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Rory

Universal Truth isnt measured in Mass Appeal

About Me

I'm Rory,I've decided that my original "about me" was too long winded, plus I was getting kinda bored with it and want to try something new. So I'm going to see if I can just break myself down in a more analytical fashion. I might change it back to the original later though....we shall see.I'm Creative, but not annoyingly Eccentric. I'm Sensitive and Compassionate, but I'm not a Pussy. I'm Spiritual, but I'm not Religious. I'm Confident, but I'm not Arrogant. I'm Ambitious, but not Unrealistic. I have a Dream and a Passion, but I'm not Dillusional. I'm Comedic and I love humor , but I'm not your fucking Jester. I'm Sincere and Honest, but will not give my opinion where it isnt needed or welcome. I enjoy Intellectual and Artistic pursuits, but I'm not Pretentious or Pompous about it. I love Beauty and Inspiration, but I can't stand shallow superficiality I love People and Humanity, but I loath Social Conditioning. I believe in Individual Freedom, but not at the expense of another Individual's Freedom. I believe in standing up for one's Beliefs, but I detest Self Rightious convictions. I believe in Love and Understanding, but I think you can't have one without the other. And above all, I believe the key to Happiness is learning not to take yourself too seriously.

My Interests

Music (Listening and making), Creative theater, creative performing, acting,singing, ranting, walking around aimlessly,writing random shit,checking out good live music, playing fun and interesting music,Philosophy, Psychology, making shit up on the Piano or a Synth keyboard, playing the electric Organ, Visiting friends in Berkeley, San Francisco,drinking Tea,Wearing Fitted Coats,Cats,Counter Cultures,beat poetry, freeform poetry, some romantic poetry, poetry in general,Existentialism, Deism,Satirical Comedy, intelligent comedy, randomness, making life interesting,Beauty,Creativity in general, absurdity, and much more.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is a relativily level headed, reasonable, creative, interesting, thinking, honest, human being. That would be oh so wonderful. Hit me up on AIM my screenname is mallratsclerk (woot for pathetic Kevin Smith fanboy references)P FUCKING S.BANDS/MUSICIANS/MUSICAL ARTISTS, I WILL NOT ADD YOU UNLESS I KNOW YOU. IF I LIKE YOUR BAND I WILL ADD YOU MYSELF, OTHERWISE KINDLY PISS OFF!Otherwise I'm a very nice and friendly person, but don't add me just as a passing add request, mmmk? I got enough random ass profiles on my list, eventually I will weed through them all and delete them.

Music:

Way too many to name but here it goes. I respect all styles but what I mostly listen too is; Indie, alternative,ambient,expermental,progressivemelodic. Bands include: Tool, , At the drive in, They Might Be Giants,Mr Bungle,Tomahawk, Lovage,DJ Shadow,A Perfect Circle, Dredg, System Of A Down, Incubus, Blur, Gorrilaz, Nine Inch Nails,Air,Sonic Youth, The Samuel Jackson 5,Devendra Banhart, Six Organs of Admittance,Nick Drake, !!!,Beirut,Mars Volta,primus,red hot chili peppers, The Who, The Beatles, The Doors, Love, Roxy Music,MC5, The Greatful Dead,The Decemberists, The NationalModest Mouse,From Monuments to Masses,Mogwai,Sage Francis, Immortal Technique, The Microphones,The Shins,The Pop Group,Pinback,Jurassic 5,Blackilicious,Murder By Death,Nine Inch Nails,OKGO,Radiohead,The Streets,Sufjan Stevens, The Velvet Underground, Television, The Talking Heads,The Dead Kennedys,Tenacious D,Flight of the ConchordsThe Velvet Teen,various musicals (yes thats right as in musical theater) such as Rent,Wicked,Jekyll and Hyde,Les Miserable, and many other bands/musicians/artists which would take way too long to name.(and yes, I do actually listen too and like all the bands mentioned above, and am not just typing out a long, eclectic list of bands and artists, to make myself look cool. If I really wanted to look cool, I would have added some really obscure shit like Godspeed you Black Emperor or Matmos, or John Zorn or even some crazy glichcore noise shit like Kid 606.Local bands that I like (liked) include: Rocky dies yellow,the philosophers,Brea,foldis,happi mart. Moshi Moshi and Who Cares.

Movies:

Clerks,Mallrats(Basically anything by Kevin Smith) Waking life,momento,Requim for a dream, Pi, Steal This Movie, Inherit the Wind, Rent (actually liked the live Musical better then the film, but Theater isnt an Option here) Pan's Labyrinth, Rules of Attraction,Star wars Trilogy( geek at heart) fight club, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas,Garden State,I heart huckabees,The Dreamers,A Clockwork Orange,Trainspotting,Pulp Fiction,The Big Lebowski,Blow-up, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, The President's Analyst, Our Man Flint, SLC Punk,Auf Wiedersein Lenin, Stranger than Paradise, The Saw Trilogy, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Doctor Strangelove, Head,Swimming to Cambodia The Virgin Suicides,Harold and Maude,Amelie, and various other comedic, art fuck and Retro films that I dont feel like listing at this moment.Oh ya and anything with the Savior of Badassery, Samuel mother fuckin Jackson.

Television:

Family Guy (fuck ya), Aqua Teen Hungerforce, south park,Fuse,futurama, adult swim in general, Clone High, Upright Citizens Birgade,Kids in the Hall, Stand up comedy on HBO and comedy central,Mr Show with David Cross and Bob Odenkirk,Home Movies, The Simpsons, House,random specials on the History Channel, the daily show with John Stewart,Colbert Report Penn and Teller's Bullshit, The Independent Film Channel and the Documentary Channel,

Books:

Fight club,Choke,survivor(basically anything by Chuck Palaniuck) The Electric Koolaid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, Catcher in the Rye, Walden and Civil Disobedience, The Rights of Man and Common Sense By Thomas Paine, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Brave New World, Antic Hay, Point Counter Point and other works by by Aldous Huxley, First and Last Freedom by Krishnamurti, Why I'm Not a Christian by Bertrand Russel, various works by Jean Paul Sartre,,The Stranger by Albert Camus, Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs, On The Road and Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Wicked "The true Story of the Wicked Witch of the West","Aint nobody's buisness if I do"The Absurdity of victimless crimes in a free society, HOUSE OF LEAVES, and basically anything else by Alan Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Hunter Thompson, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, Satre, Camus, and other great minds like these.

Heroes:

My father, Late comedian Bill Hicks, Thomas Paine, Allen Ginsberg and the other beats, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Aldous Huxley, Krishnamurti , Bertrand Russel,Albert Camus,Jean Paul Sartre,Micheal Foucault,Henry David Thoreau, Anthony Burgess, Hunter Thompon,Chuck Palaniuck,Gregory Maguire,Maynard James Keenan,Kevin Smith , Penn and Teller, Arthur Lee, Jim Morrison, Henry Rollins, Lou Reed Comedian David Cross, Ghandi, John Lennon,Frank Zappa,Jesus( hey man christ or not he was still a cool guy), John Stewart, Lewis Black, Patton Oswalt,Jhonen Vasquez,,Matt Besser (From Upright Citizens Birgade),Mike Patton,,Johnny Depp,Robin Williams,The comedians of Firesign Theater,Abby Hoffman, the late great brilliant writer/actor/one man show Spalding Gray, Peter Sellers , James Coburn,The savior of Bad assery Sam Jackson and other brilliant, creative and talented men and women that I find interesting.

My Blog

Emotional Addiction

EMOTIONAL ADDICTION Attachment, a word with so many connotations its hard to completely decipher. In a positive sense we think intimacy, a significant relation, connections, things fitting together, ...
Posted by Rory on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:47:00 PST

Harmonia/Discordia

HARMONIA/DISCORDIAWhat do we know of the self and the self's relation to the world?The self of course being that which we are. Before we are our gender, race, sexual orientation, spiritual conviction,...
Posted by Rory on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:33:00 PST

Hey Morgan Hill Police Department!

I hope you can meet me for a little event going on. You see I am going to be picking up 30 kilos of Crystal Meth laced with very pontent PCP, 6 migrant workers (2 of which I believe are actually membe...
Posted by Rory on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:53:00 PST

Apollonian and Dionysian states of consciousness

Nietzsche discusses the creative capacity of the human mind as being between two forces which he terms the Apollonian and Dionysian states of Consciousness. The Apollonian represents the human capacit...
Posted by Rory on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:57:00 PST

Spatial Relations (revised)

Spatial Relations This is the beginning of something I just started scribbling down. It's a story about a Phenomenologist named Vincent Palan (might change the name) who is searching for what he call...
Posted by Rory on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:04:00 PST

you're beautiful, deal with it! (A look at modern day subtle shallowness)

Here I am in my classic fashion, a whole day away from the due date for all my school assignments, and about 4 essays and an entire final essay still unfinished. So what am I doing, writin a blog!Any...
Posted by Rory on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:15:00 PST

minor irritants.

I am sick of...High school (and even some college) kids taking hard drugs and psychedelics under the belief that doing so ALONE will bring about some kind of direct enlightenment, IT WON'T. Your mind ...
Posted by Rory on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:59:00 PST

The Psuedoscience of Scientology (debunking Hubbard)

Many are familar with the so called "Philosophy" of Science Fiction writer eand cult leader (yes cult leader) L.Ron Hubbard founder of the Church of Scientology and developer of a highly dubious schoo...
Posted by Rory on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:41:00 PST

If you only knew the plans they had for us.

Fuck...Where was I going with this? What provokes me sit here at this ungodly hour, while more healthier, proactive folks slumber away, gaining needed strength for their busy days ahead. There's an o...
Posted by Rory on Fri, 18 May 2007 04:57:00 PST

You say you want a Revolution

Revolution of SelfIn this Modern Age Revolutionaries are a dime a dozen times 12. It is a middle class custom here in the western world, for those who are the least affected by hardships and atrocitie...
Posted by Rory on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:13:00 PST