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Aaron

Define Consciousness

About Me

Honest. Said to be sensative and moody. I don't fit in and that's OK. A natural sensualist.

My Interests

The Green Party.

I'd like to meet:

You, probably.

Music:

All music is interesting. Good dance music makes me sit quietly and listen, but I know how to "Monster Mash". Last listened to on purpose: Switchblade Symphony live album

Movies:

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, It's A Gift, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Ju-On, Torremolinos 73, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Caligula, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Big Red One, Steamboat Bill Jr., Top Hat, Bullitt, Take the Money and Run, West Side Story, Big Jake, Sons of the Desert... many more. Last seen: House (auditorium), Reptilicus (Danish version!) (home)

Television:

Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, KCAL News at Noon, BBC World News, NOVAScienceNow, select documentaries, Creature Comforts (cancelled; dang!), Masters of Science Fiction (cancelled? now on DVD), Alcoa Presents One Step Beyond, Night Gallery, anything broadcast live from the Moon. Lately have been checking out YouTube.

Books:

Bibliophile. Books recently finished: Diary of An Early American Boy by Eric Sloane, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope, The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, Ph.D., War at Sea in the Age of Sail: 1650-1850 by Andrew D. Lambert, The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame, Walt Kelly's Our Gang Vol. 1, Classics Illustrated War Of the Worlds, Sacajawea's Son by Marion Tinling, Memoirs of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin, Are You Crazy?: 18 Scientific Quizzes to Test Yourself by Andrew N. Williams, Screams of Reason by David J. Skal, Ultraviolet by Yvonne Navarro, Utopian Literature, A Selection, Edited by J. W. Johnson, Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg, Big Friends by Cuyler and Tucker, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe, The House: Its Origins and Evolution by Stephen Gardiner, The Love Boats by Jeraldine Saunders, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum, Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney, The Map That Breathed by Melanie Gideon, Chinese Fairy Tales by Frederick H. Martens, Classics Illustrated Special Edition The Story of Anerica, Indian Scout Craft and Lore by Charles A. Eastman, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighe George, Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success by Allan Metcalf, American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66 by Lisa Mahar, Sam Patch: The Famous Jumper by Paul E. Johnson

Heroes:

General Washington, Roger Corman, Hugh Hefner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

My Blog

Scrooges Holiday

First, a word about Scrooges and Grinches.  A scrooge may wish everyone to have a jolly holiday, even if that holiday is in poor taste and a real irritant.  A grinch, on the other hand, migh...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:58:00 PST

The War At Home

It is a poor babysitter that allows the damn kids to burn the house down. Attack... recruit.  Attack... recruit.  Attack... recruit.  On and on it goes.  An endless cycle of one ha...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:44:00 PST

The Present Moment Vanishes, an Illusion.

Very, very pleased at the successful orbital flight of Anousheh Ansari, space tourist.  Look for news reports on this.  10 days in space for a reported 20 million bucks.  Money that got...
Posted by Aaron on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:44:00 PST

Notable Quotes

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you must not seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.  -William James, on wild facts. Percepti...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:42:00 PST

Drip Heavily with Supernaturalism

     I think people simply enter and exit this life, "breaking even" in the end, yet the idea that I could somehow leave the world a better place than I found it places the onus on...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:23:00 PST

TV digest .1

     The public's fascination with... is not considered viable, leaving the voters to choose between... the most spectacular... only for a limited time.  Go now and check out ...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:19:00 PST

Commonplace.

While I'm doing that I can do something else.  The more you play with the numbers the more you tend to see the results you want, at least at first.  The presence of human self-determination ...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST