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Joe Hwang

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About Me



"And when the sun closes its searching eye, when the history is over, not only will I wrap myself in my cloak but I will throw the night around me like a veil and I will come to you - I will listen as the savage listens - not for footsteps but for the beating of your heart."
-Soren A. Kierkegaard, 1841

"About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
-Gospel According to Matthew, Chapter 27, verse 46

"Who needs love when you've got a gun?"
-Black Flag

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My Interests

+God
+Soul
+Mind
+Sense-Perception

I'd like to meet:

+God
+Satan

Music:

+From Ashes Rise
+Teen Idles
+The Suicide File
+The Hope Conspiracy
+Black Flag
+Mogwai
+Jejune
+Heroin
+Set Fire To Flames
+Silver Mt. Zion
+The Victims
+Iron & Wine
+Tom Waits
+Ludwig van Beethoven
+Godspeed You Black Emperor!
+Back Off Cupids
+Minor Threat
+Universal Order of Armaggedon
+Econochrist
+Born Against
+Some Girls
+Boards of Canada
+Biosphere
+Circular
+Autechre
+Aphex Twin
+Squarepusher
+Deathprod
+Strung Out
+Dillinger Four
+The Methadones
+Curve
+Fury
+Guided By Voices
+Doves
+M. Ward
+Nerve Agents
+Worst Case Scenario
+Holier Than Thou?
+Bikini Kill
+The Stitches
+Das Oath
+Middle Class
+Stars of the Lid
+Loscil

Movies:

+Down By Law
+Road To Perdition
+As Good As It Gets
+Hurlyburly
+Ringu
+The Big Lebowski
+Time Bandits
+Raising Arizona

Television:

Heat Leak

Books:

+Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
+Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes
+Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
+On Being and Essence by St. Thomas Aquinas
+Summa Theologica: QQ. 75-102 by St. Thomas Aquinas
+De Veritate by St. Anselm
+De Libertate by St. Anselm
+De Casu Diaboli by St. Anselm
+The Foundations of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege
+De Anima by Aristotle
+Book of Samuel, I and II.
+Life After God by Douglas Coupland
+Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

Heroes:

+King David
+My Wife Allie

My Blog

Peaches

I've been eating lots of peaches lately. I got a box of white peaches from my mother a week ago. I noticed that inside the peach seed, there is a pit that looks exactly like an almond. I tripped...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:52:00 PST

MENTAL BREAKDOWN

A mental breakdown, also known as a nervous breakdown, is a sudden, acute attack of mental illness such as depression or anxiety.Like the term "sanity" and its derivatives, the term nervous/mental bre...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:00:00 PST

Bad Religion

1990. Bad Religion is headlining a show at a North Hollywood Movie Theater, somewhere near Lankershim, if I remember correctly. The movie theater is very small, perhaps having around two theaters. The...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:53:00 PST

Shit For Real

S and I are in our last year at UCI. It is our fifth year and we decide to move into an on-campus trailer park (yes, there used to be a trailer park on UCI premises, which was also part of campus hous...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:11:00 PST

broccoli

I was reheating left over pasta from the night before and, while waiting for the microwave to finish its job, decided to take out the broccoli from the refrigerator along with the jar of ranch dressin...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:21:00 PST

Police Story 2

Irvine. Up the street from the University, at the liquor store in the same complex as the supermarket and Del Taco. I go in to get a few packs of cigarettes with a friend of mine. After the purchase, ...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:29:00 PST

Police Story 1

Sometime during the 1995-1996 academic year: I am an undergraduate finishing my last year at UCI, living in a trailer-park with my dear friend Steve Hoffman. My friend, M. Garcia, was in a band called...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:29:00 PST

Carving Out The Sinuses

Here's an excerpt from my journal:   January 12 2006     I barely got any sleep the night before. I suppose I was much more nervous about the surgery than I thought or felt. The surgery...
Posted by Joe Hwang on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:55:00 PST

the S.O.S.

God bless this wretched mess.
Posted by Joe Hwang on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:41:00 PST