rock and roll, dude

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Guillaume Dumoulin <http://www.wanadoo.fr/~gdumoulin>
 > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:20:57 +0200
 >
 > SO I was digging through an old pile of letters from the mid-90s when I 
 > noticed all the letters witten by an american scumwad called Robert.

Yeah, I heard of him.

 > How are you doing ? I am happily surprised to see that your email still 
 > works ! You're a model of social stability for me !

I'm surprised, too.  I'll paste my Dec 2001 solstice message below so you can
experience my dull, stable life.  (Note my other e-mail address.)

 > Are you still living with Noelle ?

Yep.

 > Did you grow a beard ?

Every few days when I'm too lazy to shave.

 > Are you a 
 > confirmed hacker ?

I've got religion, man.

 > Did you get your hands fixed ?

Nope.  Still somewhat fucked up, but a bit better than a few years ago.

 > Does it still rain in your house ?

No, thankfully!

 > On my side I have been working almost during 4 years from 96 to 2001. 
 > The last year and a half was a really nice job building web sites for a 
 > company full of nice people to work with. Unfortunately the business 
 > wasn't going so well for web agencies and it closed and everybody was 
 > fired.

Actually, I got laid off (fired), too, at the end of July.  I'm looking
for another job, but enjoying working on my programming projects in the
meanwhile.

 > So I spent the year 2002 doing nothing but drinking, going to the few 
 > punk shows and squatt events that we have in our lovely city.

Yeah, Grenoble sounds pretty laid back.  I remember reading something
about Grenoble a few months ago; I think it was about some march against
the right-wing National Front idiots.

 > Ive been trying to get a girlfriend for a few years but not hard enough 
 > I believe since I am still celibate !!
 > I have a dog now though (a small yellow dog) but I am not into having 
 > sex with her.

I'm sure she's thankful that you aren't into that.

 > Now Im kind of on my way to work again and I must admit that its really 
 > painful. Also Im a bit sick of my city.

I can imagine.  It would be like living where my parents live (New
Hampshire).

 > You know Spider from the Bay Area ? She's been living here for about 2 
 > years now.

The name sounds really familiar.  If I saw her, I'd probably recognize
her.

 > Are you still into punk rock or do you listen to country music (I found 
 > out that these things happen sometimes).

I definitely like punk rock, but I hate the cigarette smoke at the shows.
That's probably why I (we) don't go to more shows.  I may see
Sleater-Kinney in a few weeks (OK, so they're barely punk rock).  Jello's
gunna be here next month doing a spoken word show (finally!).  Noelle and
I went to a punk spoken word show (Duncan Wilder Johnson) hoping that it
would be less smoky; needless to say, Noelle and I both smelled like
ashtrays afterwards.  But, it was cool anyway.

I may be able to go to more events since I don't have a job; working
always makes things difficult.

 > Do you play drums again ?

I haven't tried recently, so I don't know if I'd be in pain or not.
Unless something changes drastically in my life, I probably won't even try
drumming.

 > I havent been playing for ages and ages but got my amp back and someone 
 > gave me a really shitty bass. I havent touched them yet but hopefully I 
 > will soon.

Cool.  We've been buying more music (on CD) lately and occassionally I
think about drumming, but drumming here would be difficult (space, noise, etc.)
even if I did want to dedicate the time to it.

 > I also turned 30 last year which makes me an old fuck, (still younger 
 > than you though).

You young fuck!  :-)

 >   ;-)
 > Did you keep in touch with my guitar hero Sue Lee ?

I knew that she dropped out of grad school in Hawaii and, last I heard,
she's living with her parents in L.A. (or near L.A.).

 > Give me some news my friend !
 > 
 > Guillaume
 > 
 > PS: Are your emails encrypted by PGP ?

I can if you have a PGP public key I can encrypt to.  Do you have a PGP
key?

 > Le mardi, 10 sep 2002, à 16:36 Europe/Paris, robert a écrit :