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About Me

In a Nutshell... "The choice is always ours. Then, let me choose
The longest art, the hard Promethean way
Cherishingly to tend and feed and fan
That inward fire, whose small precarious flame,
Kindled or quenched, creates
The noble or the ignoble men we are,
The worlds we live in and the very fates,
Our bright or muddy star." --Aldous Huxley By democratic process, the idea of America is failing. I'm just a guy who notices.
I like music and art and theatre. I hate mediocrity and banality. Do you like to think for yourself? Come talk with me... Question authority? We'll get along just fine...
"You see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream of things which never were and ask 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." --Hanlon's Razor
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." --Isaac Asimov
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." --Gandhi Um, yeah, that's it, for now... but don't be shy, drop me a line.
As always, I'll be
still paddlin the old knew...
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My Interests

Your Brain's Pattern
Your mind is a firestorm - full of intensity and drama.
Your thoughts may seem scattered to you most of the time...
But they often seem strong and passionate to those around you.
You are a natural influencer. The thoughts you share are very powerful and persuading. What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Your Birthdate: September 16
You're incredibly introverted and introspective. You live inside your head.
You spend a lot of alone time meditating and thinking.
People see you as withdrawn, and at times they are right.
You are caring and deep, but it may be difficult for you to show this side of yourself.

Your strength: Your original approach to thinking
Your weakness: You tend to shy away from others
Your power color: Pale blue
Your power symbol: Wavy line
Your power month: July What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
Perhaps, if the feeling strikes you, you might buy one of my t-shirts .

I'd like to meet:

The ghost of Tom Joad...

Music:

TOOL, Radiohead, Pink Floyd. MUSE, ,Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, Buchanan, Wonderlove, Deccatree, Brett Bixby, Pawnshop Kings, CPO, Greg Laswell. Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine, Crystal Method, Underworld. Damien Rice, Ray LaMontagne.

Television:

If there are any shows worth watching, wait for them to come out on dvd. Turn off the idiot box.

Books:

If you haven't read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, you need to drop what you are doing and go fucking read it. Neal Stephenson is rapidly becoming one of my new favorite authors. Check out The Baroque Cycle. Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials is also pretty good.
I also highly suggest Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and anything written by William Shakespeare, Tom Robbins, and Chuck Palahniuk.
If you're an artist, pick up The Outsider by Colin Wilson. It's definitely a must read...

My Blog

2 Monologues by David Hare

Brit in New York: 'America changed.' That's what we're told. 'On September 11th everything changed.' 'If you're not American, you can't understand.'The infantile psycho-babble of popular culture is gr...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:48:00 PST

Why I love TOOL...

Readers of The Da Vince Code and mathematicians are probably reasonably familiar with the Fibonacci sequence, but this sequence has created a particularly geeky moment for me lately.The Fibonacci sequ...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:27:00 PST

California Burnin’

Please pardon me, I've been very busy.I'm back in the OC now, and I'll miss Long Beach. Moving has been a crazy, exhausting process. But I should be in and settled by the end o' the week, thank god.I ...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:22:00 PST

Silence is not golden, silence is death.

"We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others ...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:44:00 PST

Apply the Razor.

One of my favorite ideas is "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." The quote is called Hanlon's Razor. A Razor is a philosophical concept used to "shave away" p...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:02:00 PST

Amendment underfoot

I'm not usually one to post a blog right after a blog, but this is important.Monday, September 17, John Kerry was speaking at the University of Florida. After speaking, there was a question and answer...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:43:00 PST

Update for the 19th

The time for me trip to graduate school approaches, me hearties, an' I be burying me head in all manner o' readin' t'prepare for't.M'humblest apologies to all in advance fer me disappearing act to com...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:20:00 PST

Thoreau-ing around ideas

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. Read it. Just by reading it, you trace the footsteps of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr."Oh for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in ...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:42:00 PST

Will the defendants please rise?

When people plead insanity in a criminal case, they are saying they lacked mental competence at the time of the crime, and therefore are not responsible for their actions. Merriam Webster defines men...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:59:00 PST

An Ostrich With His Patriotic Head in the Sand

Jose Padilla.Who? you may ask. Yeah, I know, the American public knows all about Paris Hilton's time in jail and Lindsey Lohan's drug abuse, but you would do well to google Jose Padilla the next time ...
Posted by Apathy Assassin on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:58:00 PST