? Are we kidding ourselves to think that there are people out there in cyberspace who have the slightest interest in what we write here? Perhaps we just ente...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:04:00 PST