I'm just a regular person who happens to like red wine, Aristotle's theory of generation and destruction, loud rock music, cigarettes, coffee, and hair dye. Sprinkle in a bit of horrible superficiality, a lot of deep and long-standing insecurities, and a propensity to talk way too much. Now you've got it.
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I like the weather.I like Plato, too.
Things that make me happy
Wire shelving units
Fresh mozzarella cheese
Sleeping with the windows open
Substance-based ontology
Wine time
Dead philosophers
The far, far north
Permanent daylight
Experimental and/or psychedelic art, music, and photography
All-natural cigarettes
Recycling
Tiny computers
Obnoxious socks
Really obnoxious sunglasses
Sunshowers
Space
Fuzzy cats
Large dogs
Medium-sized cities of the West
Dimly lit rooms
Nature walks, urban and traditional
Road trips
Meeting new people so that I can tell my same lame stories again
Things that make me unhappy
Outdoor smoking bans
Processed cheese-food
95% of television programming
The suburbs
Spandex biker outfits
Hairdryers
Air conditioning
Prime matter
Hypocritical yuppies
Humidity
Cloudy days
Bureaucratic fucks
The Qwest building
I'd like to meet:
Ideally, I want to meet my match...the mirror image of myself, with a penis, and without a girlfriend...
But that's impossible. Who am I kidding. You fuckers are all the same.
So...I want to meet somebody who wants to buy me a digital SLR and an iPhone, but without the phone part. Somebody who wants to pay my rent but not live with me would be cool too.
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Music:
Post-rock, post-punk, post-metal. Psychedelic rock/space rock, classical and contemporary. Early to mid 90s "alternative". Experimental music. Electroclash, trace, and ambient. Denver Scene.
Random and arbitrary paradigmatic sampling of some bands I like: 13th Floor Elevators, Amon Duul II, Aphex Twin, Apparat Organ Quartet, Astral Projection, Autolux, Belle and Sebastian, Black Angels, Bright Channel, Caribou, The Dandy Warhols, The Dismemberment Plan, DKSE, Dungen, Editors, Failure, Flying Saucer Attack, Future Sound of London, Ghost of the Russian Empire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Green Day (circa 1993-1996), Hawkwind, HUM, The Inconsolable, Isotope 217, Juno Reactor, Kinski, Ladytron, Low, LSD and the Search for God, Lúna, Miss Kittin, Moccasin, The Morning After Girls, My Bloody Valentine, Paul Oakenfold, Oneida, OutHud, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Prids, Radiohead, Ratatat, Say Hi To Your Mom (with the full band), Sigur Rós, Silver Apples (in small doses only), Simon and Garfunkel, The Smashing Pumpkins (circa 1991-1995), Sour Deluxe, Spacemen 3, Stereolab, The Sugarcubes, The Swayback, System of a Down (first album only), The Vaselines, Veruca Salt, The Von Blondies, Yo La Tengo.
Movies:
Something that gets my attention. I have attention problems when I'm not interacting.
Television:
Original series Star Trek, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Sometimes, I'm a sucker for sports...especially football, basketball, and soccer. Really, though, I'm not committed to any sort of television, though I wish I had one so that I could watch the Science Channel.
Books:
In general: historical treatises on ontology (ancient, medieval, early modern), some good literature that people have gotten me to read, some sci-fi, and 18th century French political theory. More specifically...
Asimov - The Foundation
Berkeley - Principles of Philosophy
Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita, Heart of a Dog
Coetzee - Disgrace
Descartes - Principles of Philosophy
Goethe - Faust
Erland Loe - Naieve, Super
Lucretius - De Rerum Natura
Montesquieu - The Persian Letters
Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Russell - The Problems of Philosophy
Spinoza - Ethics
Wittgenstein - Tractatus
Oh, and almost anything by Plato and Aristotle. Lately, that's about all I've got.
Heroes:
You, in a maximally consistent and close possible world, where everything works out nicely. Did I say that already?
