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joseph dante

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About Me


j o s e p h d a n t e


For those who are curious:
My name is Joey and I hate being named after someone else.
I’m twenty years old and hardly credulous that I’m still alive.
My main passions in life include all sorts of mental and emotional exits, portals to elude reality. I like escaping in the pages of books, the ink of written words, the dust of memories, and the pixels of video games.
I am self-oriented, introverted, quiet, and crave solitude to maintain my inner harmony. Friends and family are nice, but my sanity requires a lot of alone time.
I am currently a student at Florida International University, working on my Bachelor’s of Arts in English. I hope to be some sort of published writer in the future.
I believe in the role of the careful outside observer, the wallflower.
I dabble in misanthropy and find humanity sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious.
I don’t believe in religion for myself anymore, having succumbed to esoteric views of existentialism.
I have a high threshold for weirdness. It would take a lot to freak me out or make me feel unsettled.
The physical world is usually quite boring. It’s everything else that has me completely spellbound and enchanted.
I like to practice word alchemy.
I try to turn straw words into golden sentences, and wooden phrases into diamond-encrusted paragraphs.
I’m not really sure if I am doing it right.
But I want to make the world much richer.

~()~


My Interests

Agnosticism, ambiguity, anthropology, art, asexuality, asian food, bibliophilia, books, bowling, catharses, chocolate, complexity, computers, creative writing, creativity, crepes, dark humor, daydreaming, demons, depression, emotions, empathy, english, enigmas, enlightenment, epiphanies, ethics, etymology, existentialism, eyes, family, feminism, fiction, flash videos, friends, game shows, grey, humility, iced tea, ideas, inspiration, instant messaging, intelligence, introspection, intuition, irony, italy, japan, language, laughing, learning, legends, linguistics, listening, literary theory, literature, logophilia, loneness, magical realism, melancholy, metaphors, minimalism, misery, morality, mysteries, mythology, natural beauty, new york, nights, nihilism, notes, novels, paper, paradoxes, passion, peacefulness, pens, philosophy, photography, pictures, poetry, post-modernism, post-structuralism, prose, psychology, puns, rain, reading, relaxing, religion, reveries, romanticism, sadness, sarcasm, satires, shadows, short stories, silence, sociology, strawberries, sunset, symbolism, technology, the internet, the macabre, the psyche, the supernatural, thinking, twilight, verse, video games, vivid imagery, vocabulary, wolves, words, writing.

I'd like to meet:



Above all else:
Writers, creative souls, thinkers, the Muses for inspiration.



You can find me all over the internet:

-Livejournal-
-Writing journal-
-Facebook-
-HumbleVoice-
-LibraryThing-
-Last.fm-
-deviantART-
-eBay-

Music:

Regina Spektor, Feist, Tori Amos, Imogen Heap, Tegan and Sara, Kaki King, L.P., Poe, Scarling, Vespertine, Gorillaz, Oasis, Patrick Wolf, Dangerous Muse, The Fray, Shiny Toy Guns, Hellogoodbye, Rufus Wainwright, Kerli, Rasputina, Acceptance, Ladytron, Rilo Kiley, Camera Obscura.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Imaginary Heroes, A Beautiful Mind, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, Dead Poets Society, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, Little Miss Sunshine, Amelie, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Hours, Anna and the King, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pan's Labyrinth, Mirrormask, Harry Potter, The Emperor's New Groove.

Television:

Heroes, I Love Lucy, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, The Boondocks, Death Note, South Park.

Books:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Catcher in the Rye, The Stranger, The Things They Carried, Candide, The Inferno, 1984, Brave New World, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pale Fire, Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours, The Awakening, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Life of Pi, The Joy Luck Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Fight Club, Running with Scissors, The Bell Jar, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secrets of a Fire King, The House on Mango Street, Bless Me Ultima, The Secret Life of Bees, Memoirs of a Geisha, Flowers for Algernon, House of Leaves, The Icarus Girl, Harry Potter, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Wrinkle in Time.

Heroes:

My mom, dearest Nana, my sister on occasion, Albert Camus, Chuck Palahniuk, Holden Caulfield, Foamy the Squirrel.

My Blog

Quattro. Whereabouts

Sorry everyone, but I'm kind of elusive on here now. You can typically find me on livejournal, however, and I have a new AIM screen name: ambling paradox. Some of my writing is here: on word...
Posted by joseph dante on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

Tre. Ask Me Anything

Ask me anything. Since people ask me questions a lot and I've been told I answer random questions well, let's try this. Ask me anything you want, and I will answer as honestly as I can....
Posted by joseph dante on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:07:00 PST

Due. FAQ Section

Basically, I've decided to make a FAQ blog because I've gotten sick of people asking me the same questions over and over. So you'll find most of these frequently asked questions answered here. Have fu...
Posted by joseph dante on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:35:00 PST

Uno. Friend Signs

In the genesis of myspace, I once had an abundance of scrolling pictures on my profile. But I took them down because 1) they were getting annoying to look at (no offense, just that I go...
Posted by joseph dante on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:25:00 PST