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About Me

"But the trouble with being is not that it is just an effect of language. It is that not even language defines it. There is no definition for being. Being is not a genus, not even the most general of them all, and it therefore eludes all definition, if it is necessary to use the genus and the differentia in order to make a definition. Being is that which enables all subsequent definitions to be made. But all definitions are the effect of the logical and therefore semiosical organization of the world. Every time we tried to warrant this oranization by turning to that safe parameter that is being, we would revert to saying, i.e., to that language for which we are supposed to be seeking a guarentee." "Being underpins all discourses except the one we hold about it (which tells us nothing we did not already know the very moment we began to talk about it)." --Umberto Eco, from The aporia of being in Aristotle, in the chapter "On Being" from the collection of essays, "Kant and the Platypus."Let me know your feelings about this troubling problem with semiotics and being.

My Interests

Reading and Writing and Learning and Observing; Subjecting and Objecting; Epistemology and Ontology and Etylomolgy and Pedagogy; Composition and Rhetoric; BMX; Tattoos (History and Receiving); Volkswagens that don't look fast and furious. Playing and listening to music. And Coffee, my first love, last love, and true love: Dark as Night, Sweet as Love, Hot as Hell, Strong as Sin: Coffee.

I'd like to meet:

People who have read Melville's Moby Dick (the whole book), Ellison's Invisible Man (again, the whole book), and Milton's Paradise Lost (redundantly, the whole thing, all books). If you have Catcher and the Rye as one of your favorite books, send me a message and let me persuade you to read something else. If you want a glimpse into the human condition read the three books I listed and throw away your copy of Catcher in the Rye.

Music:

Small Brown Bike, Twelve Hour Turn, Hot Water Music, Modest Mouse, KeelHaul, Primus, Jane's Addiction, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, 400 Blows, Hot Snakes, Bloodlet, Good Baltimore Local Stuff i.e. Dark Water Transit, Juice (R.I.P.), Sick (R.I.P.), and The Banthas (R.I.P.), NOFX, Refused, Slayer, Tool, The Casket Lottery, Reggie and the Full Effect, Ween, Tom Waits, Drive LIke Jehu, The Stooges, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly soundtrack, Surf Rock, Faith No More, Tomahawk, Mr. Bungle, Mike Patton, At-The-Drive-In, The Mars Volta, DeFacto, Clutch, June of 44, Fugazi, and much, much more.

Movies:

Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Buffalo 66, Apocalypse Now, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, A Clockwork Orange, Shining, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original one), True Romance, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, L.A. Story, Good BMX Videos, this is just a smattering.

Television:

Is for people who don't wish to think very much. Half-wits I usually call them.

Books:

You name it, mostly academic stuff published by academia (meaning university presses and such). Mostly classics. Moby Dick is great; Milton's Paradise Lost is a must, Dante's Divine Comedy is just that, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is Amazing, Alexander Pope was a genius, as was Samuel Johnson and others of the English Enlightenment. Foucault is my favorite theorist, along with Derrida, Eco, and Darnton.

Heroes:

Greg Dulli, the most suave man in contemporary America.