Roberto Xavier Torres-Torres

It appears that the old Sonic Youth Gossip Forum is finally dead. www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/ Been on that since 1999. I was "cheeto55" and then "Rob Instigator."

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Charlie Brown and a friend discuss the merits of the Butthole Surfers

Some fun, maybe unexpected facts about me, if you're new to my page...

🌟I played the cello for 7 years.
🌟I live with my wife and 4 rescue dogs, each one cuter than the next.
🌟I was a radio DJ for a while on 96.7 sugar Land

Kassia St. Clair Explores the History, Sources, and Meanings of Color Book Reviews from a Curious Mind, RXTT writes about what he reads. Book Review Blog.

The Book Journey continues with Kassia St. Claire's The Secret Lives of Color!

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Of the over 240 books read and reviewed on RXTT's Book Journey, 86 are available as free downloads. ENJOY!

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YouTube video by NBC News 'Fans are grieving’: 'Kiss' frontman Gene Simmons remembers Ozzy Osbourne

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i have always respected Gene Simmons, but to hear him speak about Ozzy....wow.

Back to the Beginning… A Journey Still Unfolding for Us All | Metallica.com What you are diving into here is my personal journal with regards to the Back to the Beginning extravaganza. Much of it was written off-the-cuff, and the sheer magnitude of the event means that even n...

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Ozzy did not write most of Black Sabbath's lyrics. He was the voice and the interpreter of bassist Geezer Butler's words, which were always full of TRUTH. This may be my favorite verse in any Sabbath song, and Ozzy sings it with the righteous indignation it deserves. From Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

"Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
You bastards!"

RXTT's Top Ten Favorite Novels (so far) RXTT Top Ten Novels, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, Herman Melville, Daniel Defoe, Charles Bukowski, Greg Bear, Mark Danielewski, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea,

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I read books. I write reviews and thoughts of everything I read and publish them on my long-standing review blog, RXTT's Book Journey. ENJOY!

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Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

Ozzy Osbourne Obituary: For the Back Street Kids John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats reflects on the loss of the singular frontman.

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Ozzy Osbourne describes how life has a way of kicking you in the fucking nuts.

YouTube video by KRSOneVEVO KRS-One - Sound of da Police (Official Video)

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Ozzy would often shout to the audience "We love you all!" and "You are the greatest people!" and he meant every word.

To see him sing one last time in his home of Birmingham was deeply moving/inspiring.

To a large group of people around the world, myself included, Black Sabbath were our Beatles.

YouTube video by F G. Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan

I am so thankful I got to see the Back to the Beginning tribute concert for Ozzy and Black Sabbath. Every hard-rock/heavy metal fan should see it.

Rest in Peace Ozzy

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For nearly 15 years I have posted book reviews of every book I have read during that time at RXTT's Book Journey.
My man Dan has got me beat! Over 3,000 books since the mid 1960's, most of them checked out from his local libraries.
#BOOKHERO
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"Nobody can fool you on a sewer pipe, can they, a woman like you? " - Groucho Marx

“Marriage as a long conversation. When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”- Nietzsche

Does anyone else REALLY HATE the stupid click-bait articles that start off "Famous 1980's star UNRECOGNIZABLE at Blah Blah event."???? I fucking do. Fuck the algorithms. People age. Every 7 years we replace nearly all of our body's cells. People need to go back to middle school science class.

lowest common denominator synthesis is still mad shitty

When the Fake is treated as the Real, we lose the Real forever. Book Reviews from a Curious Mind, RXTT writes about what he reads. Book Review Blog.

Of the 220+ books I have read/reviewed on RXTT's Book Journey these past 14 years, Baudrillard's SIMULACRA & SIMULATION may be the most important one as we try and understand the twisted, irrational simulation of reality being foisted upon us by the overlords.
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YouTube video by Jim M Wheatley Houston Oilers Homecoming 1979

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If you read many sources, then come up with your own thoughts on what you read, that is creativity. If you instead ask a Large Language Model algorithm to aggregate all the sources and give you the jist of it? That is anathema to creativity. its the diff between an artist and a curator.

No. Stolen ideas are stolen ideas. The only real, actual criteria to becoming a writer is to HAVE YOUR OWN IDEAS.

IN CRED - A Novel by RXTT. Now Available on Amazon IN CRED, novel, RXTT, Literature, Amazon,

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Yesterday I received yet another Rejection from a literary agent. That makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 rejections for my speculative fiction novel IN CRED. It is currently available self-published on the Amazon. #booksky #books #scifi