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TheEvilChemist

We Pay the Price for All Our Choices Made

About Me


American by birth, Filipino & Dutch by descent, chemist by trade; martial artist, vegan, poet, wag, traveler, tinkerer, soul-interrogator. I'm just a man seeking to know. Sometimes the hungry have to search dead waters to find their sustenance.
    I like to break things and rebuild them. I think the word poop is funny. I can write, throw, bowl & eat with either hand. I DON'T KNOW KUNG FU! (I've been studying for the past 11 years.) I go to europe at least 2x/year. I like creepy/disturbing things. I have an affinity for places of great atrocity, a fascination with the disposessed.
    I admire intelligent articulate people who can think beyond their immediate sphere.
    I think way too much for my own good. I listen as much as I talk.
    I have an ego the size of Russia
    (but I'm working on breaking it down into smaller more managable autonomous states) .
    I like to think I've learned to choose my friends/enemies/lovers/ghosts wisely. I am obsessive compulsive, but this is a feature not a bug!

I have a livejournal: theevilchemist
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My Interests

Kung Fu, Environmentalism, Social Responsibility, Veganism, Human Rights, Animal Rights, Benevolence, Music, Motion, Animals, Literature, Lore, Goth, Dreams, Spirituality, Tales of Power, Running in the Rain, Wearing Funny Hats, Laughing at Myself, The Onion, Chemistry, Traveling, Taking Crap Photos, Space Exploration, NPR, NMR, Chicago, Electronics, Bicycling, Europe, Ales, Caffeine, Nutrition, Souls

I'd like to meet:

-People who view travel as an adventure and not a vacation
-People who (double)dare to be real
-People with slight to severe neuroses
-People who do not feel helpless in the dark
-People crazy enough to try anything, yet sane
enough to know igniting themselves will not be pleasant
-People who hunger. What do you hunger for? I'm searching for souls...

Oh, and vegans whom I can share my food joy with!

Music:

Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bauhaus, Deine Lakaien, Diary of Dreams, Frank the Baptist, Rhea's Obsession, Ricardo Montaner, The Smiths, Advent Sleep, Dar Willaims, Dead Can Dance, My Dying Bride, Cure, Depeche Mode, New Model Army, Faith & the Muse, The Mission, Das Ich, Ozzy Osbourne, Within' Temptation, Bella Morte, Lacuna Coil, London After Midnight, VNV Nation, Bruce Springsteen, Dream Disciples, Die Form, All About Eve, Sisters of Mercy, Peter Murphy, Slowdive, Shandmaul, Dresden Dolls, The Shroud, Seraphim Shock, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Last Dance, Estampie/Qntal, Passion Play, Manuskript, Paradise Lost, Behind the Scenes, Material Issue, Camillo Sesto ("Spain's most Famous Tenor"), Lame Immortelle, Sinead O'Connor, Shriekback, Bryan Ferry, Crowded House, Dreadful Shadows, Sneaky Bat Machine, Swarf, Sorrow, Pretentious Moi?, Human Drama, Inkubus Sukkubus, Intra-venus, Queen, Loreena Mc Kennitt, Judith, Journey, Bel Canto, Soil & Eclipse, The Pixies, Triumph, Enigma, Yaz, Mephisto Walz, Untoten.Sappy Spanish Love Ballads. Guitar Rock. My Audioscrobbler pretty much says it all

Movies:

Braveheart, Matrix, Blade Runner, Ringu, Gladiator, Star Wars, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ashura-jo no Hitomi (Demons Never Fall in Love), Shichinin no Samurai, Dune, Titus Andronicus, Fight Club, Vanilla Sky, Donnie Darko, Heathers, Run Lola Run, Monty Python & The Holy Grail

Television:

I don't have a tv. In hotels, I watch Discovery, History, & Travel Channels, ,or any program with animals. :)

Books:

Books about New Technology, Dark Humor, Potty Humor, Classics, (Hawthorn, James, Shelley, Dickens, Stevenson, Poe, etc..) Epic Novels, Anything that "tells me something I don't know, tells me something I can use."Some Recent Favorites:A Monk in the World - Wayne Teasdale The Hour of Our Death - Philippe Aries The Art of War - Sun Tsu (translation: John Minford) Pandora - Anne RiceCurrently Reading:

    "The Mouse that Roared - Leonard Wibberley Blink - Malcolm Gladwell Tales of Power -Carlos Castaneda The Shades of Time and Memory - Storm Constantine Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice & the Complexity of Life - Mark Ridley

Heroes:

Ordinary People who live extraordinary lives.

My Blog

Short Treffen Blurb (Music)

I was able to see 20 bands this year, the most I've been able to see since my very 1st time going. If you want to skip the text and just get a glimpse of the treffen, I uploaded some crappy camera foo...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Thu, 15 May 2008 05:36:00 PST

My Sister & Her No Kill Animal Shelter

My sister runs a 501(c)(3)No Kill Animal Shelter down in Tennessee called A Place to bark (and meow). She receives no government assistance. She...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:22:00 PST

Hooray!

I have successfully made homemade yogurt from fermening mung beans & whole oats(+ lemon juice and fructose).I have 1kg of homemade garlic/cayenne spicy seitan comprised of a 2:1 Wheat Gluten:Soy p...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:03:00 PST

A Moment in New York

I was standing at an intersection waiting for the light to change. Across the street, a postcard rack topples over from a gust of wind. Twenty seconds pass, as postcards are blowing up the street...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:48:00 PST

I Did It For Science! (MICROBIAL EDITION!)

On several occasions, I have tried... and failed to make a natural sour dough bread. For days/weeks, I would wait patiently for airborne microbes to breathe life into my limp, lump of wet flour.But al...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:06:00 PST

I am a Graduate of the Ralph Cramden School of Costume Design

The Final Exam:0). [1]If an average 11 year-old cannot make it, then the costume is useless!!!1).  More than 50% of the raw materials must come from a thrift store.2). At least one item must come...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:27:00 PST

Treffen Rewind

I'm sitting in an internet cafe in Leipzig, sipping dopple espresso's and rewinding the weekend; a most serene sense of euphoria encompasses me. Just enough sunlight enters the cafe to accentuate this...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Wed, 30 May 2007 10:40:00 PST

Attitude Travel

After 24 hours of traveling, I made it to SLS' & Justin's place. Considering my crazy itinerary, I made it without hiccups. I didn't even break stride, a completely perfect journey.5:00AM CST wake up ...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:02:00 PST

Tale of the Tape III -Final

In Tale of the Tape II, I posted the results of my blood workup before & after 6 month of supplementation with Garlic/almonds/cinnamon, (for cholesterol), B12/Folic Acid (for homocysteine), and a ...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:44:00 PST

Bomba!

This past weekend, I attended a Bomba dance session at the AfriCaribe Cultural Center 2547 W. Division St. The event was rather informal, in what appeared to be more of an art gallery than a proper m...
Posted by TheEvilChemist on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:59:00 PST