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Scott

Reticent effervescence

About Me

I originally joined MySpace after it became useful and fun for music. Particular kinds, especially; though my tastes are much more sundry than my friends list suggests. Since then, MySpace has mushroomed into the social networking juggernaut that it now is. I've said enough about me with the lists to the left; message me if you want to know more.
"Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation"
"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers." - Archibald MacLeish upon first photos of Earth from space
"A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man". ~ Archibald MacLeish
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, in any philosophy." ~ J.B.S. Haldane
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." ~ George Bernard Shaw
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My Interests

Multifarious:
Art, Biking, Canoeing/Rafting, Climbing & Rappelling, Computers, Cuisine, Exploration, Film, Flying, Hiking, Music, Nature, Photography and Videography, Progressivism and Social Justice, Sleeping, Spelunking, Sports (Soccer, Tennis, Swimming, Volleyball ...), Storm Chasing, Traveling, Writing ...

Rational inquiry and speculation:
Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Geography, Geosciences, History, Human Biology/Medicine (Auxology, Endocrinology, Neuroscience, Nutrition, Pathology, Pediatrics, Physiology ...), Atmospheric Sciences (Meteorology & Climatology), Philosophy, Psychology, Sexology, Science, Social Sciences ...

I'd like to meet:

Class V full-roaming vapors

Music:

Eclectic
AC/DC, Aerosmith, Alice in Chains, All American Rejects, Allister, Jon Anderson, Louis Armstrong, The Ataris, Bach, The Beatles, Beethoven, Billy Joel, Black Sabbath, BoDeans, Boston, Breaking Benjamin, BTO, Montserrat Caballé, Ray Charles, Evanescence, Everclear, Fleetwood Mack, Flogging Molly, Frank Sinatra, Green Day, Marvin Gaye, Goo Goo Dolls, Handel, Haydn, Holst, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jefferson Airplane, Jimmy Eat World, Tom Jones, Journey, Kansas, Kingston Trio, Linkin Park, Kenny Loggins, The Lost Prophets, Henry Mancini, Marilyn Manson, Bob Marley, Metallica, Robert Miles, Moby, Moody Blues, Ennio Moricone, Morrissey, Motley Crue, Muse, Mozart, My Chemical Romance, Nirvana, Jack Nitzsche, NOFX, O.A.R., Oasis, The Offspring, Our Lady Peace, Pantera, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Pink Floyd, The Postal Service, Pucini, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against the achine, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REO Speedwagon, Michael Riesman, Rossini, Rush, The Scorpions, Bob Seger, Sevendust, Simon and Garfunkel, Skid Row, Slipknot, The Smiths, Something Corporate, Bruce Springsteen, Steppenwolf, Straylight Run, Strauss, Sum 41, Styx, Sugarcult, The Supremes (and Diana Ross), System of a Down, Taking Back Sunday, Tchaikovsky, Toto, 2Pac, Twelve Girls Band, Twisted Sister, U2, The Used, Uttara-Kuru, Van Halen, Vangelis, Velvet Revolver, Verdi, Vivaldi, Weezer, Kiyoshi Yoshida

Movies:

Airplane!, Amélie, Baraka, Blade Runner, Brazil, Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, Dances with Wolves, Dark City, The Devil's Advocate, Dogville, Donnie Darko, The Edukators, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Falling Down, Forrest Gump, The Game, Gattaca, Ghostbusters, Henry V, Kinsey, Koyaanisqatsi, A League of Their Own, LOTR Trilogy, Mindwalk, Monty Python, My Dinner with Andre, Network, RoboCop, Shortbus, The Silence of the Lambs, Starman ...

Television:

I watch very little TV, but these are good:
The Daily Show, Frontline, Law and Order SVU

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Books:

Mostly nonfiction on various subjects but do also read some literature occasionally (not enough time).
Candide, The Praise of Folly, The Odyssey, The Iliad, The Sparrow, A Canticle for Leibowitz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Hot Zone, 1984, Brave New World, A Catcher in the Rye, Fast Food Nation, Imperial Hubris, The New Yorker ...
William Blake, Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Erasmus, Homer, Aldous Huxley, Ray Kurzweil, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Virgil, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde ...

Heroes:

Marcus Aurelius, Democritus, Einstein, Galileo, Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Jefferson, Leonardo, Martin Luther King Jr., Alfred Kinsey, John Locke, Karl Marx, Isaac Newton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Socrates, Voltaire, Minoans, Ionians, ...