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Randolph Carter

What I have found is this . . . . . . . .

About Me

I like to read and write (not generally about myself . . . but in for a penny, in for a quid). I enjoy viewing photography - everthing from those old archive Daguerrotypes where the subjects are clearly aware in their primness that they pose for posterity or with the fear in their eyes that denotes that they feel a little of their soul being encapsulated/thieved magically for the end composition, through to the exhibitted works of contemporary unknown photographers that put on shows on the net and around the galleries and obscure studios and on to the pieces of my friends and families albums and digital collections or the social documentary works of everyday photojournalists, but lets not say it all falls in that order at any given time. I have a couple of cameras myself, with which I like to add to the above documents, the conditions and scenarios people and places dictate to me. I like music too. I truly love to sing (my favourite instrument is the human voice) and I play a little rhythm guitar, but I am currently without any accompanyment. There is music somewhere inside of me, but it is quiet at present and unorchestrated. I'm not going to talk about what particular musicians reach me musically here. My understanding of music is that if one likes a piece, they should never need to justify or defend that to anybody else whatsoever. Music touches my soul in a way no other art can. I don't believe that a genre of music defines one personally, yet I see too many people willing to do that unto others and themselves. Music is a great leveller of the barricades, it is a captivating subject to discuss and be involved in. It is a thoroughly enchanting, involving, entrancing creative process where minds can meet on a psychic level and I feel that it is now being bastardised by an indifferent industry which puts the turnover of the almighty dollar and its mass production over the true and original reason that music was first celebrated. I salute those who stick to their method of conveying the human condition without any material and sometimes intellectual reward for doing so, be it with a sledgehammer heavy guitar driven shotgun blast or the piano played through a pair of velvet gloves by broken fingers. I raise a glass to those who can draw a roar, a tear, a laugh, the feeling of dread or drunken abandon, the feeling of being alone and content with a cigarette or reefer, instilling a call to the road or just simply give you something to contemplate as you turn from being A person into part of the Gaiaen crowd, in strobe or under the stars through it's magic and crafting. That all said, I'd like to withdraw a previous statement. I don't like music. I'm simply endeared to and enamoured with the effect it has on me and observing it's effect on others, without their realization. It's a personality crutch. Have you been lost in music? Any music, disco or not? It is one of my oldest friends that will hopefully be around kicking it's svelt long lithe in time legs to a mardi gras big band number, well after I've grown tired of haunting some old ladies mansion by being the poltergeist that keeps unsettling her by hitting play on the cd player that I had buried in a secret crawlspace up in her attic . . . . . and I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
.. You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.

Cultural Creative


88%

Postmodernist


69%

Existentialist


56%

Idealist


56%

Romanticist


50%

Fundamentalist


31%

Materialist


25%

Modernist


13%
What is Your World View?
created with QuizFarm.comAfter my involvement in a road traffic incident I have also become involved in some casual philosophical meditations with myself and some of my "realspace" friends regarding life the universe et al. I never presume to know how to be a buddhist/shintoist/taoist and have been thaught the wrong way to be a good Christian, but if after a long and serious think on something integral about myself, I can't walk away laughing, well I must have arrived at the wrong conclusion if I am still able to draw breath.
.. You scored as Wolverine. Wolverine is a loner, and a skilled fighter. He's got the hots for Jean Grey but a better fit for him would be Storm. He doesn't like to follow orders which pisses Cyclops off. He has terrible memories from the experimentation done on him at Weapon X. Even though he doesn't show it, he loves the X-Men. Powers: Fast healing and adamantium skeleton and claws.

Storm


70%

Wolverine


70%

Rogue


70%

Gambit


60%

Colossus


60%

Jean Grey


50%

Nightcrawler


45%

Iceman


40%

Emma Frost


40%

Cyclops


35%

Beast


25%
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Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||| 56%
Stability |||||||||||||||| 70%
Orderliness |||||||||| 40%
Accommodation |||||||||| 36%
Interdependence |||||||||| 36%
Intellectual |||||||||||||| 56%
Mystical |||||||||||||||| 63%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Religious |||||||||| 36%
Hedonism |||||| 30%
Materialism |||||||||||| 43%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 43%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 63%
Work ethic |||||||||| 36%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||| 56%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||| 50%
Need to dominate |||||||||||| 50%
Romantic |||||||||||||||| 63%
Avoidant |||||| 30%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||| 56%
Wealth |||||||||| 36%
Dependency |||||||||||||| 56%
Change averse |||||||||||| 43%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||| 63%
Individuality |||||||||||||| 56%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||| 70%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||| 43%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||| 44%
Histrionic |||||| 23%
Paranoia |||||||||||| 43%
Vanity |||||||||| 36%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||| 56%
Female cliche |||||||||| 36% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Interests



You're 75% Irish
You're very Irish, and most likely from Ireland.
(And if you're not, you should be!) How Irish Are You?

I'd like to meet:

Aliens - if they're available, c'mere yous, don't yous go around thinking that silence is the best solution you little green bastards, animals that can type conversationally in any language, but not those monkeys involved in the "Typing the compete works of Shakespeare eternal probabilty versus possibility scientific experiment" - I'm shaking my fist at my monitor yous . . yous . . yous chimps are so full of shit. And otherwise people that I could feel comfortable with in an elavator that we all know is on a journey to somewhere hot and smelling of brimstone, or balmy and full of the tropical outdoors and rum cocktails - once they can keep their gases to themselves.

Music:

It's listed as an interest. I talk about it. Approach me, my views have been made clear up above. I bite in music's defense.

Movies:

Some of them are enjoyable aren't they? There are even some of them that I enjoyed so much that I watched more than once. Some of them actually affected me to the point that I changed my very existance in some way because of a message or moral cleverly wound into their storylines, plots or themes. I find some of them to be a complete waste of my time though and besides keeping people happily employed and contributing taxes to society bear absolutely no merit whatsoever. One of the things about cinema is the reactions that arise when one movie or another gets discussed. So. Seen anything that moved you on the silver screen? Well? Go on then. Tell me all about it.

Television:

Band Of Brothers. Family Guy. The Bionic Man. The A-Team. Quantum Leap. Carnivale. The first few series of The Sopranos. Ulysees in the 31st century. MTV Europe at the start of the '90's. Star Trek NG, DS9 and Voyager. Monkey - Great Sage Equal Of Heaven. The Monkees. Sesame Street. Tales Of The Unexpected. The Girl From Tomorrow. Spartacus (a cartoon from the late 80's rendered in a weird Neo greek/barbarian drawing style and involving lots of mainstream indusrial/syntho/europop soundbites) Samurai Jack. Spongebob Squarepants. The X-Files. The Dukes Of Hazard. I believe in being selective about what I watch now and I do believe that this machine has the ability to slowly and painlessly kill, but these are some of the gems over the years that made me the man . . . ehm . . .sitting in front of a computer, before you right now.

Books:

HP Lovecraft at the moment. I can't get enough of horror/fantasy short stories and novellettes. They are all consuming. Biographies - Cash, Hell's Angel, Shakey, Mr. Nice (sssssssssssmokin), The Way You Wear Your Hat. Johnathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, Nothing By Chance and . . . . The Prophet, Sidartha, Der Steppenwolf. Ernest Hemmingway - A Farewell To Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Snows Of Killiamanjaro, To Have And Have Not, The Old Man And The Sea - his books are meant to be enjoyed as fiction only people. John Steinbeck - different vein of the same arm - Once There Was A War, The Pearl/The Red Pony, East Of Eden. Bret Easton Ellis, what a fucking psycho. Chuck Pulahniuk. If I was to fight anybody famous, it'd be you. Thats not unchecked aggression. I'd like to know you, and how better to get to know a man? The Book Of Nod, Clive Barker, Stephen King - though not to be put on the same shelf as Lovecraft. Graham Greene

Heroes:


What were YOU in your past life? (pictures, detailed results,everyone can take it)
brought to you by QuizillaCaptain Winters and Lieutenant Speares, for crossing the enemy line . . . . . . then coming back. WOW. Pele for his outspoken stance on viagra, for his acting skills in Escape To Victory and his blasay swagger on the pitch. Rocky Balboa and John Rambo in the First Blood film. Stallone didn't do too bad either winning an oscar for best screenplay with Rocky. My father for standing up to the bigger guy one winter over firewood and winning without throwing a punch - just with the thousand yard stare he shot the guy and for the time, standing up and throwing the punch that floored the guy drunkenly putting my mam down in a boozer just before I was born. He never told me about it. I learned about it from a merry uncle at a wake.

My Blog

My Daybreak.

I sadly hate waking up alone and in an empty bed, halfway through the morning. I do however feel much warmer having tumbled over into the embrace of the world, that I have lived my life to love, ...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:07:00 PST

An abarat.

I dreamed a limitless book, A book unbound, It's leaves scattered in fantastic abundance.   On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.   One of...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:42:00 PST

A Vital Vagrant from Pole to Pole.

Somewhere else,At another page that somebody that I don't and never ever will know,Something more spectacular is happening.I am thoroughly (eternally) jealous of that.For all I know, for all I could b...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:36:00 PST

Judith.

You're such an inspirationfor the ways that I will never ever choose to be.There are oh so many ways for me to show youhow your saviour has abandoned you.Fuck your god, your lord and christ,he did thi...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:51:00 PST

The Ghost in Darwin's Scale.

Tethered together.Commonly in stepping.Timing between points.First and fastest to the top.Am I fit enough for this?Continue in silenceand under the weight of the sun.Sweating away the cares that I bor...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:24:00 PST

I touched a key and it all slipped out . . . . .

This is what is what.I'm ready to explain about how I next move,I just got an injection straight in the headfull of ether and creation, stars and the likes.I got hit by an idea that it will all be ok ...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:07:00 PST

On Australia.

I once had a thought that I would walkabout early in the morning. My pen stepped around as the horizon dropped down revealing a fire/roseous glory. I aged forty thousand years when the sky took to l...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:48:00 PST

Should a tree fall on me in the forrest . . .

To have a place to be,to have some space where thoughts get thought.To turn nothing and never into being.To witness the tree in the forrest fall and make it's sound,from above me to surround me.To be...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:17:00 PST

In memorandum.

It is said that time is something constant.   I don't know, I reckon that only the divine can tell me so and at that I'm not so sure that they could fully explain it to me. For my own experienc...
Posted by Randolph Carter on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:26:00 PST