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Mr. Wizard

The brightest days have the darkest shadows, and the world is ending like there's no tomorrow

About Me

I suppose anyone who knows me would say that I am intelligent and artistic and one of the most agreeably indecisive people you will ever meet (just don't mistake my apathy for weakness). I have a passion for learning and a thirst for knowledge and beyond that I suffer from an even deeper desire to understand everything around me as utterly and completely as possible, to know the inner workings if you will. There's so much to take in.. The world is a wonderous place and not enough people are aware of that.

I believe in appreciating all kinds and types of music at an artistic level and not closing your mind to new ideas. There isn't a genre I can't listen to, though I do have my favorites... anything industrial, lo-fi downtempo, evil cut-up electro, zero beat ambient, booming dubstep with crazy rap on top... but the iPod has everything on it -- Disco, JPop, golden oldies, 40's show tunes, tons of world music... yeah, everything.

My Interests

music (both mine and others), nature, exploring, computers and all things electric/electronic, art (creating and experiencing anything that is audibly/visibly stimulating), long conversations with people that can hold them, math and physics and biology, world politics, history, reading and learning new things (!!!)

I'd like to meet:

On a professional level, I am currently looking for someone of like values to get a project going with, preferably a guitarist or two. I'm also looking for some visual media collaborators!

You can contact me on AIM as: amplexus nihil
or drop me a message if you want my email address.

Music:

I listen to and write all kinds of music... though industrial has always been my true love -- and by extension, all rock and electronic music, I suppose. I have a mature appreciation for really dirty electro and super sexy downtempo as well. Here's a few of the artists I dig... hopefully you'll see a name that looks interesting enough to look up and maybe even listen to :)

+n, 1000 homo djs, a perfect circle, abscess, A DREAMER WITH NO PLACE TO SLEEP, aghast, and christ wept, android lust, angels & agony, apoptygma berzerk, ARAB STRAP, arcane device, assemblage 23, asylum choir, ataraxia, bad sector, battery, bile, biopsy, blutengel, boards of canada, cardigans (the), charlie clouser, chris vrenna, christ analogue, christbait, christian lunch, circus of pain, coil, cop shoot cop, course of empire, covenant, dark illumination, dead machines, dead world, deus ex machina, devoid, die warzau, djcrom, dolt, dynamix ii, dystopia one, einstürzende neubauten, esthero, fall of because, foetus, front 242, front line assembly, frontier, funker vogt, ganzheit, genitorturers, godflesh, god module, gwar, haloblack, hate department, heisenberg uncertainty, helmet, holocaust theory, hooverphonic, illusion of safety, in absentia, in flames, industrial bass machine, jack off jill, kalte farben, kevorkian death cycle, killing joke, klinik, kmfdm, kraftwerk, lacrimosa, lacuna coil, laether strip, m83, machine head, machines of loving grace, magica, manson, marilyn manson, massive attack, meat beat manifesto, mesh, ministry, morcheeba, multicide, nailbomb, negativland, nightwish, NINE INCH NAILS, nitzer ebb, noise box, nox, numb, of cabbages and kings, of skin & saliva, operation cleansweep, optimum wound profile, organum, pantera, piano magic, pigface, pitch shifter, propellerheads, punish yourself, railgun, rammstein, razed in black, reutoff, revolting cocks, rorschach test, samsas traum, scorn, sigmund und sein freund, signal 12, skin chamber, skinny puppy, skullflower, slice of god, smashing pumpkins, sneaker pimps, snog, splintered, stabbing westward, state of being, stereotaxic device, strapping young lad, sublime, sucking chest wound, suiciety, synaesthesia, think tree, thought industry, thrill kill kult, TOOL, trent reznor, type o negative, union jack, velvet acid christ, virus 23, vnv nation, :wumpscut:, you shriek, young gods

Movies:

Anime is probably my favorite genre by far, simply because of the fact that it is far easier to draw what you are imagining than it is to physically create it. But as far as 'real' stuff is concerned... Documentaries are always rad, and I like anything dark and/or scary -- and, preferably, religious or biblical in its scariness. Zombies are a plus! Gore is a plus, too -- but only if it is adding to the realism and not totally cheesing out the scene. Fallen, Cube/Hypercube/Cube Zero, Donnie Darko, Momento, Requiem for a Dream, 13 Ghosts, Saw 1/2/3, 28 Days Later, Se7en, Stigmata, City of Lost Children, Pi, etc. -- anything dark is good! I also like funny movies -- especially those with teh 4:20 humorz ;)

Television:

I enjoy mainly the Research Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, so on and so forth.

I am also a huge Adult Swim fan, and love shows along the lines of mXc and Who's Line Is It Anyways?

Also, Lost and House are great.

Books:

I grew up reading a lot of sci-fi/fantasy, pretty much anything by Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony, Terry Goodkind, David Eddings, Madeline L'Engle, etc., etc... and also a lot of science and history books.

I do consider myself fairly well read I guess, and many great authors have left their mark on me... specifically Joseph Conrad, Henry David Thoreau (!), Daniel Keyes, and Kurt Vonnegut. I believe that reading as much as you can (and of as varied an assortment of genres and subjects as possible) is one of the best things a person can do for their br-br-brain.

I also read a lot of physics books. I'm a nerd. Suck it. ;)

Heroes:

No time to have heroes. :)..

My Blog

The reemergence of Nihilism in modern heavy metal and industrial music

Throughout the centuries past, there has been an abundance of great philosophers and thinkers offering their opinions on the meaning of life, religion, and one's physical and spiritual relationship wi...
Posted by Mr. Wizard on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:04:00 PST

The Book of the Void

The Ni To Ichi Way of strategy is recorded in this, the Book of the Void.What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is notincluded in man's knowledge. Of course the void is no...
Posted by Mr. Wizard on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:57:00 PST

Quizzes 'n such

Instead of peppering my myspace home page with all of those stupid "What kind of [item] are you?" or "What character are you from [current hot hollywood franchise]?" quizzes, I've decided to put them ...
Posted by Mr. Wizard on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:09:00 PST