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About Me

"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation." -Andre Gide This is where I went to high school-- Taylor Allderdice . Our school spirit was, um, unconventional: we tended to use pep rallies as cover to spend two periods at Frick Park or Wendy's; soccer was huge, but nobody paid attention to our football team; cliques we're pretty permeable, and we all partied together; the pervasive racial tension was trascended by some of the greatest gym class softball games that have ever been played. I was given the distinction of being tracked down by the principal after writing a school paper editorial that scathingly critiqued school policy. They were formative years, to be sure. You are 100% Pittsburgh.

Great job! There's nooooo doubt about it. You're from Da Burgh. You deserve a reward, so go have an Ahrn City or two. And GO STILLERS!
How Pittsburgh Are You

link to disc one of last year's mix, the prophet--the comfort zone. a departure from my usual style, but it still hits hard with funky and spacy hip hop and drumnbass.

disc two, the prophet--damaged goods. straight dancefloor darkness.

To download a recent, short set, go here . The Prophuzion mix with my partner in crime, infuze (in my top 8), from summer 2004--look for a new mix this summer."The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." -Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can identify this quote: Eagles are for emblems and chickens are for eating.

Music:

adam beyer and other hard-as-fuck techno; sticking with Adam's, I currently am feelin' Adam Freeland's Now and Then; jungle, which I still contend is synonymous with drum and bass; the really stripped down, warped dubstep that's short on musical elements; bit meddler, kruder and dorfmeister, ninja tune shit, quaanum shit, soundbombing II, mad lib, grateful dead, pink floyd, the beatles, tchaikovsky

Movies:

I lament the fact that Hollywood no longer seems capable of making fun movies--where are the Pee Wee's Big Adventures, the Princess Brides, etc? Anyhow, recent movies of note: The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, Brick, Batman Begins, and the obligatory shout out to Borat

Television:

Fox and friends, the wire, the sopranos, south park.

Books:

The Illuminatus Trilogy (fuck the motherfuckin' Da Vinci Code), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, The Logic of Practice, Choke (I'm sixty pages from the end, and this book already has changed my life), Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Queer Theory/Sociology, Vurt, The Lazlo Letters, Meet You in Hell, The DSM-IV Revised

My Blog

"Whites win!!"

The first step to recovery is admission, and south park is my crack of cracks. New episodes must be seen no later than 24 hours after they air. Anyhow, I went to an interesting briefing today--a sto...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:16:00 PST

smoking craters and memory holes

(to the three people who might read this, please forgive the lack of links in this one) This week, alleged ties between Iran and the death and destruction in Iraq splashed across the headlines. Pres...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:43:00 PST

writing

About seven years ago--maybe just before I got to college--the technical aspects of writing swallowed my way with words. While this doesn't keep me up nights, I struggle constantly in my writing with...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:27:00 PST

America's drug problem--what you think?

Contemporary medicine is nothing short of a miracle of human innovation and collaboration. Not more than one hundred years ago, people died all the time of simple things, like strep throat and t...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:55:00 PST

props to israel

Damn, it's been a minute...for some reason, my page keeps getting a slow trickle of hits. Er, my bad!I thought, though I must be brief, that I'd do two things that are rare for me--one, be remotely p...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:49:00 PST

stop wasting time at work...

Quoting the NYTimes: November 1, 2006 Huge Skateboarding Ramp Beckons Daredevils By MATT HIGGINS VISTA, Calif. The largest skateboard ramp in the world can be found on a 12-acre farm north of San...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:53:00 PST

Lou Dobbs is a fucking idiot

In five minutes, Lou Dobbs managed to reduce six months of work by the College Board to a single, wholly illigetimate statement--that responisibility for the problem of college affordability falls dir...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:03:00 PST

burden of proof

Over forty years ago, the federal government constituted the TRIO programs--Talent Search, Upward Bound, and the Educational Opportunity Center--in order to increase access to college for underreprese...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:40:00 PST

two nights in DC--the eyes had it

I arrived at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel at 10pm on Wedesday night, having already worked a twelve hour day, and was readying myself for another two or three of the same. Of course, the reservation got ...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:52:00 PST

social engineering

Auguste Comte, founder of sociology, wrote at the end of the French Revolution. Having lived through this period of rupture, he sought to unearth the laws that govern human societies, with the ultimat...
Posted by prophet-4-hire on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:01:00 PST