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thom

darling, the only ghoul in the house is you.

About Me

hello, currently a diaphanous neurasthenic unembodied persona chained to the invincible lightness of lachrymose recurrence. i play the drums, a lot. i work at a law office, doing the work of a robotic arm/hand/eye machine. i have a cat with one eye. i hit a parked garbage truck with my car. haveing been to china changed my life. i manage to get banned from every website i become a member of because of my hostility. i like ironic work, i was a butcher's assistent and a telemarketer for police organizations. i'm hamlet. i'm a floundering philosophy student. i want to dedicate my life to intellectual nazi smashing. i went to every catholic extra cirricular activity i could find for the majority of my life only to become an existential scum bag. dracula was my first childhood idol. i've read "naked lunch" by william s. burroughs twelve or thirteen times over the course of my life, and it's still the greatest book i've ever read. i like to write like my words are wearing a suit of armour. most days i wish i was a monocromatic replicant.

My Interests

metamorphosis. entarte kunst. disjointed, anxiety producing modern orchestral music from former soviet block countries. fetal cognative development. the future. gloomy detroit area architecture. language. neoplastacist absraction applied to general perception. people watching. the weimar republic. becomeing. political and existential vivisection. navigating stark beurocracies. cats. the irreduciable space between tranz-subjective perspectives on one questionably objectively present substance or conceptualization. die ubermensch. suitcase record players. anti-foundationalism. apples.

I'd like to meet:

electronic representations of persons.

Music:

david bowie, eric satie, alan silva & the celestial communication orchestra, ornette coleman, yoko ono, the human league, krzysztof penderecki, franz schubert, throbbing gristle, j.s. bach, the beach boys, lil scrappy.

Movies:

ingmar bergman, woody allen, orson wells, carl th. dreyer, masaki kobayashi, federico fellini, david lynch, kenji mizoguchi, marco bellocchio, kenneth anger, marcel olphus, clint eastwood, pier paolo pasolini, ishirô honda, georges franju, fritz lang, kenji misumi, robert bresson, alfred hitchcock, jan svankmajer, gillo pontecorvo, alain resnais, carl koch, richard pryor, vilgot sjöman, henri-georges clouzot, marx brothers, francois truffout, luis bunuel, dario argento, greg araki, david chronenberg, akira kurasowa, werner herzog, lucio fulci, and mexican wrestleing movies from the sixties starring "el santo in el mascadaro de plata".

Television:

grainy video footage of crime, walker texas ranger, the twilight zone, nature/space documentaries.

Books:

currently; "faust" by goethe, "three tragedies" by sophocles, "the presocratics" by edward hussey, "philosophical fragments" by soren kierkegaard, "the wanderer and his shadow" by nietzsche, "complete works" by plato.

My Blog

"ground for a conclusion (part three; the da-sein machine?)"

conscious things reference themselves. there is only that distance between points from which we can work. the points; "da-sein" or "human being there" and the "trans-phenomenal" perception of objectiv...
Posted by thom on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:16:00 PST

"ground for a conclusion (part two; on the effects of phenotypic plasticity)."

the study of population genetics has yeilded a cosmos shattering amount of information in regards to what is indubitably human. there are reasons for our behaviour(genetically) in reality, and it is d...
Posted by thom on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:03:00 PST

"ground for a conclusion (part one; thou shouldn't kill)"

is there a part of the human condition that instructs us to kill? must we murder other human beings in order to further the society? step one; who has authority?:authority is a very important concept ...
Posted by thom on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:23:00 PST

"like a shimmering fog, imbued with leaden dust."

by the people,  the people,  the people.  the majority, the mass, the throng, the hive.  can great collections of people rule?  can we trust the polity of the future to the fo...
Posted by thom on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:03:00 PST

"the eulogium of order."

what well does the epoche' of this monsterous juggernaut of mankind's design plummet? does the state of existance have to maintain? or is the concrete reality of perception only a passing quixotic spa...
Posted by thom on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:15:00 PST

"yes, i'm an electronic person, i swear." (technoparanoiac)

where is our species heading? all of this integration of technology into orienting ourselves into the new electronic wilderness, seems so catagorically spirtless. who's curtain is hiding the deux ex m...
Posted by thom on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:53:00 PST

"i always knew this would happen to me."

i'm sitting at the kitchen table, wearing my best "calm" face.  my mother engages in meaningless small talk with others as we wait for them to arrive.  we're all nervous and you can tell fro...
Posted by thom on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 04:22:00 PST

"...as simple as the flowing water."

is there a difference in whether existence is actualized or not? does anything ever stay the same, even if it appears to? is there such a thing as success, in that it suggests a finality of your accom...
Posted by thom on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:31:00 PST

"meditation on kaspar hauser"

where does god hide? is god an idea that is implanted into the human mind at birth? is there something about god's power that trancends whether you've heard of him or not? can you look at the world ar...
Posted by thom on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:38:00 PST

"marion try slaughter"

unfinished rusting overpass hangs precariously over thin twisting freeway roads, hewn randomly out of rotton stone walls.  southern streets/buildings gives the impression of a system left to a ra...
Posted by thom on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:36:00 PST