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About Me

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. song of solomon 8:6

My Interests

family
traditional hymns
board games
the symphony and malina
baking treats
playing piano
logic puzzles
rock n roll
physics
art history
awaiting the return of my travel partner to visit my family in buccino

I'd like to meet:

true romance, embodied in the man i love

Music:

calabrese(thank you, carlton voncasket - and swell jacket)
tiger army
as i lay dying
crimson moonlight
the black dahlia murder
city sleeps
hardline
AFI
freezepop
escape the fate
lesley gore
underoath
new york dolls
my chemical romance
elkland
toilet boys
in flames
minor threat
haste the day
waltham
europe
def leppard
jr ewing
goat explosion
the kills
velvet revolver
interpol
turbonegro
norma jean
the make-up
the wipers
black lips
johnny cash
the dirty novels
erik satie
the hells
ramones
johnny thunders
an albatross
linda scott
the rapture
lucero
murder city devils
the darkness
the dragons
the black halos
the hellacopters
backyard babies
the makers
the scene creamers
satan's pilgrims
pageninetynine
ladytron
the cramps
the dead boys
the music machine
broadcast
elliott smith
teen idles
the lyres
the adolescents
artie shaw
link wray
the vibrators
the briefs
the ventures
guitar wolf
the clee-shays
man or astroman?
patsy cline
the adicts
the sonics
charles trenet

Movies:

it's a wonderful life
gone with the wind
heaven can wait
munich
james bond films with roger moore
the godfather I and II
the prizewinner of defiance, ohio
pierrot le fou
the good thief
breathless
8 1/2
velvet goldmine
the secret lives of altar boys

Television:

no thanks.

Books:

america alone
outlines of music history
demian
the fountainhead
a diamond as big as the ritz
the picture of dorian gray
caravaggio's secrets

Heroes:

good americans

My Blog

i know how you hated this film...

The film requires active, rather than passive viewing, as viewers attempt to unravel the quite possibly (from a traditional standpoint) inexplicable storyline. Could it be that the films purpos...
Posted by Poker Nights on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:59:00 PST

the enigmatic signifier

placeholder for my book review of caravaggio's secrets of which i'm currently obsessed and with which i am not yet through reading. paragraph break * paragraph break * paragraph break * paragraph b...
Posted by Poker Nights on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

loop quantum gravity

*lead researchers are attempting to forward the theory of loop quantum gravity, which seems to be a theory seeking to unify quantum mechanics (where quantities are described as existing solely as disc...
Posted by Poker Nights on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

carpal tunnel wrist braces

...are what i'll need if i have to type this one more time. Here's why i don't have AIM: The AOL acronym offends my aesthetic/aural sensibilities I'm too impatient to deal with the d/l, even ...
Posted by Poker Nights on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

qubits & decoherence

In classical computing, data may be stored as either a zero (uncharged capacitor) or a one (charged capacitor). As the size of logic gates decreases towards existence on the atomic scale, the rules of...
Posted by Poker Nights on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fractal geometry

I want to know more about the field of fractal geometry. So, today I spent the day at work reading up on it and giving Interpol a listen. I think it's been determined that there's evidence of such str...
Posted by Poker Nights on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST