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Happy

Remember You Will Die

About Me

I'm trying to learn something. Anything. No luck so far.

My Interests

Vegan Food, Books, Songwriting, Mixed Martial Arts.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a functioning brain and heart who can prove it.

Music:

Dio, Patty Griffin, Dead Prez, Weakerthans, Miles Davis, Jets to Brazil, Youth of Today, Misfits, W.A.S.P., Aceyalone, Garnet Rogers, Propagandhi, Immortal, At the Gates, John Coltrane, Kool Moe Dee, Jawbreaker, Hackensaw Boys, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Crash Diet, Dokken, Ratt, Jimmy Eat World, Harry Belafonte, Cursive, Tesla, Death Cab For Cutie, and of course, any Local Hay joint.

Movies:

Flight From Death, Storytelling, Star Wars Trilogy (original), Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Big Lebowski, Election, Rushmore, Sweet and Low Down, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Royal Tenenbaums, Karate Kid, Closer, Dogville, Lost in Translation, Life Aquatic, Ghost World, the Woodsman, Broken Flowers, Grizzly Man.

Television:

the Muppet Show, Daily Show, Chappelle's Show, Mr. Show, Monty Python, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Fraggle Rock, Da Ali G Show, the Colbert Report, Nature/Animal shows, MMA, Hockey.

Books:

Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Gao Xingjian, Barbara Kingsolver, Franz Kafka, Adam Haslett, Emile Zola, Andre Gide, Herman Melville, Lord Byron, Hart Crane, Pablo Neruda, Ernest Becker. ---GRAPHIC GENRE: Craig Thompson, Daniel Clowes, Marjane Satrapi, J. Michael Straczynski, Brian Michael Bendis, Alan Moore, Chris Claremont, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Geoff Johns.

Heroes:

the A.L.F., Dian Fossey, Jim Henson.

My Blog

Shipwrecked

And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look arou...
Posted by Happy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

On Goodness and Our Relationship with Animals

"We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power...
Posted by Happy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Between Earth and Sky

"The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, ima...
Posted by Happy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Existentialist Straight-Edge?

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and,...
Posted by Happy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST