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Dave

Bibamus Moriendum Est (Death's Unavoidable, Let's Have a Drink)

About Me

What to say.... hmm...I find it difficult to conceive myself really managing to accurately decribe myself, for two reasons. Firstly, to even try outlining any personality, my own included, it seems inevitable to leave out some critical factoid, especially the ones which would sound overly humble or arrogant, yet without which would leave the entirety seem somewhat hollow and shadowy (and rightly so, since a large part of a person's character would be thus omitted).Secondly, there is always some confusion between a person's image of oneself, and other people's image of them. In fact many philosophers have argued that, since the concept of a personality is itself abstract, an individual is therefore not one person, but many people, each one a reflection of someone else's perception of them. However, to simplify things, I'll simply share what I think of myself, and damn anyone else's opinions and perceptions, in this regard (which is conveniently the ay I like it, anyway). Note, as I said before, it is impossible to truly quantify a person's personality, therefore you, the viewer, should at all times view this as an incomplete summation.For starters, let me simply mention the obvious: that I am overly verbose, tending toward not a few run-on sentences; I also happen to enjoy creative writing, and thoroughly believe in expressing myself or my thoughts, rather than simply listing them outright. A mentor of mine once called this "the art of showing, rather than telling" ...which would certainly explain this ridiculously long prologue, wouldn't it?This might also help... MySpace Backgrounds from MyPimpSpace.com
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Dave
Birthday: 07/31/82
Birthplace: Lafayette
Current Location: Broussard (basically Laf.)
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'5"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: I assume white?
The Shoes You Wore Today: Crocs
Your Weakness: excessive idealism
Your Fears: a strange and irrational terror of worms
Your Perfect Pizza: mushboom, hamburger, green pepper, and jalapeons
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: pass french and get into a goddamn 400-lvl Creative Writing class
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lmao
Thoughts First Waking Up: move over, dog...
Your Best Physical Feature: eyes, I suppose
Your Bedtime: depends on morning wake up
Your Most Missed Memory: all of them that I don't remember
Pepsi or Coke: Definately coke, as Pepsi makes a shitty mixer
MacDonalds or Burger King: neither, that's disgusting
Single or Group Dates: don't really care
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton, hands down
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee, and black as the ace of spades
Do you Smoke: my pipe, yes
Do you Swear: every goddamn day
Do you Sing: whenever I know the lyrics, or am driving
Do you Shower Daily: yep
Have you Been in Love: yeah
Do you want to go to College: so doing
Do you want to get Married: of course
Do you belive in yourself: aside from the knowledge that I might be wrong, yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: never!!
Do you think you are Attractive: fairly so, yes
Are you a Health Freak: obviously not
Do you get along with your Parents: yeah, but conversations never last that long
Do you like Thunderstorms: LOVE THEM
Do you play an Instrument: heheh, if you call it "playing," sure
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: entirely too much
In the past month have you Smoked: every damn day
In the past month have you been on Drugs: I don't consider pot to be a drug
In the past month have you gone on a Date: HA! nah, I'm in a rut, at the moment
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: nope
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: I stay at a safe distance from those things
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no, way past due
In the past month have you been on Stage: nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope, can't be single and be dumped
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no, but that's not a bad idea
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: not in the past month, no
Ever been Drunk: too frequently
Ever been called a Tease: er, no
Ever been Beaten up: not really
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: I wanna see it coming
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I don't plan on ever growing up
What country would you most like to Visit: Tibet
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: green
Favourite Hair Color: dark
Short or Long Hair: depends on the girl
Height: anything shorter than 5'8"
Weight: 130ish
Best Clothing Style: classic, balancing practicality with asthetic appearance
Number of Drugs I have taken: three, not counting pot
Number of CDs I own: 60 or so
Number of Piercings: none, and never will
Number of Tattoos: just made four
Number of things in my Past I Regret: only one: watching a kid get beat up, and doing nothing
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My Interests

Creative Writing, Not-Doing-Anything, Camping, Music, Video Games, Reading, Sword-fighting with Bamboo (you should try it!), Driving anything at all

I'd like to meet:

Everyone I possibly can!

Music:

The Flaming Lips, Brass Bed, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cream (anything Eric Clapton), Blind Melon, Ozzy Ozbourne, Creedance Clearwater Revivial, Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zepplin, The Allman Brothers, Gorrilaz, Janice Joplin, Days of the New, Jack Johnson, Neil Young, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Doors, ZZ Top, Blues Traveler, many others..

Movies:

I 3 Huckabees, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Big Fish, anything Mel Brooks, Princess Mononoke, Kill Bill (vol 1 &2), Apocalypse Now, (the Original) Star Wars, 5th Element, Evangelion, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, V for Vendetta, Citizen Kane, Singing in the Rain, Indiana Jones (any one), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Forrest Gump

Television:

DIE, TELEVISION!! MySpace Backgrounds from MyPimpSpace.com

Books:

Herman Melville : Moby Dick, Voltaire : Candide, Homer : The Odyssey, Aldeous Huxley : The Doors of Perception, Dumas : The Three Musketeers, Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe, T. H. White : The Once and Future King, Anne Rice : Memnoch the Devil, C.S. Lewis : The Screwtape Letters, Hickman : The Deathgate Cycle, Steinbeck : East of Eden, Dumas : Count of Monte Cristo, Orson Scott Card : Ender's Game, Herbert : Dune, Dickens : Great Expectations, Ovid : Metamorphosis, Rowling : Harry Potter, many others

Heroes:

William Gladstone & Benjamin Disraeli, Mohandas Ghandi, King Charles I, Miyamoto Musashi, Thomas Jefferson, and a few others entirely too cliched to post here

My Blog

Preemptive Strike the Preemptive Strikes!

It seems that we (or at least the vast majority of us) agree, in hindsight, that the preemptive strike made upon Iraq's former government was certainly flawed, due to faulty information, and possibly ...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:31:00 PST

Tribunal Legislation

While I'm on the subject of our current administration, I'd like to alert you all to an Administration-drafted bill trying to make it's way past Congress. Recently, Bush and the CIA have been hit pret...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:18:00 PST

Impeach that Bastard

It occurred to me earlier today that, less than a decade ago, President Clinton went through an impeachment trial for getting his dick sucked, and for lying about it. I'm not saying that it wasn't dis...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:36:00 PST

The Origin & Purpose of Evil

The Origin & Purpose of Evil   Recently, I have become convinced that, from a species-wide perspetive, evil is not done out of malice, or jealousy, or greed; those are only individual reasons...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:10:00 PST