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Carlyn

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About Me

I am a low-level staff member at a tiny university. I also work for a book publisher called Fons Vitae . I would like to have a pet goat.

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My Interests

cigarettes, coffee, zen, the 1920s and 1930s, animals, plants, minerals, music, movies, books, art, comedy, good wine, writing, forests, mountains, plain chocolate hobnobs, vintage cars and motorcycles, old houses, philosophy, language and linguistics, camping, travel, not cleaning my house, sleeping late, justice

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Music:

Local stuff, *most* of the bands on my friends list, The Pogues, T. Rex, Housemartins, Bowie, Alice Cooper, Bad Manners, Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Hives, AC/DC, They Might Be Giants, Gogol Bordello, Madness, Bloco Vomit, Patsy Cline, Ramones, Crass, Adam and the Ants, Runaways, Tom Waits, Buzzcocks, Cab Calloway, White Stripes, Specials, Chuck Berry, New York Dolls, The Beat, Plasmatics, Johnny Cash, MC5, Prince, Joan Jett, Pearl Jam, Dick Dale, Siouxsie Sioux, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Motorhead, Iggy Pop, The Slits, Slade, Patti Smith, XTC, Squeeze, The Jam, and lots more.

Movies:

Ghost World, Reservoir Dogs, Asian horror, Asian non-horror, non-Asian horror, Svankmajer, F.W. Murnau, Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Theda Bara, Singin' in the Rain, Cabaret, Errol Flynn, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Marx Bros., Coen Bros., Clara Bow, Freaks, Tadanobu Asano, A Clockwork Orange, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hitchcock, Thin Man movies, Universal monster movies, comedies that are actually funny, Choi Min-Sik, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Spring Summer Fall Winter...and Spring, Terry Gilliam, Steve Buscemi, Peter O'Toole, Roger Corman, John Waters, Terence Stamp, Christopher Guest, Max Fleischer, most films that end up being called "cult movies", documentaries about obscure (and not so obscure) people and things...many others. I really like movies

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Young Ones, Black Adder, The Office, Black Books, Absolutely Fabulous, anything with Gordon Ramsay, Wire in the Blood, Bottom, The Smoking Room, Big Train, League of Gentlemen, Father Ted, Spaced, Red Dwarf, Cracker, House, Carnivale (damn HBO for cancelling it), Little Britain, standup comedy.

Books:

Ray Bradbury, Bill Bryson, Clive Barker, Shirley Jackson, Stephen Fry, Anthony Burgess, Philip K. Dick, Nick Hornby, Hunter S. Thompson, Dorothy Parker, Lewis Carroll, Douglas Adams, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Bloch, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Lester Bangs, C.S. Lewis, H.H. Munro, A.A. Milne, Eastern and Western philosophy, and all sorts of nonfiction. I believe "Good Omens" may be the best book ever written.

Heroes:

the folks.

My Blog

read this...

http://bowdawg2.blogspot.com/2008/04/52-card-pickup.html Thank you, Chris.  This was something I needed right now....
Posted by Carlyn on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:36:00 PST

this was unexpected...

Holy shit!  I always thought that, when I chose to take the path toward a Ph.D. in philosophy, my only future job prospects would involve a choice between paper or plastic.  B...
Posted by Carlyn on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:01:00 PST

a buddhist view of addiction

  by Peter Morrell '...it is said that as long as one is in cyclic existence, one is in the grip of some form of suffering.' [1]   In this essay, I refer to drugs - meaning drugs of all k...
Posted by Carlyn on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:17:00 PST

shameless plug

 Islam - Sufism - World Religions - Spirituality - Interfaith Dialogue - Sacred Symbolism - Religious Metaphysics Religious Methodologies - Archetypes - Spiritual Principles - World's Great Faith Trad...
Posted by Carlyn on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:19:00 PST

nonattachment

by Zoketsu Norman Fischer talk given at tassajara 2/16/98 The way to be happy, according to buddha, is simple: just let go. If you let go a lot you have a lot of happiness; if you let go a little you ...
Posted by Carlyn on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:28:00 PST

buddha stuff

A surprising number of people who find out I'm a Buddhist seek explanations and information from me about the philosophies and ideas in Buddhism...some seek out teachings from me.  I still feel v...
Posted by Carlyn on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:00:00 PST

2500 profile views

Don't you people have anything better to do?
Posted by Carlyn on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:47:00 PST

people

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will ...
Posted by Carlyn on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:28:00 PST

Knowing A Better Way To Live

adopted from the BHADDEKARATTA SUTTA, translated by Thich Nhat Hanh I Heard these words of the Buddha one time when the Lord was staying at the monastery in the Jeta Grove, in the town of Sravasti. H...
Posted by Carlyn on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:24:00 PST

intimacy

"We are separated from one anotherby an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. T...
Posted by Carlyn on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:49:00 PST