I am what I am, and that's all that I am! Agh agh agh agh agh! - Popeye
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I love music - both listening to it and playing it. I have played the piano for about seventeen years; a bit of jazz, but mainly 60's and 70's rock tunes by bands like the Beatles and Steely Dan. I like to compose my own piano arrangements, sing 'em and develop solo parts. ---I love snowboarding. I have been boarding for appx. 10 yrs. I currently ride on an extra-wide 161" Ride Fleetwood. Growing up in Atlanta, GA, I first learned how to ride upon the minuscule, icy crags of North Carolina. However, I have spent most of my time on the somewhat larger and slightly less icy slopes of Vermont. I spent an entire season 'bumming-it' at Okemo Mt. last year. (Could I ever go back again? I dunno.) My best trips have been to Jackson Hole, WY (probably the best Mt. in the USA), and to Mt. Hood this past season (oh so much snow!). ---I also enjoy the usual pastimes of most somewhat-intemperate young adults; i.e. smoking weed occasionally, drinking and going out to bars with friends, barbecuing on sunny summer days and basically just spending a lot of idle time being a lazy good-for-nothing. ---Ironically, despite my preceding list of interests, I am a philosopher. I love engaging in circular, inconclusive debates about the limits of human knowledge and about whether the happiest life and the most virtuous life are the same. Here's my spiel: Only your behavior gives force to your convictions! If I truly was convinced that the happiest life and the most virtuous life were the same, then I would necessarily have to act that way. That I refuse to hypocritically proclaim as my convictions, principles that I do not live by, of course, does not mean that my convictions are true; on the contrary, it only means that they truly are my convictions.
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I enjoy listening to a pretty wide variety of music, primarily jazz, 60's and 70's rock, reggae and ska, but also a little bit of folk rock, pop rock and a bit of hip-hop. Jazz: Brad Mehldau, Kenny Werner, Dave McKenna, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Art Tatum and Herbie Hancock. 60's and 70's Rock: the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Free, Yes, David Bowie, Deep Purple and Steely Dan. Gotta give it up for the Talking Heads as well. Reggae and Ska: Bob Marley (of course), Toots and the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, the Skatalites, the Specials and the Slackers. Folk Rock: Bob Dylan, CSNY, Buffalo Springfield, Elliot Smith and Wilco. Pop Rock: 311, the Red Hot Chile Peppers, Sublime, Radiohead, Karate and the Dismemberment Plan. Hip hop: Mos Def, the Roots, J-5, A Tribe Called Quest, the Pharcyde, EPMD, Gang Star, Lyrics Born and Aceyalone. Shout out to Rage Against the Machine and NOFX. --- Anyone in the Boston area should check out Geoff Scott's Public House and Micro's Club D'Elf alternating on Tuesday nights at Matt Murphy's Pub. Bad ass! --- Everyone should check out an upcoming rock band called the Marsh here on my friend list or www.sinkintothemarsh.com. They have a really unique and awesome sound; vocals kinda like early Bowie and pretty heavy instrumentals with elements of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Deep Purple. Check 'em out! --- Also check out the music of my friends Keith Polasko, Adam Hommeyer, Rebecca (Farley Fireside), Carrie Baron, Shaina Reeves and Phil Kohnen here on myspace!
Oh so many good movies! How to list them all? Here we go: Everything by Monty Python; Peter Sellers: Pink Panther series, the Party and Being There and his biographical movie, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers; Woody Allen: Deconstructing Harry, Bananas, Sleepers, Melinda and Melinda and Try Again Sam; Bill Murray: What About Bob, Caddy Shack I, Ghostbusters I and II, Scrooged, and, oh yes, let's not forget The Man Who Knew Too Little; Bullworth with Warren Beatty; Swingers; the whole list of Kevin Smith films; the original Batman flick with Adam West; Jack Nicholson: As Good as it Gets and About Schmidt; the Royal Tenenbaums, the Life Aquatic and Rushmore; Donnie Darko; Death to Smoochie; American Beauty; the Merchant of Venice with Pacino was pretty solid; Quills; Ray; Walk the Line; the Lord of the Rings trilogy; Batman Begins; American Psycho; the first Matrix; Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill I and II, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Four Rooms and Jackie Brown; a must see is this crazy, messed up Japanese film called Battle Royale!!! Arrrgh! There are just too many good movies to list. --- But the BEST movie out there is Irrational Beers!!! Word up, Hick B. Good luck findin' it y'all.
Gotta love the cartoons of Comedy Central, Fox and Adult Swim! South Park, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, Sealab 2021, Aquateen Hunger Force, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, the Brak Show and Harvey Birdman are all hysterical. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are probably the most intelligent, interesting AND funny shows on television. Seinfeld is classic. Curb Your Enthusiasm is a great show. Arrested Development, oh why, oh why are you going off the air!?! SNL has seen better days. Lost is pretty awesome. Oh, and who out there has seen the Canadian Cult Classic Mock-umentary, currently in its sixth season, the Trailer Park Boys? Man that show rocks! I've seen every single episode and movie! An American movie is coming this summer! Don't miss it!
I enjoy classical and existential works of literature as well as non-literary works of philosophy. Classical Literature: the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, the Aeneid by Vergil, the Metamorphoses and Amores by Ovid. Of course, every work of Shakespeare is brilliant. Existential Literature: The Stranger, the Plague and the Fall by Albert Camus, the Idiot by Dostoevsky, the Death of Ivan Ilyich and War and Peace by Tolstoy, Candide by Voltaire, the Trial and the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, a Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller. I Claudius by Robert Graves is an amazing piece of historical fiction. Authors of philosophical works, which are either non-literary or less literary than the ones listed: Plato, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Kant.
Well, the Hamburglar is right up there on my list! He always successfully snags those cheeseburgers from Ronald, and even when he gets caught he still gets a piece of the action, unlike that mangy rodent, the Trix Rabbit - he aint never gonna get none! Also gotta give it up for Corey Feldman, actor extraordinairre! Who could forget the best train-dodge ever in Stand By Me, or the lovable character, Mouth, from the Goonies? What can I say, his delivery just moves me! Then there's Carrot Top, perhaps the only inventor more skilled than McGuyver. And what about Gallagher? I'll never look at fresh fruit the same way again!