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About Me

"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their life working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. What a thing our human destiny is!"
[The Sorrows of Young Werther; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
...silence twisting, twisting, screaming...eyes sewn shut, just to be pulled open...humanity and it's horrors....how i loathe thee....consumption leading to perdition......numbing mindless brain rotting imagesstrewn across the tv screen...embedded in our culture......violence, torture, animal abuse, infidelity...cutting like a knife...vinegar poured upon the open wound......make it stop......its killing ourselves inside...
i love you Ron... you're my soulmate...
... and i love you, too, Morpheus, my loyal feline companion...
"Like clouds in summer skies,
Thus thoughts within us change their fleeting shapes,
And what we love today, tomorrow we detest."
[V. Kiukhelbeker]

"God is the pain of the fear of death. He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god."
[The Possessed; Dostoevsky]
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
[Immanuel Kant]
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My Interests

Virology, photography (taking pictures of abandoned places), oil painting, reading (I carry a book with me everywhere I go...), hanging out in the East Village, NYC, writing, video games, comic books, road trips without a specific destination, spending time with my cats (got five of them), spending time with my husband, thinking, etc.

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Music:

Skinny Puppy, OhGr, Kill Memory Crash, Frontline Assembly, Chemlab, Wumpscut, Das Ich, Project Pitchfork, KMFDM, Kevorkian Death Cycle, Noise Unit, Sheep On Drugs, Download, Kraftwerk, Haujobb, Ministry, Gray Area, Front 242, 80s new wave, David Bowie, etc.

Movies:

To name a few: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Legend of Hellhouse, In The Mouth Of Madness, Dead Alive, Blood and Dounuts, Necronomican, Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead 2, Dawn Of The Dead, The Ice Cream Man, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (gotta love that TV scene)... Too many to list... Mostly Classic B-Horror flicks

Television:

Adult Swim, CSI:, Smallville, Supernatural, The Twilight Zone (reruns, obviously) Millenium (hooray for box sets)..Discovery Channel, History Channel...

Books:

Again... too many to list... A few of my favorite authors include: Clive Barker, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Dante, Milton, HP Lovecraft, Chekhov, and Tolstoy...

Heroes:

I don't know if I would define the following as "heroes", but they have influenced my life so greatly that they are part of the reason of why I'm down this path in life that I am now: Noam Chomsky, DaVinci, Dr. Joseph McCormick, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Steven Hawking, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Dostoevsky, Gogol...

My Blog

Here's to you Johnny B. - Signing Off:

RIP: Johnny B. June 23, 1975 - December 8, 2005Imagine: Written by John LennonImagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:53:00 PST

A view on government from a sociological standpoint

The function of government is to protect people from themselves. It was based on nobility and the notion of "those who serve shall rule." The primary drive of government was to serve, not money....
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:49:00 PST

A brief declaration from yours truly

We, the People, are a sickly herd. We ignore the tell-tale signs of our bodies. We allow ourselves to fall victim to the propaganda and hype of pharmaceutical advertisement. And wors...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:46:00 PST

Big Pharma: Round One

Okay, so for my sociology class we had to pick a "social problem" that is apparent in America for a research thesis due at the end of the semester. Last week we had an essay exam with one questi...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:00:00 PST

Consumption and the Human Commodity

"Consumption and the Human Commodity" Written by: Vincent Parrillo Comtemporary Social Problems Two coincidental changes in the societal role of individuals, forced by the maturing of industrial cap...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:45:00 PST

Social Identity

"Social Identity" Contemporary Social Problems Written by: Vincent N. Parrillo Today's mass society - with its bewildering array of choices, rapid social change, and preference fo...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:53:00 PST

The Product of Reality

"The Product of Reality"Taken from Contemporary Social ProblemsWritten By: Vincent N. Parrillo"Why do some social conditions get defined as social problems while others do not? How does an 'issu...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:09:00 PST

A provocative piece by Bill Maher

A provocative piece by Bill Maher posted on Salon.com today. --Tim, from CAS Source: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/10/13/foley_kids/ We demonize Mark Foley but ignore the industries medi...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:11:00 PST

Solid Facts within the Realm of September 11th...

In my sociology class called "Social Problems," the discussion during yesterday's lecture was appropriately 9/11. The following list states all facts about that day that are available to the pub...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:04:00 PST

A Slow Waltz With An Enemy

Everything was fine the day before yesterday. I had gone to school, did my homework, and even hung out with some friends. There was no sign of what I was coming down wit...
Posted by mortifer nox umbra on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:36:00 PST