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living dreams

belief of the moment:
Love; sensationalism; cause & effect; Beauty; zeteticism (then absurdism); environmentalism; risk, subtlety, & relativity; explorative hedonist humanism; good(evil

formal education:
NYU (2.5) - History, Renaissance Man (creative writing, philosophy, music theory, east asian studies, political science, cooking [chemistry], anatomy via dance, sculpture, art history, and consumerism studies)
TCD (1) - Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Business, and Law

some interests*:
Love, vim, variegated stimulation, theatrics, games, dancing, existing, playful athletics, Richard Blackman, singing, vast lexicons, politics, Robert A. Wilson, freerunning, Garrison Keillor, (body) surfing, soccer tricks, tennis, running, (open water) swimming, (touch) rugby, racquetball, cycling (especially for exploring), martial arts, (ultimate) frisbee, sociological/fitness/psychological studies/theories, history, cuddling, Tolkien, deep sleep, (int'l) pop culture, (int'l) eclectic culture, minimalism, eating raw, language, anarcho-primitivism, engineering & manipulation

"mission statement":
current
archival

*all lists are in no particular order, except music (which is alphabetical).
NOTE: music and movie lists are a mix of influential and recommended, not necessarily both.

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Monday, December 29

books and memories

I was gifted a $25 B&N card for the holiday, so I decided to spend hours in Barnes & Noble perusing various texts...of which I ended up with $120 worth ($95 w/ the card; phew!). There you go media industry!

The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
The Hedonism Handbook by Michael Flocker (some permanent support against my information-whorism)
Orange County: A Personal History by Gustavo Arellano
Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck
...and, last but not least, Jennifer Government by Max Barry

So far so good. I also just stumbled upon a drawer of photographs and letters from elementary through high school; talk about nostalgia! I haven't really changed that much, fundamentally.

enjoy It,
gM

P.S. I just saw Danny the Dog and was very pleasantly surprised! I never heard of this movie; I found it because the soundtrack is the latest work by UK trip-hop group Massive Attack. It's a little brutal, but quite moving.

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Top 100 Sci-Fi short stories
Life of Pi*, Pretty Good for a Girl*, Light* (Harrison), The Rules of Attraction*, How Soccer Explains the World*, Mind Games*, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs*, Breaking Open the Head*, Ukigumo (Part I), Prep*, Haunts of the Black Massuer: The Swimmer as Hero*, Entangled Minds*, The Sun Also Rises*, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, The Count of Monte Cristo*, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe*, Tropic of Cancer*, Education and Ecstasy*, The Perks of Being a Wallflower*, The Prince, Walden*, [Jared Diamond]*, Tom Brown's Schooldays*, Pride and Prejudice*, The Wind and the Willows*, Law 101*, The Hobbit* + LOTR*, Anna Karenina*, Candide, The Hacker Manifesto, The Communist Manifesto, [most Nietzsche], Snow White (Donald Barthelme), Ender's Game, Civilization and its Discontents, Peter Pan*, and Jennifer Government* (to name those remembered)

*=still reading, but "that good"

:. Music .:

3OH!3, 8bitpeoples.com, A Beautiful Mind OST, Above and Beyond, Ace of Base, Adiemus, Aerosmith, The Album Leaf, Amon Tobin, Aphasia, Aqualung, Architecture in Helsinki, Bad Religion, Band of Horses, Battlestar Galactica (main themes), Biz Markie, Blink 182, Bloc Party, Blue FM internet radio, Boom Boom Satellites, Boondock Saints OST, Brand New, The Bravery, BT, CAKE, Chrono Symphonic, Coldplay, Crystal Castles, Damien Rice, Dan in Real Life OST, The Dandy Warhols, Danger Mouse productions, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Decoder Ring, Delerium, Donnie Darko OST, Rob Dougan, Enigma (project), The Faint, Fatboy Slim, Feist, FFVII Voices of the Lifestream, Final Fantasy soundtracks (& other video games'), Firefly OST, Flobots, Flunk, Freestylers, Garden State OST, Girl Talk, Goddamn Electric Bill, Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Hood Internet (remixes), Hook (score), Hybrid, Immortal Technique, Interpol, Japan-A-Radio.com, Japanese Sunday, Jason Mraz, Joshua Radin, Jump Little Children, Junior Senior, The Killers, KWVA (UO campus radio), Lady GaGa, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Liva, Lord of the Rings (Complete Recordings), Marilyn Manson, MGMT, Mika, Mike Relm, Mindless Self Indulgence, Ministry of Sound compilations, Mira, Mixingradio.com, Moby, Modest Mouse, m.o.v.e., Mozart (and most Classical), Muse, N.E.R.D., No Doubt, "The O.C." Mixes, Ocean (Polish), OverClocked ReMixes, The Offspring, Orbital, O-Zone, Pandora.com (especially their 'Trip Hop'), Peaches, Pendulum, Ping Pong OST, Pirates of the Caribbean OSTs, popexperiment.com, The Postal Service, Pure Reason Revolution, Queen, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Remy Zero, Rihanna, Run-D.M.C., Santogold, The Seatbelts, Sian Alice Group, Sigur Rós, SmoothLounge.com, Stargate OST, String Quartet Tribute Band, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, SUPERCAR, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Taking Back Sunday, Tegan and Sara, Thrice, TOOL, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, TV on the Radio, Yanni, Underworld, Verve//Remixed, The Verve, The Wackness OST, John Williams, Zebrahead, and other related sounds.

:. Movies .:

THINKFilm
Sundance winners
The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Stick It, Serenity, Good Will Hunting, Anger Management, Sex Lies & Videotape, Swingers, Little Manhattan, Capitalism: A Love Story, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Synecdoche New York, A Prairie Home Companion, A Beautiful Mind, KIDS (1995), Brazil (1985), Secretary, The Ice Storm, Igby Goes Down, Half Nelson (2006), Southland Tales, Brick, The Wackness, Danny the Dog, Spring Summer Winter Fall Spring, Donnie Darko, Jeux d'enfants, Stargate, The Big Kahuna, Gattaca, Ping Pong (Japanese), You Me and Everyone We Know, Blade Runner, Adaptation, Jesus Camp, Ancient Discoveries (KOCH/History Channel), Run Lola Run, Dan in Real Life, Spellbound (2002), Get Smart (2008), Heavenly Creatures, Naissance des pieuvres, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Hot Fuzz, Why We Fight, Network, 299 (300 - David Wenham), Rush Hour, Zeitgeist (orig. version) & Zeitgeist: Addendum, Primer, Hook, Never Back Down, Star Wars IV-VI, Heavy Weights, Alien vs. Predator, The Fast and the Furious, King Kong, The Goonies, The Skulls, Old School, Back to the Future (I and III), Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Crash, Harold and Maude, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (minus the uber-depressing ending), Clueless, American Psycho, Jurassic Park, The Incredibles, V for Vendetta, The Mummy, I <3 Huckabees, Fight Club, Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Domino, Aladdin, Little Miss Sunshine, Freeway, León, American Beauty, The Emperor's Club, The Simpsons, Sin City, Amélie, Night and Fog, Imaginary Heroes, Hackers, Coal Miner's Daughter, Y Tu Mamá Tambien, Delicatessen, Michael Clayton, Walk On Water, City of God, Closer, Living in Oblivion, The Fifth Element, The History Boys, L'Auberge Espagnole, Good Night and Good Luck, On Golden Pond, Across the Universe, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ('67), garage, Super Size Me, Lost in Translation, The Secret of NIMH, Thank You For Smoking, Superbad, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and so forth...

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