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Jake

leave me where i am, i'm only sleeping

About Me

I've been keeping to myself a lot these days. I like talking about the abstract nature of God, and I like talking about the incredible gifts that human beings have and hardly seem to be aware of. I am intensely interested in world religions, and am studying them in school.

I try to live my life by a few important rules, one being that I am not alone in the world and my actions have consequences on the world around me, and the other being that the body is a physical manifestation of something highly metaphysical, and so I try not to judge people by their first outward impressions. But most of all I try to remember that I'm only human and thus allowed to make mistakes so long as they can be turned into learning experiences.

My Interests

Shapes and colors functioning as talismans, contemporary amalgamations of science and magic, sacred texts, Prospect Park as a conceptual "place", making roadsigns, archetypal superheroes, Joseph Beuys

I'd like to meet:



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Music:

Ben Folds/Five, Grateful Dead, Lavender Diamond, The Flaming Lips, The Carpenters, Sufjan Stevens, Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, Pixies, Big Star, Tom Tom Club, Carole King, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell

Movies:

Trembling Before G-d, Waking Life, Star Wars IV-VI, Cowboy Bebop, Return to Oz, The Princess Bride, The Incredibles, The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001, Southern Comfort, Labryinth, Legend, Superman Returns, Superman I

Television:

Freaks and Geeks

Books:

Siddhartha, Demian, Wonder Boys, Einstein's Dreams, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Narcissus and Goldmund, A Wrinkle in Time, A History of God, Franny and Zooey, Dr. Faustus, D'Aulaires Greek Myths

Heroes:

Superman, Dr. Manhattan, Butterfly