March 23rd , 2016 // Day 83 of 366
Subject: Robin Indar
Age: 42 Years Old
Born: Fairfax CA
Currently Resides: Chico CA
Occupation: Tile Maker // Mosaic Artist // Musician // Mother // Wife // Chicken Farmer
“I recently had someone ask me how I dealt with their energy. She was mostly talking about my younger song cause he’s always got his friends around him and just I said ,’I’m used to it’, I’m just used to boy energy. Both of my boys will wrestle at the drop of a hat. It doesn’t matter where they are. If it’s some place horribly inappropriate we have to warn them in advance,’Just so you know, please don’t wrestle at the funeral’, or something. I’m just used to it so I don’t even notice it. I tune a lot of it out; Just the screaming. The squacking. Butt talk: booty booty booty, balls balls.”
“I was raised by a feminist mom so I had her always telling me about injustice and inequality. And I think being a bay area person I was sort of in a bubble of liberal, free thinking people and so I didn’t really see a problem. And when people would visit from other areas of the US and talk about it, I would be just like,’What are you talking about? That’s so fifties. That’s over right?”. I didn’t realize that it was going on in the Bay Area, everywhere. But just maybe not in the circles I ran in; it wasn’t in my face. It is interesting that you inevitably try to find your role models or you just look up to certain musicians and artist and many of mine are male. Because in punk rock I read the Henry Rollins book “Get in the Van”, and I ended up relating cause I used to be just the singer not the bass player. So I related to the singers of the band and many of them are male.”
“It definitely came naturally. As a kid I was surrounded by art supplies that my dad had all over the house. If it was just in his office, I would migrate to the office and get out his pens and play with any art supplies. They had an early light table that you could trace; That’s my earliest memories of drawing was tracing things on the light table. He used to work at the college of Marin. He was a graphic assistant and did stuff for the college. And I would just hang out and use all of those art supplies.”
“A lot of it is trust; being able to be totally open and not have to worry that you’ll be a disappointment in some way. Just to be able to say anything; just to lay it out all on the table. Here’s all my flaws. Here’s all my everything and then to be able to be,’Ok.You’re ok with that?Then I’m ok with your issues.’ To really enjoy being around each other, to enjoy conversation; We really like just about everything about each other.”
“I think it’s all the new friends we made here. And watching the music scene go from; I’m not going to lie I was disappointed when we first moved here because the bay was like,’You have your pick of the greatest shows ever. Which three are you going to this Friday night.’ And it was always a huge, impressive, overwhelming selection. When we moved to Chico I just wasn’t seeing any of that. And raising children we weren’t going out that much, so it was slow. Then once our kids were growing up that we could go out and start doing the band thing again, and I picked up the bass again. We made more friends at every show and then these new people kept forming bands and now it’s great. I can’t wait to go to all these things.”
Thanks to Robin for inviting me over Case Del Indar today. Robin is a force of artistic and rock&roll nature. She doesn’t take any shit, but she’s one of the coolest and nicest ladies you’ll ever meet. She’s helping to raise some really awesome kids and has a great partner. Pretty cool to see people living their own American Dream in away that makes sense to them.
