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About Me

I identify with this video:

My Interests

aphorisms, headphone journeys, crunk, homoerotic bathroom graffiti, record shopping, antique lamps, dictionary.com, french writer/philosophers, twee, ass-trology, vulgar gangsta rap, the presocratics, dancing as therapy, female genius, splatter gore, interpreting lowbrow in a highbrow fashion

I'd like to meet:

Teachers, detail-oriented bookish types, anyone who has read The Odyssey and Ulysses simultaneously, non-separatist queers, Leonard Cohen, him:

Music:

broadcast, kate bush, casiotone for the painfully alone, the new blonde redhead record, janet jackson's control, cub, talulah gosh, exile on main st., exile in guyville, prince

Movies:

the texas chainsaw massacre, halloween, a nightmare on elm street, nights of cabiria, cries and whispers, 8 1/2, my life to live, heathers, clueless, friday the 13th part 2

Television:

girlfriends, i love new york, in living color, the chapelle show, and i really liked that lil' kim reality show with her insane friend la la...la la, you crazy, gurl!

Books:

swann's way, this sex which is not one, the collected stories of amy hempel, moby-dick, querelle, slouching towards bethlehem, delta of venus, the collected works of freud, the solar anus, the powers of horror, beyond good and evil, handbook of inaesthetics, your unfinished novel

My Blog

I want to teach

There. I said it. Anything I've said about going back to school for philosophy was a means to an end, which was teaching. Any time I've ever entertained the idea of becoming a psychoanalysist, it was ...
Posted by Bradley on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:52:00 PST

U.S. Senate Votes to Make English the National Language

What? WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--By a bi-partisan vote of 64-33, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment late last night to make English the national language of the United States and reduce the entitle...
Posted by Bradley on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:46:00 PST

I just finished Six Feet Under

I'm not so sure why everyone was so protective over not "giving anything away," but yeah, it was a real trip. I can't believe it's all over...
Posted by Bradley on Thu, 10 May 2007 07:31:00 PST

People who are bothered by the cold tend to be cold themselves

"She had lit a crackling fire and was settled in a comfortable armchair; the firelight flickered over her pale face, her white eyes and from time to time her feet when she sought to warm them. Her hea...
Posted by Bradley on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:27:00 PST

Sometimes I wish that I was still a Christian

...since in a way, guilt is much easier to deal with. Just go to the priest, confess and it's gone.I'm going through an ethical dilemma of sorts. You see, I do not understand the line between "slutty"...
Posted by Bradley on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:56:00 PST

What happens when I go dancing in Peoria.

Posted by Bradley on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:48:00 PST

Six Feet Under

Yes, I'm addicted. And I can't wait for my dealer (Netflix) to bring the goods (Disc 4 of season 1) right to my front door. It's a wonder: how can a show be so consistently great, being as long as it...
Posted by Bradley on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:36:00 PST

I learned something new today

I didn't know that this country existed: http://www.burkinaembassy-usa.org/. Their embassy just called me here at work. In what was not a very proud moment in my life, I had to ask them to spell their...
Posted by Bradley on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:48:00 PST

Ever feel guilty for all of the crap you look at online?

I've found something "good for you" to look at: http://www.online-literature.com/aristotle/poetics/ That's right. You can read Aristotle's Poetics, in its entirety, online. All while working! Goodbye ...
Posted by Bradley on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:22:00 PST

A chipped tooth

On New Years Eve I chipped a tooth. While dressing myself* for the night, I decided to wear the pants with the troublesome zipper because they pretty much look good with everything. Bad idea. It kept ...
Posted by Bradley on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:14:00 PST