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Philosopher to the stairs!

Buffet Intellectual

About Me

Eternal time waster
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.. You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist


100%

Postmodernist


75%

Cultural Creative


69%

Materialist


69%

Romanticist


56%

Modernist


38%

Fundamentalist


31%

Idealist


25%
What is Your World View? (updated)
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My Interests

Ice Hockey, cinema, music, books, people watching.. width="425" height="350" ..I was at this gig!

Music:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Leonard Cohen, Hayden, Bob Dylan, Thea Gilmore, Aimee Mann, Johhny Cash, John Cale, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Dirty Three, Bright Eyes, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party, Patti Smith, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, einsturzende Neubauten

Movies:

The Station Agent, Lost in Translation, Big Fish, Garden State, Thirteen, Shaun of the dead, Magnolia, Battle Royal, Phone, Ju-on, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Ghost world, Marllrats, Clerks, Sin City, The Propisition, Napoleon Dynamite, Walk the Line, The Proposition - just a few of the brillaint flims that are STILL being made, so anyone who thinks cinema is dead is obviously watching the wrong films.As for old films: The Magnificent Seven, Deliverence, Rope, Ghostbusters, Zulu, Taxi Driver, The Matrix, Desperado, Momento, are all up there

Television:

Scrubs, Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger force, Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld, Curb your enthusiasm, most Paramount sh*t-coms.

Books:

American Gods - Neil Gaiman, The Outsider - Camus, Lolita - Nabukov, The Master and Margerite - Bulgakov, Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky, South of the Border West of the sun, the wild sheep chase - Haruki Murakami, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Admas, Guards! Guards - PTerry, Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre, And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave

Heroes:

Nick Cave, Mario Lemeuix, Henry Rollins, Zach Braff, Ferris Beuller

My Blog

The last stand for our drunken protagonist

So keep me at arms length You need to save your self respect Just leave me drowning Ive got nothing left to expect Ive analysed those eyes too many times Its the same old battered script, the same...
Posted by Philosopher to the stairs! on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:16:00 PST

I never was much of a Leonard Cohen

Too many cigarettes smoked On these desolate wakeful nights As I hunch in deliberation By this desk, without the lights. I try to express these feelings That are pillaging my thoughts and mind But y...
Posted by Philosopher to the stairs! on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:11:00 PST

The ineffable nature of the Dodo

What, dear friend, are you going to doWhen all your teachers desert you?How will you know where to turnWhen all the greats have crashed and burnedWhat broken songs are left to sing Now Nick Cave's go...
Posted by Philosopher to the stairs! on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:10:00 PST

Nostalgia Nation

Who knows whats on our conscience tonight, Whats happened to the feelings weve lost, I wonder what shes doing now? Its been five years since our paths last crossed. How can no-one ever remember...
Posted by Philosopher to the stairs! on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:07:00 PST

Bumth

Why am I wasting my time? When is summer coming?
Posted by Philosopher to the stairs! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Dear T...

So youre trying to re-write history To erase me out of your life. The chapters involving me have been torn up As you lie with him playing the perfect wife Your Jokes admit you think a mistake w...
Posted by Philosopher to the stairs! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Completed Trapped in the last winter....

From this vantage point at my windowI see last years sparrows flit from the treesThey are drawn to your sweet breath, babeAs you force a path in the fallen leaves.Darkness is sweeping through our gard...
Posted by Philosopher to the stairs! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST