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Dary and Tom
Interests:
My favorite philosopher Bertrand Russell, the logician and agnostic.I love Horror Culture: old horror movies, japanese gore films, monsters, Zombies, Pinhead, gore.(I remember my 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Salazar, would give us blank books to write stories in. My first story was about Jason, the masked slasher of the Friday the 13th movies. I remember I drew the hockey masked jason throwing a knife into the throat of a terrified camp counselor, blood gushing in gory red Crayola a-la-Kill Bill Volume I. Why someone didn't put me into therapy is anybody's guess.)
I'm also a math-geek.... I love mathematical theory. I love reading math books. I would do math for the rest of my life if you let me. (And paid me.)
I play poker semi-religiously.
I shoot pool every chance I get. (though you'd think that I'd be good at it by now.)
I like anything that that has a dark or disturbing side to it.
I've been grown on 80's, post punk, and industrial. I'm not closed to other musical styles though, there are some really good indie rock and hip-hop groups I follow too.
Keen appreciation for tattoos and facial piercings. (Ihave tattoo's but no piercings of my own.)
I like to get lost in the book store: I prefer to read non-fiction of all kinds.
I love Neil Gaiman: The Sandman, Death, etc...
I like to write, mostly in my journal, sometimes memoirs, sometimes poetry.
There's nothing cooler than hanging out with friends at a dive bar or restaurant.
A good burger from a local 'greasy-spoon.' I can be a bit of pizza snob too. And I love my mexican food.
Drinking Jack-Cokes and Scotch.
Smoking Turkish Golds.
I'm not big into sports (ex. on ESPN I watch Poker and the Spelling Bees) but I do like to work out.
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I listen to a broad selection of music, every sub-genre of rock or metal you can think of, to underground hip-hop, to reggae, to jazz. At the core of my musical preferences I have a penchant for gothic and industrial music, specifically music with dark or aggressive themes and moods, prominent bass lines, and heavy beats. I am also very interested in the more experimental aspects of electronic music.
All time fav bands:
The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Christian Death, Skinny Puppy, Joy Division, Leonard Cohen
More favorite artists:
Echo and the Bunnymen, Ian McCulloch, The Smiths, Morrissey, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, The Swans, Amber Asylum, Alio Die, And One, Cinema Strange, The Cranes, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Covenant, Dead Can Dance, Brendan Perry, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Ministry, KMFDM, Mission UK, NIN, Faith and The Muse, Strange Boutique, Squarepusher, Type-O Negative, The Tear Garden, Sigur Ros, X-mal Deutschland, The Cramps, Lords of the New Church, The Damned, Nick Cave, Pigface, Haujobb, Architect, Aphex Twin, Killing Joke, The Prophetess
Lost In Translation, Films by Miyazaki (esp. Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke), Blue Velvet (David Lynch), Eyes Wide Shut, Woody Allen films (esp. Annie Hall), Tarentino films (esp. Jacky Brown), Donnie Darko, Shawn of the Dead, Lone Star, stupid Ben Stiller movies, Breakin' All the Rules. wl.)
Genres:Old horror flicks, cult, zombie films, japanese gore, old kung fu, 70's cinema, quirky contemporary comediesHorror Films/Cult Films: Evil Dead, Hellraiser, Dead Alive/Brain Dead, Romero zombie films, the Dawn of the Dead remake, Takashi Miike films (Audition, Ichi the Killer), Rocky Horror Picture Show, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Happy Tree Friends, the Re-Animator, The Puppet Master, old Kung-Fu films (Curse of the Flying Guillotine, Dirty Ho), Aliens, Predator I (but not AVP), The Fifth Element, Blaxploitation films (Foxy Brown, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song)
Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Entourage, Huff, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nova, Frontline, Family Guy, Meet the Press, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Da Ali G Show, Charlie Rose
The Stranger (Camus), The Sandman series (Gaimen), Harry Potter, The Science of Good and Evil (Shermer), Hellbound Heart (Barker), the Vampire Chronicles (Rice), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon), Strangers in Paradise (Moore), The Walking Dead (Kirkman, et al.), Persepolis (Satrapi), The Earth is Flat (Friedman), Madam Secretary (Madeleine Albright).
Niel Gaiman
Genres:Philosophy, Mathematics, Historical Science, General non-fiction. When it comes to fiction I read all kinds of random stuff. I'm also partial to existential authors, horror, and some fantasy.
Authors: Bertrand Russell, Niel Gaimen, Ayn Rand, Jean Paul Sartre, Stephen Hawking.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), twentieth century philosopher, logician and atheist. He won the Nobel prize for literature for his History of Western Philosophy and was the co-author of Principia Mathematica, a project that tried to base all of mathematics upon formal logic. (Although this was later proved impossible by mathematician Kurt Godel. Oh well.) He wrote this certain piece of prose "What I Have Lived For" as the prologue for his autobiography and is the most moving piece of literature to me. I have a copy of it just above my desk.