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Hey Foot, Straw Foot

Low we lay 'em down

About Me



Let us not mince our words,
Let's say it true this time;
I need your forgiveness
Just like you need mine.

Glamdrings Fire
David Kosmák at Grand Valley State University
meld0n
ToSilverGlass[at]gmail.com

My Interests


A to je ta krásná zeme,
zeme ceská domov muj.

• Love unknown, love unconditional

• Languages and linguistics

• Literature

• Music

• My Czech homeland, language, heritage, ancestry, genealogy, history, culture, &c.

• Travel

• Tea drinking

• Nature

• Pipe smoking

• Learning

• Middle-earth

I'd like to meet:



People that know these things:

• The word "yea" is said as "yay", not "yeah".

• The word is spelled "psych", not "sike".

• "Pretty" is not an adverb.

Music:

• 16 Horsepower
• mewithoutYou
• Cechomor
• Opeth
• Converge
• Blind Guardian
• Necrophagist
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Woven Hand
• Starflyer 59
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
• Sleeping at Last
• Extol
• ZAO
Lately: Coldplay, Lykathea Aflame, !T.O.O.H.!, Rosie Thomas, Daisy May, High on Fire, Kylesa, Unearthly Trance, Disrupt, Becoming the Archetype, Napalm Death, Hilary Duff, Adrienne Young, Hate Eternal, Turisas, The Polyphonic Spree, Willie Dixon, Further Seems Forever, Daisy May & Seth Bernard, Harmony, Joanna Newsom, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby, Eluvium, Cryptopsy, Townes Van Zandt, and a bunch of European hard trance

Movies:

• Invisible Children
• The Lord of the Rings
• Star Wars (originals)
• The Hours
• It's a Wonderful Life
Lately: Spiderman 3, Grindhouse, 300, The Departed, Babel, Gegen die Wand

Television:

• Arrested Development
• The Office (US)
• Samurai Jack
• Law & Order
• The Sopranos
• anything on TV Land

Books:

The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Monsters and the Critics, Letters, &c. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy, Mere Christianity, &c. — C.S. Lewis
1984 — George Orwell
Kocour Mikeš — Josef Lada
Calvin & Hobbes collections — Bill Watterson
My Utmost for His Highest — Oswald Chambers
The Normal Christian Life — Watchman Nee
The Holy Bible
Other authors:
• Brian Jacques
• William Shakespeare
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Lewis Carroll
• Franz Kafka
• Karel Capek
• Ray Bradbury
• Emily Dickinson
• Herman Melville
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• William Golding
• H.G. Wells
• Jules Verne
• Virginia Woolf
• Rudyard Kipling
• Alexandre Dumas
• Mark Twain
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• D.H. Lawrence
• John Updike
• Robert Frost
• E.E. Cummings
• Frederick Douglass
• Joseph Conrad

Heroes:

My grandma Stanislava, my friends, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Oswald Chambers, Roger Williams, Jan Hus aka John Huss, Jan Amos Komenský aka Comenius, Martin Luther, Frodo Baggins, David Eugene Edwards, Aaron Weiss

My Blog

Servanthood, submission and fasting.

I have often found myself opposed to the notion of Lent because of the religiosity and legalism that seems to be connected with it on many levels. It never made sense to me to "fast" from something fo...
Posted by Hey Foot, Straw Foot on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:45:00 PST