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About Me

I grew up with a barn full of battle axes and a chicken coop full of tires.

The only "realities" (plural) that we actually experience and can talk meaningfully about are perceived realities, experienced realities, existential realities -- realities involving ourselves as editors -- and they are all relative to the observer, fluctuating, evolving, capable of being magnified and enriched, moving from low resolution to hi-fi, and do not fit together like the pieces of a jig-saw into one single Reality with a capital R. Rather, they cast illumination upon one another by contrast, like the paintings in a large museum, or the different symphonic styles of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mahler.a

My Interests

life. beauty. listening. hearts. q-tips. music. sewing. spontaneous bike ride parties. redemption. circuit bending. kale. drawing parties. french overdubs with english subtitles. babies that know sign language. guitars. hilarity. reading bad poetry in a dramatic voice. randomness. loud bathrooms. glitterbombing. flying kites in a thunderstorm. people. tea. shoes. reading. old books. old records. children's novels. apartments without cats. bubble tea. slow pretentious movies. chicken-style seitan. water. mittens. sewing. eating righteous meals. good friends. long drawn out stories. wakeboarding. skateboarding. autumn. scarfs. good pants. nice nails. dancing. driving. watching people. talking to strangers. ripening awkward moments. crest white strips. backflips. magnets. street art. modern physics. pointing out the obvious. trying to understand chaos and brokenness.

Movies:

the edukators. me and you and everyone we know. squid and the whale. weatherman. science of sleep. annie hall. young adam. matchpoint. jesus camp. rivers and tides. the seventh seal. 2001: a space odyssey. wet hot american summer. children of men. pan's labyrinth. volver. mulholland drive. the americanization of emily. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. anything by Hal Hartley. purple rain. better off dead. amelie. willy wonka. kung pow. POOTIE TANG. st. elmo's fire. about a boy. the secret of nimh. eternal sunshine. a history of violence. Palindromes! Happiness! Welcome to the Dollhouse. Lost Highway. the matador. dirty pretty things. the waking life. kill bill. pulp fiction. pi . trainspotting. a mighty wind. best in show. this is spinal tap. american psycho.waiting for guffman. being john malkovich. adaptation. adventures in babysitting and of course the obvious: high fidelity, say anything, donnie darko, etc.

Television:

Look out for guns, look out for girls.

Books:

I read a lot of books. Some Favorites: tropic of cancer. tropic of capricorn. the elegant universe. everything is illuminated. the cosmic trigger, volumes I-III, the writings of marcus borg. camus. italo calvino. the bell jar. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. extremely loud and incredibly close. the world's best science fiction from the 50's and 60's. the unbearable lightness of being. the bible. blue like jazz. the maltese falcon. oh the places you'll go! The Little Prince. Bridge to Terabithia. crime and punishment. Brothers Karamazov. Notes from the Underground. Searching for God Knows What. Velvet Elvis. Chronicles of Narnia. the great divorce. freakonomics. the idiot. ender's game. cujo. the perks of being a wallflower. rumi.

Heroes:

anyone who lives 100% from their heart.

My Blog

Rumi.

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundred...
Posted by nathan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:51:00 PST

Without Mythologies

In 48 frames from a movie on a cutting room floor you said: "True meaning would be dying with you," and though I wanted to, I did not smile. So now I will give up on these ...
Posted by nathan on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:30:00 PST

Bathtub Prophecies

it worked.didn't it?for a whileatleast.it was the bestI could haveimaginedawakeor in dreams.it seemsthere were partsof usbirthed in the starsparts of us that made me believemagic partsthat covered me....
Posted by nathan on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:58:00 PST

Major Cities

All empires eventually expire and when they finally do it's never pretty.So just sit back and wait for the attacks, especially in the major cities.Please hold my hand Sweetheart. Daddy's got you.Momma...
Posted by nathan on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:42:00 PST

The Price of Velocity

My life is made up of loose change.My life is made up of dead batteries.I've got this love in my heartkeeping me from dyingkeeping me from staying the same.I can't stay here for longup and with the ne...
Posted by nathan on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:42:00 PST

Hippies are Dastardly

So I'm reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower right now and I just found an error that cannot go unannounced. When Charlie is writing about Mary Elizabeth, he states that her favourite ice cream i...
Posted by nathan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets

this county road. i've fallen away. this country road. to a place unknown. i traveled away. i fall into nothing. the sea side road. has fallen away. i have to go. my place is sold. i've fallen a...
Posted by nathan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

These were my friends, And they were made of Gin Boxes!

Shout out to A Mighty Wind. ...very.....inarticulate
Posted by nathan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Don't you just love goodbyes?

You can run away Leave your books behind you But you should look back twice Just to be on the safe side.
Posted by nathan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A nice way, I think.

Behind the drapesAll of us nowDent as we fallToo amorous-likeWe call outWhy are we so alone?Even with companyIf not then whatwill we stay?We're in the streetlightAll of us nowBreathe in like smokeTo k...
Posted by nathan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST