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adam go swimmer

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About Me

telling me to relax just makes things worse.
i've been vegan for 12 years, and i mention this because you should be too. it's not hard.
do i love coffee? yes i do.

music is everything... i play in the band LUNGS !

and a new one called animal shapes .

i also record solo under the name oh messy life .

i spent 5 years as part of the band staying at home ; and a sneaky stint in a duo called lightweights .

My Interests



In No Particular Order...
songwriting
veganism
humanism
anti-theism
isms
guitars
comics
anime
smelling/reading books
neurosis
natural selection
cool nerds
talking shit
arguments
smelling/drinking coffee

I'd like to meet:

Richard Dawkins, Tim Kinsella, Steven Pinker, Rob Crow...

Music:



Currently listening to:
Pinback 'Autumn Of The Seraphs'; Mastodon 'Blood Mountain'; The Weakerthans 'Reunion Tour'; Ornette Coleman 'The Art Of The Improvisers'; Maritime 'Heresy And The Hotel Choir'; Other Men 'Wake Up Swimming'.

Faves:
Ornette Coleman; Don Caballero; Fugazi; Conation; Front End Loader; I-Spy; Propagandhi; Elvis Costello; Bad Religion; Heavy Vegetable; Thingy; Pinback; Other Men; The Ladies; Friction; Braid; Orwell; Hey Mercedes; The City On Film; The Sky Corvair; Cap'n Jazz; Joan Of Arc; Owls; American Football; Owen; Make Believe; Hella; The Party Of Helicopters; The Promise Ring; Maritime; Ghosts And Vodka; 88 Fingers Louie; Hot Water Music; Bjork; Curtis Mayfield; Frank Sinatra; Burning Airlines; Channels; Jawbox; Small Brown Bike; The Weakerthans; Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Sam Cooke; Blondie; Painted Thin; Slint; Kind Of Like Spitting; Pee; No Means No; Faraquet; Kid Dynamite; Lifetime; Seaweed; Devo; My Disco!; Coldtiz Glyder; Daysworth Fighting; The Optionals; Descendents; Mastodon.

Movies:



High Fidelity, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Ninja Scroll, Amelie, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Spirited Away, Instrument, Lost In Translation, Killing A Camera, Being John Malkovich, Shaun Of The Dead, Sin City...

Television:



Currently watching:
Flight Of The Conchords; Planet Earth; Life Of Mammals; Saxondale; Snuff Box; IT Crowd.

Faves:
Firefly, The Young Ones, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Black Books, I'm Alan Partridge, FLCL, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Heroes, Dexter, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Red Dwarf, The Office, Cowboy Bebop, Arrested Development, Nathan Barley, Saxondale, Planet earth...

Books:



Just finished:
The Fabric Of Reality by David Deutsch.

Currently reading:
Spook Country by William Gibson; Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.

Next in line:
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins; The End Of Faith by Sam Harris; The Stuff Of Thought by Steven Pinker.

Favourite Writers:
Richard Dawkins; Steven Pinker; William Gibson; E. E. Cummings; Peter Singer; George Orwell; Philip K. Dick.

Heroes:



Linda Nguyen

My Blog

An Open Letter To Sam Neil

Dear Sam,I have been moved to write this letter after having seen another of your advertisements for Meat and Livestock Australia on television. I understand actors are paid lots of money to endorse ...
Posted by adam go swimmer on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:40:00 PST

Anatomy Of An Idiot

Well, I haven't been called a 'fag' with that characteristic tough guy grunt for about ten years, and even then not outside the wilds of high school... but evidently (in the year 2007, no less), a you...
Posted by adam go swimmer on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:37:00 PST

Pomo Mofos (A Book Review)

i finally finished how the mind works by steven pinker.        there's a lot of really thought-provoking stuff packed into this 600 page account of the human c...
Posted by adam go swimmer on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:34:00 PST