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[Axe Bros.] דומה

He who makes a beast of himself escapes the pain of being a man.

About Me


In the attitude of דומה the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi

דומה is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. ~Thomas Carlyle

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - דומה is the sharper sword. ~Samuel Johnson

דומה was never written down. ~Italian Proverb

You can hear the footsteps of God when דומה reigns in the mind.

דומה is a text easy to misread. ~A.A. Attanasio

דומה is more musical than any song. ~Christina Rossetti

Nothing is more useful than דומה. ~Menander of Athens

דומה is the mother of truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli

What shall I say to you? What can I say better than דומה is? ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

דומה is the secret to sanity. ~Astrid Alauda

דומה is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ~Josh Billings

There are times when דומה has the loudest voice. ~Leroy Brownlow

Let us be דומה, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

דומה is also speech. ~Proverb


Books I've read (or listened) since September 2007 (in order): House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Amerika by Franz Kafka.
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
The Castle by Franz Kafka.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
The Trial by Franz Kafka.
I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert.
Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King.
Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Steven King.
Labyrinths of Reason by William Poundstone.
Dark Tower III: The Wastelands by Stephen King.
Whore Carnival by Shannon Bell.
Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.
Understanding Physics by Isaac Asimov.
Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick.
The Divine Comedy (Inferno) by Dante Alighieri.
The Divine Comedy (Paradise) by Dante Alighieri.
The Divine Comedy (Purgatory) by Dante Alighieri.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
The Demon-Haunted World (Science as a Candle in the Dark) by Carl Sagan.
Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft.
Tiny Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.
The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book by R. Crumb.
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry.
Herbert West, Re-Animator by H.P. Lovecraft.
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.
How Real is Real? by Paul Watzlawick.
Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer.
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm.
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.
The Satanic Verses by Sir Salman Rushdie.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (with commentary).
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.
Hocus-Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut.
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin.
The Philosophy of Mind Lectures by Professor Patrick Grim.
Copyright Law by Roger E. Schechter.
A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut.
The Great Ideas of Philosophy Lectures by Professor Daniel N. Robinson.
Virtual Light by William Gibson.
Idoru by William Gibson.
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson.
Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Count Zero by William Gibson.
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Professor Robert Greenberg.

My Interests

95%

Nintendo
Dr. Mario.
Ninja Gaiden.
Ninja Gaiden 2.
River City Ransom.
Super Dodge Ball.
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros 2.
Super Mario Bros 3.
Contra.
Tengen Tetris.

Super Nintendo
Super Metroid.
Super Mario World.
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels.
Chrono Trigger.
Harvest Moon.
Actraiser.
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Super Mario RPG.
Super Mario Kart.
Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition.
Starfox.

Playstation
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Silent Hill.
Armored Core.
Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo.
Intelligent Qube.
Metal Gear Solid.
Final Fantasy VII.
Final Fantasy VIII.
Final Fantasy IX.

PC
Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction.
Counter Strike: Source.
Bioshock.
Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots.
Sins of a Solar Empire.
Diablo.
Starcraft: Brood War.
SimCity 4.
Ascendancy.
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania.

Playstation 2
Rule of Rose.
Silent Hill 2.
Silent Hill 4: The Room.
Silent Hill 3.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Sons of Liberty.
Grand Theft Auto.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Katamari Damacy.
We Love Katamari.
Kingdom Hearts.
Kingdom Hearts 2.
Fatal Frame.
Armored Core 2.
Armored Core 3.
Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero 2.
Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s.
Guitar Hero 3.
Dance Dance Revolution.
Rumble Roses.
Soul Calibur 2.

Nintendo Gamecube
Resident Evil 4.
Super Smash Bros Melee.
Animal Crossing.
Super Mario Kart: Double Dash.
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour.

XBOX 360
Dead Rising.
Grand Theft Auto 4.

Game Boy Advance
Pokemon Emerald.
Pokemon Ruby.
Pokemon Fire Red.
Pokemon Leaf Green.

Nintendo Wii
Super Smash Bros Brawl.
Wii Play.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Acoustic
Andy McKee.
Elliott Smith.
Kaki King.
Leo Kottke.
Seu Jorge.
Thai Elephant Orchestra.
Yann Tiersen.

Comedy
I Hate You When You're Pregnant.
The Flight of the Conchords.

Electronic
Boards of Canada.
Daft Punk.
Lamb.
Massive Attack.
Nine Inch Nails.
Sneaker Pimps.
Tricky.

Folk
Bob Dylan.
Charles Manson.
Devendra Banhart.

Hip-Hop
Aesop Rock.
Cannibal Ox.
CunninLynguists.
Dan the Automator.
Danger Doom.
Del tha Funkee Homosapien.
Deltron 3030.
Dr. Octagon.
Edan.
El-P.
Eyedea & Abilities.
Immortal Technique.
Kool Keith.
Masta Ace.
MC Paul Barman.
MF Doom.
Prince Paul.
Wordsworth.

Pop
Beck.
Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Depeche Mode.
The Doors.
Feist.
Gorillaz.
Jamiroquai.
Otis Redding.
Radiohead.

Post Rock
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness.
Mogwai.
Sigur Rós.

Rock
CKY.
Dethklok.
Dire Straits.
Don Caballero.
Gwar.
Hella.
The Hill Valley Preservation Society.
HIM.
Lhasa (jp). The Mars Volta.
Psyopus.
Queen.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
Sparklehorse.
Tool.
Vomitron.
Wolfmother.

Soundtracks
A Clockwork Orange.
Anima Mundi.
The Big Lebowski.
Cirque de Soleil.
Cowboy Bebop.
Desperado.
The Devil's Rejects.
Donnie Darko.
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain.
Fight Club.
Final Fantasy: Advent Children.
FLCL.
Koyaanisqatsi.
Kundun.
Les Enfants Terribles.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
High Fidelity.
Naqoyqatsi.
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Powaqqatsi.
Pure Pwnage.
Romeo & Juliet.
The Science of Sleep.
Toonami.

Video Game Soundtracks.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Dance Dance Revolution.
Diablo II.
Katamari Damacy.
Metroid Prime.
Silent Hill.
Silent Hill 2.
Silent Hill 3.
Silent Hill 4: The Room.
Silent Hill Origins.
We Love Katamari.

Video Game Cover Projects
The Advantage.
Alias Jack.
Argaial.
Ashane.
Best Metal Man Fan.
Black Mages.
bLiNd.
BrainCells.
The Cactus Dildo.
Chromelodeon.
Cradle of Filth.
Cursor.
Deimos.
Estradasphere.
Game Over.
Generic.
GeoHazard.
Gux.
Hale-Bopp.
House the Grate.
Inverted Silence.
Jaquio.
Kabuki Dude.
Kingswrd.
kLuTz.
Mazedude.
McVaffe.
Minibosses.
Minibossies.
Motherbrain!.
Mr. Yasensky.
NESkimos.
Novabond.
OneUp Mushrooms.
Pingosimon.
Po!.
RabiteMan.
Rexy.
RushJet1.
Ryan8bit.
SAiNT 420.
Saitama's Final Weapon.
Sean Daemon9623.
Seifer.
Select Start.
Stemage.
Temp Sound Solutions.
Tibone.
Trucci.
Vigilante.
Virt.
Winbee Neo Cinema Club.
Xoc.

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
8 Mile.
12 Monkeys.
28 Days Later.
Adaptation.
Akira.
Amelie.
American Beauty.
American Psycho.
Amores Perros.
Apocalypse Now.
A Scanner Darkly.
A Very Long Engagement.
Barbarella.
Batman Begins.
Battle Royale.
Being John Malkovich.
The Big Lebowski.
The Boondock Saints.
Braveheart.
Brazil.
Breakin'.
Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo.
Cannonball Run.
The CKY Series.
Casablanca.
Casino.
Children of Men.
Class of Nuke 'Em High.
Clockwork Orange.
Dawn of the Dead.
Desperado.
The Devil's Rejects.
Dolemite.
Dr. Strangelove.
Empire Records.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Falling Down.
Fight Club.
Freddy Got Fingered.
Fritz the Cat.
Garden State.
Ghost World.
Great Expectations.
Gummo.
Haggard.
Hannibal.
Hard Candy.
Harold and Maude.
High Fidelity.
High Tension.
Hot Fuzz.
I Heart Huckabees.
I'm Not There.
Jacob's Ladder.
Josie and the Pussycats.
Jesus Camp.
Juno.
Kung Fu Hustle.
Land of the Dead.
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon.
The Last Starfighter.
The Legend of Drunken Master.
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Magnolia.
The Maltese Falcon.
The Manchurian Candidate.
The Man Who Wasn't There.
Mean Girls.
Mr. Accident.
Mystic River.
Natural Born Killers.
Night of the Living Dead (1991).
Night Watch.
O Brother Where Art Thou.
Office Space.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior.
The Orphanage.
Pan's Labyrinth.
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
The Professional.
The Protector.
Pulp Fiction.
Quidam.
Raising Arizona.
Re-Animator.
Romeo and Juliet (1996).
The Science of Sleep.
Shaun of the Dead.
Silence of the Lambs.
Silent Hill.
Six String Samurai.
Spice World.
Super Troopers.
Taxi Driver.
There Will Be Blood.
Training Day.
Unleashed.
Waking Life.
The Warriors.
Wayne's World.
Wayne's World 2.
What The Bleep Do We Know?
Wuthering Heights (1939).

Television:

Television fails.

Books:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
World War Z by Max Brooks.
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
Days of War, Nights of Love by Crimethinc.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski.
Graffiti World by Nicholas Ganz.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
Labyrinths of Reason by William Poundstone.
The Demon-Haunted World (Science as a Candle in the Dark) by Carl Sagan.
Tiny Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
How Real is Real? by Paul Watzlawick.

Comic Books & Graphic Novels.
Fables.
The Invisibles.
Preacher.
R. Crumb.
Sandman.
Silent Hill.
Transmetropolitan.
Watchmen.
The Walking Dead.

Heroes:

MC Paul Barman.
Hunter S. Thompson.
Thomas Jefferson.

My Blog

On Video Games

If Aristotle or Pythagoras were to see someone playing Guilty Gear or Tetris competitively, and they seemed to be even remotely structural players, they would probably think we were performing an act ...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:58:00 PST

Stool Pedestal

Philosophy was there,and ringed my ragged hair,as lofty burdens wrestled with the strength of my despair.What things I had done,facades I had spun,and measured unto Narcissus for loyalty begun.Not mou...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:57:00 PST

In Defense of the Axe

My girlfriend forwarded the following e-mail to me:The PHD zombie boys Roger and Anthony (the writers of our film) tell me that an axe is probably one of the top ten worst weapons for fighting zombies...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:45:00 PST

We Move With It

Commit the winter’s sands to mind,Submit the summer’s sands to body.Submit my hours to summer’s rind,Commit my seconds to winter’s rotting.Within the simple tasks at hand,I spi...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:13:00 PST

Universal Truths

Take any universal truth, any truth that's meant to be utterly damning to deny, and you will almost certainly find that it has always been a beautifully fabricated lie. The more complex and all-encomp...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:59:00 PST

The Paradox of Paradoxes

Paradoxes are both abundant and can be described in various situations which take place in real life. Some are stretches of the imagination, and others could actually happen, and often do. These thing...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

A poem I wrote in 30 seconds, and all its deep meanings.

Indefinite excentricette various hilarious seed-scattered stories depend on no categories - Reversal disperse all a verse will reverse all backwards like a night light, write to right wrongs, right?In...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:46:00 PST

Fatal Frame

    I've lost a lot of sleep because of the terror instilled in me by the PS2 game Fatal Frame. For this reason I've decided to continue playing it. I consider it fear training for the ...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:44:00 PST

Bogged Horizon tabs

I got bored after work one day, so....Acoustic Portions of 'Bogged Horizon' by LhasaGtr I (E A Dflat G B E)Tabbed by the Halo of the SunTo tune the fourth string down to Dflat, tune the fourth string ...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:53:00 PST

Robotripping Dream

In this dream, which I don't remember the plot nearly at all, I'm in this movie as a character who ends up watching this dance tournament on TV. This is all I remember because this is all I could focu...
Posted by [Axe Bros.] ÓÕÞÔ on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:44:00 PST