Pissant

"It's better to burn out than to fade away..." -- Neil Young in Kurt Cobain's suicide note

Name: Rubin Farr
Date Of Birth: 01.26.74
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Parents' Names: Michael & Patricia
Siblings' Names: That's getting kinda personal, eh?
Pets: Thom (Yorke-shire)
Geographical Location: Melbourne, Florida
Geographical Location At Birth: Huntsville, Alabama
Favorite Color(s): Most Earthtones, also reds and blues
Favorite Book(s): High Fidelity, Catcher in the Rye
Favorite Record(s): Pavement's Brighten the Corners, Radiohead's Kid A, Radiohead's OK Computer, Radiohead's The Bends, Radiohead's The One with "I'm a Creep" and many, many more (I have a lot of Radiohead's singles and such)
Favorite Television Show(s): The Simpsons, USA's Strip Poker, The West Wing, Friends, etc. (I watch too much TV, no? No!)
Favorite Food(s): Breakfast cereals, Hot Pockets
Favorite Room: My bedroom (i.e., a bed made up in my parents' attic)
Friends: Yeah, like I have any friends...
Online Friends: Courtney, Paul, Robin, Jon Wurster, Pedo*phiL*, Lucy Darling, Amy, Martin, Brad, Domino, John Stanton, Rachel and (again) a ton of other people (kinda sad, huh?)
Favorite City(-ies): Atlanta GA, Nashville TN, Huntsville AL, Ruston LA and Valdosta GA (good strawberry shakes at one of the gas stations on I-75).
Favorite Radio Station(s): I don't listen to the radio -- it doesn't play hardly any Archers of Loaf, man!!
Favorite Celebrity(-ies): John Entwistle (The Who), Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Embry, David Letterman, Mia Smiles and (of course) Michael Stipe
Famous Crush:Roger Daltrey.

...more to come? Ooh, I'm such a cocktease!

From an AP press release regarding the overwhelming popularity of this website: Rubin says he is enjoying Florida, but that he is not always comfortable in the Internet spotlight. Sometimes he finds it difficult to deal with the adulation of teenage girls. His interest in art will delight the Prince of Wales. Sketching and watercolours have long been one of his enthusiasms and he has frequently gone to Tuscany to paint.

And now for some pictures (and such!):

That's me girlfriend! Isn't she purty?

This is Paul.

Fat Greg Dulli?

Here's a picture of "the gang."

Oriental Loks are affliated with the Crips. Note the Old English Gothic script tattoos.

Here's a couple pictures of my tattoos!

And here's a pic from my trip to Las Vegas (roll 'em high!!)

And now some serious stuff: In July, my ex-best friend (well, not really, but play along here...), Brian Smith, dumped me via e-mail...

Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:59:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: brian smith
To: joseph@josephlarkin.com

i don't know rubin. whatever a misunderstanding. again. i sent a long email, with a small part about why you were "in debt" to me. i thought it a small insult when you said you were "tired of being in debt to me"...implying that it was my fault. you owe me around $80 right now:
binaural
stereolab
fastbacks
pearl jam houston (2nd night)

that is it. i have records of everything....each spindle of cdrs and cases costs you $22. i make you about $100 (or more) for each time around. i don't care if you don't want to do the cdr thing. fine. your choice.

if you are not going to see any shows with me besides atlanta and new orleans, then i will sell your tickets to the other shows when i get them (from the will call line) and make you what i can. i will not scalp them on the day of the show though...bad luck prevails with me for stuff like that.

this is like the 2nd or 3rd or 4th time that you have implied that for whatever reasons you don't like me. fine. we're done. i have a life to live. i like you. you don't like me. do the math. the only thing i don't need is spending a night of my life worrying about bullshit. i always thought we had a nice friendship and you always seem to pull out the mat somehow. "so you can never touch me here" "i really don't like you except for the music part of our friendship"....these are serious things that you have said to me. things that friends would not and should not say to friends. especially when i have only been nice to you.

could we get past this (easy!) and stay together? sure. we've done it before. but i don't want to. i don't like knowing that in 6 months it will creep back up. that there are things that you just don't like about me that stay quiet, and then come out when we misread emails. you do hold some kind of antagonism towards me. you have said a few too many harsh things to me not too.
i do/don't have thin skin.

i read the pearl jam setlist and had a great day. i read your email and it turned shitty. what to drop? easy answer.

this is by no means a "fuck you". i feel i am just stating facts. i like you as a friend... i will pick you up in atlanta and we can get the tickets, separate, and do the same for new orleans. or whatever you want.. talk to you in early august.

all i ask is we be gentlemen about the 2 shows. it won't at all be a big deal for me, so let's not let "having to meet brian/rubin" remotely affect what is important in our lives: pearl jam.

it's not like you need me anyways. you are in a real city and have a real life. not like you need the phone calls or whatever. so it's not a big deal.
take care.

Not pictured: Brian Smith!!