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Joel

what is real?

About Me

I started a blog, if you want to read it .

My Interests

time and space, japan, triangles, sweden, mountains, cold weather

Music:

akron/family, angels of light, animal collective, the band, bats and mice, beirut, blonde redhead, the books, broken social scene, built to spill, the casket lottery, do make say think, doves, feist, georgie james, the most serene republic, nada surf, no age, paul simon, ryan adams, tegan and sara, the walkmen

Books:

atlas shrugged, the fountainhead, anthem, franny and zooey, nine stories, seymour: an introduction, raise high the roof beam carpenters, out of the silent planet, perelandra, that hideous strength, harry potter, the golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass, anything dave eggers

My Blog

lesson learned 5

"Perhaps the most interesting facet of this is Socrates' reliance on what the Greeks called his "daemonic sign", an averting inner voice that Socrates heard only when he was about to make a mistake. I...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:15:00 PST

lesson learned 4

"A rod of coloured light, whose colour no man can name or picture, darted between them: no more to see than that, but seeing was the least part of their experience. Quick agitation seized them: a kind...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:40:00 PST

lessons learned 3

home is so very hard to define-"there is no doubt she's such a mouse, with such an abstract grace"-"my mother," she said, "this is what she called the Fourth World.""Not the first world," she continue...
Posted by Joel on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:07:00 PST

lessons learned 2

georgie james is my new favorite band-obs / stevs / scando-"so much past, inside my present"-"The one big surprise is that as it turns out, God is the sun. It makes sense, if you think about it. Why w...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:26:00 PST

lessons learned

nothing has changed; nothing is the same.-"everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. you learn the art of disliking it as you grow up. haven't you ever noticed it on a snowy day? the grown-ups are...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:41:00 PST