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Jonathan

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I MADE NEW PICTURES OH MAN CHECK THEM OUT!!??!?!?!I wish I had more days that felt fully spent.:)hii love literature, writing, psychology, philosophy, the ocean, love, loving people, enjoying the moment, etc.i'd much prefer getting to know you via email, chatting, or in real life, so please don't hesitate to contact me

My Interests

reading/writing/singing/people/sounds/forest/eyes/voices/mus ic/solitude/night/ocean/movies

I'd like to meet:

people who:can shatter what I believe and leave nothing in its steadartists/writers/thinkers/singersare genuinely living lifewant to see the world a better place, even if confused as to what that would look like.are gentle, but strong when they need to protect others.enjoy speaking about real issues...who don't shy away from the difficult aspects of life.don't mind silence when there's nothing to be said.have a penchant for Ninjas, rabbits, chocolate chip cookies, milk shakes, and BubbleTape (for you, not them).hurt when they see pain in others.know how to be silly and child-likeconsciously, even if cautiously, take masks off.remember what it was like to see possibility in everything they saw.enjoy both cats and dogsare kind and gentleare artistic and brilliantly lostare hopeful and occasionally pragmaticare intelligent contrarianshave all their souls intact

Music:

Soundtracks, Classical, Downtempo, Electronic, Ambient, Hip Hop, Piazolla, Opera, cats meowing, Maxwell, Boyz II Men, J Groban, M Frangoulis, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Last Emperor, David Lanz, rain, ocean, Sade, Michael Buble, Iron & Wine, Elliott Smith.

Movies:

Solaris, Lost in Trans., CTHD, Spirited Away, Waking Life, Requiem for a Dream, Contact, The Village, Gladiator, Braveheart, Big Trouble in Little China, The Fountain, Children of Men, Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, 28 Days/Weeks

Television:

no cable + no tv = some wtf which then = i read + walk around at night

Books:

Camus, Brave New World, Nietzsche, Tillich, Crossan, Hick, Lem, Kierkegaard, some C.S. Lewis, Heart of Darkness, Eggers, The Giving Tree, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, some Dostoevsky, some Hemmingway, some Faulkner, F451, The Things They Carried, Emerson, Ernest Becker, Remains of the Day, Erich Fromm, "To Have or To Be"/"Escape From Freedom", Dawkins, "The God Delusion", I also really enjoy Sherlock Holmes and nature books (sharks/snakes in particular), McCarthy's "The Road".

Heroes:

dad, for goingmom, for staying

My Blog

I want the Celtics to win so bad now. Almost as badly as I want Obama to win.

I swear.  If the Celtics win...I'm going to be crying FOR K.G.  I love that dude's passion so much.  He reminds me what it's like to be a child - completely in the moment, passionate ab...
Posted by Jonathan on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:13:00 PST

My current quote file at work.

I assemble/compile quote collections at different times in life when I'm trying to focus on something.  The current list that I have thumb-tacked to my wall at work reads thusly:Ah, mon cher, for...
Posted by Jonathan on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:35:00 PST

Ernest Becker thoughts on guilt, expiation, society, religion, meaning. etc.

&.guilt, as the existentialists put it, is the guilt of being itself.  It reflects the self-conscious animal's bafflement at having emerged from nature, at sticking out too much without knowing w...
Posted by Jonathan on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:11:00 PST

I found this interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9oShows how some students see their current schooling situation.  Most interesting to me was the sentiment that their classes/studying had little to do wit...
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:30:00 PST

when it rains, it pours

it's interesting how quickly life can go from a state of solitude, isolation and loneliness to one of contentment, peace and acceptanceand all this while life itself isn't changing; rather, only our t...
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:34:00 PST

funny...as....hell....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vgY0yEs9Y
Posted by Jonathan on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:45:00 PST

those of you who know me really well will get this...

    I was in B&N tonight, looking through a book on the oceans of the world.  I came to the section on animals that live "within" the "oceans" of the "world".  I then saw ...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:40:00 PST

ok seriously wtf?

why is it that after you leave school your social life endswhy do so many people get uncomfortable when you change the subject away from daily life?why the fuck is it taking so long to get power back ...
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:23:00 PST

testing

bla bla bla testing bla bla 
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:21:00 PST

it's 2:56 am

nothing else really...i just thought you guys should know what time it is
Posted by Jonathan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST