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About Me

"We know no time when we were not as now; Know none before us, self-begot, self-raised By our own quick'ning power," This profile was edited with FearKiller's Pimp MySpace 2.2

My Interests

Nihilism. Cooperative economics. Social theory. Progressive economic, social and political practice. Critical pedagogy. The role of the public American intellectual.

I'd like to meet:

Girls, mostly. And other people too I guess. Interesting people though, they must be interesting. Perhaps someone who knows from whence this comes: "M'amour, m'amour, what do I love and where are you? I have lost my center fighting the world. The dreams clash and are shattered. That I have tried to make a paradiso terreste." Or perhaps I'd rather meet someone who would call me on the pretentiousness of quoting obscure Modernist poetry on myspace.com pages. There's probably a whole lot more of the latter...

Music:

Yes, lots of different kinds played loudly.

Movies:

Not as much as when I was younger. Kurosawa is my favorite film maker and frankly I don't take American cinema very seriously.

Television:

Don't watch TV. But I do like the NBA.

Books:

I dig Bret Easton Ellis. And I like other people too, mostly Europeans with an eye towards explaining complex ideas.

Heroes:

Batman if we're talking Justice League, Iron Man if we're talking Avengers, and Jack Kirby if we're talking creative geniuses.

My Blog

and so on

music, for instance. Coltrane's Cresecent LP, that horn riff at the end of "Wise One," while the cymbals clatter all over the floor, and its raining and there's an ambulance down below in the street, ...
Posted by christopher on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:36:00 PST

all that stuff from last week continued, or, more properly, part three

being a classroom kind of thinker, and by that I mean one whose intellectual functioning is stimulated and nourished in the classroom setting, in the role of instructor or student - and often the line...
Posted by christopher on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:26:00 PST

one more thing

Oh and it just seems worth mentioning I've been re-reading David Mack's Kabuki this week and I'm listening to Appetite for Destruction (yes, that Appetite for Destruction) right now...
Posted by christopher on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:50:00 PST

ideal readers part two, or why saying "that's fucking stupid" is often the only way to begin

how does one read? what I'm wondering is how does one relate to the information (and even qualifying it as information is already to assume much) one encounters by way of reading... I'm thinking abou...
Posted by christopher on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:47:00 PST

ideal readers... and stuff like that, part one

so, I'm planning on weekly updates... sorting through things I'm thinking, working out ideas... the intellectual's notebooks in a public forum. what's funny of course is that no one will actually be i...
Posted by christopher on Sat, 19 May 2007 09:21:00 PST

summertime

and the living's easy... yeah yeah, my sons really like that song. we checked a storybook out from the library a couple of summers ago that consisted of the Gershwin lyrics accompanied by slightly Imp...
Posted by christopher on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:40:00 PST

new year, new semester

The holiday break, which once seemed to stretch out in front of me, is now all but gone - it's late Sunday afternoon, tomorrow my last semester of graduate school, at least the last semester I'll work...
Posted by christopher on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:39:00 PST

paying more attention to my online persona

Yes, that's what I'll do. Pay more attention to my online persona for awhile. Everyone seems to be doing it, now me too. More later (and that will be later this week, not later this year).
Posted by christopher on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:43:00 PST

music

it finally dawned on me just to do a blog when talking about music i'm listening to lately, as opposed to making such things a part of my profile. yes, i'm not exactly experienced yet in the world of ...
Posted by christopher on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:00:00 PST

Fall Break

going to write about Lear and Hamlet this weekend. And Jesus, too. it's all for a class. my first academic writing assignment in graduate school. somehow, i feel underwhelmed. i feel like reading a lo...
Posted by christopher on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:48:00 PST