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Nick

So I run and hide and tear myself up, Start again with a brand new name and eyes that see into infin

About Me

Hi, I'm Nick. I'm originally from New Jersey, but i've been in Florida 6 years now for college. I am currently a Phd. student (and Teaching Associate) in Philosophy at the University of South Florida. I am not what you'd expect. My ambitions are to grow up some day in the future (preferably a long time from now, I'm still trying to be a kid over here) and get a job as a college professor. I read and write papers for fun, how cool could i be? I love Samuel Adams beer, shots dropped in Red Bull, watching alot of sports, watching great films, and listening to incredible music. I'm easy to amuse. I like Caesar salad.

My Interests

music, movies, sports, tv, partying, reading, Atlanta Braves baseball, San Francisco 49ers football, Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, Duke Blue Devil college basketball, Notre Dame college football, major championship golf (Tiger, enough said), great food, great beer

I'd like to meet:

"We have left the land and have embarked. We have burned our bridges behind us - indeed, we have gone farther and destroyed the land behind us. Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean: to be sure, it does not always roar, and at times it lies spread out like silk and gold and reveries of graciousness. But hours will come when you will realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity. Oh, the poor bird that felt free and now strikes the walls of this cage! Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom - and there is no longer any 'land'" -Nietzsche

Music:

Top 10: 1. Led Zeppelin, 2. Pink Floyd, 3. The Doors, 4. Bob Dylan, 5. Jimi Hendrix, 6. The Beatles, 7. The Rolling Stones, 8. Black Sabbath, 9. Radiohead, 10. Thrice

Movies:

Top 20 (10 just isn't good enough): 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2. The Shining, 3. The Fountain, 4. Godfather Part 1, 5. Godfather Part 2, 6. A Clockwork Orange, 7. Apocalypse Now, 8. The Deer Hunter, 9. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 10. Raging Bull 11. Planet of the Apes (1968), 12. Requiem for a Dream, 13. Taxi Driver, 14. One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest, 15. Full Metal Jacket, 16. Paths of Glory, 17. Pi, 18. Clerks, 19. Star Wars IV: A New Hope, 20. Citizen Kane

Television:

Top 10: 1.South Park, 2.Seinfeld, 3. The Twilight Zone, 4. Star Trek: The Original Series, 5. The Sopranos, 6. Family Guy, 7. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 8. The Office, 9. Arrested Development, 10. Robot Chicken

Books:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra- Nietzche, The Gay Science- Nietzsche, The Antichrist - Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols - Nietzsche, Looking Awry - Slavoj Zizek, The Will to Power - Nietzsche, Eclipse of Reason - Horkheimer, Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard, Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein, The Jargon of Authenticity - Adorno, No Exit - Sartre, Dirty Hands - Sartre, Power/Knowledge - Foucault, Ecrits - Lacan, The Parallax View - Zizek

Heroes:

Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Baudrillard, Christian Troy, Tommy Gavin, Ari Gold, Charlie, Alexander DeLarge, Tony Soprano, Paulie Walnuts, Captain Jack Sparrow, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Mario Lemeiux, Greg Maddux, Julius Caesar, Samuel Adams (Brewer/Patriot), The Three Periods of Auteur(discounting Hitchcock, who invented directing): Old School: Stanley Kubrick, Middle School: Martin Scorcese, New School: Darren AronofskyTop Ten Beers (why not, I've got a ranking for everything else): 1. Samuel Adams Octoberfest, 2. Samuel Adams Winter Lager, 3. Samuel Adams Boston Ale, 4. Guinness Stout, 5. Bass Ale 6. Fuller's London Porter, 7. Spaten Optimator, 8. Samuel Smith Winter Welcome, 9. Great Divide ESB, 10. Young's Double Chocolate Stout

My Blog

Things involving stuff

     I've been noticing a fairly ridiculous trend lately and I'm thinking about actually writing my dissertation with this same topic in mind.  The topic that I'm alluding to ...
Posted by Nick on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:50:00 PST

Bloggystyle

This is about baseball, so everyone that could care less may exit at will.  That said, the statement I want to make is short and sweet.  The only respectable, respectful, considerate, decent...
Posted by Nick on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:22:00 PST

For those of you who actually want to know how im doing...

To everyone(mostly my goof ass NJ friends) that sees my silliness on profile part of this myspace thing but is curious rather about what is really going on with me, i've made this.  Im takin...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:42:00 PST

This stuff about L

wow, what a week, first, chris almost killed his teacher, meg got a hot ass makeover, lois got covered in french fry oil, johnny was fucking two girls at a party, and i finally figured out that feedin...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST