I'm Sam Sousa, He's Dos Passos

About Me

I have the coolest baby boy ever named Elliott Holden, after Smith and Caulfield respectively. He laughs like no other, though at what I am not sure. His eyes are always on the planes and his feet on the ground. My wife is twice as smart as me and three times as hot. She likes Phillip Roth and Rilo Kiley. For no reason what so ever she tolerates me. Go to her page and compliment her. I go to grad school with a small clan within a small clan of intelligent adult aged people, though none are as intelligent as me. Seriously. Not even Jimmy. I plan to focus on studying. I always wanted to be a writer and am currently plotting out my debut novel. Thirteen years in the making and I am almost ready to begin, I just need a little bit more tragedy to give my book an angle. I hope to write for cash as a cultural critic someday. I like the word fuck. Lately I have been writing for an awesome zine called the New Scheme, link-up with it below. Check it out in pdf format. The editor, Stuart, is a smart and well motivated individual. Even after this is gone I have a feeling he'll be making a mark somewhere. Hell, he publishes my bullshit, so there's one plus in his favor. Forget podcasts, start a band. Keep your eyes peeled for Bring Your Brain, the funkiest hardcore band this side of the new millenium.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Tobias Wolff, Beth Ditto, James Baldwin, Wes Anderson, Bunuel, Orson Welles, Foucault, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dick Gregory, and Clifford Geertz. Also Stanley Fish, who if I play my cards right, this might happen. Some others are dead, some are not, but I am almost certain I'll meet none of them. I also would like to see At the Drive-In just one last time. However, some things are just better off dead.

My Blog

Presenting the lastest and greatest in me...

Hello, the following is a paper I will be presenting in April at Univ of Nebraska, Cornhuskers style. It's titled: Meanness Inside This World: Dominant Ideology, Popular Culture, and the Inexplicable ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:01:00 GMT

On Liberty & Self

There is a moment in Luis Bunuel's 1974 classic The Phantom of Liberty where the patron of an inn confronts the sounds of a flamenco ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:27:00 GMT

Death to Tyranny

A million things said about our nation: I am so tired of the cross...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:46:00 GMT

This Modernist Life

What follows is an essay I wrote for the final in Eng. 462, Modern British and American Novels. I believe it is without a doubt one of the smartest things I have ever written and as always I am i...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:37:00 GMT

The Never Ending Idolization of Sonic Youth, and Other Moments of Music I Never Belonged to.

Today I read three reviews for the third re-release of Sonic Youth's seminal album Daydream Nation. I have never heard this album, in...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:12:00 GMT

As I shit here

...and work on my last paper for college, though really only towards my BA as in the fall I'll begin work on my MA, I thought I would write something long and diatribish about school and growing up an...
Posted by on Sat, 12 May 2007 22:20:00 GMT

The Year in Records

Top ten albums of 2006 in 2 or 3 sentences. Again, fact not opinion. 10. Jason Molina/Magnolia Electric Company Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go/Fading Trails- Both records from the former Songs...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:47:00 GMT

I play guitar

10 bands I rocked in that never rocked live. 10. SBD- My second band, featured Brent on bass, David on the drums, myself on guitar & for one practice trombone, and for a short while Sean Fe...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:10:00 GMT

The Over/Under 3

Rolling Stones vs. The Other Children Let's face it, The Rolling Stones are dead. What we get now is four bags of bones dragged out o...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:05:00 GMT

10 Reviews

The Records of 2006 in 2 to 3 sentences. And yes, these are facts, not opinions. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America- After all the hype and press about how these geniuses were going to ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:52:00 GMT