ROBERT SKORO www.robertskoro.com
Vampire Diaries
Woo Hoo! My song “In Line” was featured in the April 29th episode of the CW’s Vampire Diaries You can’t watch it online yet. I’ll repost when it comes up. xo rs
Ten Centuries
I’ll be playing bass with Ten Centuries at the Fine Line tomorrow night, Friday, April 2. It’s the Communist Daughter CD release party, and should prove to be a good time if my experience with Mr. Solomon rings true on this night as well. Ten Centuries, which features my friends Bill Caperton, Mike Gunnerson, and [...]
University of Minnesota, Kicking Various Kinds of Ass
All I’ll say is that this week sucks: reading 100+ pages per day for only a portion of my courseload, working continuously from 6 am to 11:30pm every day. Blah. Being and time vs. time and being. Double blah. Last week was much the same, but augmented by Zhao Liang’s moving documentary, Petition, at the Walker [...]
Snakes and a Plane
…And then I was done. We had a round-up of all our host families, teachers, and friends on Wednesday before flying to Beijing. A really great meal with a little bit of talent show to it, Napoleon-Dynamite-esque tai-chi-qian performance (which includes a broadsword), and an erhu performance by yours truly. As long as folks still [...]
From the Ground Up
VACATION! VACATION! VACATION! I really can’t get my mind around how quickly the last three months have rocketed by, but low-and-behold the end of my semester has arrived. I handed in a 46-page paper entitled From the Ground Up about land-use, governance, and Dai culture in Xishuangbanna, which is the southernmost part of Yunnan province. [...]
Rulebook
The following is my own personal guide to China that I made for my wife, Ellen, who’s coming here in less than three weeks (!) with less preparation that I had: The Rules Do Not Apply Here: Everything you’ve ever known about how things should be, what constitutes courtesy, and what common sense is, just [...]