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Jesse

radicalambivalence

About Me

Hello. My name is Jesse Kushin. I do not plan to update this page until I have something of genuine worth to contribute to my fellow humans.
I envy people who can attack life with a straight face.
Don't live life so frantically. Think a deep thought. Breathe.

My Interests

philosophy, religion (especially Christianity), psychology, science, sports, music (mostly classical and opera), movies, video games (mostly NES and SNES), thinking, figuring things out, jogging

I'd like to meet:

Kobe Bryant: the most awe-inspiring basketball player alive.
Pedro Martinez: in his prime, the most dominant pitcher I have ever seen.
Richard Rorty: relaxed and soothing philosopher who has proclaimed the death of philosophy (or Cartesian epistemology, or something in between...)

Music:

Mozart (especially his operas, Die Zauberflöte in particular), Haydn, Beethoven, Berlioz, and Wagner. I am partial to the Classical and Romantic eras.

Movies:

classics (consensus-top-100-of-all-time movies), anything by Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo is my favorite movie--period)

Television:

"Seinfeld," "The Simpsons," "Six Feet Under," "Da Ali G Show," "American Idol" (I'm a huge Simon Cowell fan), sports (especially MLB and NBA)

Books:

Apology, Meditations, King Lear, Great Expectations, Ethan Frome, Our Town, philosophy (especially epistemology and philosophy of mind), anything that has to do with the New Testament (both critical and apologetical), psychology textbooks

Heroes:

Socrates, Mozart, Kobe Bryant