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Catharsisyphus

what you don't know will kill you...

About Me



What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.comI'm not going to say too much here (you know, MCA in effect and all- see the Olberman video below) so I'll just disclose the basics: I'm what O'Reily calls a "secularist", I don't fit into any stereotypes, I'm a relentless critic, passionate appreciator of little things (especially the funny ones), great big brother, loyal friend, I have strong convictions on social issues, and I'm much more into substance than style- though by default I may exude a bit of an eccentric style:) I'm passionate about ideas, art, family, music, books, coffee, wine, desserts, the "race issue", incongruity, revolution, humor (especially satire), good looking women with brains (haven't dated any yet), basketball, film/documentaries, and stratego (the board game). I have no social life but I could if I would just be a man and sell out, I live to a moderate degree of seclusion, I still host my weekly classic soul show, and I'm trying to make time for my "secret projects" that will either change the world, undermine the establishment, make me some money, or most likely just continue to take up my time and alienate me from everyone. I'm a direct descendant of Prometheus, my basketball nickname is "Zarahoopstra", I coined the phrase "Hola bitches," and most importantly- I'm sick of the philistines...the ones that infect the world with their sick, selfish ideology; that cadavorous odor that smacks of Hegel and Pat Robertson- but really, I'm a fun guy!
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Excursions into youthful envy: As a child I coveted the "Mortimer Ichabod Pen" and envied the kids that had Alfonso's Break Dance tape and mat. (from Silver Spoons and Fresh Prince). Below is the famous pen in action:Here is my hometown- a hodgepodge of African, and apparently, Irish lineage.

My Interests

figuring it all out and writing it all down...dealing with issues "Byronic" while keeping an eye on the ironic; laughing louder, drinking more water, etc. I'm interested in producing something as marvelous as the following video:

I'd like to meet:

Well, I'm of course still looking for like-minded individuals to organize an insurrection or obtain an island so we can go start our own thing. Other than that I'm flexible; given the girls I've met, I have fairly low expectations (but high standards). Previous history taken in to account, If you're obsessed with Angelina Jolie or Audrey Hepburn, I will probably hate you eventually. If you think that Sean Hamnity is smart, you will probably hate me immediatly. Oh yeah and if on your myspace account anything is "sPEled LIkE tHiS" and your profile song is set to Fergie or anything with a chorus that contains terms "promiscuous, bootyliscious, my hump," spells out "Bananas", or attempts to "Bring Sexy Back", I don't think I really need to meet you...again. Someone that would occasionally choose a night in the cafe or on the couch over going clubbing would be nice; someone that would prefer the history or discovery channel over MTV is necessary; someone that doesn't see any incongruity in a former gold gloves fightin, Nietzsche readin, Wu Tang lovin, street radical that eats fruity pebbles, likes puppies and romantic crap would be nice too, but enough of that...guys I know might be reading this.

Noam Chomsky Lecture - Distorted Morality



Speech at Harvard University about America's war on terror.

Music:

Update: I no longer pretend to like Radiohead to impress hot girls (that apparently all like them). I've hosted a classic soul show for 9 years- so I'm a bit of an authority in that genre but I have a pretty wide range of favorites: Howlin Wolf, Wu Tang, David Bowie- (probably my 3 favorites), some others: Amy Winehouse, Hank Williams Sr, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Alton Ellis, Miles Davis, Jacob Miller, Gnarls Barkley, Fela Kuti, Seu Jorge, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Sade, Prince, 2pac, Rakim, Public Enemy, Jimmy Outler(of the Soul Stirrers), Led Zeppelin, Tribe Called Quest, Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, Cannonball Adderly, Rolling Stones, Don Drummond, Mozart, the Cure, Can,...is it gay for a guy to like Portishead and Cat Power?...well, while I'm at it I also like Hall & Oates and Queen. Soul Favorites: Womack, Cooke, O.V. Wright, Charles Wright, Johnnie Taylor, Sly, General Johnson, Don Bryant, AL Green, J.Tex, etc...You can catch my show online Mon. 10pm (central)- www.wvuafm.ua.edu

Movies:

Not that I'm in a minority here but anything Bergman is my favorite, (Pan's) Labyrinth of the Faun, Mystic River, the Libertine, Seven Samurai, Scent of a Woman (whooha!), Hustle and Flow, most Woody Allen films, all Wes Anderson and Christopher Guest films, The Hustler, The Deerhunter, Black Snake Moan, Malena, Raisin in the Sun, Guess who's Comming to Dinner, Cool Hand Luke, On the Waterfront, Cinema Paradiso, Shaka Zulu, Bamboozeled, Godfather II, Amadeus, Dr. Strangelove, The Human Stain, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Secret Life of Words, the Motorcycle Diaries.

Keith Olbermann: on the signing of the Military Commissions Act



Keith Olbermann has been calling it like it is. Special Comment tonight on the signing of the Military Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus. With irrational fear and lackluster representation, Americans have lost the rights that we portend to stand for. More info on 9/11: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC.htm .

Television:

Not Nancy Grace. Poker is not a sport. Why did Wishbone get cancelled? I try to catch the Office and Lost when possible but most of the time all I really watch is Antiques Roadshow. I like recorded episodes of the Larry Sanders Show, Seinfeld, and Dr. Katz. Overall I'm starting to understand why my great-grandmother, Callie, called TV the "devil box"... though without it how would O'Reily be able to keep me posted on that terrible war on christmas and other "liberal" schemes:)

Books:

(writers): Borges, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard(sometimes), Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hesse, Heine, William Hazlitt, Richard Wright, Walker Percy, James Thurber, EM Forester, Bukowski's poetry, Ovid, James Baldwin, Chomsky, Foucault, J.K. Galbraith, and Schopenhauer are some of my favorites over the last few years.

Heroes:

Ben Barfoot, Darryl Hunt, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Joe Frazier, Marcus Aurelius, Henry Lowery, Shaka Zulu(the early revenge period), John Brown, Sisyphus, Roland Barthes, Noam Chomsky, Frederick Douglas, and Lenny Bruce. ' ' ............................................................ .... The following is simultaneously the most disturbing and hilarious commentary in the history of Public Access TV- and quite possibly, one of the most interesting in the history of humans: * Warning- It is quite foul* Remember to not let "every man hit the bottom of your vagina" because "with a penis up all up in your vagina, you aint got no kind of defenses"...most importantly- "Keep Prayed Up"

My Blog

For once I agree with Cheney

"How little the world would look moral without forgetfulnes! A poet might say God made forgetfulness the guard he placed at the threshold of human dignity"...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:14:00 PST

When a Man On the Dock of the Bay Loves a Woman In a Brick House...

they need Sexual Healing.  Songs musicians should never play and others should never listen to (at "live" shows):  1. When a Man Loves a Woman2. Brick House3. Redemption song   (ev...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:16:00 PST

No regrets:)

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Posted by Catharsisyphus on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:41:00 PST

Eternal Recurrance - "Let us be good friends"

  And she answered in with a tender voice: "Let us be good friends." But what I have told you here, dear reader, that is not an event of yesterday or the day before&.For time is infinite, but th...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:22:00 PST

No conspiracy theories or political harangues- just analysis

Check out this site and watch: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/ Frontline programs on the first 100 days in Iraq and Dick Cheney.  If you'd like to know what 's behind phrases such ...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:43:00 PST

My brush with law enforcement instills a new respect for the system

I don't know why the Cops get such a bad rap.  I mean, sure, there are always going to be a few bad examples in any group.  Then you throw in the Cop's personal problems, prejudices, and the...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:59:00 PST

Survivor controversy- sound experiment? What!?

This is almost surreal.  This is one of the most shameless exploitations of social ignorance and prejudice for the sake of ratings attempted yet.  Notice here phrases: "fresh idea" and "soci...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:33:00 PST

PBS Site on Race

Very sound information here; one of the best sites on the issue to date- although, I disagree with the "Go Deeper: Sorting People" analysis in regards to future approaches.  The ar...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:42:00 PST

Damn you originists and race-believers!

Last week I had a 6 hour debate with several college-kid knowitalls and a few regular proletariats on the Starbucks patio.  At one point I felt like a preacher speaking to a defensive congregatio...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:05:00 PST

No amount of body art is gonna make you interesting

Perhaps I'm being naive or falsely nostalgic, but it seemed that back in the day people with tatoos were generally out of the "mainstream"; they were either hardasses, excentrics, military men, or peo...
Posted by Catharsisyphus on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:14:00 PST