rob roberge

About me:

robroberge@gmail.com

or check the new website:

www.robroberge.com

i write books, including the critically acclaimed neo-noir MORE THAN THEY COULD CHEW (Dark Alley/Harper Collins), which gets called darkly funny or depressing and disgusting, depending on who you're talking to...and the just re-issued DRIVE (Hollyridge Press)...MORE THAN THEY COULD CHEW is out in France with a dark and cool cover...I have a book of stories WORKING BACKWARDS FROM THE WORST MOMENT OF MY LIFE coming out next year on the great LA indie RED HEN PRESS (more details to follow)

i do monthly (or semi-monthly) columns for:

www.myrareguitars.com

and:

www.SandM.com

and

seismicmag.com/

also,i play guitar and sing in the danbury shakes (www.myspace.com/danburyshakes), who sound like Neil Young & Crazy Horse...i play guitar and sing in the violet rays (www.myspace/thevioletrays), who sound like Link Wray and Woody Guthrie got into an accident and formed a band...i get to make really loud avant-pop noise on the guitar with LA punk veterans (class of 78), the Urinals, and we sound...well, we sound kind of like the Urinals (www.myspace.com/chairsofperception)....

I play, in order of competence, Guitar (6 & 12 string, though not 4 string tenor), Mandolin, Bass (sound very much like a guitar player playing bass--), LAP Steel, Pedal Steel (10 string, 3 levers....much more than that and my mind wanders) Banjo and (awkward drum roll please), drums. I sing, too, but that's just because I have to and I'm not sure where it would belong on the list

i restore vintage quack medical devices (violet wands and muscle units)...i rebuild vintage guitar amps, mostly Magnatones and Valcos...i annoy the neighbors when i test vintage amps...i teach at UCR/Palm Desert's MFA in writing program and at antioch's MFA in writin' program...

DO NOT ask to be my friend so you can spam me, ask me to join ANYTHING (I don't join groups or blogs or...anything...stop asking me...it's nothing against your group, i just have too much shit to do and read every day as it is...plus, i hate groups...especially, of course, any that would have me as a member)...Do not be my friend only so you can leave commercials in my comments section. I will delete you as soon as I get off my lazy butt to do it! Sort of quickly!