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andrew

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

"I'm what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey."

My Interests

History, Film Analysis, Existentialism, Music Technology, Muisc Theory, Guitar, Learning something I don't know, Photography, Writing (Fiction, Analytical Essay), and Meeting new people.

I'd like to meet:

Freud and yell at him for making dinner with my mother awkward.

Music:


Jimmy Eat World
Death Cab for Cutie
Saves the Day
Weezer
Radiohead

Butch Walker George Gershwin The Beach Boys The Elected
Rilo Kiley
Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong
Teenage Fanclub
Beth Orton
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty
Otis Redding
Billie Holiday
The Velvet Underground
Elvis Costello
Bad Astronaut
Thelonious Monk
John Coltrane
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Third Eye Blind
Mineral
Sunny Day Real Estate
Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
The Cure
Simon and Garfunkel
The Rentals
Mason Jennings
Joe Cocker
The Early November
Django Reinhardt
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Counting Crows
Damien Rice
Elvis Presley
The Bealtes
Feist
The Get Up Kids
Heatmiser
Jelly Roll Morton
The Honorary Title
Benny Carter Don Nelson
Kiss
Motley Crue
Miles Davis
Art Tatum
Long Since Forgotten
My Bloody Valentine
Nirvana
The Foo Fighters
Tenacious D
The New Amsterdams
The Pixies
Prince
The Postal Service
Queen
R.E.M.
U2
Ray Charles
Say Anything
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business
Hot Hot Heat
Green Day
Frank Sinatra

Movies:

Annie Hall
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Little Miss Sunshine
The Apartment
Sleeper
Manhattan
Crimes and Misdemeaners
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Lady from Shanghai
Adaptation
Amelie
I Donnie Darko
Garden State
Say Anything...
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Ed Wood
Sideways
Election
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Willy Wonky and the Chocolate Factory
Lost in Translation
The Weatherman
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* but were afraid to ask
Bananas
Take the Money and Run
Hannah and Her Sisters
Mighty Aphrodite
Anything Else
Match Point
Edward Scissor Hands
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Vanilla Sky
The Last Waltz
Spinal Tap
Taxi Driver
Godfather I & II
Star Wars (A New Hope)
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill vol. I & II
American Physco
Identity
Double Indemnity
The Maltese Falcon
Key Largo
Empire of the Sun
Boondock Saints
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Killings
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
21 Grams
Suicide Kings
The Big Lebowski
Big Fish
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman Begins
Street Fighter
Momento
Pyscho
Notorious
Rear Window
High Fidelity
Clerks.
Clerks II
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Mallrats
Office Space
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Shawshank Redemption
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?
Forrest Gump
Grease
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Matchstick Men
Ace Ventura
Wayne's World
Airplane!
Cable Guy
Major League II
Super Troopers
Caddy Shack
Love Actually
Stripes
Ghostbusters I & II
Fletch
Stand By Me
Sleepy Hollow
When Harry Met Sally...
Hotel Rwanda
The Producers
L'auberge Espangole
Desperado
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Sin City
Scroodged
Big Fish
Fight Club
Swingers
The Evil Dead I & II
The Army of Darkness
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Bride of the Monster
Friday the 13th
Made
Kissing a Fool
Anchorman
Wedding Crashers
The 40-Year Old Virgin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Corpse Bride
Van Wilder
Lord of War
Mission Impossible
Serendipity
The Seven Beauties
The Holy Grail
Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
Groundhog Day

Television:

The Simpsons
The Daily Show
The Office
The Colbert Report
Seinfeld
Entourage
King of the Hill

Books:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Love in the Time of Cholera
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Killing Yourself to Live
Catcher in the Rye
Franny and Zooey
Flowers for Algernon
Without Feathers
High Fidelity
Songbook
America: The Book
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A Confederacy of Dunces
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
About a Boy
Naked Pictures of Famous People

Heroes:

My Grandfather.

My Blog

The Original Transcript of Machiavellis "The Prince"

How to Efficiently Govern an Autocracy (For Dummies): In recognition of the customary act of giving a Prince gifts in order to win his favor, I offer you, Caesar Borgia, the following essay to help ai...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:09:00 PST

The Rise and Fall of Music Genres: A Darwinian Approach

The scene opens: The audience is sailing smoothly above the clouds. All is well, but not for long. Before the audience even gets the chance to commit this pleasant experience to memory, they begin ...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:48:00 PST

A Monumental Life Decision

"Suppose you're walking out of the Plaza Hotel in New York City," Gene Wilder muses as he begins his autobiography with a hypothetical situation. "You want to go directly across the street to Bergdor...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:36:00 PST

Un-fucking-believable.

So, it's 8:55 am right now, which is way too early for me, but I've been up since 6:45 this morning because I have an 8:30 class at CCM every tuesday and thursday, and I like to have enough time to ge...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:54:00 PST

No, Fuck You, Punk Rock Kid! (I'm a Selfish Prick)

I apologize in advance for all typos: I have an obsessive mind.  I can't just get in to a new band, I have to go out and buy all of their cd's, listen to them chronologically and try to distingui...
Posted by andrew on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:33:00 PST

So that was high school?

Ahem... So for those of you who have no idea, I just graduated from West Morris Central High School in Chester, New Jersey.  I don't want to give the impression that I was looking for a few big s...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:10:00 PST

The Solitude of the Driver's Seat

Another old Essay...     The Solitude of the Driver's Seat Roughly a fortnight ago, each individual student was given the task to come up with one single place that existed in their lives ...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:55:00 PST

do you know this girl???

She watches the history channel just because.Foreign films and subtitles don't scare her, infact she tells me about the greater artistic sensibility in Italian and French films as she nurses a medium ...
Posted by andrew on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:34:00 PST

Quotes Galore

So,  here are some quotes from some of my favorite movies, songs and books that I hope can make you laugh or mean as much to some of you folks as they do to me. Maybe even both: "What c...
Posted by andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

This put a smile on my face...

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html - that made my night. p.s. i saw sideways tonight... and that too put a smile on my face/made my night even better. p.s. part II: the son...
Posted by andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST