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Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy

I'm in a cowboy band...

About Me

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You're "Cemetary Gates" ! You're smarter
than other people, with their trite
romanticized ideas about things. You have a
wicked sense of satire.
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Disorder Rating
Paranoid Disorder : Low
Schizoid Disorder : High
Schizotypal Disorder : High
Antisocial Disorder : Moderate
Borderline Disorder : Low
Histrionic Disorder : High
Narcissistic Disorder : High
Avoidant Disorder : Very High
Dependent Disorder : High
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder : Low
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John Lennon
You are John Lennon! You're a nerd to many young and old, and loved for it too. You have influenced many different people, you and old. You have magnetism. Oh, he died in 1980 from a moron... who shot him.
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My Interests

short fiction, publishing a book quite soon, reading a' plenty, music, film, skepticism and other topics in philosophy, evolution/Darwinsim, ethics

I'd like to meet:

Richard Dawkins, Haruki Murakami, Anthony, Ella (our real meeting was much too short--not a real meeting), Bob Dylan, and I'm sure there are probably a few more... And Gackt: .. width="425" height="350" .... ...but I won't do this!

Music:

AC/DC, All Walks of Life, The Beatles, Beck, Big Wreck, David Bowie, CCR, Colorfinger, John Coltrane, The Darkness, Miles Davis, The Doors, Bob Dylan, (old) Everclear, Fiona Apple, Fugazi, The Get Up Kids, George Harrison, Gackt, Guns n' Roses, Robert Johnson, KISS, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Less Than Jake, Marilyn Manson, The Mars Volta, Dave Matthews Band, Paul McCartney, Malice Mizer, Metallica, Minor Threat, The Misfits, Morrissey, The New Amsterdams, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, The Pillows, Pink Floyd, Iggy Pop, Primus, Radiohead, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Replacements, The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, The Specials, The Stooges, Stone Temple Pilots, The Strokes, Talk Show, The The, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Traveling Wilburys, T. Rex, U2, the Wallflowers, Weezer, Scott Weiland, Paul Westerberg, the White Stripes, The Who, Neil Young .. width="425" height="350" .... .. width="425" height="350" ....

Movies:

The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now!, Fight Club, Office Space, Life of Brian, A Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine, Kevin Smith movies, Tim Burton movies, anything by Hayao Miyzaki, Being John Malkovitch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, She's the One, Star Trek movies, Pulp Fiction, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Rushmore, The Seven Samurai, Taxi Driver, Full Metal Jacket, Vanilla Sky, Unbreakable, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Goodfellas, se7en, Pi, The Royal Tennenbaums, those Harry Potter flicks, Amadeus, Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet, Catch-22, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, The Graduate, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Robocop

Television:

Futurama, Frasier, That 70's Show, Chappelle's Show, Friends, My Name is Earl, Reno 911, Star Trek: TNG, Firefly, South Park, Beavis & Butthead, Seinfeld, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Bean, The Office

Books:

Real Books: The Stranger by Camus, anything by Steinbeck, The Antichrist by Nietzsche, Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky, anything by Haruki Murakami, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey, Fight Club by Palahnuik, Brave New World by Huxley, The Metamorphosis by Kafka, Lullaby by Palahnuik, Catch-22 by Heller, Slaughterhouse-Five and a handful of short stories by Vonnegut, Beyond Good & Evil by Nietzsche, The Godfather by Puzo, Hell's Angels by Thompson, some Poe short stories, Silence by Shusaku Endo, Inferno by Dante, A Brief History of Time by Hawking, River Out of Eden by Dawkins, Science of Good & Evil by Shermer, A Hunger Artist by Kafka, Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare, The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins
Comics: Cerebus by Dave Sim, Kabuki by David Mack, Battle Angel Alita by Kishiro, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind by Miyazaki, Watchmen by Moore, V for Vendetta by Moore, DC stories of Alan Moore, Preacher by Ennis, Maison Ikkoku & Ranma 1/2 & Lum by Takahashi, Furi Kuri by Gainax, Dawn by J.M. Linsner, Dark Knight Returns by Miller, Swamp Thing by Moore

Heroes:

We can be heroes...if just for one day.

My Blog

Me duele

Things have been pretty quiet and uneventful with the exception of going back to work full-time and recording a few songs with a real-live rock and/or roll band. That whole process of recording music ...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:19:00 PST

you've just got to serve yourself and that's all there is to it

I've been feeling very uncreative lately, and by "lately," I mean over the past 10 or 11 months. I'm telling you guys, there's nothing there. There's so much great music, film, and literature in the w...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:43:00 PST

Everything's Hunky Dory

Has anyone really been wondering where I was? Yes, I'm still here keeping busy. There is this strange and uncertain future immediately ahead, a change of scenery, a little bit of newness to keep me on...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:59:00 PST

my life in music

Lately, I've been playing my acoustic and adding a little harp every now and then. I really can't sing for shit. Songwriting's never been my strong suit, either. Still, I'm working bit by bit on a few...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:04:00 PST

26 questions about my .1--Fiona Apple

can u answer 26 questions about your #1? DON'T change your top friends, and answer 26 questions about the 1st person in your top friends.1) What's this person's name?Fiona2) Do you trust them?To make ...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:14:00 PST

a quick note about rock n' roll

Besides being busy with work, rotations, and AWOL (remember: Tuesday night @ Jillians), I've been keeping myself company with some really awesome albums that some of you might dig: 1. Primus "Sailing ...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:14:00 PST

update!

Youtube has some interesting videos of guys teaching harmonica. I think I've gotten a little bit better as a result of trying out some new techniques. Some people really know their harps! I still need...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:23:00 PST

one recent source of stress and concern

It's getting about cruch time now, where it seems I have to start making decisions about what to do when I get to the real world (that is, outside academia--who knows whether it's really real or not.....
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:03:00 PST

Running with All Walks

The good news is, I'm pretty much over all that respiratory muck that's had me down the last month. And with good time, too, since I have been running myself ragged lately (or so it feels). Between th...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:36:00 PST

here's something new...

I haven't written one of these in a very long time. The reason is two-fold, I think: I've been really busy and really sick at the same time. I've had this upper respiratory tract infection for going o...
Posted by Scott: pilgrimage, heterodoxy on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:12:00 PST