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John C

From the margins....

About Me

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My Interests

music , film , Linux , open source , astrology , 9-11 , history , tao of physics , film , catastrophism , the problem of Darwinian natural selection , Gurdjieff , Immanuel Velikovsky , Johannes Kepler ...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes to go beyond what's fed to them in mainstream media, astrologers, true sceptics (if they even exist anymore), Wilco fans, anarchists, scientists, physicists, philosphers, historians, writers, fans of the late great Nils of Montreal, old-school punks.....anyone who enjoys learning and exploring new territory.

Music:

Wilco , New Pornographers , Alex Soria and the Nils , old school punk , Brian Wilson , Gordon Lightfoot , jazz, blues, Scottish and Irish folk music....

Movies:

C.R.A.Z.Y. , City of God , The Corporation , Crash , most films by Hal Hartley , Mike Leigh , the Coen Brothers , Stanley Kubrick , David Cronenberg , Atom Egoyan , and probably a few more I've neglected to mention.

Television:

Six Feet Under , Alias , Lost , most of the Law and Order series, and the crack cocaine of serial television, 24 .

Books:

  • The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra
  • The Cosmic Loom - Dennis Elwell
  • The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler
  • The Age of Extremes - Eric Hobsbawm
  • U.S.A - John Dos Passos
  • The Ghost in the Machine - Arthur Koestler
  • The Astrology of Personality - Dane Dudhyar
  • The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • In Search of the Miraculous - P.D. Ouspensky
  • Working with Astrology - Charles Harvey and Michael Harding
  • John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
  • John Steinbeck - East of Eden
  • John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meanie
  • Michael Harding - Hymns to the Ancient Gods
  • Mundane Astrology - Harvey, Baigent, and Campion
  • Heroes:

    Anybody who has the courage of their convictions; who is willing fight prevailing ideas when those ideas are wrong or incomplete; who recognizes injustice and takes action in order that justice be served. Innovators, visionaries.

    My Blog

    Diary entry from Urania.info

    I found this diary entry of mine at Urania.info which was written way back in 2002 which surprised me because it still reads well after 6 years. It's a real shame urania.info was a little ahead of the...
    Posted by John C on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:59:00 PST

    The Tyranny of Dogma

    Throughout my life, I've been intrigued as much if not more by questions that haven't been answered as questions that have. The unanswered questions are always the most interesting, often taking us to...
    Posted by John C on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:41:00 PST

    On bad software, friends, Montreal, and astrology

    I've experimented with a few blogging software packages, both as a user and a systems admin, and the myspace blogging module seriously needs to be redesigned. To put it as mildly as I can, it's a navi...
    Posted by John C on Mon, 08 May 2006 10:45:00 PST