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Ben

Scooby-Doo can doo-doo but Jimmy Carter is smarter

About Me

I'm on a four-year reading sabbatical. When the four years are up I'll start writing. It's less hassle than doing a thesis, and I still get to be an anal retard. Besides that I'm a contrary asshole with bizarre hang-ups.
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||| 53%
Stability |||||||||||| 46%
Orderliness |||||||||| 33%
Accommodation |||||| 30%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||| 70%
Intellectual |||||||||||| 50%
Mystical |||||| 30%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Religious |||||||||||| 43%
Hedonism |||||||||||| 43%
Materialism |||||||||||| 50%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 43%
Adventurousness |||||||||| 36%
Work ethic |||||||||||| 43%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||||| 70%
Conflict seeking |||||||||| 36%
Need to dominate |||||||||| 36%
Romantic |||||||||||| 50%
Avoidant |||||||||||||| 56%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||| 56%
Wealth |||||||||||| 50%
Dependency |||||||||||| 50%
Change averse |||||||||||| 43%
Cautiousness |||||||||||| 43%
Individuality |||||||||||| 50%
Sexuality |||||||||||| 43%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||| 43%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||| 44%
Histrionic |||||||||| 36%
Paranoia |||||||||||| 43%
Vanity |||||||||||||||| 63%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||| 63%
Female cliche |||||| 23% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Interests

Literature; my ability to be profound, and tits. I'm extremely serious about four out of every five things. I am 24% Tortured Artist.
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I'd like to meet:

Book nerds, writers that read, music nerds; anyone who can appreciate a bizarre sense of humour. Oh, I don't want to meet John Maloney, because he makes me nervous...I love his smile... I like people who do what they want. LIVE FOR METAL!!!! I would also like to meet enormous, suggestible tits; and Alan Alda as Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
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Music:

Frank Zappa, Death, Control Denied, Morbid Angel (Dave Vincent era) Emperor, Ulver, Miles Davis, Mayhem (not the shitty old stuff), Impaled Nazarene,Pantera, Zimmers Hole, Manowar, Iron Maiden,Converge, Neurosis, TISM, Nile, Enslaved, Pink Floyd, Deicide (first two albums), Cannibal Corpse (Chris Barnes era), BLOOD DUSTER, Carcass, Macabre, Kate Bush, the Cure, Black Flag, Rollins Band, Napalm Death, Megadeth (up to and not excluding Countdown to Extinction), Roxy Music, AC, Laibach, Nasum, Damaged (first two albums) Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Aphex Twin, Dark Tranquility, Kraftwerk, Children of Bodom, Bathory, Stravinsky, the Flaming Lips, Steve Albini, Faith No More, Opeth, Cop Shoot Cop, Anathema, Hate Plow, Captain Cleanoff, Mr. Bungle, Testament, Katatonia, Cephalic Carnage, In the Woods, Black Sabbath, Weather Report, Kyuss, Devin Townsend, Kreator, Sunn O))), Sodom, Strapping Young Lad, Daughters, Carnivore, Radiohead, Alchemist, ye olde Metallica, Saxon, Accept, Twisted Sister, Creedence, Today is the Day, Blood Bath, Type O Negative, Dream Theater, Tortoise, Dirty Three, Acid Bath, the Rocking Dildos, Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Judas Priest, B 52's, Cryptopsy, Necrophagist, Origin, Primus, Captain Beefheart, Zao, NWA, the Smiths, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John Coltrane, Cynic, some classical shit, Pestilence, the Police, Brutal Truth, Pungent Stench, OMNIUM, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Debussy, Hildegaard Von Bingen and other polyphonic choral shit, Genesis, the Who, Sigh, Einsturzende Neubauten, P Funk, John Zorn, Obituary, etc, etc....You suppose right, I am a pretentious music nerd :-D .. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- START YOUTHINK.COM QUIZ RESULTS --
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Movies:

Blue Velvet--Frank Booth is hilarious ('Get a love letter from me and you're fucked for life!'); I just saw the Piano Teacher--now I'm seeing a psychologist; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Baby Snakes--best concert movie I've seen; Apocalypse Now, a Clockwork Orange, Apocalypto, Schindler's List, Goodfellas, The Pianist, Withnail and I, The Godfather (I&II), No Country for Old Men, There will be Blood, Reds, the Wall, Brazil, Rollerball (1977), Bladerunner; and some foreign-language stuff I can't spell. If you can recommend something I'll check it out.

Television:

Ren and Stimpy, Saturday night Rage--when it's decently programmed, the Chaser's War on Everything, Family Guy, Jackass (because I'm a moron), American Dad, House, Harvey Birdman, Poobah, Deadwood, Futurama, the League of Gentlemen, the Office, the Simpsons, Duck Man, Curb your Enthusiasm, Nighty Night, Band of Brothers, At the Movies, history doccos

Books:

Here's some writers I like: Rollins, Nietzsche, Proust, D.H. Lawrence,George Eliot,Tolstoy, Conrad, Emily Bronte, Dostoevsky, Joyce, Beckett, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Celine, Aristotle, Homer, Hesiod, Baudelaire, Camus, Sartre, Steinbeck, Kafka, Flaubert, Gogol, Emerson, Blake, Norman Davies, Breton, Schopenhauer, Henry Miller, Sophocles, Plato,Kant, Chaucer,Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Cervantes, Hunter Thompson, Stendhal, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Herodotus, Anais Nin, Rudiger Safranski, Julian Barnes, Laurence Sterne, Tits Maggee esq. Reading is basically my job at the moment. I'm one lucky bastardo.

Heroes:

Frank Zappa; my brother, Scott 'angry dad' Kearvell, my nephew Ethan 'the heathen' Kearvell--the uber Kearvell--; Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Conan the Librarian and Don Music

My Blog

Book: chapter one -- a fragment

'Did you wait for the custard to dry?' 'Yes.' 'Really? The mouth looks a little sloppy.'
Posted by Ben on Fri, 30 May 2008 12:25:00 PST

what the fuck, fuck shit up

This image just about sums it up for me. Excuse the sentiment, it’s my birthday. I just want to pass on a big ’Hail’ to those who inspire me, some of whom I’m l...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:00:00 PST

saving face

One thing about this ’being a writer/writing/illusions/delusions of grandeur’ thing--you never know if it’s going to blow-up or implode in your face. Interesting. What ever happens t...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:36:00 PST

Astute Observation, Redux

I dunno who reads this stuff but my nephew just turned two--big up. I've been thinking a lot about marriage. At first I came to the conclusion, it's just an excuse for women to get fat; then it o...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:43:00 PST

changes

There's a billboard near my brother's house advertising a Mahavishnu Orchestra tribute show -- and he lives in the burbs. Futhermore, there's been a lot of talk about my hair: lies and slander; I won'...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:55:00 PST

A special message at Christmas

" target="_self">'tis the season...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:30:00 PST

Live orgasm!

" target="_self">!!! Zappa Plays Zappa, Adelaide, 2nd December, 2007. I came, I saw....
Posted by Ben on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:58:00 PST

another Tuesday yet again

The year is almost over again; always seems to be the case. Meanwhile I'm sweating the balls off of myself at Dan's place. I haven't showered since Sunday, I think; but it's not a religious thing, I j...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:16:00 PST

fail-safe dating methods : 1

Pretend not to be interested in a person enough that they will not feel responsible for their actions.
Posted by Ben on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:08:00 PST

Bill O’Reilly vs. Richard Dawkins: who is more annoying?

" target="_self">  Place your bets!...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:34:00 PST