These days... Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Blues Harmonica, All things Nautical, Philosophy, Military History, Books, Travel, Food, Debauchery.
In short, indulging my inner fat girl, seeing as much of the world as I can (preferably by boat), and developing super powers.
I also want a dirigible.Academically: (On a grad school hiatus)
Ultimatelly though, it all comes back to comic books and the ability to critically evaluate important issues centered around the premise that the dark side is legitimately the harder path to traverse....
Unhealthy attractions to: Fire, Beautiful and intelligent women of substance; especially those with an affinity for kicking ass, pirates, and sharp things, an aversion to the corporate world, a healthy appetite for sushi and chocolate, a loose grip on reality, well thought out moral diversity, an aptness for getting into trouble, a strong arm in the bedroom, possessing skill with knots, and a wicked left hook. Also lured by the dark side, righteous vigilantism, debauchery of all kinds, and my ever growing elitism.Working on: Developing super powers, seeking Anamnesis, and building my dirigible.
In addition to the aforementioned "storybook heroines, free thinkers, philosophers, sailors, artists, brawlers, and the licentious" those who sympathize with the following:
"Preparatory human beings.— I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day—the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences. To this end we now need many preparatory courageous human beings who cannot very well leap out of nothing—any more than out of the sand and slime of present-day civilization and metropolitanism: human beings who know how to be silent, lonely, resolute, and content and constant in invisible activities; human beings who are bent on seeking in all things for what in them must be overcome; human beings distinguished as much by cheerfulness, patience, unpretentiousness, and contempt for all great vanities as by magnanimity in victory and forbearance regarding the small vanities of the vanquished; human beings whose judgment concerning all victors and the share of chance in every victory and fame is sharp and free; human beings with their own festivals, their own working days, and their own periods of mourning, accustomed to command with assurance but instantly ready to obey when that is called for, equally proud, equally serving their own cause in both cases; more endangered human beings, more fruitful human beings, happier beings! For believe me!—the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due:—it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!" - Nietzsche, The Gay Science
I wouldn't mind finding a new prairie harpy either.
Recent playlist:
R.L. Burnside
Johnny Cash
Tom Waits
Army of the Pharoahs
Apathy
RJD2
Herbalizer
Tsunami Bomb
MF Doom
G Love
Flogging Molly
Bjork
Audio Slave
Le Tigre
Go Betty Go
Mr. Hyde
Wu Tang
Los Abandoned
Kool Keith
Atmosphere
Aesop Rock
Jedi Mind Tricks
Stan Getz
Miles Davis
(old) Metallica
Portishead
Massive Attack
Archive
Manu Chao
Buena Vista Social Club
Air
Photek
Cypress Hill
Sublime
Audioslave
Pepper
Fugazi
Joao Gilberto
Sarah Vaughn
Chet Baker
Morcheeba
Typical Cats
Mars Volta
Esthero
The Professional
Akira
Fight Club
Hard Boiled
Oldboy
In the Mood for Love
2046
Battle Royale
Spirited Away
Ninja Scroll
Metropolis
Princess Mononoke
Star Wars (IV-VI)
Ghostbusters
City of Lost Children
Twelve Monkeys
Seven Samurai
Tripplets of Belleville
Royal Tenenbaums
I heart Huckabees
The Life Aquatic
The Burbs
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Rarely
Currently reading:
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: A Novel by Gideon Defoe,
Yuasa Yasuo,
Mikel Dufrenne: The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience,
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who, at worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat."
~ Teddy Roosevelt
and Tyler Durden.."