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Vanessa W.

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About Me

I am a twenty-something hostage to a large public university. They pay me to lure local townsfolk between the ages of 18 and 21 just a little bit deeper into the gaping maw of academia. Sometimes I write what, by my lights, passes for deep insights, meta-commentary on popular culture, semi-informed political rants, and/or philosophy. Sometimes I just bitch. I've been known to squeal with delight on occasion. Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

politics, socialism, philosophy, viruses, live music, television, fanfic, metaethics, realism in ethics and mathematics, bioethics, pragmatism, singing, tarot, fandom, writing, film, culinary exploits

I'd like to meet:

The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker. Cans of paint and hills of beans. Tom, Dick, and Harry. Loddie, Doddie, and everybody and their sister.

Music:

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Badly Drawn Boy, Merle Haggard, Astrud Gilberto, Peter Mulvey, Manu Chao, Dave Carter, Tracy Grammer, Nico, Belle and Sebastian, Beth Orton, Mark Kozelek, David Bowie, Patty Larkin, Richard Shindell, Elvis Presley, Bright Eyes, Jim White, Peter Gabriel, Nick Cave, Erykah Badu, The Tragically Hip, US Maple, Franz Ferdinand, David Mead, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey

Movies:

Serenity, Sunrise (F. W. Murnau), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Nosferatu, Grind, Virtuosity, Magnolia, King Creole, The Shadow, Mr. Mom, The Grave, It's a Wonderful Life, American Psycho, Ordet, The Gospel According to Matthew, Taxi Driver

Television:

Medium, Veronica Mars, Prison Break, Boston Legal, House M.D., Jack and Bobby, Bonanza, The Dead Zone, Six Feet Under, Forever Knight, Firefly, The O.C., Smallville, X-Files, L&O, Andromeda, Buffy, The Pretender, Batman: TAS, Night Court, Jeeves and Wooster, Kim Possible, Even Stevens, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek:TNG, Queer Eye, Stripperella, Boy Meets World

Books:

Paul N. Siegel: The Meek and the Militant, Nick Cave: And the Ass Saw the Angel; David Sedaris: Naked; Peter David's Star Trek ouevre; Eat to Live; Howard's End; the Jane Austen ouevre; Philosophical Investigations; Realism, Mathematics and Modality

Heroes:

Peter Gabriel. I'll throw some others up here, too, soon's I can think of 'em.