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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

About Me

MySpace LayoutsI'm like an ideological shotgun to the face. Play at your own risk.

My Interests

Politics, hiking, English literature, Buddhism, Tekken, golf, gardening, road trips, combat, poetry, baking, debate, academia, my cat, satire, roller coasters, tequilla, staying in my pajamas, decaf, theoretical physics, your mom...

I'd like to meet:

Executives, technophiles, musicians, theologians, psychiatrists, demi-gods...gay cowboys.

Music:

TOOL, Lamb, Tom Waits, Billy Holiday, Bijork, Breech, Eminem,Tricky, Massive Attack, Led Zepplin, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, Morcheeba, Alice in Chains, Jamiroquai, Dead Can Dance, JAZZ: (classic & acid), Esthero, Sasha & Digweed, Pink Floyd, Morphine, Sade, James Brown, The Cure, Jimmi Hendrix, Prince...

Movies:

When Harry Met Sally, Love and Death, Sleeper, Serial Mom, Last Temptation of Christ, Ghostbusters, Dr. Strangelove, Elephant Man, Young Frankenstein, Life of Brian, Legend, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder), 9 1/2 Weeks, American Psycho, Metropolis, The Man With Two Brains, True Romance, Undercover Brother, Freddy Versus Jason, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Departed

Television:

Late Night, The Daily Show, Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, SNL, Law & Order...

Books:

The Poisonwood Bible, Imajica, The Witching Hour, On the Road, The Republic, Catch 22, 1984, The Brothers Karamazov, (Anything by: John Keats, Jack Kerouac, Rimbaud, that asshole James Simon, BEATs, Clive Barker, Ann Rice, Douglas Adams, Ken Wilbur, Chomsky...)

Heroes:

Vandanna Shiva, Queen Elizabeth I, Maynard J. Keenan, My Nana

My Blog

"I Am Waiting" -unfinished-

I am waiting for my name to be called, for the End and the Ultimate Begining, And I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder. I am waiting for talk show hosts to become tongue tied and apologize f...
Posted by V on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:14:00 PST

The Fire Sermon

(Translated by Bhikkhu Thanissaro) Several months after his Awakening, the Buddha delivers this sermon to an audience of 1,000 fire-worshipping ascetics. In his characteristically brilliant teaching ...
Posted by V on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:42:00 PST

Philosphy vs. Journalism, letter to a friend

Of course Philosophy is the least profitable discipline ever devised, as well as completely inapplicable to anything in the collective "real world" (explaining the arbitrary nature of the monetary sy...
Posted by V on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:00:00 PST

StayTru® by VernCo.- when staying true is just too much to ask.

Ladies, are you tired of wondering who else hes sleeping with?Has trust become a missing luxury in your relationship? Who needs trust? Get StayTru® by VernCo. and never wonder again!No more scanning ...
Posted by V on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Pax Americana

(a lament in two parts)I.Documenting days like the CaptainOnly without imaginationOr real fear of ArmageddonStill waiting for a rebirth of wonder,Waiting to finish the damn poemBefore Ferlinghetti die...
Posted by V on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST