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BillWade

criticize. theorize. analyze. realize.

About Me

i love the smell of old books with yellowed pages.
Try to keep a critical mind not a critical spirit.
coffee + books + guitar = great day

My Interests

intelligent conversation, reading good books, philosophy, backpacking, hacky sack, playing music, poetry, spirituality, roasting coffee

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, Socrates, Buddha, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson, Soren Kierkegaard, Salvador Dali, M.C. Escher, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Kurt Vonnegut, Jamie Smith, Jack White

Music:

Sufjan Stevens, Iron and Wine, Blackalicious, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Saul Williams, Death Cab for Cutie, Fugazi, Jets to Brazil, Beck, Project 86, Modest Mouse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk, it could go on for a while

Movies:

I Heart Huckabees, Waking Life, The Science of Sleep, Fight Club, Seven, The Machinist, Forrest Gump, Sneakers, Pi, Demolition Man

Television:

The Office (British and American), Arrested Development, My name is Earl, How its made, Mythbusters, Perfect Hair Forever

Books:

Ecclesiastes, Letter to the Church at Rome, A Generous Orthodoxy, Brave New World, Exclusion and Embrace, Intimations of Postmodernity, Sophie's World, Fahrenheit 451, Crime and Punishment, Discourse on Method, Communist Manifesto, Industrial Society and its Future

Heroes:

Jesus and my grandpa

My Blog

claude monet had a great beard...

I recently bought some Rembrandt prints for my wall: The Prodigal Son and Philosopher Reading. Interesting side note: Walter Benjamin, a Marxist critic, wrote an essay called The Work of Art in t...
Posted by BillWade on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:27:00 PST

thomas merton

Absurdity is the anguish of realizing that underneath the apparently logical pattern of a more or less "well organized" and rational life, there lies an abyss of irrationality, confusion, pointlessnes...
Posted by BillWade on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:49:00 PST

albums i reccomend

    in case you happen to be looking for some music:Starlight Mints: DrowatonSufjan Stevens: Seven SwansJason Webley: Against the NightSpiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floatin...
Posted by BillWade on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:25:00 PST

being a christian...

If you identify with Christ - you would consider yourself a "Christian" - what are you supposed to do?  How is it that we can have so many orthodoxies?  so many attempts at the "pure" or "co...
Posted by BillWade on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:13:00 PST

poetry

i have taken all the poetry I have written since I started college and put it on my computer.  It has been a daunting task, so I'll share some.  Poetry is usually boring, though.  Was t...
Posted by BillWade on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:28:00 PST

im sorry...is this the real world?

i dont blog often, and this may not be worth reading, but I just graduated from college and for quite a few years I have heard about this "real world" that i am supposed to be living in soon.  I ...
Posted by BillWade on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:38:00 PST

weffer

stayed up all last night with Ian.  He worked on digital signal processing problems which looked like a lot of calculus and i read Nietzsche and the Catholic catechism and wrote about the nature ...
Posted by BillWade on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:21:00 PST