...for when as children we learn and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. - H.P. Lovecraft
Male
29 years old
Oceanside, California
United States
I'm a voracious reader (mostly history, classical literature, sci-fi, Christian apologetics and theology). I also enjoy music, hockey, soccer, PT (oorah Marine Corps), drinking with people who make good conversation, smoking way too much.
Music
The Paper Chase, Budapest One, Eisley, Helmet, The Reverend Horton Heat, Primus, Brutal Juice, The Toadies, The Pietasters, Atari Teenage Riot, That Dog, Skinny Puppy, Slow Roosevelt, Baboon, Veruca Salt, Johnny Cash, Hagfish, Snake River Conspiracy, Skavoovie and the Epitones, Cockfight Club, Pinkston, Pinewood Derby, the Dooms UK, Dance Hall Crashers, Caulk, They Might Be Giants, Cradle of Filth, Rubber Bullet, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Calomine, KMFDM, Matisyahu, KGC, Lemon Demon, Metric
Movies
Bladerunner is the greatest movie of all time. Not much else needs to be said, really.
Dagon, George Romero's Living Dead Trilogy (in all it's incarnations), Das Boot, Stalingrad, Johnny Mnemonic, Resident Evil, Serenity, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Re-Animator, Full Metal Jacket, Underworld, Clint Eastwood westerns, The Road to Perdition, Jarhead.
Movies I've seen lately that are good: The Good Shephard, The Good German (Toby Macquire finally sheds his boyish demeanor for that of a dirty, dirty man), Breach.
Movies I've seen lately that suck: Spiderman 3, Eragon. That's about it.
Television
Hogan's Heroes, Lost, Sealab 2020, ATHF, Home Movies, EPL Soccer, hockey, the History Channel, the Military Channel, Babylon 5, MST3K, Firefly, Farscape, Red Dwarf, Space Ghost, The Brak Show, Futurama, Arrested Development, the Office, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly
Books
The Bible, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Idoru, The Wheel of Time, Flags of our Fathers, The Mask of Command, Carnage and Culture, The Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman, the works of H.P. Lovecraft, American Gods, Leaves of Grass, The Illiad, Cryptonomicon, Mere Christiantiy, The Screwtape Letters, The American Scholar, The Abolition of Man, The Killer Angels
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (Sorry, currently on a Lovecraft kick)
Heroes
Jesus, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Gibson, H.P. Lovecraft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, King David, John the Baptist, Dr. Herbert West, Space Ghost, Zorak.
Wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? And if ye toil only that ye may toil more, when shall happiness find you? Ye toil to live, but is not life made of beauty and song? ... Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. Were not death more pleasing?
-H.P. Lovecraft "The Quest of Iranon"
Who I'd like to meet: People that are alive: William Gibson (father of cyberpunk literature), John Congleton (front-man for the band "The Paperchase"), to name a few.
People that are dead: H.P. Lovecraft (if you don't know who he is, you're an idiot), William Tecumseh Sherman (Let's drink corn liquor and burn Atlanta!), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chesty Puller (one of the greatest Marines to have ever lived), Smith Wigglesworth (one of the most powerful Pentecostal evangelists/preachers/apostles in recent history), Brian Pohanka (definitely the most interesting and knowledgeable Civil War historian I know of, just learned he passed away a year ago). Lots more, but the list can go on forever.
Just saw the newest Eisley video on their MySpace page. Here it is:
hey curtis. i stole lyndi's account and came to say hello. i miss you. i miss your musk, your scent. when this is all over i think you and me should get an apartment together.
Not much going on here. Same shit different day. Oh except that Chad and his wife are back in Fort Worth. We hung out once but he's working nights so haven't got to have too much fun...yet.
Curtis, you sick basturd. What the hell is up. When are you finally going to get your ass back to Texas and say whazup to some old homies. Eh? Okay screw that Eh... I'm not a knuck. We'll make Pan-Galactic-Gargle-Blasters and you can break my toe for old times sake. In return I will impale your hand with an old rusty ass $25 sword. Why would you want to miss such fun??? Didn't think so, now get back to Texas foo.
