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About Me

A textbook melancholic who often masquerades as a sanguine.

Here are some songs that I love:

My Interests

Good conversation, physics/math, music, playing guitar/keyboard, movies/series, cooking, wine/ports, exercising, reading, writing, fashion, RPGs, other cultures, history, etymology, people who are smarter than me...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone I can learn (something worthwhile/useful) from. Anyone interested in intellectual pursuits, or who is just plain interesting.

Who I'd NOT Like To Meet: Modern-day Neanderthals who lack purity of heart, love, compassion and a lust for life. No philistines or plague-bringers of any kind.

Music:

Metal, classical polyphony/choral, film/game soundtracks, various forms of electronic and traditional Celtic/Irish music.

Movies:

Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Wes Anderson films, The LoTR Trilogy, FF7: Advent Children, The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, Sideways, Stardust, High Fidelity, and many others...

Television:

Firefly, SGA, SG1, Millennium

Books:

Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton, Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson, and various physics/math books

Heroes:

Various poets, musicians and madmen...

Anyone with willpower enough to say 'eff off' to drugs, cigarettes, (uncontrolled) alcohol, and all other mind/body destroying poisons that man has concocted and/or abused in his ignorance and lack of vision.

My Blog

I PASSED! =)

I passed the PhD qualifying exam! It looks like I am definitely getting my Master's degree! This is the email I received: "First of all thank you for your hard work a...
Posted by dame on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:58:00 PST

Vestiges of Neanderthalian Times and Mentalities Part I

Some people have an over-developed sense of self-importance. They delude themselves into thinking that they are more significant than others on some fundamental level that only they, in their as...
Posted by dame on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:44:00 PST

29

I was sitting around thinking about my age the other day when something hit me like a ton of bricks: this has been one of the best years of my life. I've had a ridiculous amount of fun, made new frie...
Posted by dame on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:53:00 PST

The Blog Of Eternal Stench

If you don't start reading AND RESPONDING TO my blogs, I'll do exactly what The Goblin King, Jareth, threatened to do to Hoggle in Labyrinth! I'll dip you all head first in the bog of eternal st...
Posted by dame on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:05:00 PST

This Inimitable Form

I generally like to think of things in ten year clumps. From years one to ten I was a grouch and a brat, from years ten to twenty, a crank...
Posted by dame on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:50:00 PST

My Ideal Woman

Someone asked me recently what I look for in a woman, and while I was able to answer the question with some certainty, I realized afterward that I only have this basic sketch, or an outline, of the ty...
Posted by dame on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:41:00 PST

A Succinct Little Tale About Greed And One-Ups

A Succinct Little Tale About Greed And One-Ups The following story is written in a pseudo-screenplay format. I hope you all enjoy it, and if you wish to make a movie about it, you have my permission...
Posted by dame on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:00:00 PST

Learning To Let Go

Although the title of this blog may suggest a penning about letting go of someone (i.e. putting a past relationship to rest), this is not at all the case. I've certainly done my share of letting...
Posted by dame on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:29:00 PST

Myspace Friends

First of all I will start off by saying that the majority of friends on my list are relatives, acquaintances and bands. There are a few people (four to be exact) that I have added that I met thr...
Posted by dame on Tue, 09 May 2006 01:50:00 PST

Life Worth Living

A thought came into my mind today: life truly is worth living. Dont get me wrong, I have not been contemplating suicide or anything of the sort. Instead, as I have often done for many year...
Posted by dame on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:12:00 PST