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Alex

middlemarch road is on my mind

About Me

I'm currently in my first year of law school. It directly challenges my anarchist impulses (or further confirms them?), but it's actually fairly interesting so far. I'm interested in connections and the complexity of systems, like the weather, or human societies, or history. I like to study and think about culture and politics.I tend to think that the world is a mystery; there's always something mysterious beyond the wavering horizon. Sometimes I think the world is just a big joke. Sometimes I think it's too random to be a joke.

My Interests

music, history, systems theory, progressive politics, ecology, comparative religion, computers, linguistics, political philosophy, imagined futures, maps, photography, subversion, myth, cultural studies, desert, astronomy, beer.

I'd like to meet:

People who got their lunch money stolen when they were 12.
People who like to talk about music, philosophy, politics, languages, science, art.
You.

Music:

Aesop Rock, Aphex Twin, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Bjork, Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Can, Cat Power, Charlie Parker, The Clash, The Cramps, The Cure, David Bowie, Defiance OH, Devendra Banhart, Dinosaur Jr, DJ Shadow, Django Reinhardt, Dr Octagon, El-P, Ennio Morricone, Frank Zappa, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Grateful Dead, GZA, Husker Du, Iron Maiden, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Justice, Kraftwerk, Kyuss, Ladytron, M. Ward, Miles Davis, The Misfits, The Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, Mos Def, Mr. Bungle, Nas, Neil Young, Neu, New Order, Neutral Milk Hotel, Outkast, Patsy Cline, Pavement, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Portishead, Public Enemy, The Ramones, Robert Johnson, Run DMC, Rush, The Shins, The Silver Jews, Sleater Kinney, Sleep, Slint, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Steve Reich, Spoon, Subtle, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, A Tribe Called Quest, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, Willie Nelson, Wu-Tang Clan, '80s cheese, '60s garage rock, old scratchy delta blues, middle eastern music, rockabilly, huge amounts of other stuff

Movies:

Slacker, Star Wars, Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused, Princess Bride, Amelie, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Fight Club, Back to the Future, Office Space, Clerks, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction

Television:

Freaks and Geeks, Beavis and Butthead, Monty Python. I don't watch new TV.

Books:

Chuang Tzu, Rumi, Borges, Orwell, Dostoevsky, Italo Calvino, Edward Abbey, Derrick Jensen, Kerouac, Gogol, Pablo Neruda, Basho, Rilke, Rimbaud, Pessoa, Nietzsche, Calvin and Hobbes

Heroes:

DWB RIP. Mitch Hedberg RIP. Lindsay Weir.