Robert
Robert Nichols
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Don't be silly. Everybody wants to be kissed--even philosophers."
Male
36 years old
California
United States
Last Login: 11/19/2009
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Robert's Interests
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| General | Coffee. Driving after midnight. Movies. All movies. The Museum of Jurassic Technology. The Velaslavasay Panorama. Long distance running - especially marathons. Jitterbug. Vintage clothes, but I've killed most of mine. Los Angeles. Opera. Overcoming the embarassment of driving a BMW. The obscure and banal; banal trumps obscure, except when it doesn't. The Institute for Figuring. Beauty. Going to the Rose Bowl to see the Bruins or the Colliseum to watch the Trojans. Botanical gardens. My cat, Nietzsche (R.I.P.). Afternoon tea. The Center for Land Use Interpretation. The New York Observer, even though it comes two weeks late. Cafe Balcony. Walking in cities. Fiction (that one's a resurection). Truth, but it gets very irritating. Ami. | | Music | KXLU-all the bands whose names I never write down, and whose shows I wished I'd gone to, 1930s swing (Chick Webb, Chick Webb; Mora's is all right by me), No Wave, Pre-Proto-Para Punk, Buxtehude (really, but it's meant to stand for much more). Give me Eno and Bowie and Iggy and I'll get by. Give me Ultravox with John Foxx and I'll drift into a fugue state. Sonic Youth, except that "Teenage Riot" is the only thing I can listen to. If it's on a 78 I'll find a reason to think it's cool, important, and transporting. OK Computer. Martin Denny. | | Movies | Vertigo, Nights of Cabiria, Election (damn you, Alexander Payne, for being so good), Closely Watched Trains, The Conformist, The Merchant of Four Seasons, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul; Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, The Lives of Others, Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Y Tu Mamá Tambien, The Conversation, Busby Berkeley musicals from the early 1930s, Scarlet Street, Welcome to The Dollhouse, Spanking the Monkey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine. | | Television | The Wire (please come back soon), Gillmore Girls (less and less), The West Wing, Six Feet Under, Weeds (I should be writing for it), The L-Word (once upon a time), Curb Your Enthusiasm (it has been curbed as of 2005), College Football (especially UCLA and USC), TCM, Fox Movie Channel, Nip/Tuck, My So-Called Life at 3 AM, Daria, Charlie Rose (cringing all the way through), My Name is Earl. Friday Night Lights, I'm pretty sure, almost any documentary, but only some reality. | | Books | Would so much like to know what I like. Trying to read something I can get excited about. | | Heroes | Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jim Mangold, Charlie Kaufman, Alan Ball, Alexander Payne, Iris Yamashita, Raymond Carver, D-Bo, Immanuel Kant (for very personal reasons), Ludwig Wittgenstein (not sure which reasons apply), Jon Jost, Alan Turing. |
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SCV Film, Film Fascists, USC Cinema School Alumni, Jacob K. Javits Fellows, Napoleon Dynamite fan club, Degrassi: The Next Generation Fan Club, Gilmore Girls, UFOFilm.org-Entertainment Industry United (Actors, Directors, Writers, Musicians, Artists, Producers, Investors, Agents, etc...)
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Robert's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | Grad / professional school |
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Robert's Schools
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University Of Southern California
Los Angeles,California
Graduated: 2004
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: MFA in Cinema-Television/Screenwriting
Clubs: Marathon Team
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2000 to 2004 |
University Of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles,California
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Major: Philosophy
Clubs: Fine Art, Theater Arts, German Literature, Comp Lit, YRL burrowing, Westwood Village angst
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1999 to 2000 |
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles, CA
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Major: Cinema
Clubs: Short Films: Self-Help, Emma Makes Coffee, Broadway, Bystander
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1998 to 1999 |
Mills College
Oakland,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: German Literature
Clubs: Spent time with Heinrich Heine, Heinrich von Kleist, Walther von der Vogelweide, Elisabeth Siekhaus and Rick Gray. Believe to have achieved honorary Mills Woman status, although felt self to be more of a Mills Girl.
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1997 to 1998 |
Berkeley High
Berkeley,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: The PAD, The Apologetics, Student Council, Oxymoron Wannabe, Duchampian Muralist, Cafe Renaissance, Three Time Senior Prom Attendee
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1966 to 1968 |
Maybeck High School
Berkeley,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Painting, Sculpture, Punk Rock
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1959 to 1960 |
Sacramento Waldorf School
Fair Oaks,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Capture the Flag, Handmade Books, Beeswax Sculpture, Runny Watercolors, St. Michael's Day, Soap, Bread and Clothmaking, Eurythmy, Suzuki Violin Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; My Own Blockfloet, Knit One Pearl Two, Spanish and German, Good Morning Mr. Kane, Kickball, Skateboarding in Circles around the Basketball Blacktop, Fairy Tales, Gilgamesh, Thor, Achilles, Moses, Unwilling Portrayal of Adam in the Garden of Eden, Unwitting Soccer Field Save While Daydreaming, Miner's Lettuce
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1950 to 1954 |
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Egon
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| The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black Comedy | 
In your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh.
You may end up insane, but you'll have fun on the way to the asylum.
Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Psycho
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