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Contraindicated

Don't confuse complexity for complication.

About Me


It should go unsaid that I am my own work in progress. However, I have found that if you have nothing to offer then neither do I. My attempt is to remain a minimalist in almost every regard.

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E.Station 804
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Philosophy of Psychology
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DAATH

My Interests

Neuroscience.
Philosophy.
Writing.
Reading.
Juggling.
Hablando español.
Billiards.
Chess.
Brainteasers.
Percussion/Drums.
Music.

I'd like to meet:


Esta persona aquí.

Music:

Anything Mike Patton, Anything Devin Townsend, Deftones, Dillinger Escape Plan, Nine Inch Nails, The Mars Volta, Ion Dissonance, Meshuggah, Bjork, Gojira, Cex, Kid606, Portishead, The Remote Viewer, Outkast, Lamb of God, Misery Signals, Acid Bath, Busta Rhymes, Team Sleep, DJ/Rupture, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Aphex Twin, Elysian Fields, Billy Holiday, Beastie Boys, Sikth, A Dozen Furies, Venetian Snares, Every Time I Die, Combichrist, Drop the Lime, Alice in Chains, Sickboy Milkplus, Sarah McLachlan, John Zorn, Lost Prophets, Secret Chiefs 3, KMFDM, Tool, The Roots, Estradasphere, Genghis Tron, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Minus the Bear, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Dog Fashion Disco, Interpol, The Locust, Dieselboy, Pantera, Bumblefoot, DJ Dara, Hum, Jane's Addiction, The Killers, Da'ath, Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane, Arsis, Erykah Badu, Reflux, Anthrax, Fleetwood Mac, Helmet, Vincent & Mr. Green, Poison the Well, Snapcase, Arch Enemy, Mastodon, Soilwork, James Figurine, Guapo, Madonna, Steely Dan, Fischerspooner, Autechre, Dashboard Confessional, Into the Moat, Dntel, Britney Spears, Isis, Kaki King, Led Zeppelin, Remembering Never, Death, Mustard Gas and Roses, Justin Timberlake, System of a Down, Nas, Disarmonia Mundi, Ludacris, Ozric Tenticles, Cynic, AK1200, Mats/Morgan, Circa Survive, Opeth, The Apex Theory, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Squarepusher, Eminem, 12 Rounds, At the Drive-In, Chevelle, Botch, Flat Earth Society, The Almighty Punchdrunk, Kaada, Muse, Xanopticon, Mystikal, Aghora, A Perfect Circle, Pyotr Illyich Tchiakovsky, Fiona Apple, Coalesce, Depeche Mode, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, Postal Service, Dysrhythmia, Down, End, Killswitch Engage, and so on...

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Interview with a Vampire.
The Rules of Attraction.
The Life of David Gale.
Requiem for a Dream.
A Clockwork Orange.
The Butterfly Effect.
The Virgin Suicides.
Mr. Holland's Opus.
I Heart Huckabees.
Good Will Hunting.
Lord of the Rings.
Meet the Feebles.
What About Bob?
Eyes Wide Shut.
Usual Suspects.
Devil's Rejects.
The Machinist.
Garden State.
Run Lola Run.
The Departed.
Fifth Element.
12 Monkeys.
Primal Fear.
City of God.
Pulp Fiction.
Half Baked.
The Doors.
21 Grams.
Labrynth.
Rob Roy.
Gummo.
Identity.
Casino.
Clerks.
Seven.
Babel.
Heat.
Saw.
Pi.
Go.
Kids.
Spun.
Crash.
Matrix.
Closer.
Big Fish.
Monster.
The Cell.
Thirteen.
Sleepers.
Fightclub.
Oceans 11.
Vanilla Sky.
Pulp Fiction.
Mystic River.
High Tension.
Boogy Nights.
Suicide Kings.
Donnie Darko.
Femme Fatale.
True Romance.
Secret Window.
Judgment Night.
Reservoir Dogs.
A Beautiful Mind.
The Nineth Gate.
American Beauty.
Kill Bill, Volume 1.
Punch-Drunk Love.
Napoleon Dynamite.
From Dusk Till Dawn.
The Motorcycle Diaries.
The Blair Witch Project.
House of 1,000 Corpses.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
What the [Bleep] Do We Know?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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Television:

CNN.
UFC.
CSI.
Cops.
The Simpsons.
Southpark.
Family Guy.
Bill Maher.
The Daily Show.
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Books:

Pragmatism by William James.
The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Shopenhauer.
Emergence by Steven Johnson.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
Mind & Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force by Jefferey Schwartz.
Minds, Brains, and Science by John Searle.
Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey.
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Gödel, Escher & Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume.
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume.
Candide by Voltaire.
God's Debris by Scott Adams.
The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle.
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn.
Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Neiman.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty.
Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter.
Neurophilosophy by Patricia Churchland.
The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle.
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone.
After Theory by Terry Eagleton.
The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod.
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. _________________________

Heroes:

Antisthenes.
Diogenes of Sinope.
Zeno of Citium.
Marcus Aurelius.
Acharya Nagarjuna.
David Hume.
Karl Marx.
Lewis Carroll.
Charles Sanders Peirce.
Albert Einstein.
Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Werner Heisenberg.
John von Neumann.
B.F. Skinner.
Kurt Gödel.
Martin Gardner.
Lotfi Zadeh.
E.O. Wilson.
Douglas Hofstadter.
V.S. Ramachandran.
Lewis Black.

My Blog

Fuzzy Folly

"If I am thinking about a topic just for myself and not with a view to writing a book, I jump about all round it; that is the only way of thinking that comes naturally to me.  Forcing my thoughts...
Posted by Contraindicated on Mon, 19 May 2008 11:29:00 PST

Sleepless Nights & Wakeless Days

So it’s 2:19 a.m. and I have to be up at 6:00 a.m.  It’s funny how I’m in a fog throughout the day due to lack of sleep from the night before.  Let me stop for one second, ...
Posted by Contraindicated on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:48:00 PST

Canada anyone?

Nancy Pelosi, a highly influential congresswoman and otherwise political imbicile, has pointed her finger with rhetorical garbage to Bush implying that the president will force all of America's childr...
Posted by Contraindicated on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:33:00 PST

A small, crude history of Western thought.

The most popular Western thinker in my opinion is Socrates.  Not much has to be said as to why, and that alone proves the previous statement.  His student and personal scribiner, Plato allow...
Posted by Contraindicated on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:16:00 PST

Egregious Symptoms

If there were ever a chance the anti-christ were to position his/herself as the president of the United States (e.g. the Left Behind series), and we've decided that it's not president Bush, then we ca...
Posted by Contraindicated on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:03:00 PST

Voluntary Philistine

1.) Only in Western culture can we say things like, "He's Catholic but not religious." 2.) In response to ever regressing questions of why, we eventually exclaim "just because!" as if it were a reason...
Posted by Contraindicated on Mon, 28 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

Addictive Happiness and the Right to Habitualize

It seems safe to say that we can all agree that by the time we die, we want to have lived the life we've wanted to live and hope to die comfortably in our sleep.  What is to be said abo...
Posted by Contraindicated on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:39:00 PST

Networking

This is my meager attempt at streamlining all of my media sources into one comprehensive interface.  Open to criticism. First a note on aesthetics: I fucked up over on the right side when attemp...
Posted by Contraindicated on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:28:00 PST

Bathroom Poetry

Fezlog's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how much your pain,No matter how much your sorrow,There's one billion people in China that don't give a shit....
Posted by Contraindicated on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:09:00 PST

Norszch.

I'm laughing at you... ...on the inside.
Posted by Contraindicated on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:15:00 PST