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Farooq

Blauer Krieger braucht Nahrung stark!

About Me

Eh... I'm a pretty general kind've guy. I suppose if you want to get picky about it, you could call me a dilettante. I speak enough German and Spanish to get by. I do SCA heavy combat. I make bows, and occasionally armor. I'm a compudork. I play RPGs and D&D. I can cook like a fiend. I read quite a bit, though not as much as I'd like. I can speak moderately well on a variety of subjects. I'm a biology student, headed for med school and the Navy. I think I'm so general as a personal rebellion against our increasingly insectile society. Everything is so specialized today, I refuse to do it."A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein

My Interests

Society for Creative Anachronism - Fencing, heavy weapons, archery, cooking without recipes, tea, armoring, swords, martial arts, hiking, drunk people, rock climbing, traveling, discoveries of all sorts, social interactions, camping, fishing (especially fly fishing) philosophy, biology, chemistry, RPG's, computers, video games, anime, comedy, D&D (yeah, you can fuck off), fantasy novels, medicine, women and all the activities ensuing...

I'd like to meet:

You. Make it worth my while... HappySatan69

Music:

Oh gods... Almost everything. Industrial, techno, folk, rock, hair metal, any sort've interesting rap (preferrably not most of the mainstream crap), I freakin' love Voltaire (both the philosophe and the musician, though obviously since this is in the music section I'm talking about the musician.), VNV Nation, Flogging Molly, The Pogues, Rev. Horton Heat, JP Corwyn, Stan Rogers, Spill Canvas, Social Distortion, Johnny Cash, Bach, Vandals, The Darkness, Lordi, Aerosmith, Cruxshadows, Haydn, Nightwish, Rancid, Gogol Bordello, The Faint, Counting Crows, Apoptygma Berzerk, Basement Jaxx, Mozart, Franz Ferdinand, Minstrels of Mayhem, AC/DC, Brobdingnagian Bards, Bus Driver, TV on the Radio, Sparta, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Liszt, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Buckshot Lefonque, Portishead

Movies:

Roadtrip Extraordinaire



Some collected clips from my roadtrip with some buddies to Belgium, and my ensuing rants and retardation. Warning - I curse a lot.

Television:

Uhrm... Dr. Who, Dresden Files, House. That's about it, I think. I'm not a huge TV person, really.

Books:

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

Heroes:

Tiny little thumbless robots.Also: My most amazingly fucking hilarious Grandma.

My Blog

Life in General

So. My life as of late. In one word - dissatisfaction. I've noticed something about myself. When I'm single, I'm dissatisfied. This is a problem, since I feel that I'm going to be single for a very lo...
Posted by Farooq on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:40:00 PST

Take a bow

So it’s official. When I get rather stressed, I take shelter in my hobbies. At this moment, it’s bowyery. Behold, my newest work in progress. 6’ long, 2.5" wide at the widest taper. ...
Posted by Farooq on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:28:00 PST

Things I want

To be done with school. I'm more burnt out than Richard Pryor at this point. Seriously. If someone said to me "Hey. If you whack this guy, you can graduate," it would be highly tempting. To spend more...
Posted by Farooq on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

Oh so tasty

So I found something ridiculously tasty while cooking last night. I think it was last night. Yeah. Last night. Tuesday night that is. I just realized it's 3 AM. Anyway. So I had some lo...
Posted by Farooq on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:22:00 PST

A wee bit o’ the musing

Right. So hot off the presses: I'm a charismatic guy. Don't know if any of you have noticed this. Okay, most of you call it "insufferable arrogance" but whatever. So I've been talking to Alex about my...
Posted by Farooq on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:25:00 PST

Life and such

Well. I'm alive for the most part. Got a job working at Hops as a waiter. Easy money is hard to beat. Having done it for over two years, it's pretty insanely easy. School is... school. I'm really burn...
Posted by Farooq on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:45:00 PST

Mah brainz. They bleed.

Holy ass. So Chelsea (at the beginning, anyway) forced me to watch Battlestar Galactica. Watched all three seasons in the span of a few weeks. Holy shit. Seriously. My brain is bleeding from the aweso...
Posted by Farooq on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:13:00 PST

Get the trout off my banana hammock!

Because frankly, Tam's trout are buggin' the hell out of me. Little bastards are scrapey. If you post a comment I'll1) Tell you why I friended you2) Associate you with a song/movie3) Tell a random fac...
Posted by Farooq on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:29:00 PST

Still breatin’, even if the ghost isn’t.

In the words of the almighty Monty Python Peasant, "I'm not dead yet!". Hangin' in there with school. Actually doing really well in my language classes, which I thought I was going to be scr...
Posted by Farooq on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:40:00 PST

School bells ringing

Oh man am I fucked. Like, not even normal fucked. Like, a fucked beyond human ken. Why do I do this to myself? I mean, I know I'm a little masochistic and all, but really now. This is a bit excessive....
Posted by Farooq on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:00 PST