...there is a point in the development of mankind at which the obstacles to men’s self-preservation in the state of nature are too great to be overcome by the strength that any one individual can exert....
Male
30 years old
San Francisco, California
United States
partying, music (making and playing), women, bourbon, triphop, spliffin, playin records, enjoying time with friends, writing, lounging out
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Music
Poison The Well, Thievery Corporation, New Order, Atreyu, Dead Poetic, Pavement, Team Sleep, The People Under The Stairs, Hopesfall, Silverstein, Derrick Carter, Dj Cam, Nightmares on Wax, Aphex Twin, When In Rome, Portishead, The Pixies, Ninja Tune, In Flames, Underoath, Ignite, Unearth, Tribe Called Quest, De La, Mos Def, Blackstar, Pharcyde, The Roots, Jill Scott, Jaga Jazzist, Viktor Duplaix, Glassjaw, Air, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Amon Tobin, Thursday, Braid, Paper Cities, The Sex Offenders, The Clash, The Stella Link, Propagandhi, Green Day, Sunny Day Real Estate, Fugazi, Jets To Brazil, Jawbreaker, Tone Loc, Jawbox, Hum, Yasume, 36 Crazy Fists, Digable Planets, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Craig Mack, King Crimson, Jimmy Eat World, Young MC, No Knife, Arovane, Skiploader, Depeche Mode, A Thousand Furies, Cap'n Jazz, The Mars Volta, Deftones, Big L, Midnight Starr, Sparta, Boards of Canada, At The Drive In, Face to Face, Common, Musiq (Soulchild), Digital Underground, Nina Simone, Imogen Heap, Flying Lotus, Jeff Buckley, LTJ Bukem, Evol Intent, Switch, Gang Starr, Dj P and Dj Z-Trip, Dj Shadow, Cinematic Orchestra, A Perfect Circle, The Smiths, Quicksand, Helmet, Rollins Band, Bloc Party, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, 4Hero, Four Tet, Amon Tobin, Atomheart, Bonobo, Camp Lo, David Axelrod, Morcheeba, Prefuse 73, Panda Bear, The Herbaliser, Zero 7, Wagon Christ, VAST...i could go on and on...
Movies
What Dreams May Come, I *heart* Huckabee's, Good Will Hunting, The Matrix Trilogy, The Harry Potter Flicks, Sin City, Memento, all of David Lynch's films, Garden State, Crash, The Godfather Trilogy, Casino, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Heat, Hi-Fidelity (and pretty much any other John Cusack film), Van Wilder, Pi, V For Vendetta, Aeon Flux, Fight Club, What The Bleep Do We Know, Babel, The Good Shepherd, Grindhouse, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Dead Poets Society, The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum, Munich, Syriana, Boondock Saints, Sweeney Todd, Contact, London, The Italian Job, Fantastic Planet, The Science of Sleep, A Beautiful Mind, Stranger Than Fiction, Finding Forrester, The Breakfast Club, Underworld, UltraViolet, Man of the Year, Suicide Kings, Rounders, American History X, 12 Monkeys, Oceans 11/12/13, Wristcutters, Everything Is Illuminated, Into the Wild, Charlie Bartlett, Pan's Labyrinth, No Country For Old Men, Layer Cake, Metropolis
Television
The West Wing, The Daily Show, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Heroes, Lost, Boston Legal, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Dexter, Californication, Weeds, Top Chef
Books
The Harry Potter Series, Tennesee Williams, Douglas Coupland, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance/Lila," anything dealing with philosophy/enlightenment of some sort..."High Fidelity," anything by David Foster Wallace, Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Nietszche, Existentialism, Moral Theory, etc...The Qu'ran, Taoist Ideology, Henry Rollins, Chuck Palahniuk, "Night Of The Avenging Blowfish," Chuck Klosterman, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Augusten Burroughs, C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Jean Beaudrillard, Michel Foucault, Margaret Atwood, John Cheever, Bhagavad Ghita, Zen & The Art Of Creativity, Malcom Gladwell's "The Tipping Point," flash fiction, Richard Matheson's "What Dreams May Come" and "I Am Legend," "Darkly Dreaming Dexter," Oscar Wilde, Edward Albee, Ibsen, Tennessee Williams
University Of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City,Missouri
Graduated: 2009
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English (Creative Writing)/Philosophy
Minor: Political Science
2005 to 2009
Johnson County Community College
Overland Park,Kansas
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: English/Philosophy
Minor: Political Science
2000 to 2006
Truman State University
Kirksville,Missouri
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: English
Minor: Philosophy
Been playing for 13 years, looking for a possible band to jam with. Check my music profile to see my influences. Anything loud, hard, abrasive and angry would be super right now.
i'm a writer, a musician, a poet, a lover...i am fiercely passionate about anything i involve myself in and i'm a big fan of the sensual aspects of life, whether it be waking up next to someone and spending the entire day with them in bed or smokin' a spliff to the view of a sunset. i like roadtrips that happen randomly and i'm an avid reader. i'm most passionate about writing, my music, top shelf bourbon and intelligent women.
i watch youtube clips of def poetry jam when i'm in a bad mood. i like having the hair on the back of neck stand up at hearing someone spout off some fire-ass poetry that speaks to me. i like epic music that makes your face hurt from smiling so hard. a clever twist of phrase will always get my attention, while cliches make me want to walk the fuck away. long conversations over drinks, heady conversations over joints, and concerts are my favorite past-times, second only to writing and performing. a certain amount of nonsense is acceptable...i am a writer, after all. i dabble in the art of bullshit and storytelling, but i get enough of that from my imagination. real people with real aspirations and real things to say need apply within.
i'm a pervert and a gentleman at the same time, but i find intelligence and creativity far sexier than any form of tanning and make up combo. having an opinion is good...being opinionated is boring and uninteresting. money does not excite me, nor do nice things unless they're essential for my creativity to thrive. i like to spoil, but now that i'm a full time student, i'm pretty much broke all the time.
i'm in a perpetual state of protesting capitalization. "I" is never more important than "we" and "we" are never more important than while in the immediate moment. i wear the clothing of many walks of life, but i've been focused on only one path for the last 4 years. you'll know me best by analyzing my writing as it seems there is a tiny (or obvious) part of me in every piece, every character, every syllable. i have scribed some 200+ pieces of decent poetry, 130 pieces of flash fiction, and 210 pages of my first book (as of 10/12/08) and i am nowhere close to scraping out the last of my subconscious for you to examine.
i used to be a barfly, but now i find myself enjoying the solitude of a good book or thought-provoking movie as opposed to getting shit-housed in a bar full of halitosis-prone drunkards and idiots with unnecessary alcoholic rage trying to one-up their friends in the systematic genocide of braincells. i still enjoy a drink here and again, but i prefer it in the company of conversation, not jukeboxes and overloud speaker systems.
Who I'd like to meet: smoke partners, drinking buddies, other writers/artists/musicians, and anyone with a brain who can talk about pretty much anything ranging from current world affairs to existentialism to literature
‘Mediocre crime fiction it ain’t. If the prose was any more hard-boiled, demolition companies would be buying up copies of this book and using them as wrecking balls. I’m not kidding when I say this book should be huge. The question is, is the world ready for it?’ – Christopher Nosnibor
Hey there. Hows life for you these days.Is it true you will be in town soon?I have to say your taste in women to surround youself with is outstanding.Give me a call some time.
Ah, the fond memories we've shared,let me wax on and wax off: 1. Ignoring you at Jilly's for a good year - too good to give you the time of day, but good enough to dance our lil' hearts out every Sat. night 2. Weekly coffee meetings at Crave 3. Sweaty basement magic at The Point 4. Being your muse - I take partial artistic credit for 2006 & 2007 ;P 5. Giving camel toe w/ Camel 6. 420 Badminton tournament 7. Abnormal amounts of sweat You'll be missed terribly!
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