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paul

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About Me

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My Interests

reading, taking school more seriously than I should, running through the hills, running marathons, eating well, being there for my son, socratic irony, seeking the strange, backpacking, good coffee, good beer, and other psychic delicacies, riding my bike, finding clarity and understanding in times that encourage the opposite, sleeping when I can and savoring a molasses drip of dreams.

I'd like to meet:

a nice girl with sass in her step.

Music:

john zorn, bill bruford, the beatles, philip glass, wooten, zappa, zeppelin, steely dan, moondog, steve reich, grateful dead, yes, amon tobin, stravinsky, elliot smith, pig destroyer, btm, dying fetus, origin, and much else buzzzzzzzes in my head.

Movies:

the science of sleep.

Books:

theory, philosophy: bergson, nietzsche, kojeve, adorno, benjamin, arendt, austin, barthes, althusser, foucault... literature: coetzee, camus, hesse, mann, marquez, ginsberg, keruac, conrad, swift, steinbeck, hemingway, vollman, nabokov, sade, dostoevsky, kafka, kundera, grass, proust, friel...

Heroes:

mishima

My Blog

1,000 miles of solitude, or the explosion of experience

in a recent letter, a friend wrote of my running in terms of solitude, but in what sense? i began considering the question, my many hours out on the trail, and some heavy shit that i’ve been rea...
Posted by paul on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:25:00 PST

idle and useless reflections of an intellectual masochist

language will always fail to fulfill its promise, to render oneself communicable to others. the articulation of oneself, like the strike of a miner's pick, only reveals more surfaces; the stone's dark...
Posted by paul on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:55:00 PST

the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Ethics of Affect     Why are they there? Where are they going? In The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, these are the questions first rais...
Posted by paul on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:04:00 PST