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rainymatthew

About Me


i killed sex drugs and rock n roll

though as of yet
no one has noticed...

http://www.myspace.com/therememberings

...the philosopher would be someone poor, dirty, rather down-and-out, always unhoused, sleeping beneath the stars, but very curious, skilled in ruses and tricks of all kinds, constantly reflecting, a sorcerer, a sophist, sometimes exuberant, sometimes close to death.
this is nothing like the way we usually represent the philosopher: a learned person who is well dressed, has good manners, knows everything, and pedantically instructs us in the corpus of things already coded.
the philosopher is nothing like that.
he is a sort of barefoot waif who goes out under the stars seeking an encounter with reality, the embrace, the knowledge or perhaps a shared birth, of whatever benevolence, beauty, or wisdom might be found there.
-luce irigaray

My Interests

life, rain, things i call art, 20th century avant-garde composition and expirimental pop (noise etc.), reading, thinking, feeling, peanut butter and banana sandwhiches, tea, asian food, being a vegan, spitting on gender norms, sleeping, dreaming, talking, listening, walking, autumn, spring, those mornings when you wake up really awake and everything in the world seems possible (although those mornings are rare and in general i wake up after noon feeling worse than i did before i fell asleep),

I'd like to meet:


a hopeless romantic, passionate, etc.;
a person who can become so overwhelmingly consumed by the deeply overpoweringly mysterious beauty of simply being alive of simply breathing air into the lungs so as to not have any capacity at all to understand the absolute wonder of what the eyes see and the ears hear not having any capacity to do anything at all but stand wide-eyed, for all intents and purposes paralyzed, still, swallowed and consumed whole by
love;
a person with no patience at all for the games we play.

said person must be fond of: rain, music (noise), peanut butter sandwhiches, veganism (or at least fond of vegans),trees, cats, expressionist art and graphic novels (comic books!), libraries, cracked limestone sidewalk blocks and childrens playgrounds.

if the above describes you, then congratulations! you are as big a loser as i am.

Music:

sonic youth, stereolab, cocteau twins, the cure, jessamine, new order & joy division, steve reich, john cage, godspeed! you black emperor, brian eno, robert fripp, the swirlies, the smiths, tori amos, the sundays, yo la tengo, tortoise, aphex twin, mogwai, le tigre, neu!, sun ra, john coltrane, the police, kronos quartet, this mortal coil, lush, explosions in the sky, my bloody valentine, sleater-kinney, the jesus and mary chain, mary timony, broadcast, m83, heather wilson, the cranes, etc. this could go on for years

Movies:

ran, hudsucker proxy, the cradle will rock, big trouble in little china, gandhi, the nightmare before christmas, mulholland drive, the wedding banquet, star trek 1-8 and 10, waking life, princess mononoke, baraka, and a billion others

Television:

not a chance

Books:

a buddhist history of the west, david loy,
charles saunders peirce,
any arne naess,
anything by judith butler, or levinas
luce iragary, ethics of sexual difference
religion and nothingness, keiji nishitani,
art of loving, erich fromm,
the tao te ching
all of the harry potters, jk rowling,
all quiet on the western front, erich maria remarque,
anti-oedipus, deleuze and guattari, and deleuze on spinoza,
we, yevgeny zamyatin,
sncc, howard zinn,
animal dreams, barbara kingsolver (the saddest happy book ever),
sandman, neil gaiman,
cages, dave mckean,
chalice and the blade, riane eisler,
the tao of physics, fritjof capra,
once and future king, t h white,
siddharta, herman hesse,
1x1, e e cummings,
diet for a new america, john robbins (the book that made me first want to be vegan),
chorus of stones, susan griffith,
of grammatology, the gift of death, derrida,
the heart is a lonely hunter, carson mccullers,
arkum asylum, grant morrison,
doom patrol, esp. with rachel pollack as writer,
and of course tmnt, eastman and laird

Heroes:

you know it if you are

My Blog

just to let you know:

im back in america!more soon...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:22:00 PST

kyoto

  at some point in my life, im going to move to kyoto. im not sure when, for ny beckons first... and im not even sure how im going to be able to afford the move when the time comes. but i dont w...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:45:00 PST

very short update:

  unfortunately, its doubtful i ll have very much time to access the internet, and hence to blog about my time here in japan, at all. youll just have to wait until i get back to find out! an...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:34:00 PST

right now...

  im in japan.    
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Tue, 20 May 2008 09:37:00 PST

ryokou wa ii da to iin desu ga

so in about 10 hours i will be flying to japan.i ll see you in a month! if you need to get a hold of me, message me, but dont necessarily expect a quick reply... i might not have regular internet acce...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Fri, 16 May 2008 10:18:00 PST

i guess this is, as they say, it

i emailed dr deb my last paper a couple of hours ago, and then went to pick up my cap and gown and tassel from the student center and library.i realized, of course, that it will be my last time walkin...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Fri, 09 May 2008 02:54:00 PST

rev. wright for president

obama is really starting to piss me off (go figure: who wouldve thought trusting a politician would lead to disappointment?) but rev. jeremiah wright just keeps scoring points in my book.obama should ...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Sun, 04 May 2008 11:16:00 PST

wow

just finished formatting (and final touch ups) to my 2nd honors thesis. my tenure as a kent state student is all but at an end. i have a paper to finish, and a final exam which is no worry. and then, ...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Sun, 04 May 2008 05:07:00 PST

people are idiots, part 2 thousand:

i just found out that the boyfriend, practically husband, in fact, of a friend of mine who is very dear to me, is now cheating on her, and with someone half his age. well, not cheating: he is complete...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:08:00 PST

im home...

from the 2nd of my 2 consecutive trips to nyc!very much fun, both of them, but its good to arrive home. even if it is to a ton of work!more about my travels soon, though...
Posted by matthew+stewie= on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:18:00 PST