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Chad Gibbons

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About Me

"That publisher who thought that men would get on if they believed in themselves, those seekers after the Superman who are always looking for him in the looking-glass, those writers who talk about impressing their personalities instead of creating life for the world, all these people have really only an inch between them and this awful emptiness. Then when this kindly world all round the man has been blackened out like a lie; when friends fade into ghosts, and the foundations of the world fail; then when the man, believing in nothing and in no man, is alone in his own nightmare, then the great individualistic motto shall be written over him in avenging irony. The stars will be only dots in the blackness of his own brain; his mother’s face will be only a sketch from his own insane pencil on the walls of his cell. But over his cell shall be written, with dreadful truth, 'He believes in himself.'"
- G.K. Chesterton

My Interests

Zhang Yimou
Werner Herzog
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingmar Bergman
Sergio Leone

I'd like to meet:

My arch-nemesis.

Music:

In order:
1. Tom Waits
2. Tom Waits
3. Tom Waits

Movies:

Lawrence of Arabia
The Sting
Seven Samurai
Unforgiven
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Silence of the Lambs
Unbreakable
House of Flying Daggers
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dr. Strangelove
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cool Hand Luke
The French Connection
Legend of Drunken Master
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Das Boot
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Gold Rush
The Maltese Falcon
Orpheus
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Television:

1. The Twilight Zone (original)
2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
3. MacGyver
4. The Simpsons
5. The X-Files

Books:

1. Lord of the Flies
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes
5. Breakfast of Champions

Heroes:

"He is the loftiest idea in literature. He is the highest personality in Philosophy. He is the supreme problem in higher criticism. He is the fundamental doctrine of true theology. He is the core, the necessity for spiritual religion. He is the miracle of the ages. He is the superlative of everything good that you choose to call Him. He is the only one qualified to be our all-sufficiency."

My Blog

As Obscure as Perichoresis

Hello friends.As a warning: This post will probably not interest any of you.I just finished updating an application I've been programming for the past couple of weeks and today was the official unviel...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:01:00 PST

Of Materialism and Madmen

It seems that all my blogs lately have been rip-offs of Travis'. Until he tells me to stop, I hope no one cares. Travis had a seemingly inexplicable event happen to him. He saw something. He doesn't k...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:02:00 PST

The Mind of a Child

My uncle committed suicide a couple of weeks ago. There was some deliberation between my wife and I concerning what to tell our kids (4 and 5 years old).We opted to stick to our policy of complete tru...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Wed, 28 May 2008 09:33:00 PST

Best Films of 07

In an obvious plagiarism of Travis' blog, I'm listing my top ten favorite films of '07 (in descending order to heighten suspense)10. Live Free or Die Hard (what can I say?)9. Juno8. The Orphange7. The...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:13:00 PST

In the Mouth of Madness

The other day, a lady from Child Protective Services came to serve me papers.There was a knock on the door and when I opened it I saw a woman standing there. She asked if the kids were home. I said ye...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:28:00 PST

Lasting effects?

MEMRI is an interesting site. They take (selected) media from the Middle East and translate it without commentary. I highly recommend periodically checking it out if you’re at all interested in ...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:36:00 PST

Framing the argument

I sorry to keep up these serious blogs, but some things just need to be said. While post-modernism and the Federal Reserve are definite problems facing the world right now, it occurs to me that there ...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:08:00 PST

Neither Federal, nor a Reserve...

I hate talk about economics. I hate reading blogs about economics. I hate listening to programs about economics. I hate economics.I hate it, because the whole system seems stupid to me. Not just stupi...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:58:00 PST

The 20th Century

Apart from war we have managed to kill the following: A million and a half gypsiesA million and a half Armenians6 million JewsA third of the population of Cambodia20 million UkreniansAbout...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:12:00 PST

A Chad Gibbons Tribute to Ingmar Bergman

"Who cares what Chad Gibbons has to say about Ingmar Bergman?"                          - Ch...
Posted by Chad Gibbons on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST