Steve Kramer - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I like creative things i.e. music, painting, or writing
I love to cook, eat, and celebrate.
My friends are like my family.

I value loyalty very highly
I am a dad now. That is awesome.
I have a chocolate lab named Gertrude(Gertie) and two cats named The Krystal and Baron Von Ziegfried(Ziggy). They are the 100% awesome
I appreciate open mindedness and exploring the possibilies.

I love that life is a roller coaster.
I agree with the following statements:
"WHEN A MAN, FOR WHATEVER REASON, HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE, HE HAS NO RIGHT TO KEEP IT TO HIMSELF."----Jacque Cousteau
"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him."------Viktor E. Frankl

My Interests

strawberries, cherries, blueberries, basically all berries

going NUTS

swedish and norwegian black metal (especially the background drama)

the fact that a known cannibal is a japanese celebrity, and in fact starred in a japanese porno movie where he reenacted a cannibalistic scenario is the craziest thing ever

collecting things: records, cds, instruments, books, coins, art, food, trains,pens, watches, certificates, movies, pets, ticket stubs, cars ---really...i will collect anything

History

i am somewhat obsessed with myers-briggs, although not as much as David Ames.

I am facinated with the dark side of humanity. Particularily as reflected in the writings of Dostoevsky, Vamik Volkan, and in authoritarian regimes of the 20th century.

NPR

Skepticism with a capital "S"

McSweeney's

Wine

I'd like to meet:

I would like to have grown up with teddy roosevelt and family

I would like to have helped James Madison write the constitution to clear a few things up

I would like to hang out with Larry David and David Cross,

Music:

I will name a few good things:

The Smiths. The Cure. Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Echo & the Bunnymen, ELO, The Shins, Joy Division, Belle & Sebastian, Twilight Singers, Hard Fi, Louis XIV, Suede, Blur, The Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, New Order

The Aeffect.

Movies:

Rushmore, Spinal Top, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Highlander, Charade, Donnie Darko.

Hitchcock (most especially North by Northwest), John Hughes, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski. Woody Allen, Wes Anderson

sci-fi and spy movies

Dumb comedies including any combination of Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaugn, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, or Steve Carrell.

Television:

The Office, Curb Your Enthusiam, HBO, Space Ghost, Family Guy, Simpsons seasons 1-9.

Books:

David McCulluch, Barbara Tuchman, Ernest Hemmingway, David Sedaris

Lolita, Deadeye Dick, The Beautiful and the Damned

The Demon Haunted World and other Carl Sagan Books

Harry Potter is genius and addicting.

Lord of the Rings Trilogy and related materials.

The Dune series.

Heroes:

People that can laugh at life even in the hardest times. Einstein. My friends and family.