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Tea Master Chamomillionaire

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About Me

I care. Enough to send the very best. Which is of course, gold bullion (and to a lesser extent diamonds). Expect some in the mail if you are my friend.

Thought experiements are my anti-drug.

I have eaten more cookies than you ever will.

Any wisdom I may have gathered so far in my time on earth has been generated tangentally, geometrically speaking, to my capacity for silliness.

I get annoyed by giving gender to non-gendered words. It is therefore fortunate that I speak English.

I resist this quantizing of our lives and thus refuse to rank my friends and quite frankly am a little disappointed at how many of you goons unquestioningly click a button labeled "edit my friends".
My 'top friends' are some mostly lesser known artists that I think you should check out.

My Interests

Music, hasty decisions, thinking things through, aluminum, copper, titanium, magnetite, other metals, potassium, chitin, physics, robotics, biofeedback, psychology, cognitive psychology, philosophy, scuba, traveling, electronics, aquariums, transhumanism, destroying coupons, using coupons, coupons of the carribean, couscous, subconscious hang gliding, pizza, peas, pasta, fish, intermittant vegetarianism, not eating meat off a bone at least what are we savages?, yuck, killing flies, hating roaches, words, making up words, programming, dissidence, subversion, cooking/baking, borscht, tea.

I'd like to meet:

Athena, Zeus and Horus. Hardcore tea drinkers. Avid DNEers (people who eat desiccant despite all the warnings). Also, there is an alternate universe version of Magellan, called Flagellan, where he tries to circumnavigate the earth not by boat, but by harnessing the power generated by whipping people.

People who don't hold on to pain as if it worth something.

All seriousness aside, I am actually here to business network. Give me all your business now. Punk. Oh I thought so.

I would like to fight Martina Hingis and meet Wesley Snipes.

Do NOT contact me if you have something better to do.

Music:

Air, Tori Amos, Gilles Apap, Angie Aparo, Aphex Twin, Harry Belafonte, Beirut, Michael Bellar, Martyn Bennett, Beulah, David Byrne, Carbon Leaf, The Cars, Nick Cave, The Chieftains, Jay Clifford The Cranberries, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Cursive, The Ditty Bops, The Doobie Brothers, Elbow, Danny Elfman, The Essex Green, Brian Dewan, Disintegrated Einstein, Bela Fleck, Fleetwood Mac, The Four Tops, Ben Folds, Sage Francis, Marvin Gaye, Gilberto Gil, Mason Jennings, Elton John, Judy and Mary, Jump Little Children, Kaki King, Keren Ann, Kings of Convenience, Alison Krauss, Laugh and Beats, Lyle Lovett, Yo-yo Ma, Massive Attack, Bobby McFerrin, Nellie McKay, The Minibosses, Joni Mitchell, Marisa Monte, Van Morrison, Muckafurgason, Mark O'Connor, The Nelories, Palomar, Phoenix, Police, Poozies, Prodigals, Queen, R.E.M., Rasputina, Rosebud, Kate Rusby, Rusted Root, Seven Nations, Paul Simon, Raymond Scott, Slow Runner, Elliott Smith, Solex, Jeff Solomon, Regina Spektor, Spinanes, Andy Statman, Steely Dan, Cat Stevens, Sting, Tally Hall, James Taylor, They Might Be Giants, Thievery Corporation, Tin Cup Prophette, Amon Tobin, Tool, Caetano Veloso, Weezer, XTC, Tom Ze, and more when I think of them

Movies:

Recently I have liked Shortbus and Casino Royale and Buffalo 66 and I haven't seen many other movies recently. So there.I have come up with a new genre/classification for movies, "Don't You Get It, Man" Cinema or DYGIM for short (pronounced doo-gim). Most (US?) movies fall into this category. Look for it - in most movies you'll hear some variation of "You just don't get it, do you?". 'Lost' currently holds the DYGIM theater championship.

Television:

TV is like peer pressure for the weak minded yet alienated, or too stupid to be alienated.

Books:

I am a functional illiterate. I used voice to text software for this all. Vonnegut, Jared Diamond, Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanislaw Lem. David Brin.

Heroes:

Martyn Bennett, Dave Chappelle, Noam Chomsky, Jay Clifford, Richard Dawkins, Mick Foley, Don Francisco, Ben Franklin, Buckminster Fuller, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Hedwig Hansel, Christopher Hitchens, Dean Kamen, Stetson Kennedy, Alfred Kinsey, Naomi Klein, Nikolai Tesla, Naomi Wolf and anyone else who doesn't behave in a purely predictable manner as one might observe bacteria seeking resources in a petry dish.

Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich 2008! And your mom because you're so sweet. Awwww. Puppies and kittens.

My Blog

the solution to global warming

When I think about when they decided that Pluto was not a planet I sometimes consider whether or not it was just the beginning of a movement to decide that all the planets in our solar system are not ...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:34:00 PST

ROBOTussin

Tonight I am reminded of my disappointment when I found out Robotussin was actually Robitussin and that it had absolutely nothing to do with curing robot sicknesses or turning oneself into a robot....
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:09:00 PST

An Affront to His Excellency (2002-02-18)

Acquired Horehound herb tea Saturday.  Made a cup of it Sunday.  Most bitter thing I have ever tasted.  So bitter. Shortly after, I got a headache, and I rarely get headaches or an...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:44:00 PST

A reason to remember a totally useless number

Here's a reason to commit a long number to memory.  A 6-10 digit number which has no significance you can think of, for instance.When future scientists can reconstruct anything in the past based ...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:15:00 PST

On Anger And Elmer Fudd

  I have a theory that all angry people eventually become indistingushable from Elmer Fudd.  A good example of this is Rage Against The Machine, in particular their song "Bulls On Parade".&n...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:42:00 PST

Can turtles float on their backs?

A wise man once told me : sometimes it is best to just kill everyone who is involved and start over.  That was the end of a lengthly philosophical discussion we had regarding his restaurant busin...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:08:00 PST

Something to do with index cards.

If you're like me and you have some extra index cards lying around that you can't think of anything to do with, this might tickle your fancy*.I started carrying around a bundle of 50 index cards. ...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:10:00 PST

pointless discussion : music genres

people add value to music genres and make them what they are music genres don't add value to people or make people who they are, people just enjoy them, to escape but also to draw inspiration from th...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:09:00 PST

Motorized Archeological Find

Please support my campaign for the "Motorized Archeological Find" classification of New York State license plates.Recently I have inhereted an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus (with gold inlays). I know, ...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:17:00 PST

A Compromise About Corn

If you are like me, you find yourself torn between corn on the cob, and corn off the cob - in cans or frozen. On the one hand, you want to show proper respect to corn, to stay true to your roots, or p...
Posted by Tea Master Chamomillionaire on Mon, 08 May 2006 05:19:00 PST