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Mike the Ripper

Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~ Plato

About Me

I'm a Ph.D. student majoring in psychology, but I am thinking about dropping out to produce bad zombie movies. I used to be a film student... long ago. I live within walking distance of Coney Island (soon to be Disney Land - NYC).

My Interests

Science, psychology, philosophy, politics, vegetarianism, atheism, public transportation, art, filmmaking, classical music, electro-punk, funk, jazz, the blues, surfing music, old hollywood, everything french, books, theater, digital photography, traveling, thrift shops, british comedies, mexican soap operas, gin and tonics, activism, and anything to do with the 1920's.

I'd like to meet:

Charlie Gordon, Lizzie Borden

Music:

The Beatles, Billie Holiday, Le Tigre, Rasputina, The Challenges, Ella Fitzgerald, the B-52's, The Clash, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan, Rage Against The Machine, The Ventures, Bessie Smith, Frankie Vallie, Theo, R.E.M., Cibo Matto, BS 2000, Joan Jett, The Doors, Beastie Boys, U2, Smashing Pumpkins, Hank Williams, Deee-lite, Lunachicks, Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, David Bowie, Sleater-Kinney, The Ramones, Ladytron, Lauren Hill, White Stripes, Queen Latifah, Run DMC, Lesbians On Ecstasy, Janis Joplin,The Who, Bratmobile, Pasty Cline, Sex Pistols, Public Enemy, Famous Monsters, John Coltrane, James Brown, Prince, Lee "Scrath" Perry, The Strokes, Nora Jones, Johnny Cash, Pixies, Thelonious Monk, Nirvana, Lady Kier, L7, Bootsy Collins, Peaches, Miles Davis, Weezer, Zoe Keating, Willie Nelson, Waffle House Family - Part 1.

Movies:

Ma Vie en Rose, Party Monster, Pulp Fiction, Chicago, Halloween, I Shot Andy Warhol, Amilee, Ed Wood, Dawn of the Dead, But I'm A Cheerleader, Napolean Dynamite, Nightmare Before Christmas, Auntie Mame, Silence of the Lambs, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Royal Tenenbaums, Real Women Have Curves, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane . . . anything by John Waters.

Television:

The Simpsons, Corbert Report, The Sopranos, Mr. Bean, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python, PBS, Twin Peaks, MythBusters

Books:

The God Delusion, The Assault on Reason, 1984, The God of Small Things, Crime and Punishment, Things Fall Apart, Naked Lunch, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatsby, Siddhartha, World Enough, Heart of Darkness, The Sun Also Rises, Another Country, Animal Farm, A Passage to India, This Side of Paradise, Giovanni's Room, A Moveable Feast, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Ethan Fromme, Jacob's Room, The Plague, Slaughter-House Five, The Time Machine, Cat's Cradle, The Fall, War of the Worlds, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Brave New World, Steppenwolf, FlatLand, Flowers for Algernon, too many to list . . .

Heroes:

Thomas Paine, Angela Davis, Charles Darwin, Batman

My Blog

You damned dirty ape!

So... Charlton Heston has passed away at age 84. Can we take the gun from his cold dead hands now?
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:21:00 PST

Breaking Non-News

The foiled car bomb attempt in London has been getting non-stop coverage on every cable news outlet, while the 5 car bombs that actually detonated and killed people in Iraq yesterday have gotten no ai...
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:12:00 PST

brazillian wane

so the brazillian gov't is going to subsidize birth control pills. what a great way to reduce all them abortions the conservatives are always killing doctors over!!!
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:03:00 PST

Bill of Rights

I just read an article on Salon.com about repealing the 2nd amendment in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, and I surprised myself once again. It is a bit ironic, but my hatred for Bush has actu...
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:40:00 PST

7 year bitch

Today, Ernesto and I celebrate 7 years together! We've already far outlasted most heterosexual marriages, and yet our relationship don't mean shit to the state. I know... today should be a joyous day ...
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:55:00 PST

California Dreamin'

I'm off to LA next week to tell a bunch of feminists that their theory is hetereosexist. Pray for me! I doubt there are any waffle-houses in LA, but in the tradition of the white trash conference expe...
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:51:00 PST

I <3 NJ

So... after all the jokes I make about New Jersey, it turns out that the state is more progressive than New York. The NJ State Supreme Court ruled yesterday that it is unconstitutional to deny gays an...
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:44:00 PST

Multivariate Stats II

i got a b on my multivariate stats test. this is probably the lowest grade i've ever gotten in college, but i'll take it! only 4 more weeks of multivariate hell left! i'm teaching an undergraduate sta...
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:31:00 PST

no parlo italiano

we just got back from rome, and the 3 years of italian i studied in high school was useless. i thought it would all come back to me once i started speaking with the locals, but i was wrong. luckily mo...
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:27:00 PST

Multivariate Statistics - Part I

Damn thee who discovered matrix algebra!
Posted by Mike the Ripper on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:10:00 PST