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Carrie

Project Ego

About Me

I suppose video games and my interest/obsession with them is the first thing that most people learn about me. Beyond that, I like learning and I like talking to people. I suppose I'm looking for someone who wants to combine those two things Voltron-style.

My Interests

video games, philosophy, nectarines, astronomy, hubble space telescope, books, reading, literature, logic, artificial intelligence, foucault, mcsweeney's, set theory, pi, fennec fox, string cheese, string theory, video games

I'd like to meet:

Norville Barnes.

Music:

Atmosphere, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Prince Paul, Dan the Automator, Aesop Rock, Kool Keith, MF Doom, Talib Kweli, Common Sense, Danger Mouse, RJD2, DJ Shadow, Underworld, Orbital, Aphex Twin, The Prodigy

NOFX, The Queers, The Dropkick Murphy's, Minor Threat, The Dead Kennedys, The Bouncing Souls, Pennywise, Anti-Flag, Man or Astroman?, Beck, Agnostic Front, Snapcase, Sick of it All, Biohazard, Motorhead

...and Leonard Cohen.

Movies:

Hudsucker Proxy, Pi, Se7en, Gattaca, Trading Places, American Beauty, Before the Rain, Memento, Reservoir Dogs, Lord of the Rings, Amelie, 12 Monkeys, Coming to America, The Princess Bride, Transformers, Lost in Translation, Pitch Black, Usual Suspects, Wuthering Heights, The Thin Red Line

Television:

Mostly just Law and Order: SVU marathons (it's a guilty pleasure) and Grey's Anatomy.
I have been known to cancel plans to watch a list show on VH1.
I'm a latecomer to 24, but anything that has Dennis Haysbert is automatically awesome.

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, Infinite Jest, Foucault's Pendulum, McSweeney's Quarterly, A Prayer for Owen Meany, As I Lay Dying, Either/Or, The Princess Bride, Surely you're joking Mr Feynman!, Lolita, The World According to Garp, Dante's Inferno, Godel Escher and Bach, Everything and More: History of Infinity, The Clown, Wuthering Heights, Chaos, The Pillow Book, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hamlet, The BFG,

Also I recently started subscribing to New Scientist and it's fantastic. There's just no magazine section on this doohickey, so there you have it.

Heroes:

Daniel Dennett, Jello Biafra, Simone deBeauvoir, Richard Feynman, Gina Gershon, Georg Cantor, Hieronymus Bosch