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Mark

Yes, you can hear, but are you really LISTENING?

About Me

I'm a Composer/creative entity -- Currently studying for my Doctorate in Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music ... Faith and music ARE life, and anything that gets in the way of those two things cannot be good. We've been given a wide and fascinating world, so travel and new experiences are high on my list. I'm in love with Poland and Slavic culture... I'm an airmchair philosopher and theologian, and dable in writing on the side. Lastly: people are important, fascinating, and sometimes tragic... they have a dignity that goes beyond everyday circumstance, and I will treat them accordingly (whether they like it or not!)

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My Interests

New Music, Travel, Polish and Slavic Culture, Philosophy, Theology, History(and your story and all the other "orys"), any and all hockey related things, Cooking, learning new musical instruments, and reading up on everything that I can...

I'd like to meet:

People of substance -- apply within!

Music:

The influences and loves are too many to list, but include: Opeth, Henryk Gorecki, Coltrane, Kronos Quartet, Chopin, Older Amorphis, Nickel Creek, The Mars Volta, older Metallica, Golec Uorkiestra, Toru Takemitsu, John Corigliano, my various teachers, various New Classical, Rock/Metal, Blues, Jazz, and anything else GOOD...

Movies:

Braveheart, LOTR Trilogy, Ogniem i Mieczem, Tito i Ja, The Red Violin, The Pianist, The Decalogue, Monty Python...

Television:

Did you know that watching television often reduces your brain to a level of activity lower than sleep? Scientifically proven!

Books:

Lord of the rings, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity (and all things from C.S Lewis), The Sienkiewicz Trilogia and QUO VADIS(and Polish literature), An Excorcist tells his story (Amorth) anything by Tad Williams and Mary Doria Russell, the Dark Elf Trilogy(Salvatore), and too many more to list...

Heroes:

Christ, Pope John Paul the GREAT, J.R.R Tolkien, Henryk Gorecki, and my family

My Blog

It's been a while...

Hey folks,     I've decided to move all my blog-action to e-blogger... the new site is: themarek.blogspot.com    ---> you can subscribe there, and I will post updates d...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:11:00 PST

Let the irresponsibility begin!!

Ah, yes... the first 100 hours of insanity.Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette opened her mouth again today, and what she said was demonstrative of the general leftist irresponsibility I so often complain of....
Posted by Mark on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:22:00 PST

Worst song ever... again.. and again...

Hi friends,    I have numerous theories as to why pop music generally sucks.  This one, however, is an entirely new feat of musicology:  apparently, much pop music also sucks,...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:27:00 PST

The Golden Marek Awards

Welcome to the first annual GOLDEN MAREK AWARDS.  It is here that -- aided by the suggestions of my friends -- I can vent out the year of 2006.  We live in a world where comedy is almost unn...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:22:00 PST

The Cemetary Gates

  How fleeting is our time.   I was running late, stressed about the day, and weighed down by the work of the past three months.  Doctoral studies certainly weren't easy, and ...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:44:00 PST

Mercy me.

--> --> Recent events have taught me greater humility, and days like today make me feel "mercy" in a way that I don't normally comprehend. That being said...I've removed the lengthy rebutal-blog. I s...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:36:00 PST

A frank examination, part 1.

It seems that aside from being hammered with my Doctoral studies, the entire internet world has begun to debate religious belief with me.  Rather than claim their right to disbelieve (which I can...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:19:00 PST

Follow-up-screw-up

Hey guys,     I posted a follow-up.. then went back to edit something, and the whole thing got messed up (it had %20 before every word.  I wasn't about to go edit all of those out...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:59:00 PST

Where is my sword at??

I think we can learn a great deal from the Muslims, even when they do take a Papal statement out of context and protest irrationally over it. For instance:  they'll just drop their prayer carpet...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:30:00 PST

Some Liberal Wording...

    I recently read the autobiography of Polish poet Alexander Wat, who during the second world war endured numerous Soviet prisons and camps.  As part of his analysis of Communism...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:52:00 PST