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Larry-bob says Holy Titclamps! |
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| Age: | 40 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | SAN FRANCISCO, California |
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| Last Login: | Jun 23, 2007 (471 days back) |
About Me |
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| Into sparking culture, politics, and creating fusions between the two. Queer cultural activism, independent music, spoken word performance and event production, as well as involvement in electoral politics are the areas in which I try to reach these goals. My website and long-running zine (since 1989!) is www.holytitclamps.comI play piano in the band the Winsome Griffles with with my buddies Jack and Brad -- please Friend the band's myspace page!I do the weekly queer cultural calendar for the SF Bay Area, Queer Things To Do aka SFQueer.comKirk Read and I co-host the montly spoken word, music, comedy, and performance open mic Smack Dab at MagnetNick Leonard and I co-produce QComedy Showcase and maintain the QComedy.com website.My boyfriend Tommy keeps me happy and well-fed.Check out my favorite bands on tour at tourb.us and my favorite website links at del.icio.us/larrybobIt's spelled Larry-bob even though my email addresses tend to leave out the hyphen and make it larrybob. | |
My Interests |
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| Queer culture outside the mainstream. | |
I'd like to meet:Socially active people who get out and do stuff. |
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Music:Winsome Griffles, Antony and the Johnsons, Momus, Magnetic Fields, Hidden Cameras, Big Star, Big Black, Rites of Spring, Richard Strauss, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Robyn Hitchcock, Flaming Lips, Aphex Twin, The Bad Plus, 12 Rods, Arcwelder, Walt Mink, Scratch Acid, My Bloody Valentine, Red Clay Ramblers, the Big Boys, Babes in Toyland, Team Dresch, Pansy Division, Scott Walker, Dolly Mixture, The Pipettes, James Booker, Professor Longhair. |
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Movies:Chinatown, Pink Flamingos, the Cockettes, Plaster Caster, Grey Gardens, Thundercrack!, Flaming Creatures, Lonesome Cowboys, Tarnation, Benjamin Smoke. |
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Television:Spaced, Brass Eye, The Prisoner. |
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Books:Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz; Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas; Closer, Dennis Cooper; Briefly Told Lives, C. Bard Cole; Interesting Monsters, Aldo Alvarez; Rat Bohemia, Sarah Schulman. |
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Heroes:Steve Abbott, Harry Hay, Walt Whitman. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
| SexualOrientation: | Gay / Lesbian |
| Hometown: | San Francisco |
| Smoker: | No |
| Drinker: | No |
| Children: | I don't want kids |
| Education: | College graduate |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Closing of Carroll and Graf publisher harms LGBT books. |
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| Consolidation in the book trade has continued, including the closing of Carroll & Graf -- see these articles: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6441065.htmlhttp:/
/www.calendarlive.com/books/cl... Posted by Larry-bob on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:29:00 PST |
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Top 10 Baby Boomer-aged musicians that Baby Boomers aren't familiar with |
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| I can't think how many times I've been talking to a baby boomer and mentioned a musician almost their same age whom they're completely unfamiliar with. No insult intended to baby boomers who are actua... Posted by Larry-bob on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:56:00 PST |
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Are you a boring mainstream homo? Take the quiz and find out |
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| OK, there are a lot of mainstream boring homos out there. I think you know who I'm talking about... but how do you know you are not one of the pod-people, an Aberzombie, a part of the gay sheep-herd?... Posted by Larry-bob on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:46:00 PST |
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Your life will be ruined by peak oil, so why don't you know? |
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| It's frustrating to me that the idea of peak oil -- that we are going to pass the point where there is less supply of oil than will meet demand, leading to worldwide economic effects -- is so unknown.... Posted by Larry-bob on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:16:00 PST |
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Help Melvin find a date! |
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| Please help Melvin find a date by:1: watching this video2: reposting the message and link.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfy4ZKw3P0... Posted by Larry-bob on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:33:00 PST |
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Heading to NYC |
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| I am going to New York next week -- my friend Jack has music in a film in the Mix Festival called "NYC Dilemma" and our band, the Winsome Griffles are playing at Galapagos in Brooklyn on Sunday, Novem... Posted by Larry-bob on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:25:00 PST |
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Got a new queer punk zine in the mail... |
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| I don't get as many zines as I used to... not by a long shot. Mostly it's because I've become very unreliable as a snail mail correspondent. I pretty regularly still get copies of Batteries Not Includ... Posted by Larry-bob on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:52:00 PST |
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Avengers live -- catch them on tour! |
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| I went and saw the Avengers last night here in San Francisco. I'd seen one of the early reunion shows a few years ago, but I don't think I'd seen them since then.For anyone who might not be familiar, ... Posted by Larry-bob on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:30:00 PST |
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Information |
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| I had a realization - that I spend a lot of time doing stuff involving processing information. Some stuff is information that is pretty useless -- trivia, message board crap, 90f the stuff on my... Posted by Larry-bob on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:49:00 PST |
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Gore Vidal |
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| I've been kinda slow on posting (swamped with dayjob and other stuff.) Last week I went down to San Jose with Jerry the Faerie and my bandmate Jack and Jerry's friend Tom and we saw Gore Vidal in conv... Posted by Larry-bob on Thu, 11 May 2006 12:16:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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SFGS, E. Salvador, Nick, Kevin, Punk Rock Joel, Milo, chris w, Scott, Frances Gumm, Pedro Angel Serrano, Sina, Winsome Griffles, Pick Up The Mic, Grey Gardens, The Hidden Cameras, Heavy Rotation, GenderQueer Nashville, RICK CASTRO, Wuvable Oaf, Queer john Loves PINK, Nico Santos, The Modlins, soce, the elemental wizard, BLATT, Scream Club, Ruben Medrano, WARBEAR, xxboys, hey there cowboy, Tom Goss, THE NOVEL i, a N ew O r L e AN s poet, Square, CLUB BUTCHIN' L.A, Anderson Toone, Λ Λ ® Ο ℵ, Journey Light, RexSF - QueerCity.com, Merge Press, Dave Heckler, Queer Shorts, ArteBorghese, Lisa Geduldig, Dimensions, Parade of Boners, QUEER NATION LONDON, NO blues, PISSZINE, Woodkerne, angela chaos, Steve Prouty, BEARS ARE BORING, Brainlove Records, Rick R. Reed
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