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Sam

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About Me

I procrastinate constantly. When I finally do something, it quickly becomes engaging in 5 divergent projects simultaneously. I sneeze loudly, and in triplets. I used to write poetry, but now I write fragments of songs. Like Kanye West, I am a college drop-out, but without the diamonds or the Benz. I'm planning on going back, and going to grad school. I'm fairly sure that language both expresses and defines a person. I'm not really prepared to be a "grown-up", but I've developed a nice, responsible facade. I'm positive that the world is a more complicated place than either you or I can appreciate.

Don't add me if you're just a friend collector. If you actually want to be friends, send a message or something. I generally only add people if I know them in real life, and I only add bands if I genuinely like their music. I almost universally delete requests from promotional sites.

My Interests

Anything and everything could grab my interest at any given time. Abiding interests include PHP, SQL, Flash, decriminaliztion, photography, writing, the human condition, psychology, neurobiology, music theory, politics, art, literature, alternative fuels, pharmacology, science in general, philosophy, meditation, forensics, history, anthropology, evolutionary biology, sociobiology, and cognitive science.

I also like fishing, swimming, barbecuing and drinking beer.

I keep a big aquarium with lots of plants, because I think fish are great.
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I'd like to meet:

Intelligent, compassionate, ambitious people.

Music:

American Analog Set, Her Space Holiday, Slug, The Cure, Joy Division, New Order, Tha Alkaholiks, J Church, A Tribe Called Quest, Bikini Kill, Bjork, Quasimoto, Common, Dizzy Gellespie, Everything But The Girl, Decoder, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Liz Phair, Teebee, The Pixies, Orbital, Atmosphere, Kanye West, The Roots, Interpol, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin, Blackalicious, Old Dirty Bastard, Busta Rhymes, Everything But The Girl, Death Cab for Cutie, Alec Empire, Nine Inch Nails, Jurassic 5, Boards of Canada, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Snoop, Outkast, NWA, My Bloody Valentine, Miguel Migs, Naked Music, Nas, DJ Shadow, Carl Cox, The Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, The Zombies, Fleetwood Mac, Roy Davis Jr, MC Chris, Sleater-Kinney, Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, FSOL, Paul van Dyk, Hybrid, Thelonious Monk, Lady Sovereign, and pretty much anything that doesn't suck.

Movies:

Contact, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Life Aquatic, Party Girl, Nowhere, Pi, Traffic, 2001: A Space Oddysey, Gattaca, Eyes Wide Shut, The Replacement Killer, Bongwater, Waking Life, Pulp Fiction, Human Traffic, Metropolis, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, Dogma, Stratosphere Girl, North by Northwest, Jon Woo flicks, John Hughes movies, the original Star Wars trilogy, Momento, indie flicks, and anything that makes the audience think.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Rome, Friday Night Lights, The West Wing, The Daily Show, MI-5, The X Files, South Park, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, Adult Swim in general, The Simpsons, Free Speech TV, The History Channel, The Science Channel, Discovery-Times, shows that aren't "reality" TV, CSI: Miami, Third Watch, That 70's Show

Books:

Mostly books that have changed my life:
Ethics for a New Millenium, The Dalai Lama
The Moral Animal, Robert Wright
The Mind's I, Daniel Dennett
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
Neuromancer, and everything else by William Gibson
Love You To Bits and Pieces, Gillian Helfgott
Bright Flows The River, Taylor Caldwell
The Winter of Our Discontent and everything else by Steinbeck
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos, Roger Lewin
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

Heroes:

Watson & Crick, Carl Sagan, Douglas Hofstadter, the Dalai Lama, Tim Berners-Lee