Chaos, Paradox, Truth, Information, Learning, Growth, Love, Sex, the Human Mind, Art, Drawing, Video Games, Psyconautical adventures deep deep into the subconscious, pillaging, keel-hauling scalawags, the open sea, yadda yadda yadda.... ARRRRR
I'd like to meet:
Cool, honest, open mided students of life. Change is the only constant that can be relied upon, so no matter how much we think we know... Ha ha! we don't. Of course everyones idea of what constitutes "cool people" is different. For me it's people who base their judgements (don't kid yourself, we all judge to one degree or another) on a persons character and actions, not on superficial crap like how down they are with morphing their appearance, manerisms, attitude and style to match the current trend. Understand that open mindedness is being able and willing to listen to a point of view that you may not agree with, and listen as if you have no opinion on the subject. Mental/Spiritual growth is not possible if you close your mind to the possibility that you're wrong or, more likely, that there is truth, value and something to be learned from all viewpoints. Like from peasants, I can learn how the human form responds to kicking while they grovel in the muck.
And now for my pretentious use of a favorite pholosopher quote:True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
-Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)and a not so pretentious sounding one:"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381
Oy! One for each eye. Ya wanks.
Music:
Diesel Boy, Marcy Playground, Underworld, Bauhaus, Cake, The Cardigans, Cat Rapes Dog, Chemlab, ABC, Parliment, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, The Cure, David Bowie, Dead Kenedies, Depech Mode, Devo, DJ Dara, Echo & The Bunnymen, Einstürzende Neubauten, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Gang Star, Hybrid, Infected Mushroom, Sun Project, Interpol, Joy Division, Kate Bush, MC Hawking, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, Morrissey, My life with the Thrill Kill Kult, New Order, Oingo Boingo, the Orb, The Psychadelic Furs, The Ramones, The Revolting Cocks, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Spin Doctors, DJ Diss & MC Cuz, T-Bob Fresh, etc, etc, ...
Movies:
Fight Club, Underworld, Matrix, I Heart Huckabees, X-Men, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Spider Man, Cowboy Beebop, Resident Evil, Ghost in the Shell, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma, Clerks, Mall Rats, Joe Dirt, From Hell, Ninth Gate, Sleepy Hollow, Ronin, Not AnotherTeen Movie, Half Baked, Office Space, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Last Boyscout, Killing Zoe, Strange Days, Tomb Raider, Blackula, Blackdraft, Black to tha Future, Forest Hump, A tale of two Titties, On Golden Blonde, Sextrek: the next Penetration, Foreskin Gump, Forest Rump, Forest Hump, etc, et al., ad nauseum...
Television:
Family Guy, The Simpsons, Joan of Arcadia, Two and a Half Men, Conan O'Brian, and not much else.
Books:
Chaos by James Gleick, Interview with a Vampire and Vampire Lestat (after that I couldn't take it when she'd describe a broach for 86 pages, Jesus Christ!!! get on with the story!!!) The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, PiKAL by Alexander Shuglin, Various pieces of Nietzsche, Lots o stuff by William Gibson or Walter John WIlliams. I beleive you peasants can consume this knowledge in what you call "books". Me, I just upload the data stream straight through the neural interface plugs in the base of my skull.
Heroes:
Alexander & Ann Shuglin
