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maher shalal hash baz

wander thou haeccitas

About Me

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My Interests

fuzz guitars, motorcycles, mid century furniture, theology and philosophy, mid century graphic design, philosophy of art, philosophical hermeneutics, art in general, nihilism, cinema, japanese and iranian cinema, people, music of many kinds, firearms and knives, kindness and sarcasm, recording technics and effects, varieties of wood veneers, confusion and solace, the attempt to understand, food preparation, cigars and pipes, style, baseball, thrift stores, literature and poetry, good coffee and tea, wine, the variance of life, aimless wandering....

I'd like to meet:

Who I don't: "Hominem unius libri timeo" as said the ox.

Music:

Can, Tomokawa Kazuki, Kurihara Michio, Fushitsusha, Mikami Kan, PSF, Alchemy, Krautrock, Psych rock, ethno-psych, Drone, Mid-School Hip Hop, Organized Konfusion, Edan, Elliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Neil Young, Shizuka, Pentangle, Krystof Penderecki, J. S. Bach, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Lee Morgan, Chivo Barraro, Nathan Davis, Hideo Shiraki Quintet, John Coltrane, Ennio Morricone, Charles Mingus, MPS/Saba, Eastern European Jazz, Jorge Ben, tropicalia, bossa nova, John Rydgren, GY!BE, Buck65, L--Hiroyuki Usui, nurse with wound, irr app (ext), Tortoise, Ghost, White Heaven, mshb, aural fit, Corrupted, Up-Tight, Go Hirano, Miminokoto, Boris, Nagisa Ni Te, The Jacks's Vacant World, The dead c, taj mahal travellers, Harvester/International Harvester/Parson Sound, etc, Pekka Pohjola, Gandalf the Grey- The Grey Wizard, Six Organs of Admittance, Wovenhand, Laddio Bolocko, Skullflower, Sunn 0)), Nas's illmatic, Belle and Sebastian, Castanets,Corrupted, Nadja, Baden Powell, Edu Lobo, el congreso, embrujo, pererin, He6, early San Ul Lim, Tractor-s/t, nadja, Danny Ben-Israel, Erkin Koray,Edip Akbayram, Del Jones's Positive Vibes, Spectrum- Geracao Bendita, Lightnin' Hopkins: Lightnin' and the blues, Red Crayola: Parable of Arable Land,13th floor elevators, Pererin, 3 hur-el: hurel arvisi, grup bunalim, Andrew Hill-Point of Departure, John Jacob Niles, Mary Lou Williams-The black Christ of the andes, Tony,Caro,and John--All on the first day, L'Roneous Da Versifier's Imaginarium, Sussex- Bentwind, early sanullim, he6, spectrum-geracao bendita, Leaf hound-Growers of mushrooms, Sonny Sharrock's Black Woman, FF's Inner City Griots, Saafir Boxcar Sessions, Ananda Shankar - ananda shankar and his music, Goldenrod, Osanna,16 hp, magyar posse, svarte greiner,Light shall prevail, amps for christ, gustav brom, West Coast Pop Experimental Band, Guru Guru's UFO, LSD March, Les Rallizes Denudes, DJ Shadow's Introducing ......

Movies:

Andrei Rublev, My name is Ivan, Seventh Seal, High and Low, Seven Samurai, Red Beard, Tokyo Drifter, Youth of the Beast, Jingi Naki Tatakai, Enjo, Fires on the Plain, An Actors Revenge, Harakiri, Sword of Doom, Kill!, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Bottle Rocket, Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, American Splendor, Koyaanisqatsi, Stan Brakhage, la haine, Ordet, Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrude, Day of Wrath, Diary of a Country priest, Tokyo Story, Floating weeds, Early Summer, Late Spring, Le Samourai, Le Silence De La Mer, Weekends, Contempt, M, Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse series, Rififi, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, Solaris.....

Books:

Theology and Philosophy: The many faceted Bible, Augustine,Gregory Nazienzen, John Chrysostom, the dumb ox, Calvin, Karl Barth, Kiekegaard, Jonathan Edwards, Colin Gunton, N. T. Wright, T. F. Torrance, John Webster, Calvin Seerveld, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Al Plantinga, Merold Westphal, Lesslie Newbiggin, Herman Dooyeweerd, Yves Congar, Hans Urs Von Balthassar, John Zizioulas, Alan E. Lewis, Eberhard Jungel, Paul Avis, Nicholas of Cusa, Richard Hooker, Lancelot Andrewes, Bucer, the feisty Luther, S. T.Coleridge, Thomas Reid, Ricouer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Eco, Gadamer, Berdyaev, Anselm, Kevin Vanhoozer, Derrida, J.L. Austin, W. V. O. Quine, David Lewis, Noel Carrol, David Bordwell, Erich AurebachPoetry, Literature and Literary non-fiction: Gerald Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, Basho, Mishima, Yeats, Dostoevsky, Endo Shushaku, Kawabata Yasunari, silone's Bread and Wine, Milan Kundera, Flannery O'Conner, Kafka, Borges, Didion, Edmund Wilson, Pauline Kael, Calvino, Vollmann, Marylinne Robinson, Nathaniel Hawtorne's short stories, Walker Percy

Heroes:

die Verkapselung und der Misbrauch der Wahrheit zu gunsten des auf den Thron erhobenen Ich brict, wie zuerst in der Verderbnis des inner Lebens (1, 2), so nun auch naauch auben durch und erscheint in der Geschichte asl die grobe Kultur- und Moralluge: Die Menschheit wird, was sie Kraft ihres Widerstrandes gegen das gottliche "Es werde!" sein mub: ein tummelplatz aller moglichen Nichtigkeiten, ein weltkriegschauplatz, ein Narrenhaus.--karl barth

My Blog

a passage from Alan E. Lewis

A passage from Alan E. Lewis's remarkable book 'between cross and ressurection'      ...The protest of unbelief is that the world is godless and unjust, a place of lovelessness, ...
Posted by maher shalal hash baz on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:30:00 PST

on the name

due to the apparent confusion my name has at times caused, i though it well to write this. the name' maher shalah hash baz' was primarily chosen with the original passage in Isaiah in mind, so as to ...
Posted by maher shalal hash baz on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:48:00 PST