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Trent

A curiously aimless will to hate.

About Me

Most of my friends intensely disliked me when we first met.

My Interests

18th-20th century literature, music, video games, weight lifting, the outdoors (as far away from civilization as possible), doggies, kitties, aminals, belgian beer, philosophy, sociology, physics, and STUFF.

I'd like to meet:

Redheads and samoyeds. Or a redhead that has a samoyed. That'd be the pwnz.In truth I just like having another way, limited though it may be, of keeping in touch with my friends! And listening to the song on Shannie's page!

And our next Chris Cunningham video, "Only You." Possibly even more amazing.

Music:

A pittance of the music I love. In order of coolness: Bjork (cept that shitty, retarded, trite and artsy hipster piece of shit new album), Dead Can Dance, Skinny Puppy, PJ Harvey, Beethoven, Chopin, Wumpscut, Amon Tobin, Joy Division, Black Tape For a Blue Girl, Prefuse 73, Cinematic Orchestra, Covenant, Haujobb (99 is one of my all time fave albums), Plaid, Portis-everyone-fucking-likes-them-head, Front Line Assembly, Zeppelin, CSNY, Beatles, Hendrix, Queen, Tom Waits, Blutangel, Clutch, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Rachmaninov, Memphis mothafuckin' Slim, and Muddy thasrightbitch Waters, Benny Goodman, Coltrane, Mingus, and I just can't think of anyone else right now...

Movies:

The very best: Titus, Akira, Once Were Warriors, The Lord of the Rings, Quills, Jacob's Ladder, Alien, Aliens, and not the other two, Burnt by the Sun, the Professional, Immortal Beloved, Tombstone!!!, Star Wars (the original 3), Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Basqiat, Last of the Mohicans, and there must be more but I can never recall movies I like. Feh, Fantasia's been missing from here for months...I've loved that movie since I was liddo. It's brilliant!

Television:

Invader Zim, and the various Star Treks. The rest is crap that melts your brain and causes an insipient sort of stupidit. Annnnd...I get to add something to this field!!!BATTLESTAR CRACKTICA. It fracking rocks.

Books:

Nearly (but not quite!) all of the published works of Dostoevsky, The Glass Bead Game, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 100 Years of Solitude, Great Expectations, Tolkein, Herbert, the short stories of Gogol, Chekov and Leskov, Old Man and the Sea, Catch-22, The Sorrows of Young Werther, the essays of Walter Benjamin, Naguib Mahfouz, Hamlet, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, J. Winterson, Dispatches, Confessions Of An English Opium Eater (thanks James), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kafka's short stories, the plays of Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Robert Jordan (yeah I know),Philosophy: D.T. Suzuki, Foucault's last four or five books, Being and Time, Michael Polanyi, Plato, Lao-Tzu, Chuang-Tzu, Sun-Tzu, yeah I know that's funny, Walter Benjamin, Camus (Sartre's unadmitted idol), Nishitani, Thomas Merton, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche...

Heroes:

My greatest hero is most certainly Mog. When the sasquatch needed a furry companion, Mog was there! When Terra was in danger, Mog and his furry entourage of Japanese-Cuteness swept in for the rescue! AND he has pink wings and a yellow dandelion-thing on his head! I mean, c'mon LOOK at him. He's a fucking PIMP!!
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My Blog

Read some Kafka, mmkay?

Jackals and Arabs We were camping in the oasis.  My companions were asleep.  The tall, white figure of an Arab passed by; he had been seeing to the camels and was on his way to his own sle...
Posted by Trent on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:03:00 PST

On Beauty

    Given my nearly unintelligible ble rant about beauty, I've decided I ought to clarify what it is about beauty that most people of this age don't recognize.     Natu...
Posted by Trent on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:21:00 PST

Tikhon, at the end of all things.

"...thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and misrable, and poor, and blind, and naked..."
Posted by Trent on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:31:00 PST

Heinlein, Science-Fiction, and Canonical Woes

     So I just recently finished reading The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by the infamous science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, and have found myself yet again in a position of disgr...
Posted by Trent on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:12:00 PST

More...

Epiphany is the unveiling of a far reaching pattern in one's life which had previously gone unnoticed. The profundity of epiphany lies in the fact that on some level it was always already there.
Posted by Trent on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:14:00 PST

Aphorisms Part: Etc.

One of the sad inadequacies of our culture is the common person's total lack of insight and appreciation when it comes to  cynicism. Cynicism is not a  word-game contradiction of literal phr...
Posted by Trent on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 06:58:00 PST

Monsieur Tobin

In every generation there have been, for certain, musical pioneers whose compositional ability was transcendent (for lack of a better word). In the end, it is most certainly *not* Rachmaninov's except...
Posted by Trent on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST