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DEUS EX MACHINA:
(latin) an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot

MALCONTENT:
1. a chronically dissatisfied person
2. one who rebels against the established system

DEUS EX MALCONTENT:
making a mockery of mockery

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My Interests

Living Past 38; Social Criticism; Sheer, Unbridled Outrage; Ridicule; Vicodin; Oral Gratification; Revenge; Firefly; Fiscal Irresponsibility; Blasphemy; Watching the Sea Lions at the Central Park Zoo; Selling-Out; Occasional Uninterrupted Lethargy; Baths

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I'd like to meet:

My wife, all over again; An author willing to tell Oprah to shove her book club up her self-obsessed ass; T.S. Eliot; Christopher Hitchens; Eddie Izzard; Kara Thrace; The crew of Serenity; Ellen Page, Quinne of the Suicide Girls; Myself as a ten-year-old, so I can beat some goddamned sense into him; Jason Statham, because I want to go drinking with him; Maria Bello, because I want to go drinking with her; Whoever's sleeping with Rhona Mitra; Mike Patton; Asia Argento; Stevie Nicks, circa 1976; Carrie Fisher, circa 1977; Harry Dean Stanton

Your results:
You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 100% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 55% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 20% Wash (Ship Pilot) 0% Inara Serra (Companion) 0% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 0% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 0% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 0% River (Stowaway) 0% A Reaver (Cannibal) 0% Alliance 0% Honest and a defender of the innocent.
You sometimes make mistakes in judgment
but you are generally good and
would protect your crew from harm.
Click here to take the Serenity Firefly Personality Test

Music:

I've come to believe that anyone who uses the word "Lil'" or "Young" in a stage name makes completely worthless music -- if you can even call it that. Also, somebody please deport the inventor of Reggaeton.


A rare honest, non-comically-ironic answer: And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, A Perfect Circle, A Tribe Called Quest, Abandoned Pools, AC/DC, Afghan Whigs, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Big Daddy Kane, Black Flag, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brand New Heavies, Brubeck, BT, Buddy Rich, Buena Vista Social Club, Cash, Charlatans, Cheap Trick, The Clash, The Cure, Cypress Hill, The Damned, Dandy Warhols, David Sylvian, Debussy, The Decemberists, Deftones, De La Soul, Dinosaur Jr., Dirty DNA, Django, DJ Shadow, The Douglas Fir, Doves, Duncan Sheik, Dusty Springfield, Echo & the Bunnymen, Eric B. & Rakim, EL-P, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, EPMD, Faith No More, Filter, Flesh for Lulu, Foo Fighters, Sinatra, Fugazi, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Gang of Four, Garbage, Gay Dad, Girls Against Boys, Gnarls Barkley, GnR, Gorillaz, Green Day, Groove Armada, The Guggenheim Grotto, The Gutter Twins, Hedwig, Helmet, Husker Du, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Eat World, Coltrane, Jonatha Brooke, Kasabian, Kelly Clarkson (goddammit),Killing Joke, Lords of the New Church, Love & Rockets, Loretta Lynn, Low, Magnet, Manson, Mansun, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Metheny, Miles, Mingus, Minor Threat, Mogwai, Morphine, Mos Def, Mother Love Bone, Motley Crue, Mudhoney, Muse, My Chemical Romance, New Order, The New Pornographers, Nick Cave, NIN, Oasis, The Offspring, Orbital, Orgy, Oscar Peterson, Our Lady Peace, Pat Metheny, Patrick O'Hearn, Pearl Jam, Pete Yorn, Pillow Theory, Pink, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Poe, The Posies, Prince, The Prodigy, PIL, Public Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, The Ramones, REM, The Stones, Ryan Adams, The Servant, Sex Pistols, The Shins, Siouxsie, Sloan, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Patrol, Springsteen, theSTART, Steely Dan, Stereophonics, Steve Earle, Stone Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Style Council, Sugar, Team Sleep, Tears for Fears, The The, Thievery, Todd Rundgren, Tom Waits, Trespassers William, TV on the Radio, Tweaker, The Twilight Singers, U2, Underworld, UNKLE, Urge Overkill, VAST, The Verve, The Vines, The Von Bondies, The Waterboys, Waylon Jennings, Weezer, Wilco, Wired All Wrong, XTC, Year of the Rabbit, Yo-Yo Ma, Zero 7, etc. etc.

Movies:


Television:

Two words -- Battlestar Galactica; The Office (US and UK); Firefly; Meerkat Manor; Penn and Teller's "Bullshit"; New York City public access cable; Those Dateline specials where Chris Hansen and his Turtleneck-of-Justice surprise the hapless would-be child molesters

Books:

Currently stacked on my nightstand: "The Delivery Man," Joe McGinniss Jr.; "The Raw Shark Texts," Steven Hall; "Smells Like Dead Elephants," Matt Taibbi; DeLillo's "Falling Man"; "Mere Anarchy," Woody Allen; "The Motorcycle Diaries," Che Guevara; "The Diviners," Rick Moody; "Saturday," Ian McEwan; Hitchens's "God is Not Great"

Heroes:

Dad, for not smothering me at birth; Bill Hicks; Henry Rollins; Randal Graves; Bugs Bunny; Hawkeye Pierce; Buster Keaton; Dave Allen; Paddy Chayefsky; Howard Beale; Hunter Thompson; Zorak; Greg Dulli; Woody Allen; Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Paine; Leonard Peltier; Bukowski; Murrow; Mencken; Maher; Clooney; Kubrick; Colbert (for his speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner alone); Daniel Schorr; Matt Taibbi; Milo Bloom; Alex Garland; Shatner; John Bender; Chris Knight; Robert Smigel; Joe Frank; Morris Day; Alan Shore; Arianna Huffington; Sacha Baron Cohen; Waylon Jennings; Lester Bangs (define irony: he died listening to The Human League's Dare); Dr. Gregory House; Pootie Tang; The cast of Jackass; Groucho Marx; Richard Pryor; Triumph; The two guys who brought the entire city of Boston to a standstill with harmless pictures of the Mooninites, then held a news conference during which they refused to talk to a swarm of pompous reporters about anything other than 70s haircuts; The creators of Wonder Showzen; The kid who used to stuff Dane Cook in his own locker back in high school; Anyone who can make teenagers stop writing in cellphone text-speak; The first high-ranking public official to tell Dick Cheney to his face that he's a delusional batshit lunatic (thereby causing his pacemaker to stop); Opie & Anthony; Bon Scott & Angus Young; Robert Downey Jr.; Lenny Bruce (do you see a pattern developing here?)

My Blog

American Idol Finale: Time for Parents to Take a Stand

Tonight, the next wholly-owned Disney creation to be shoved down the collective throat of American pop culture will be crowned on American Idol.Of course I'm talking about David Archuleta.And that's w...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:11:00 PST

The Secret Service Kicks Down My Door in 3... 2... 1...

Arrogance and stupidity make up a positively lethal combination of character traits, and yet our idiot president seems to display nothing else. His latest affronts to thoughtful leadership and all-aro...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Sat, 17 May 2008 03:48:00 PST

Patrick Dempsey is the Male Sarah Jessica Parker

Show of hands -- who's going to see Made of Honor this weekend?Okay, anyone who raised their hand -- that's a woman who should probably be avoided at all costs (whether you're male or female).Now at w...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:17:00 PST

Meeting Phoebe Cates (And Not Fainting)

Last year, I stopped into a little store here in New York City and ran into the girl I've fantastized about since she appeared nude onscreen in 1982.What's it like to meet a woman whose topless scene ...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:11:00 PST

The Crystal Method to His Madness

CNN's resident eccentric Brit, Richard Quest, gets busted in Central Park with meth in his pocket, a rope tied around his neck and balls and a sex toy in his shoe. He checks himself into rehab (of cou...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:04:00 PST

Crime and No Punishment?

Another group of police on trial in the death of a black man -- another round of aquittals.I lived through three race riots growing up in Miami and covered the 1992 L.A. riots.What have I learned abou...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:24:00 PST

Kids Incorporated

David Archuleta is going to win American Idol -- which means he'll take his rightful place alongside Miley Cyrus and the fucking Jonas Brothers as an inescapable cultural phenomenon.And why?Because 12...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

Surrender, Integrity

NBC puts George W. Bush on a game show -- then gives the reins of the Today show to his wife and twin daughters for an hour.CNN hires former Fox News shill and, more importantly, former White House Pr...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:15:00 PST

He Blinded Me Without Science

Faith Some More:If you're lucky, you've missed the commercials for a new documentary called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.It hits theaters today and features Ben Stein playing a sort of mischievo...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:59:00 PST

Virginia Tech, One Year Later: And All That Could Have Been

One year ago today, a 23-year-old student gunned down 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, before killing himself.A few days after the shooting -- the worst in U.S. history -...
Posted by Deus Ex Malcontent on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:12:00 PST