LEARNING, Playing Soccer, alpine skiing, biking, reading, white water rafting, writing, hiking, camping, refreshing beverages, listening to and playing music, beautiful and intelligent women, astronomical observatories, Eastern thought such as Zen Buddhism and Taoism, traveling the world both mentally and physically, fine-art, conversating in a productive manner, revelry with old friends, anything from antiquity, impluviams and the Roman domus, Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii, Sperlonga, Carthage, Thera (Santorini), Crete, Pergamon, driving my friends crazy with nominal reduction arguments and epistemic criticism, cosmology/astro-physics, any food or sauce that is hot and spicy, frisbee golf and other frisbee oriented activities, running, boating, jet skiing, swimming, floating on my back in a river while gazing at the stars and revivifying my soul on the desideratum of the universe.
"He is therefore related to the animal as the navigator, who by means of chart, compass, and quadrant knows accurately at any moment his course and position on the sea, is related to the uneducated crew who see only the waves and the skies. It is worth noting, and indeed wonderful to see, how man, besides his life in the concrete, always lives a second life in the abstract. In the former he is abandoned to all the storms of reality and to the influence of the present; he must struggle, suffer, and die like the animal. But his life in the abstract, as it stands before his rational consciousness, is the calm reflection of his life in the concrete, and of the world in which he lives; it is precisely that reduced chart or plan previously mentioned. Here in the sphere of calm deliberation, what previously possessed him completely and moved him intensely appears to him cold, coulourless, and, for the moment, foreign and strange; he is a mere spectator and observer. In respect of this withdrawal into reflection, he is like an actor who has played his part in one scene, and takes his place in the audience until he must appear again."- Schopenhauer
The Arcade Fire, Radiohead, The Beatles, Neil Young, The Doors, Four Tet, Tom Petty, Chopin, Wagner, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Johann Strauss,Camille Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, playing my own music on the piano and guitar, Beck, Interpol, The Shins, Flaming Lips, Smashing Pumpkins, Spoon, Mogwai, Air, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mad Season, AIC, A Perfect Cirlce, Nirvana, Sparklehorse, Sigur Ros
Lost Horizon, Battleship Potemkin, The Battle of Algiers, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Alexander Nevsky, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, Waking Life, Vanilla Sky, Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada (one of my favorites!), The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Dr. Strangelove, Dead Man, Metropolis,Tombstone, Fight Club, Dead Poets Society, Snatch, Some Like it Hot, The Seven Year Itch, Seven Samurai, Asphalt Jungle, Stardust Memories, Mindwalk, The Night of the Iguana, The Science of Sleep, The Best Years of Our Lives, Band A Part, The Good Earth, The Third Man, The Big Sleep, Seven Years in Tibet, The Last Emporer, Isle of Dr. Monroe, Apocalypse Now, 12 Monkeys, Never Ending Story, Bodysong, Indiana Jones trilogy, My Dinner with Andre, Princess Mononoke, The Russian Ark, Cold Mountain, A River Runs Through It, The Last Temptation of Christ, Platoon, Clockwork Orange, 2001 Space Odyssey, The 5th Element, James Bond movies (older ones), Brazil, Blade Runner, A.I., Eraserhead, Journey to the Center of the Earth (old one with James Mason), Caddyshack, Goonies, Gladiator, Memento, Heat, way too many to name here...
PBS, Trailer Park Boys, BBC World News, Family Guy, Jeopardy,I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
*Emerson* Essay on Nature and other Essays *Rene Dubois* So Human an Animal *Lautreamont* Les Chants de Maldoror *Yevgeny Zamyatin* We *Plato* Republic, Ion, Phaedo, Timaeus, Crito, Apology, Meno, Gorgias, Protagoras, Symposium, *Aristotle* De Anima, Metaphysics, Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, *Pre-Socratic philosophy* especially Heraclitus' fragments, *Epicurus* Leading Doctrines *Descartes* Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method *Berkeley* Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philanous *Leibniz* Monadology *Hegel* Phenomenology of Spirit *Husserl* Ideas *Wittgenstein * Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations, Color Theory, *G.E. Moore* Proof of the External World and defense of Realism, *Voltaire* Candide *Quine* Two Dogmas of Empiricism *Locke* An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises on Government, *Montaigne* Essays *Pascal* Pensees *Swift* A Modest Proposal, Gulliver's Travels *Koestler* Darkness at Noon *Hume* Essays: Moral Political and Literary, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Treatise on Nature *Kant* Observations Concerning the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Prologomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, *Schopenhauer* The World as Will and Representation Vol I and II *Nietzsche* The Portable Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations (especially Schopenhauer as Educator), Geneology of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science, Human, All Too Human, The Will to Power, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Birth of Tragedy, Daybreak, *Russell* The Problems of Philosophy, Mysticism and Logic, Bertrand Russell's Best, Why I am not a Christian *Sartre* Nausea, Being and Nothingness, The Trancendence of the Ego, Existentialism and Human Emotions, *Malraux* Le Condition Humain *Camus* The Rebel, Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, Caligula, The Stranger, The Plauge, *Homer* Illiad, Odyssey, Hymns, *Sophocles* Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone *Aeschylus* Prometheus Bound, Orestia *Euripides* Bacchae, Medea *Herodotus* History of Persian wars *Thucydides* History of Pelopennesian Wars *Hesiod* Theogony, Works and Days *Longinus* On The Sublime *Virgil* The Aenead *Lucretius* On the Nature of Things *Horace* *Pindar* Olympic poems *Sappho* Lesbos poems *Dante* Divine Comedy: Inferno *Boccacio* Decameron *Chaucer* House of Fame, Canterbury Tales *Petrarch* Sonnets to Laura *Petronias* Satyricon *Juvenal* Satires *Livy* Punic Wars *Suetonious* Lives of the 12 Caesars *Pliny the Elder* Natural History *Apuelius* The Golden Ass *Seneca* Tragedies and Dialogues *Tacitus* Annals and Histories *Shakespeare* Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, Julius Caesar,(anything) *Caldron* Life is a Dream *Cervantes* Don Quixote *Spinoza* Ethics, *Dumas* The Count of Monte Cristo *Vonnegut* Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse 5 *Robins* Still Life with Woodpecker, Another Road Side Attraction, *Steinbeck* Cannery Row, Winter of Our Discontent, Tortilla Flat, *Dostoevsky* The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot *Kafka* The Trial, Metamorphosis *Pushkin* Eugene Onegin *Proust* Le Temps retrouvé (still trying to get through it) *De Quincey* Confessions of an English Opium Eater *Orwell* 1984, Animal Farm *Mann* The Magic Mountain *Rousseau* Emile, Confessions *Machiavelli* The Prince *Jules Verne* Journy to the Center of the Earth, *Goethe* Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Theory of Colors *Thoureau* Walden, *Huxley* Brave New World, Antic Hay *Melville* Moby Dick, The Confidence-Man, Typhee *Freud* Civilization and Its Discontents *Einstein* Ideas and Opinions *Mary Shelley* Frankenstein *Kierkegaard* Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, The Sickness Unto Death *Joyce* Dubliners, Finnigans Wake, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, *Gary Snyder* poems *Ovid* Metamorpheses *William James* The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life *Mikhail Bulgakoc* The Master and Margarita *Baudelaire* Flowers of Evil, *Rimbaud* poetry, *Zola* Nana, *E.E. Cummings* poetry *Cicero* In Catilinum *Xenophones* Anabasis and Hellenica *John Kennedy Toole* A Confederacy of Dunces *Keats* Odes, Hyperion, Endymion, Eve of St. Agnes, Sonnets, *Coleridge* Biographia Literaria (A definite for any Kant enthusiast), Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner, Christabel *Lord Byron* Manfred, Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, *P.B. Shelley* Prometheus Unbound, A Defense of Poetry, Adonais, poetry all together *Wordsworth* Lines composed above a Tintern Abby, Lyrical Ballads, Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind. *Burtt* Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha *Bhagavad Gita* *Vedas and Upanishads* *Confucius* Analects *Chaung Tzu* *Mencius* *Lao Tzu* Tao Te Ching
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