Beautiful Loser

About Me

Steve walks warily down the street, with the brim pulled way down low. Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet, machine guns ready to go. He doesn't look a bit like Jesus, but he talks like a gentleman (like you imagined when you were young). Conceptuality is absolute unity of form and function. Zen is your pants. Music is laughter. I take this shit seriously. I have a lot of heart, and I'm wicked smart. I teach dignity and love.
My aesthetic is pregnant understatement. My ethic is sacrament.
My method is play and precision. I breathe fire. I'm as nice as a fire-breather can be.

I Am Changing Leaves
Pretty, but soon dead.

My Interests

Glasnost. Gritty realism. Things that really matter. Dignity and creativity. Passion and perichoresis. The Life More Abundant. Mexico. I love art in all its forms: food, sculpture, photography, dance, ditties, sliding down frozen waterfalls.

I'd like to meet:

Rick Bayless
Morgan Spurlock
Anthony Bourdain
Joseph Ratzinger
Hans Kung
Christopher Titus
Kurt Vonnegut
Julia Child
Schmuley Boteach

Music:

I'm a rock kid. I'm a rogue and a gadfly. I dance to the sweet music of Freetown. See the world in green and blue.

Movies:

Cool Hand Luke
Meet Joe Black
Fight Club
Memento
Boondock Saints
Amelie
Mr. Holland's Opus
Magnolia
A River Runs Through It
As Good As It Gets
Forrest Gump
Million Dollar Hotel
Good Will Hunting
Rent
Labyrinth
The Outlaw Josie Wales
About A Boy
Wool Cap
Mystery Men
High Fidelity
Crash
Millions
Harvey Edward Norton
William H Macy
Willem Dafoe
Steve Buscemi
Ed Harris
Christopher Walken
Gary Sinise

Television:

M*A*S*H
No Reservations
Mexico One Plate at a Time
The Wonder Years

Books:

Incarnation of the Word -Athanasius

Heroes:

McNair Wilson
Becca Hunt
Bono
Phil Vischer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Soren Kierkegaard
Tenzin Gyatso
Johnny Cash
Romano Guardini
Henri Nouwen
Francis of Assisi
Tony Bourdain
Rick Bayless
Dorothy Day
Rob Karas
Morgan Spurlock
Giorgi Sanaia
Robert Jones
Oscar Romero
Kurt Vonnegut
Rupert Bonham

My Blog

Ten Pin Spare

Do you ever feel like you're just slightly out of phase with reality? That you're knocking down all ten pins, but on your second ball? That you can do pretty amazing things, that seem to h...
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:02:00 PST

To Forget.

What do the simple folk doTo help them escape when they're blue?The shepherd who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum,The cobbler who is wailing from nailing his thumb.When they're beset and besieged,T...
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:32:00 PST

What law?

My daddy was a bankrobber, but he never hurt nobody.Some is rich and some is poor, and thats the way the world is.And I don't believe in lying back and saying how bad your life is.Never loved a shovel...
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:35:00 PST

Grey Seal

Black squirrels are not native to this part of Indiana. Now, we have a lot of squirrels mind you, it's just that the black ones aren't from around these parts. Now a while back, these two doctor...
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:29:00 PST

The World in a Wafer

'Globalization is not properly characterized by mere fragmentation.' 'It is not a true catholicity for two reasons: 1) detachment from the particular is used as a tool to reproduce divisions between r...
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:50:00 PST

Social Mobility

I am social mobility. I had deep, meaningful conversations with two men yesterday who I respect a great deal. The conversations naturally followed their own paths, but at some point both of them...
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:28:00 PST

Space Groceries

I'm one of the most peaceful and easy-going people I know. But I'm still paralyzed by anxiety, and that's stupid. How long, to sing this song?!? Come on, man, I need my space groceries....
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:16:00 PST

Touch of Grey

Them's got ears, let 'em hear.Them's got eyes, let 'em see.Turn your eyes to the Lord of the Skies.
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:06:00 PST

45th Generation Roman

'Romani' 'Ite' 'Domum' There. I've said it.
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:23:00 PST

He wants to dream like a young manWith the wisdom of an old man.He wants his home and security.He wants to live like a sailor at sea. Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? You realize you just cant h...
Posted by Beautiful Loser on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:00:00 PST