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Sæthan

Socially anxious since 1987!

About Me


I'm Ethan, a guitarist/writer/filmmaker/photographer from New York City. I'm also an anxious little floating thing of worry.
My Deviant Art, filled with artsy photography for your viewing pleasure
My Flickr, filled with even MORE artsy photography for your viewing pleasure. This is the one I use more often, thanks to Tehmina. :D

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My Interests

Guitar, Bass, Drums, Music, Writing, Poetry, kicking ass and taking names, Video Games, Anime, drawing, reading, having intense intellectual discussions, photography, filmmaking, philosophy, psychology, hackey sack, soccer, PLAYING sports, technology, current events, the environment, DDR, Communism, Socialism, the human psyche, the soul, dreams, random knowledge, life, the universe, everything, girls, nerds, geeks, dorks, girls who play video games

I'd like to meet:

You. No lie.AIM - BallOfWorry

Music:

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream, Al Di Meola, Steppenwolf, The Who, Deep Purple, The Album Leaf, Frank Zappa, Django Reinhardt, A Perfect Circle, Incubus, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Garbage, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Liquid Tension Experiment, John Petrucci, The Minibosses, Neutral Milk Hotel, Minus The Bear, Sublime, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, AC/DC, Beck, Blue Oyster Cult, Bad Religion, The Cult, Cake, Echo and the Bunnymen, COIL, The Pillows, Jethro Tull, New Order, Joy Division, They Might Be Giants, The Beta Band, Wang Chung, The Ramones, Judas Priest, Guns N' Roses, The Foo Fighters, The Beatles, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Metallica (Only Master of Puppets, really), Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Joe Satriani, Jimi Hendrix, Mason Williams, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Gorillaz, The Beatles, Franz Ferdinand, Steve Vai, Me and My Shadow, Q And Not U, Aerosmith, The B-52's, Black Sabbath, The Kronos Quartet, The Doors, Hot Hot Heat, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Judas Priest, ZZ Top, The Kinks, The Clash, Kraftwerk, The Rolling Stones, Tool, Marvin Gaye, They Might Be Giants, The Police, Radiohead, Rammstein, Peter Frampton, Daft Punk, !!!, Acoustic Alchemy, J.J. Cale, Bad Religion, Barenaked Ladies, The Bee Gees, Beethoven, Mozart, Ben Folds Five, Billy Idol, The Black Crowes, Blue Man Group, Bruce Springsteen, Buffalo Springfield, The Cars, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dave Brubeck, Elliott Smith, Fugazi, George Gershwin, Happy Mondays, Huey Lewis and the News, Iron Maiden, Janis Joplin, Jebel, Jefferson Airplane, John Mayer, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michael Andrew, Miles Davis, Motley Crue, Neil Young, Nick Drake, The Offsping, Pearl Jam, Phish, Prodigy, Junior Senior, Sly & The Family Stone, The Smiths, The Smunch, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Styx, Talking Heads, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, U2, Van Halen, Violent Femmes, The White Stripes, The Yardbirds, Yes, Yngwie Malmsteen, Queen, George Harrison, Devo, Le Tigre, The Band, The Avalanches, Soul Coughing, Santana, Rush, Robert Plant, Trey Anastasio, Ten Years After, Peter Gabriel, The Shins, Streetlight Manifesto, Deal's Gone Bad, Oasis, The Toasters, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones.......... ..

Movies:

Brick, Serenity, Back to the Future trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, The Matrix, Black Hawk Down, The Wall, The Birds, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Rope, Psycho, Vertigo, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The End of Evangelion, Garden State, anything by the Monty Python troupe, High Fidelity, About A Boy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Fight Club, Kill Bill: Volume One, Kill Bill: Volume Two, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling For Colombine, Animatrix, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Story of Ricky, Oldboy, What The Bleep Do We Know?, Stranger than Fiction

Television:

The brain leech of HUMANITY!Family Guy, FLCL, Invader Zim, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, Firefly, Heroes

Books:

Ender's Game, 1984, Brave New World, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Vurt, Pollen, anything by Carlos Castaneda, High Fidelity, Choke, Fight Club, anything by Chuck Palahniuk, anything by Hunter S. Thompson, Waiting for Godot, Lolita, Battle Royale, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ishmael

Heroes:

Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Dr. Strangelove, The Prince (from Katamari Damacy), Michael Hedges, Eddie Van Halen, Trey Anastasio, Brendan Frye, Hunter S. Thompson, Dr. Gregory House, Keith Olbermann, LEEEEROOOOOOOY JENKINS

My Blog

Update + Other Current Events

Alright. So. Here's an update:- I'm liking Ska a lot right now. - I'm in therapy, finally. - Found out I'm definitely a hardcore introvert (duh), and that I have definite signs of social anxiety disor...
Posted by Sæthan on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:25:00 PST

How I see myself

Jeez, I was only making fun.  Seems like everyone else took it way more seriously than I intended.  I stole the idea from some girl on deviantart who was clearly very attractive. I thou...
Posted by Sæthan on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:24:00 PST

The Party... VIDEO INCLUDED

We (Eddie, David and I) arrived at 7 o'clock sharp where we were greeted by Mike and his girlfriend. Mike was Superman and his gal was Harry Potter. There was a full spread of chips and sweet things l...
Posted by Sæthan on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:41:00 PST

Things that make me happy (in no particular order)

Things that make me happy (in no particular order)Good music, friends, nature, birds, the thought of flight, smiles, hugs, being touched, hands running through my hair, wind in my hair, long drives, g...
Posted by Sæthan on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:34:00 PST

Several Jams by This Side Up

David Liang, my brother and I have formed a small jam band called This Side Up. We're not going to make a myspace or anything, but we are putting all our jam videos on Google Video. CHECK 'EM OUT! &nb...
Posted by Sæthan on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:37:00 PST

Morning musings

It is only very occassionally that I feel alive and well in the mornings. After I've come home from a day at work, I feel even less insightful. In fact, I just feel overwhelmed by it all, and I just l...
Posted by Sæthan on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:59:00 PST

Stuff, stuff and more stuff.

I went to a Me and My Shadow show with Sara, David, Cal and Alec. Andrei, the lead singer/piano guy actually acknowledged my existance for the first time since I'd be going to the shows. I guess it's ...
Posted by Sæthan on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:15:00 PST

What. The. Fuck.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/paper-in-a- bubble-is-the_b_12563.htmlhttp://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotte r/2006/05/federal_source_.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/12 /15/politics/15cnd-p...
Posted by Sæthan on Tue, 16 May 2006 09:37:00 PST

Love Argument Culmination

A couple of days ago, an argument over differing models of love erupted between me and Eddie. We ended up resolving it because I realized we were talking about the exact same things, only using differ...
Posted by Sæthan on Thu, 04 May 2006 08:54:00 PST

The number one thing people don't do on MySpace

They don't smile. =[SMILE, PEOPLE. SMILE!
Posted by Sæthan on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:11:00 PST