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General Interests: oil and watercolor painting, yoga, reading, writing, ever so slowly learning to play guitar, photography, traveling, waxing philosophic, deconstructing the establishment, occasional culture jamming, punkrocknight...Academic interests listed on my resume: Genetics, Neurobiology, Memory, Primate Intelligence, Psychological and Cognitive Anthropology, Identity Formation and Mental Health, Human Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology, Proxemics, Anthropological Linguistics, Semiotics, Media and Communications, Popular Culture, Economic and Game Theory, Gender and Sexuality, the Anthropology of Religion, Comparative Religious Studies, and Bioethical and Existential Philosophy
I am completely obsessed with Mike Patton!!! Otherwise, I am just trying to keep up with friends and family...
*Afghan Whigs *Tori Amos *Arab Strap *Bad Religion *The Beatles *Black Crowes *Frank Black *Blind Melon *Brad *Marc Broussard *Jeff Buckley *Built to Spill *Cake *Johnny Cash *Nick Cave *Ray Charles *Clutch *Coldplay *Concrete Blonde *Elvis Costello *CSNY *The Cure *Dead Kennedys *Deftones *Ani DiFranco *Dinosaur Jr *Bob Dylan *Eels *Faith No More *Fatso Jetson *Franz Ferdinand *Bela Fleck *Aretha Franklin *John Frusciante *Fugazi *Garbage *Marvin Gaye *Otis Gibbs *Gnarls Barkley *Gomez *David Gray *Macy Gray *Green Day *The Guess Who *Chris Isaak *Iron and Wine *Etta James *Jane's Addiction *Jon Spencer Blues Explosion *Lenny Kravitz *Led Zeppelin *Toby Lightman *Margot and the Nuclear So & So's *Bob Marley *The Mars Volta *Ministry *Monster Magnet *Van Morrison *Mr. Bungle *Muse *My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult *Sinead O'Connor *Oingo Boingo *Roy Orbison *Pavement *Tom Petty *Pink Floyd *Pixies *PJ Harvey *Police *Porno for Pyros *Pravada *Queens of the Stone Age *Radiohead *Rage Against the Machine *Otis Redding *Paul Simon *Social Distortion *Son Volt *Sparklehorse *Spoon *Sugarcubes *Suicidal Tendencies *Sun Kil Moon *Supergrass *Supertramp *System of a Down *Toadies *Tomahawk *Tool *U2 *Violent Femmes *Lucinda Williams *Tom Waits *Jason Webley *Ween *Wilco *Amy Winehouse
The most recent movie I have seen is The Departed. Great movie!! No spoilers here, but highly recommended. Scorsese is still such an incredible director!I was really getting into horror films when I had more free time (though "free time" seems to be but a distant memory now). I am fascinated by the presentation of fear and/or death in several media (*nerd*). It's the same with war movies.A lot of my favorite movies are really just odd movies. It seems like the stranger the premise, the more I like it... Fightclub, Buffalo 66, Eternal Sunshine, Heathers, Stranger than Fiction, American Beauty, Pi, Rushmore, Dead Man, Bringing Out the Dead, Little Miss Sunshine, general weirdness and twisted perspective.... I am especially into the old twilight zone series for the same reasons (does tv count here?).
I love cartoons! Adult Swim (especially the Squidbillies, The Oblongs, and Moral Orel), the Simpsons, Southpark, etc. I even like a few I never would have expected... the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is hilarious! Beyond cartoons... I watch Jeopardy religiously but I never know when anything else is on, nor do I care all that much.
There are two books that changed my life when I was young: The Fountainhead (Rand) and Of Human Bondage (Maugham). Otherwise, I just have favorite writers, the top of which is Bertrand Russell. Add to him... Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Ernest Becker, Friedrich Nietzsche (ignoring the contemporary sexism), Clifford Geertz, Antonio Gramsci, Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Paul Eckman, Helen Fisher, Ayn Rand, Sylvia Plath, Rumi, TS Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Paine... the list could go on forever. Oh, and I love Shakespeare and have read a ridiculous amount of his work. I think it's because we (supposedly) share the same birthday. ;)
My mother, step father, brother, undergraduate advisors, and several of my close friends have been incredibly inspirational to me over the years. They are all strong, intelligent, kindhearted, and amazing individuals and I am grateful and fortunate to have had these people touch my life.And...Buckminster Fuller who, at the age of 32 and on the verge of suicide, decided at the last moment instead to embark on "an experiment, to find what a single individual can contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity." I find this inspiring.