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Bard

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I live in Pittsburgh. How did this happen?

My Interests

Taking classes, people I can't fully understand, Art, overheard conversations, moving around, space, sculpture, things I find on the ground, bookish brunettes, anthropomorphic stains, free time, free anything, surprises (pleasant & unpleasant), sleeping in, hot showers, early retirement, modern physics, supersymmetry, Buddhism, death ....and water.~~~

I'd like to meet:

People who still get excited about things.

Music:

Unfortunately I've been out of the loop for awhile, taking suggestions.

Movies:

Well I was a film major so this was my supposive 'education', in brief: Leon, Shivers, The Hole, Akira, Clockwork Orange, Chungking Express, Happy Together, Happiness, The Pornographers, Last Tango in Paris, The Paino Teacher, Me, you, and Everyone We Know, Ace Ventura, End of Evangelion, The Phantom Tollbooth, Safe Men, Sideways, good Kung Fu (*Duel to the Death*)_French New Wave: Jules et Jim, Breathless, Masculine Feminine_Directors: Wong Kar Wei, Tsai Ming-Liang, Werner Herzog, Michel Gondry

Television:

I don't watch TV anymore: Freaks and Geeks, The Office ( UK), Seinfiled CARTOONS: Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Duck Tales ('a woo woo' mind you)

Books:

I'm on hiatus from fiction: Tropic of Cancer, East of Eden, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Snow Country, Woman in the Dunes, Ender's Game, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Catch 22, Notes from the Underground, Hemingway shorts, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Thirtieth Year, Carl Jung on Death and Rebirth, A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, Kabbalah: The Depth of Beginning, Philosphy of Modern Physics

Heroes:

People who don't take the easy way through life, but end up taking the easy way out.

My Blog

sheepish

Now that I've discovered that someone actually reads these things I'm feeling a little sheepish, poor people having to sift through all my mundane musings. So here's a funny story from the San Diego ...
Posted by Bard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fine

Alright, so it's O.K., the kids are pretty nice if not a bit socially awkward, really, I mean socially awkward enough to make me not look social awkward, but that's alright, I don't mind popping a few...
Posted by Bard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

want

Michel Gondry is a genius, I saw his director's series and I'm feeling depressed. I wish I was a genius, I wish I was doing what I wanted to be doing, I wish I knew what I wanted to be doing, I wish ...
Posted by Bard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

shrunk in the wash

What am I doing here? It's unnerving to have to live out the decisions of a former self and to trust that somehow that self knew what it was doing and was in a better state of mind to form decisions ...
Posted by Bard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

red tape melody

today should be a happy day, a day in which I triumphed over bureaucracy,well, maybe I didn;t triumph exactly, but I didn't get totally fucked over and in my opinion came out the victor, and yet on th...
Posted by Bard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST