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About Me

I can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all =) =) =) =) =) =)=)

My Interests

Poetry,Writing,Reading,Guitar,Singing,Learning,World Philosophy,Sword fighting,martial arts,Existentialism

I'd like to meet:

someone from either the distant past or the distant future

Music:

Neutral Milk Hotel, Elliott Smith, John Frusciante, Cat Power, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Feist, Josephine Foster, Joy Division, Lou Reed, Regina Spektor, Mazzy Star, The Doors, The Mars Volta, Bright Eyes, The Postal Service, Heatmiser, Rilo Kiley, The Decemberists, Built to Spill, The Shins, Nirvana, The Cranberries, Snow Patrol, Jack Johnson, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Cake, The Beatles, etc.

Movies:

Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Interview with the Vampire, Se7en, American History X, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gods and Monsters, Dead Presidents, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (basically any Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze movies), About a Boy, Old School, Elf, Death to Smoochy, Sin City, Donnie Darko, and The Nightmare Before Christmas

Television:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, anything that offends me a little

Books:

Some of my favorite writers are Chuck Palanhiuk, James Clavell, H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, Eiji Yoshikawa, Denis Johnson, Kahlil Gibran, Rod McKuen, Charles Bukowski, and Sherman Alexie.

Heroes:

Leonard Nimoy

My Blog

These Hands

To have desireis to feel incomplete."What are you looking for?""When will you find it?"I wish I knew the answer to even just one of these questions.Reaching with outstretched handsonly pushes it furth...
Posted by Just ( ) on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:30:00 PST

In Gratitude to the Broad-Hearted Master

Ryokanyou old hermit fool!It's several centuries laterand your invisible handsreach out from your wordsand rip out my invisible heart.
Posted by Just ( ) on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:25:00 PST

Meat Puppets

If I had to lose a mileIf I had to touch feelingI would lose my soulthe way I doI don't have to thinkI only have to do itthe results are always perfectand that's old newsWould you like to hear my voic...
Posted by Just ( ) on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:14:00 PST

and...

No promises made;every step we take in this lifewe take alone.I could come up with a clever oxymoronto try to explain,but there is only this...and this...and this...and......If you're not contentthink...
Posted by Just ( ) on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:42:00 PST

Bittersweet

No bitter without sweet.No sweet without bitter.They are the same thingbecause neither would exist without the other.If there are good times ahead,I'll be wishing I had enjoyed these timesright now.If...
Posted by Just ( ) on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:33:00 PST

The Finger Pushes the Seed into the Soil

The World Honored Oneshad a habitof planting a seed in the heartof everyone they came across.Is there a garden in your heart?What seeds do you let grow there?What color are the flowers that bloom?...
Posted by Just ( ) on Thu, 22 May 2008 03:50:00 PST

Risk

An unfinished game of Risk left outwith tiny plastic men,frozen, trying to conquer a world made out of cardboard.The similarities to this lifeare lostin a pink Australia;in a blue Europe.If I playI'll...
Posted by Just ( ) on Sat, 17 May 2008 07:13:00 PST

A Wheel with 6 billion Spokes, a Wheel in the Heart of each of us

Wu-wei: a mind with no filterand the world is just the is-ness of is.If I don't know whybecause I can't know whythen what greater contentment can there be?Content with contentmentSorrowis just a memor...
Posted by Just ( ) on Fri, 09 May 2008 04:16:00 PST

Outlines in the Sand

Is it not sad that very few of us will ever know anything more than the gilded surface of ourselvesand each other?   Peel it away and you’ll find maybe love maybe godmaybe God. Tru...
Posted by Just ( ) on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:20:00 PST

Cunda’s Gift

"Strive for your liberation with diligence": The final words spoken by the sick and dying Guatama Buddha.   One final lesson in the liberating quality of suffering.   It is like an arro...
Posted by Just ( ) on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:01:00 PST