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Seiji

carpe diem

About Me

systems thinker, giving friend, hapa

My Interests

daily adventures, change, international economic policy, dancing, discussing, fire, movement, stims, numbers, thinking, politics

I'd like to meet:

humbly brilliant people with a penchant for hedonism and affecting social change. people not content to accept money as the criterion for success, radio play as the criterion for good music, or popularlity as the criterion for quality

Music:

manitoba, rjd2, avalanches, shadow, lali puna, royksopp, miles, m83, postal service, all things ninja tune, hype, krush, kid koala, ozomatli, peaches, four tet, prefuse 73, quannum, warp

Movies:

pi, run lola run, coen brothers, kevin smith, usual suspects, memento, adaptation, the professional, terry gilliam, fight club, john waters, david lynch, lock stock, matrix, ang lee, capturing the friedmans

Books:

rilke, sartre, dostoevsky, tolstoy, orson scott card, kafka, corrections, salinger, surely you must be joking mr feynman, hitchhiker's guide, jon carroll, culture of fear, high fidelity

My Blog

talking about movies

did you like it? my response to that questions is largely determined by my emotional response, which are based on my expectations prior to viewing which are created by the emotional responses of p...
Posted by Seiji on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

our greatest social fallacy

is perhaps the use of single criterion hierarchies. that is, the ascription of value or worth based on a single attribute such as financial success, physical attractiveness, or analytical intelligence...
Posted by Seiji on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

sex drugs and rock n roll vs. save the world

With all the 60s nostalgia and counternostalgia among young bay area progressives, i hear only minimal discussion of the tension between two simultaneous revolutions: one toward an abandoned pursuit o...
Posted by Seiji on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

for a bay area partisan democrat sports fan

there is not a lot to celebrate.
Posted by Seiji on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST