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paul

About Me

avant-garde software nerd currently taking a stand against sudden infant death syndrome

My Interests


complex, imaginary systems. mathematics, culture, incorrect belief systems, non-linear stories i don't understand, urban exploration, electronic music and the code that makes it possible, artificial intelligence, ultimate frisbee, mindfulness meditation, secret passageways,

I'd like to meet:

impractial monomaniacs, creative scientists, pj harvey, venture capitalists with mood disorders, sweeties

Music:

post-industrial, pretentious techno: coil, autechre, squarepusher, marc bell(lfo), uwe schmidt(atom heart), venetian snares, hawtin, richard d james, , cellular automata(rule 24), skinny puppy, death in june

INFP songwriters: leonard cohen, elliot smith, erik satie, the nirvana.

mad academics: cage, xenakis, glass, reich, stockhausen

Movies:


david lynch, german expressionist flicks like "M" & "The Cabinent of Dr. Caligari", werner herzog, porno, cronenberg, kubrick stanley, john hughes pictures from the 80's, Tokyo Drift

Television:

Kids in the Hall, Arrested Development, Daily show, Colbert, ROME

Books:

"nightmare factory" by Thomas Ligotti. Really ANYTHING by Ligotti. The man is so damn close to the source.

"house on the borderland" by William Hope Hodgson

"house of leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski

"perido street station" by China Mieville

kafka, jorge luis borges, lovecraft

sword & sorcery(robert e howard, fritz leiber), utopian post-cyberpunk(banks, macleod), sick ass steampunk

Heroes:

Gargamel

My Blog

Why i have dated so many painters

http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
Posted by paul on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:48:00 PST