Termite TV - Life Stories

Yeah, my name is Rob K. I’m a resident of Oahu. I also live here on Volcano, so I move between the two places. I’m a musician and a carpenter. Regrettably, I have made more money in carpentry than music, so I’m forced to labor even in my advanced age, but I do get a lot of joy out of playing music and had a band in New York City called ‘The Work Dogs’. We were somewhat successful in our day. Now I’ve been playing with local musicians here on the big island and enjoying it. Found some ukelele players here in Volcano and rock and rollers in Hilo and have a good time with them. Been happily married for twenty-five years and no children, which is probably why I’m happily married, and have found that people, creative people, are the kind of people that I like to surround myself with. So, it’s put me in a position of searching them out throughout the world. I’ve traveled all over the world looking for mostly musicians to jam with, have fun with, to play the blues with, and found that Hawaii contains a lot of very cool people. And this is the reason why I moved here, as well as to live well and eat well and sleep well and screw well, but in the course of those travels I’ve discovered that people are pretty much the same everywhere. But what you really want to look for from people is an open mind and a creative spirit and a good heart, and if you look at people through that perspective, you usually do find good people. I’ve been practicing yoga for about seven years. It’s turned out to be one of the more important parts of my life. It keeps me in good shape. It’s keeps me in good attitude. I highly recommend it for everyone, young and old. I’ve learned from old people not only just yoga, although my best yoga teachers have been older people, that wisdom that comes from age. It’s applicable for everybody, and I think that, I think that that’s pretty much the secret why I’m here right now, because back in my days, back in my New York days, where I was raised and grew up and so on, I found that I didn’t need people, but that drugs would solve most of those problems. Well, it’s not a very good solution, and I can’t highly recommend it to anybody, but it worked for me for about twenty years. But you discover that you’re exhausted, you don’t have friends, you don’t have money, and you don’t have a good attitude towards life. So, as I say at some point along the line, my point of view changed and I discovered a different attitude, a different way to appreciate things, and that brought me to this juncture. It’s an interesting phenomenon to try and put your life into a format in five minutes, but I don’t really mind. I’ve been telling my story for forty-seven years. It’s my birthday next week, as a matter of fact. The day after your screening. So, I’m still going strong. My goal is to live to be about a hundred fifty, a hundred sixty years old. I want to set longevity records. I want to be, I want to learn how to surf at fifty, I think. That’s managed to elude me up this point. At some point in time, I think I would like to learn to do heart surgery or brain surgery or any number of other things, and I don’t plan to say to myself ‘no’. I’m gonna give it all a try at some point. So there it is in a nutshell, the life of Rob K.