Friends There's no better thing than hanging out with your best friends. Or calling them in the middle of the night if you feel like a deep conversation
Music I couldn't live without it. World is a better place if experienced through headphones ;)
Going out I'm no party animal, but I enjoy partying and getting drunk occasionally (and of course more often during the summer time)
Photography My favourite hobby and something I believe I'm good at. If I go somewhere without my camera, it's because it is too heavy. I enjoy portraiture and macro photography the most
Philosophy After only 2 years of philosophy course it has marked my life greatly. It's great fun putting reality into theories, even if they are all false ;)
Poetry I became to like it because of the freedom it allows and beacuse it can express ideas that cannot be put into sentences
French My favourite language, though I should work more on my french. I think I like it because it's so artistic, romantic and delicate
Science Because I want to know and understand the world I live in :) This is also where my future plans lie; I'm sort of dedicating my life to science
Humour What a boring place the world would be without it! It gives so much freedom and it is so powerful, because nothing is safe from a mockery. I prefer the intelligent and subtle humour, the English humour basically
Travelling I love big cities and villages, highways and footpaths, top civilization and no civilization. I like to change my location as often as possible and I never get attached to a place. If I had the money, I'd probably travel all the time
Cycling Yes, there is some sport in my life as well. I like cycling because you can be quite fast and get quite far, and yet you're all on your own - nothing artificial involved. Mountain cycling (up and down the hills) is my favourite ;)
Cocktails This is a new one. It consists of both the enjoyment of preparing cocktails as well as the pleasure of drinking them :P
I'd like to meet:
Photography
yet to come
Quotations and thoughts
"On se fait toujours des idées exagérées de ce qu'on ne connaît pas."
Albert Camus, L'Étranger
"Rien n'est plus vain que de mourir pour un amour. C'est vivre qu'il faudrait."
Albert Camus, Noces
"Il n'y a qu'un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c'est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d'être vécue, c'est répondre á la question fondamentale de la philosophie."
Albert Camus, Le mythe de Sisyphe
"My thought is me: that is why I can't stop. I exist by what I think...and I can't prevent myself from thinking."
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
"The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
Randall Jarrell, The Taste of the Age
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
"We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love."
Sigmund Freud, Civilisation and its Discontents
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"Being true to myself means being true to my own originality, and that is something only I can articulate and discover. In articulating it, I am also defining myself. I am realizing a potentiality that is properly my own."
Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity
"The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
Richard Dawkins
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
Albert Einstein
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Picasso
"Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education."
Auguste Comte
"You have to believe in something. If it is a god, that's all right. If it is something that actually exists, that's even better."
"Even porn stars fall in love, and even serial killers grieve the death of their pets."
"People use modal verbs way too often. Who cares what you can do, must do or should do; what matters is what you have done."
Poetry
Milan Dekleva : V zivi zob
Sistemi vecnosti
DRUGI, UMETNOST ZADRZEVANJA
Cesnjev cvet, tezko pricakovan.
Koliko zelje, bolece nabreklosti vej
je treba, da se sok vzpne k tebi
in te razpre.
Vzajemnost molitve
(puhastih besed oblakov, robatih vzklikov
zemlje)
je nujna,
da bi ves svet pristal
na tvojo drobceno,
enostavno radost.
Radost, ki bo? magari za zadnje oci? zadnjic?
Mimo vseh vojn,
poklanih semen
in razseljenih bozcev.
Tu, ko te se ni, komaj komaj
zadrzevana vecnost.
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Janez Menart : Pod kuznim znamenjem
IN CE ...
In ce to stvarstvo sploh ne more v mere,
ki vanje tlaci ga cloveski duh?
Ce so sistemi, sklepanja in vere
le strah pred nicem, spretno skrit v napuh?
Ce Bog z nesmrtno duso se ne rima,
ce Bog in dusa sta le plod idej?
Ce Bog res je, a clovek duse nima?
Ce snov ni mrtva in je dusa v njej?
Ce clovek je le drobec sanj tvarine,
ki nove sanje sanja spet in spet,
ce le kot sanja blisne in premine
v mozganih stvarstva, ki njih del je svet?
Mar ni potem vse vecja milost, biti
neobcutljiva, topa tvar svetov,
kot se iz nezavednosti zbuditi
v trpeco sanjo, ki jo sanja snov?
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Alojz Ihan : Salsa
Pasta Al Passato
LUKNJA
Psihoanalitiki so zardeli od sramu
in genetski inzenirji so priznali svoj nesmiselno
ovinkarski pristop
k jedru celic
fiziologi so obnemeli kot osteti prvosolcki
in celo atomski fiziki so prvidno
molcali
ko mi je zmagoslavni vojak pokazal
kako lahko preprosto, povsem navadna luknja
v meso
izprazni vse njihove teorije
v okorno in skopano
jamo
nad katero ostane le se kamen
preprosta, hladna rudnina
ki bo zmagoslavno opozarjala
na najenostavnejso razresitev
velike uganke sveta.
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Uros Marolt : Pasjansa ;)
TISTA GOSPA
tista gospa ves (sem ti rekel)
ki me je
ob ponedeljkih in torkih in sredah in cetrtkih in petkih
dobro jutro dobro jutro
zmotila
ko sem (lahko se smejis) mislil
nate
vsakic prav vsakic sem mislil
nate
in me je zmotila
na svojem kolesu (rdecem kot
ustnice) dobro jutro dobro jutro
potem sem mislil
na njene bele lase in
samo nanje
danes zjutraj pa (sreda je)
sem te v mislih
razcesaval
(gospa je umrla po njenem glasu sem spoznal) mimo je
pripeljalo tisto kolo
dobro jutro in mislim
nate
Music:
Metal , especially thrash, melodic death and metalcore.
List of favourite bands would look something like that: Kreator, Exodus, Metallica, Slayer, Yyrkoon, Master, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, Opeth, Ceremonial Oath, Dark Tranquillity, Moonspell...
Can't forget Edguy and Korpiklaani, their concerts were some of the best in my life ;)
As for Slovenian metal, I love Sarcasm and Negligence.
I'm also into minimalistic and instrumental music lately.
Personal favourite is Yann Tiersen (as you might have noticed). This is the only music that can make me cry.
House, trance, techno and other forms of electronic music are a sort of my new hobby. I'm still exploring this field so I can't say whether this will stay my long-term preference.
Movies:
Artistic and soul-stirring films, especially European ones.
Some French favourites : Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le Papillon, La Haine, Irreversible, La vie rêvée des anges, Les Triplettes de Belleville
Some Spanish favourites : Hable con ella (Talk to Her), Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother), La mala educación (Bad Education), Volver (Come Back), Amores Perros (Love Dogs)
Others : La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful), Io non ho paura (I'm Not Scared), Coffee and Cigarettes, Billy Elliot, The Elephant, Dogville, Der Untergang (Downfall), Das Experiment, Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Cold Mountain, The Truman Show, Matrix, LOTR, Gladiator, Sin City, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Village
I have a peculiar interest in Asian films as well. Here are some I liked : Rashomon, Bijitâ Q (Visitor Q), Hana-Bi (Fireworks), Samaria, Bin-Jip (3-Iron), Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters)
Can't forget computer-animated cartoons :) The next I've seen and love: Shrek 1, 2 and 3, The Incredibles, Ice Age 1 and 2, Antz, Monsters Inc., A Bug's Life, Shark Tale, Finding Nemo
The most funny film I've seen is probably Borat, but Jim Carrey is incredibly funny in many films as well
Television:
I actually don't watch television, but I can list some serials that I like:
- Southpark, Simpsons, Family Guy (the holy trinity)
- Seinfeld
- Black Adder, Monty Python
- Allo Allo
Books:
Basically anything that is original, provoking and gives some food for thought.
Novels and other stuff F. Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, M. Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time, W. Golding: The Lord of the Flies, J.D. Salinger: A Catcher in the Rye, F.S. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, A. Camus: The Stranger, F. Kafka: Metamorphosis, J.M.G. Le Clézio: La Ronde, M. Frisch: Homo Faber, V. Bartol: Alamut, A. Blatnik: Plamenice in solze
Most funny D. Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, various by A. Paasilinna
Drama W. Shakespeare: Hamlet, H. Ibsen: A Doll's House, J.P. Sartre: No Exit, S. Beckett: Waiting for Godot, S. Grum: Dogodek v mestu Gogi, D. Jancar: Veliki briljantni valcek
Poetry I LOVE it, but there are too many favourite authors to list them all here. Check the poetry section.
Philosophy Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, C. Taylor: The Ethics of Authenticity, various by Alain de Botton
Scientific S. Hawking: A Brief History of Time
