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About Me

i am searching for a monastery for atheists. i look for truth in fiction. i dream of being grounded in reality. i want someone to teach me how to be autodidactic. I really hate paradoxes, oxymora, ironies, sarcasm and people who use big words. i read. i write. i drink. i work.

My Interests

Reading (modern lit, Russian and French lit) writing fiction, Playing guitar, daydreaming about things that will never happen, philosophy and politics, expressing cynical views

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Blonde Redhead, Against Me, Fugazi, The Shins, God Speed You Black Emperor, Dirty Three, Neutral Milk Hotel, Hot Water Music, Ethel Meserve, Black Heart Procession, Milemarker, Her Space Holiday, desaparcidos, bright eyes, cursive, mineral, Gloria Record, Sunny Day real estate, red star theory, radiohead, small brown bike, Jawbox, Modest Mouse, built to spill, at the drive-in, youth brigade

Movies:

Waking Life, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Two or Three Things I Knew About Her, My Life to Live, Contempt, Donnie Darko, The Seventh Seal, Dr. Strangelove (or how learn to stop worrying and love the bomb) M*A*S*H*, Annie Hall, Deconstructing Harry

Television:

Real Time with Bill Marher, Daily Show, Family Guy (but i never get to see them because i don't have cable.)

Books:

Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Nausea, Catch-22, , 1984, Sons and Lovers, Death in Vience, Letters from Earth, Tropics of Cancer, Tropics of Capricorn, Notes from the Underground, More Die of Heartbreak, anything from Vonnegut, Balzac. i could go on but don't feel like it.

My Blog

as a service to myspace. . .

i have noticed people on myspace love to take quizes to find out what kind of personality they have or what kind of kisser they are or what their personal attributes are. So i decided, using my ...
Posted by nick on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:25:00 PST

damn government needs to give me my damn $$

When i moved into my new apartment (at the beginning of march) i told my roommate that i needed to wait about a month until i got my income tax refund before i could buy furniture for the apartm...
Posted by nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

its friday, 3:45. I am at work. no one else is. out of twelve people that work in the office only one other person is here. And guess who that is: my boss. SO i'm s...
Posted by nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

thank god someone embraces orwellian speech

so last night i was feeling a bit machostic and decided to watch fox news. This guy gets on there and he is talking about how important academic freedom is for both proffessor and students. ...
Posted by nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

now i have heard it all

so i am watching the old clarence thomas hearings (you know the supreme court justice that liked to talk about porno movies to his female coworkers) and sen. Orin Hatch R-utah is on the com...
Posted by nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

good to see people stand up against injustice

for those of you who do not know this already. I work in a television news archive and my job invovles watching hundreds of news programs a week. As you might imagine, watching recent...
Posted by nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i think i am god's gift to women

That's right. I am quite sure of it actually. I came to this conclusion after many a thoughtful evening, pondering both the tristes of the of the past and my present meanderings through the dark haz...
Posted by nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

excited about my next failure

It is not every day that one embarks on a new journey that can totally change the rest of your life. Which is why it is not surprising that nothing like that is going on in my life. However, I am star...
Posted by nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST