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rye

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I hope to one day be abducted by aliens.

I'd also like to see a ghost at some point.

A Faustian deal sounds good to me. Not for any profit, however, but out of shear curiosity.

I play dodgeball. If you want to play, too, then send me a message about it.

It would be very upsetting to me if somehow awkward situations were removed from my life.

My Interests

Playing with charcoal and razor blades.
Journalism.
Being secretly annoyed by the fact that the word existentialism is rarely used correctly.
Rock climbing.
Fencing (I'm taking a break from it though).
Reading.
The DS and XBox 360.
Carl Jung.
Spending time all by myself.
Spending time with people.

I'd like to meet:

Rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Music:

The Cure.
The Decemberists.
British Sea Power.
Modern English.
Badly Drawn Boy.
The Shout Out Louds.
The Velvet Underground (with Nico).
The Stars.
Recently I've been listening to the classical station when I'm driving.

Movies:

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
Juno.
The Boondock Saints.
Savages.
A Scanner Darkly.
Eyes Wide Shut.
Saved.
Sneakers.
The United States of Leland.

Television:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Rome.
Battlestar Galactica.
The X-Files.

Books:

Ernest Hemingway (The Garden of Eden, The Sun also Rises).
Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Brave New World Revisited).
Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain).
William Gibson (Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Burning Chrome).
Paul Auster (Hand to Mouth, The Red Notebook).
Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time).
Albert Camus (The Fall, The Myth of Sisyphus).
Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose).

Heroes:

Ernest Hemingway.
Aldous Huxley.
Thomas Merton.
H.P. Lovecraft.
Fox Mulder.

My Blog

The Bad Guys (A pseudo-review of the Hellraiser movies)

             "Down the dark decades of your pain you will think of this as a memory of heaven." Here we have chilling yet sophisticated and oddly ...
Posted by rye on Sat, 03 May 2008 04:55:00 PST

A Punch Up at an Art Gallery

2: "Stalin?"1: "OK. So he's not that bad."2:"I really like him. All right?"1: "Oh my God."2: "I love him"1: "You didn't tell him that did you? I mean, jeez."2: "He told me first. And I told him it bac...
Posted by rye on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:35:00 PST

Scary Monsters

             I once knew an ex-priest, H., who claimed to have experienced several paranormal events. It seems, however, that I should give a litt...
Posted by rye on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:42:00 PST

A Few Short Memories

             I’ve never told anyone this before. It’s not bad or anything. I’ve just never felt the need to mention it. I was ab...
Posted by rye on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:32:00 PST

A pilgrimage to nothing in particular

I'd like to take a vacation this spring. A trip. A journey. That last one sounds a bit lame though.     I'd like to go nowhere in particular. I've been thinking about the northern plai...
Posted by rye on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:30:00 PST

A Ghost Story

             The first time I heard it I was in bed and mostly sleeping. It was a tapping sound like a cigarette against an ashtray. It was very...
Posted by rye on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:52:00 PST

Game Review: Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (XBox 360)

1up.comYeah, yeah. I know. It's pretty nerdy. Laugh it up. But here's the first game review I ever wrote (and since I just wrote it-- it's also the only one so far).----------    &...
Posted by rye on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:59:00 PST

In Memoriam

I found this last night. I had forgotten about it. I wrote it back in '04 while I was at Xavier. I haven't made any changes in it. It's about a professor that I had there. He died of cancer. It made h...
Posted by rye on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:31:00 PST

New Years Day

             Those of you that are reading this that live in the Ohio area will remember the slight snowstorm we recently had. I've noticed that t...
Posted by rye on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:10:00 PST

Academia Forever!

This is a dream I had, which makes it hard to tell. The parts that stood out, that held real meaning, don't make sense outside of that dream world. I suppose that's the problem with dreamsthey're so ...
Posted by rye on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:41:00 PST