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The Minions of Gozer

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About Me

"Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy." -- Terry Goodkind.
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My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Earl Shaughan the Ingenious of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic TitleI spend a lot of time wondering what the point of life is. I know all the words to "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "Big Pimpin'" - no, really. I won the Super Bowl on Tecmo Super Bowl with every team. I was born and raised in Ohio and I love the Buckeyes. The Transformers were a big part of my childhood. Once, I was skinny. Once, I was fat. I spent some time in the Ohio National Guard and was stationed in McConnelsville in the Hawk Battalion. I don't think there really is a point to life most times, but I might agree that it's simply the pursuit of harmless pleasure, wherever you may find it. Me? I find it everywhere. I've been to many countries, including the USA, Canada, Belgium, France, England, Ireland, Netherlands, Monaco, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. "But Elephants have souls. Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means." -- Thomas Pynchon, "V." I often am annoyed at being labeled a “skeptic” just because I find the explanation of dead people coming back to life as unlikely. GI Joe was my favorite toy to play with when I was a kid. Writing and playing music is very important to me. Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' and Terry Goodkind's 'Sword of Truth' are my favorite book series of all time. I received a medical discharge from the Army. I weigh 195 lbs. I like to drink so I do it to some extent as often as I feel like. My dog's name is Brak. My cats are Zuul and Vinz Clortho. If you consume less, you don't have to work as much. I've been kicked out of two bands for completely different reasons. I have a Master's Degree in English/Literature. "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept." -- Calvin. I flipped my friend's car once. I've delivered thousands of pizzas and driven hundreds of thousands of miles. Purely literal thinkers baffle me. A Toyota Corolla sits in my driveway - I bought it new right after 9/11. Rum rocks. I live in Orlando. I did a killer and ultra combo with every character on Killer Instinct - even Eyedol. I own thousands of action figures, most of them over two decades old. Robert Heinlein is a genius. I had a website called The Ultimate Toy Archive at www.cobraislandtoys.com, but I sold it. It's still hosted by www.host-everything.net. My first band was named after Anthony Burgess, the author of "A Clockwork Orange." Mary Tyler Moore was very beautiful on the Dick Van Dyke show. I love to do things for people I care about. I conquered the world with the Danes on Medieval Total War. My friend, Rex, has a hard drive for a memory. I am very organized, but my car is filthy. I used to play car tag. My desk has been painted blue, but it's peeling. I had a level 70 hardcore barbarian on Diablo 2. I love to write song lyrics and short stories. I've had 27 cars, and my favorite was my 1977 CJ-5. My eyes are grey sometimes, and green other times, but never brown. I spend hours and hours alone, and enjoy it a great deal. "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) -- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself." My ancestry is of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Cherokee, maybe even in that order. That really means very little. I teach psychology, but I'm not really great with people (I'd rather analyze behavior than counsel). I think Futurama and Aqua Teen Hunger Force are hilarious. I've seen hundreds and hundreds of live bands. Ghostbusters is my favorite movie. I'm currently in two bands, The Sweet Kings and The 4th Stooge.
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You belong in London, but you belong in many cities... Hong Kong, San Francisco, Sidney. You fit in almost anywhere.
And London is diverse and international enough to satisfy many of your tastes. From curry to Shakespeare, London (almost) has it all! What European City Do You Belong In?
"Habit devours objects, clothes, furniture, one's wife and the fear of war...Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life."--Viktor Shklovsky
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I almost die in this van at least once a month.

My Interests

I love music; it is the perfect blend of logic and abstraction - a place where math meets art. Video games rock too. I spent a lot of my childhood playing Nintendo games such as Genghis Khan and Tecmo Super Bowl, and my adulthood playing Killer Instinct, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy VII, Guitar Hero, and Madden. Diablo 2 is perhaps my favorite game. I still love to read as well.

I'd like to meet:

Albert Einstein.
Mark Twain.
Carl Sagan.

"The Arrow and the Song"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

"It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget." --Tayeb Salih

"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds." --Hugh Elliott

Music:

This could be a really long list. There's a difference between my favorite bands and the ones that have shaped me as a musician and/or a person. Sometimes they overlap though. Bands I have to mention: Rush. The Impossibles. Weezer. The Suicide Machines. The Planet Smashers. The Aquabats. Screeching Weasel. Less Than Jake. Dropkick Murphys. Flogging Molly. Everclear. Fig Dish. Against Me! Busta Rhymes. Living Colour. Alkaline Trio. Rage Against the Machine. The Mars Volta. Ensign. System of a Down. The Beatles. The Replacements. Incubus. There are many more but these have shaped me most.

Movies:

GHOSTBUSTERS is my favorite movie - hands down. Back to the Future. Holy Grail and Life of Brian. Office Space. The Postman. (Jees I am such a sucker for sci-fi). Fierce Creatures, Fight Club. The Big Lebowski. Transformers: The Movie. Spies Like Us. Many more....

Television:

CSI. The Wire. X-Files. Rescue Me. Scrubs. Lost. The Office. Friends. Seinfeld. Deadwood. I love 1980s-style sitcoms like Family Ties, Newhart, Wings, The Wonder Years, and Quantum Leap. Also I like 1980s cartoons (and their newer counterparts) like Transformers, GI Joe, Robotech, and Transformers: Beast Wars.

Books:

Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time," Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth," Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory," and Orson Scott Card's Ender and Alvin Maker series are excellent. I also love Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and anything by Robert Heinlein is bound to be great. Now I'm reading the Terry Goodkind series.

Heroes:

I don't really have heroes but I like things that people like Tayeb Salih, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Robert Heinlein, Carl Sagan, Terry Goodkind, and Robert Jordan have done. I give mad kudos to all of my friends over the years that have made my life extremely interesting and fun!

My Blog

Bleed Red, Wave the White Flag, and Sing about the Blues

Doom and gloom, woe is me. America is in a recession, and the car dealerships (whether foreign or domestic) hide their cheaper, more efficient models behind the fringes of the compound, safe behind sh...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:03:00 PST

The Darker Side of Existentialism

I think a lot of times existentialism gets confused with idealism, but that's not the case at all. Existentialism in its pure form admits that THERE IS NO POINT TO LIFE. OK granted the idealism can co...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Thu, 01 May 2008 06:42:00 PST

In the Year 2408

You know, there’s some great science fiction and fantasy literature out there, rich with symbolism, allegory, and great writing style. Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth is a study in existen...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:47:00 PST

NCAA picks - spoiler alert! Don’t read if you haven’t picked yet.

don’t read this if you havent made your picks yet!my personal rankings:UCLAMemphisNorth CarolinaTexasTennesseeDukeXavierKansasDrakeLouisvilleGeorget ownWisconsinStanfordArkansasPittUconnMichigan ...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:17:00 PST

Reality in the Abstract Sense... Cogito Ergo Sum?

OK I've given some thought to what I mean about reality, or what IS, and my own beliefs. I don't think reality is perfectly concrete. There may be an objective reality, but I think I side with Kant in...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:10:00 PST

The Insanity of Sports

It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitive as a professional sports team, and the amused su...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:48:00 PST

If You Say It in Latin, You Sound Smarter

If you depend on reason in an argument, you cannot lose. Let's say there are two types of people: those who are reasonable and those who are not. You might wonder who would voluntarily assume to be un...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:39:00 PST

i guess ive been tagged twice

've been tagged........Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, habits or goals about yourself. At the end, you choose about 10 people to be tagged, listing thei...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

2007 Albums of the Year

here are my most listened to albums released in 20071. Big D And The Kids Table - Strictly Rude2. Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow3. Dropkick Mu...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:02:00 PST

And the Football Gods Smile

You know, last year I pulled for the Colts and rooted against the evil Patriots. I wanted Peyton to get a ring and I was sick of New England.But something occurred to me about both teams recently. It ...
Posted by The Minions of Gozer on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST