"But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice — guessed and refused to believe — that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children."
-Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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This is me. Sorry.
I'm one in 2 million. Literally.
I drink Smithwick's, Guinness and Jaegermeister. I don't date.I love and miss my best girl Bigsby.
I like musicians and writers. I like to feign interest.
I like Binx Bolling and the existential crisis. I shun the Kierkegaard narrative. I prefer Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. Therefore, I believe in the zero-sum game. I like Serenity and the Whedonvirse.
I like tall, dark and rockabilly. I like tattoo sleeves and piercings and a Johnny Cash attitude. I like kickin' it old school.
I like strong cocktails in the mid-afternoon. I like Lester Bangs and the rock writer ethos. I like B movies and bad self-help. But I loathe bad writing.
I like David Sedaris and Hal Hartley and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I like Elvis Costello and Guided by Voices. I like FUCK YOU songs with bitter lyrics. A lot.
I like words, spoken and written.
I like math problems. I like not being bothered. I like late nights in dim rooms in a semi-conscious haze. I like to have unnatural attachments and still judge others who do.
I like to torture myself. I like to medicate. I like making lists. I like soccer. I love baseball. I like corn dogs.
I like conspiracy and the Zapruder film and Behold a Pale Horse. I like pi. I like zero. I like Carl Sagan. I like socialist theory. I like Nels Cline. I would like to have Nels Cline's brilliant offspring.
I like holding things for ransom. I like playing unfair.
I like the smell of Purex. I like self-indulgent "networking" sites. I like the smell of cold.
I tend to rage. I tend to wake up in someone else's bed.
I like the frequent karmic kick in the head. I like clever people with multisyllabic vocabularies and twisted logic.
I like sleeping with people. Really, just sleeping.
I like to find out how people who got married in high school are doing these days. I like people who fuck for validation. I like Scrabble. I like Yahtzee. I like trivia. I like nachos.
I like when the universe tells me I can fuck right off.
I like Chicago. The city, not the band. I don't like the smoking ban. I like random magic tricks and well-practiced bad jokes and short road trips with people who listen to good music.
I like vampires, the Chupacabra and Roberto Clemente.
I like to tell people to FUCK OFF! I like to change my mind. I like when others don't. I like Bigfoot and Godzilla and UFOs and Jandek.
I like a good snog. I like irony. I like fuck-ups. I like fucking with people.
I like to try and hide the pain for the things I can't explain.
I like WILCO. If you haven't seen them live and have no plans to then your life is an utter waste.
I like to dork out alone. I like the slow descent into a life I never meant. I don't like being so different from my family.
I like pints and pageantry.
I love Austin, Texas.
I do not like hugs.
I am never bored.