George (is completely transparent)

About Me

I spend my weekends with the bf rearranging the constellations and planting mountains.

My Interests

I've been teaching myself classical greek for a while now cause aluo kai anapino kai I'm out to destroy my own sex life... and it's working...well. I also like soy silk and sentences that involve commas, semicolons; ellipses... and most especially footnotes*. So send me a message, Ryan O'neill...huh? *I am not interested in: colons

I'd like to meet:

you. let us talk about post-history, pro-gressivism, antineoconservatism, deconstruction, reconstruction, purple the color, The Color Purple, super-string theory, mythos/logos, memes and their non-existence, the final generation of the West, and the genesis of the world.

Music:

i don't like music... at all. ever. I think all musicans should be ashamed of themselves. SHAME on you all!!!!!

Movies:

2001:a space odyssey, Rocky Horror, Chasing Amy, Pulp Fiction, Brain Donors, Big Trouble in Little China, Airplane, Putny Swope, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Waking Life, Joe versus the Volcano (which is odd because the only celebrity i hate more than meg ryan is tom hanks), Run Lola Run, Brain Candy, The Last Dragon, Spaceballs, Serial Mom, anything Monty Python, especially And Now for Something Completely Different.

Television:

I offically disowned my television August 29, 2005.Read "The Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" by Jerry Mander (if you can still read after years of being suckled by the bitch-goddess)

Books:

Herman Hesse "Siddhartha" Huston Smith "Why Religion Matters" and "The World's Religions" Karen Armstrong "A History of God" William Blake "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and "Songs of Innocence and Experience" William Shakespeare "King Lear" and "Twelfth Night" Arundhati Roy "The God of Small Things" Seyyed Hossein Nasr "Knowledge and the Sacred" Harold Bloom "Genius" and "Blake's Apocalypse" Aeschylus "The Oresteian Trilogy" especially The Choephori, and "Prometheus Bound" Hesiod "Works and Days" and "Theogony" Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Devil's Mode" Fyodor Dostoevsky "Notes from the Underground" George Orwell "1984" Howard Zinn "A People's History of the United States" Dante Alighieri "Commedia", especially the Paradiso Anon. "The Book of J" Qoheleth "Ecclesiastes" Anon. "Kata Markon" Anon. Hadith literature (the sayings attributed to Muhammad) Anon. "Kena Upanishad" Plato "Timaeus", and the "Republic", especially Books 6 & 7

Heroes:

Arundhati Roy, the Green Lantern, Wang in Big Trouble in Little China, M.K. Gandhi, Eddie Izzard, Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka, my dog Duncan, Socrates, Amy Goodman, Conan O'Brien, William Blake, the entire cast and crew of Kill Bill, and whoever invented the coffee machine...

My Blog

The Star

At last I arrived at the further point which is closest to that place of breathing - the place where the universe is. I was not at this place, where no one can go lest they be burned and made blind an...
Posted by George (is completely transparent) on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:12:00 PST

A Streetcar Named Success

...It is never altogether too late, unless you embrace the Bitch Goddess, as William James called her, with both arms and find in her smothering caresses exactly what the home...
Posted by George (is completely transparent) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Auguries of Innocence

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. ...
Posted by George (is completely transparent) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Axis Personae

Three beings from the town walk out leave the world and then return. Two times six centuries - marching troops walking 'long the sacred hoops So high princes leave this place to walk alone at b...
Posted by George (is completely transparent) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Song of Myself - Part 52

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The ...
Posted by George (is completely transparent) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

from "Kulliyyat", number 1526

I know nothing of that wine - I'm annihilated.I've gone too far into no-place to know where I am.Sometimes I fall into the depths of the ocean,then rise up again like the sun.Sometimes I make the worl...
Posted by George (is completely transparent) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST