Music, concerts, movies, dining out, good food, good company, travel, art, digital photography, architecture, urban planning, sports, learning new things, clubbing (sometimes), dancing, fine red and white wine, gin and tonic, patios of any type, Stella Artois, Starbucks coffee (grande bold or triple tall one raw sugar latte), ice cream (specifically Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Swiss Almond), good friends, long conversations, short conversations, reading, politics, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, stand-up comedy, arguments, spring and summer (and sometimes fall... okay I like aspects of winter too), Montrealhappiness, the environmental movement, feet(ha), photography, sandy beaches (the ones down south), long walks (but not off of short piers), extreme candor (rather than extreme sports... down with UFC). Oh, and did I mention music and more music?
The Montreal Canadiens (The Habs, baby! Go HABS Go!)
A group I belong to. Check it out:
View my page on Sceptics
I'd like to meet:
Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Robert Fisk, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Barak Obama
I don't mind meeting some people on myspace especially if you share the same musical tastes, politics or other interests. I think it helps if you share the same basic moral framework for any kind of friendship to work, even a virtual one. If you are ultra-conservative, you'll probably dislike me. It would be nice to get a message from a real person randomly rather than spammers and scammers.
Recently, I have met some very interesting people and the most interesting thing is that they have found me. So I guess it is possible to meet 'normal' people on here.
As a note, the chances of me approving your friend request without any contact prior (like a message) to the request is very slim. Why would you be adding me without even talking to me? I'm not interested in padding the numbers on myspace profiles. I actually have few friends on here, most are just bands I like and some people have simply migrated to Facebook. It's also been my experience that people who add you without even chatting are usually spammers. Die spammers, die!. Of course, if your profile is filled out and you sound like a real person who is interesting then all of this changes. I look forward to hearing from you.
Two famous criminals: General Augusto Pinochet and his economic advisor Milton Friedman
la fête triste by Trisomie 21
Favourite Quotes:
"...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong." Richard Dawkins
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Winston Churchill
And love is exception making. If you were in love you'd want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that's the impossible, the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. - "The Fountainhead" Ayn Rand
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. - Lord Acton yr. 1887
Anything worth dying for, is certainly worth living for - from the movie "Catch 22" Joseph Heller
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.- Noam Chomsky
“America should not believe Memorial Day orators. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier’s life. I’ve been handed the check… roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning.†War critic Andrew J. Bacevich, a Boston University professor of international relations who is also a Vietnam veteran, a product of the United States Military Academy and a former teacher at West Point. After his 27-year-old son was killed in May while serving in Iraq.
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." Jerry Seinfeld
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." Richard Dawkins
"We all have baggage, it’s just a question of whether it’s carry-on or checked." ME!
Movie trailer for "Once"
Music:
Music, music, music!!! I love my music. This is an incomplete list and I'm always looking for something new to listen to.
Cut Copy
Lamb, The Swell Season, Chemical Brothers, Midnight Juggernaut, Cabaret Voltaire, BRMC, IO Echo, Shout Out Louds
Louis XIV, Killing Joke, The Clash, Bloc Party, Oasis, Blur, Dntel, Lali PunaLondon After Midnight, Coldplay, Billie Holiday, James, Sisters Of Mercy, Garbage, Ms. John SodaKings of Leon, Ulrich Schnauss, Happy Mondays, The Cramps, Broken Social Scene, VNV Nation, M83Metric, Sigur Ros, Nada Surf, The Neon Judgement, The Philosopher Kings, New Order, Joy Division, Icon of Coil, Devo, Front 242TIGA, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Air, Lemon Jelly, Lhasa, Aphex Twin, Soft Cell, Orbital, Duo 505, Electric Six, Blonde Redhead, MúmFischerspooner, Kasabian, Yo Le Tengo, Prodigy, The Stills, StarsThe Go Find, Verve, M.I.A., Cansei De Ser Sexy, Bright Eyes, Franz Ferdinand, The Pixies, InterpolMuse, The The, Bebel Gilberto, Nirvana, The Cure, Stan Ridgeway, Modest Mouse, Intermix, The KnifeLCD Soundsystem, Propaganda, les Rita Mitsouko, Nitzer Ebb, Sabres Of Paradise, Madrid, She Wants RevengeDiplo, NIN, Hooverphonic, The Killers, Ladytron, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Catherine Wheel, English Beat, Trisomie 21Johnny Hollow, Infected Mushroom, Rilo Kiley, Shout Out Out Out Out, The Ting Tings, The Reindeer Section, Junior Boys, Digitalism
Movies:
I absolutely love movies. This is just some of the movies I've enjoyed over the years.
Once (new addition and best film this year!)Eastern Promises (New addition. If you liked History of Violence you'll like this even more. Great flick!)Juno, An Inconvenient Truth, Blood Diamonds, Office Space, Water, The Departed, Crash, The Matrix, Goodfellows, Shallow Grave, Lost in Translation, Midnight Express, Saving Private Ryan, Catch 22, Sin City, Perfume: The Story of A Murderer, AmelieAmerican Beauty, M*A*S*H, District B13, Fahrenheit 9/11, Supersize Me, Full Metal Jacket, Godfather, Godfather II, Garden State, City of God, The Fog of War, Manchurian Candidate, Virgin Suicides, Das Experiment, Mystic River, Shaun of the Dead, The CorporationRun Lola Run, The Usual Suspects, Spiderman 2, Wonderboys, North By Northwest, Apartment Zero, Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty, Dial “M†For Murder, The Ice Storm, The Incredibles, Ice Age, Spartan, Roger DodgerElephant, Thirteen, Death and The Maiden, Dirty Pretty Things, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wild Things, Bowling for Columbine, Roger & Me, Vertigo, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Casino Royale, Trainspotting Notes On A Scandal, Traffic, 25th Hour, American History X, American Psycho, Glen Gary Glen Ross, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Fight Club, Manufacturing Consent, BrickRear Window, Dr. Strangelove, The French Connection, The French Connection II, The Conversation, Children Of Men, Water, Deliverance, Snatch, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, 12 Angry Men, Little Miss Sunshine, History Of Violence, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Fargo, Kiss of The Spider Woman, Kafka
Sexy Beast, Million Dollar Baby, Nine Queens, The Motorcycle Diaries, Gosford Park, In The Heat of The Night, The Interview, Waking Ned Devine, Sweet Sixteen, Topaz, The Birds, Crumb, 20 Bucks, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Good Will Hunting, American Graffiti
Television:
Breaking Bad (awesome new show on AMC... who could figure... it's about a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and starts cooking meth to leave money for his family), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Rescue Me, Family Guy, The Riches, The Office, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Law & Order, ER, Frontline, The Wedge, Traffik (original British mini-series), House Of Cards (British mini-series), Band of Brothers (HBO mini-series)
Books:
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins (great book)
"The Shock Doctrine - The rise of disaster capitalism" by Naomi Klein (THIS IS A MUST READ)
"The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken (another must read)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nigh-Time by Mark Haddon
Favourite authors: Nick Hornby, David B. Feinberg, Ayn Rand , Robert Fisk, Seymour Hirsch, Noam Chomsky, Ian Rankin
Heroes:
Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Seymore Hirsch (exposing Abu Garab before anyone else), Al Gore (for the doc & his long battle to get the environment on the agenda), Bill Clinton (NOT for getting blown in the Oval Office), Michael Moore (for pissing off "The Man"), Robert Redford (for his activism), Bob Hunter (for starting Greenpeace) and Art Vandelay (Where else do you get an architect, marine biologist, owner of a latex empire, importer/exporter, beatnik author, judge and Elaine's boyfriend, all wrapped into one? This is one truly amazing guy and I want to meet him.)
