David Isen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm training to become a master of pies

also working on a theory of historical monuments and the the development of man's conception of 'hope and the future'
GO HORSE the band !!!

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My Interests

Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, making music videos, eating thai food by myself for lunch, writing songs, finding good restaurants, going to africa and eating mangoes till i shit green, traveling, cooking complicated things, metal skool, obsessively reading statistics about the Chicago Bulls, the library is amazing...they have so many books and they are all free!

I'd like to meet:

someone without a job that wants to play tennis in the middle of the day when its really hot, Chicago Bears fans, people that like ribs... I don't eat mammals anymore, but I still appreciate a lively discussion of fine meats

Music:

mew, ratatat, king crimson, meshuggah, radiohead, faith no more, led zeppelin, the dillinger escape plan, converge, sting, bruce springsteen, prince, thrice, cursive, oingo boingo, saves the day, alkaline trio, so many dynamos

Movies:

the big lebowski, the never ending story, goodfellas, the godfather, rushmore, annie hall, Gotcha, Time Bandits

Television:

curb your enthusiasm, da ali g show, family guy, iron chef, 24, Boston Legal, arrested development, metalocalypse, the rockford files

Books:

Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Nietzsche, Tolkien, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV - Dostoevsky

Heroes:

michael jordan, snoop dogg, slash..

My Blog

Something I thought of on the way to the dentist for some reason

When you are young there is a great mystery surrounding where you are going to end up. As time goes by, the fog begins to clear, paths are chosen, and, if you are paying attention, the rang...
Posted by David Isen on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:52:00 PST

The best pepper steak I've ever eaten

I am going to shoot myself. The only thing keeping me going is the thought of the delicious world-famous pepper steak and chilean sea bass from Dal Rae that will be waiting for me in my fridge tommor...
Posted by David Isen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

On the Devolution of Content and Style

My ability to write a creative essay has atrophied. It started to die in high school when I turned every assignment into an opportunity to forward my objectivist agenda. It was finished in college...
Posted by David Isen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

On the Emptiness of Great Loss

What category of emotion does having an essay - into which you pored a nights worth of deep though built on two years of experience exhaustingly analyzed for the first time - suddenly erased evoke? B...
Posted by David Isen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST