activism, art, beauty, being creative, being lame, being mischievous, being random, being with friends, being young, burning, C2H5OH, cameras, concerts, darkrooms, day, devo, discussions, doing everything, doing nothing, doing random shit, duct tape, eyes, figuring things out, fire, food, free shit, free stuff, fucking with stupid shit, funny, government, independent films, independent music, japanese punk, lightning, lights, live music, movies, music, nature, night, optimism, outdoors, parties, pessimism, pez, photography, photos, playing in the rain, punk, rain, rants, raves, reading, road trips, running in rain, ska, skiing, sleep, snack food, spork god, sporks, stars, staying out late, storms, strange, swedish fish, sword fighting, taking things apart, talking to others, thrift stores, thrifting, thunder, tinkering with shit, tinkering with things, trance, walking around aimlessly, wandering aimlessly, warm covers, world war ii, writing, z. motorcycles, honda, suzuki
Music
My main genre is Ska (and early 60's jamacan dancehall style) and i also listen to Dub, swing, jazz, dancehall, ragga, house techno, reggae, rocksteady, underground hip-hop....
Bands include; A Tribe Called Quest, Adjusters, Aggrovators, Alton Ellis, Animal Chin, Artie Shaw, Atmosphere, Atom & His Package, Avenged Sevenfold, B.B. King, Bad Manners, Bad Religion, Beck, Ben Folds Five, Benny Goodman, Big Fuckin Skull, Billie Holliday, Billy Idol, Bim Skala Bim, Björk, Bluebeats, Bouncing Souls, Cake, Caribbean Beat Combo, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Chinkees, Chris Murray, Common Rider, Conflict, Corey Dixon And The Zvooks, Cossack!, Count Basie, Daft Punk, Daler Mehndi, Dance Hall Crashers, Deals Gone Bad, Death From Above 1979, Delroy Wilson, Desmond Dekker, Devo, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Die Fantastischen Vier, Dillinger Four, Dizzy Gillespie, Dj Shadow, Django, Don Drummond, Dr. Ringding & The Senior Allstars, Dropkick Murphys, Duke Ellington, Eastern Standard Time, Ella Fitzgerald, English Beat, Errol Dunkey, Everclear, Exploding Hearts, Felt (murs And Slug), Fishbone, Fog, Freetown, Fu-schnickens, Fugees, Gaylettes, Glen Miller, Go Jimmy Go, Goldfinger, Gorillaz, Green Day, Grover Washington Jr., Heiruspecs, Hepcat, Herbie Hancock, Hound Dog Taylo, Huey Lewis And The News, Ini Kamoze, Isaac Green & The Skalars, Ivan Rebroff, Jackie Opel, James Brown, Jamiroquai, Jim Ether, Jimmy Cliff, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Ken Boothe, Kentucky Gag Order, Kickback, King Tubby And The Aggrovators, Kriss Kross, Laurel Aitken, Lauryn Hill, Lee 'scratch' Perry, Lester Sterling, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Lord Kitchener, Lord Mike's Dirty Calypsonians, Madness, Mama Digdown's Brass Band, Marcia Griffiths, Marvin Gaye, Matisyahu, Mc Chris, Mc Hammer, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Men At Work, Mento Buru, Mike Park, Miles Davis, Montell Jordan, Mr Scruff, Murder Suicide Pact, Nancy Sinatra, New York Ska-jazz Ensemble, Ocean Eleven, Ooklah The Moc, Operation Ivy, Patrick Harrison, Peter Tosh, Phyllis Dillon, Pietasters, Potshot, Presidents Of The Usa, Pressure Cooker, Prince Buster, Professor Longhair, Q And Not U, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Reggie & The Full Effect, Rocker T, Roland Alphonso, Roosevelt Sykes, Röyksopp, Rude Rich & The High Notes, Sam Ragga Band, Scatman John, Scofflaws, See Spot, Slackers, Snow, Soul Coughing, Specials, Strike Anywhere, Sublime, The Afterbeat, The Aggrolites, The Allstonians, The Clash, The Debonaires, The Drastics, The Exploding Hearts, The Gadjits, The Isley Brothers, The Operators, The Seatbelts, The Siren Six, The Skatalites, The Skoidats, The Slackers, The Specials, The Steady Ups, The Stingers Atx, The Toasters, The Wailers, The Zvooks, They Might Be Giants, Toots & The Maytals, Tower Of Power, Umbrella Bed, Venice Shoreline Chris, Vhs Or Beta, Violent Femmes, Westbound Train, William Shatner, Wyclef Jean, Yoko Kanno, Youngblood Brass Band,
Movies
In no particular order Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Chaos, Avalon, Hero, Matchstickmen, F9/11, The Bourne Identity, Run Lola Run, Memento, Princess Mononoke, Kurosawa (7 saumurai, etc), Old school karate films, North By Northwest, James Bond, Mel Brooks films, WWII movies (new and old, 12 angry men, Original marchuan canidate, Harvey, etc etc. Old School movies rock........Theres proably more, i dunno
Television
Not a fan of TV
Books
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet, Thin Red Line - James Jones Revolution Betrayed - Leon Trotsky, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair - Robert Pursig, A Brief History Of Time -
Stephen Hawking, Republic - :Plato, The Organ Grinders - Bill
Fitzhugh, Macromedia Flash Mx
well those are what ive read recently
Heroes
Well I don't really have any heroes per say
But I do have some people I enjoy their thoughts
-"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about
how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is wrong." Buckminster Fuller
-"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious
as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the
universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute
continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. " Buckminster Fuller
-"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case,
the thought is staggering. " Buckminster Fuller
"I thought you must be dead ..." Aurthur said simply.
"So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."
Arthur cleared his throat, and then did it again. "Where," he said, "did you ...?"
"Find a gin and tonic?" said Ford brightly. "I found a small lake that thought it was a gin and tonic, and jumped in and out of that. At least, I think it thought it was a gin and tonic."
"I may," he added with a grin which would have sent sane men scampering into trees, "have been imagining it."
Normandale Community College
Bloomington,Minnesota
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Sociology/Philosophy
Minor: Visual Arts
Clubs: Round Square
2003 to 2005
University Of Minnesota-Duluth
Duluth,Minnesota
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: In Progress
Major: Sociology
Clubs: Pogo Club
Explorers International
Intramural Frizbee
About me: "This is a man, after all, who, when he has not been deadly serious or terminally depressed, or both, has devoted his life to not making sense."
Well me.... I always have about 20-30 things going on in my head, I'm majoring in Sociology and Philosophy with a Visual Arts minor, I love crosswords but I'm terrible at them (I get about 1/2-2/3rd done pre Fridays, after Fridays its about 1/4), I love solitude, but I love companionship more, I hate arguing, but love discussing, I'm amused pretty easily if I want to be, I believe in existing art (taking something that exists and point out its artfullnessticity), as you noticed I love making up words, I ride a skateboard, bike, car, motorcycles, and used to ride a kick scooter (RIP skoots), I love making movies and taking photographs, I'm usually working on my vid/phots or chilling at a coffee shop (usually muddy's), I'm incredibly open I will tell anything about me and my straight opinion, I don't get offended, I love scavenger hunts, I despise violence, I also hate hate, i have bad handwriting, I believe that the universe and everything about it is beautiful, I believe that humans are no mistake, I believe though that we are a timed species, I believe in the power of adaptation, I cant stand current politics but love discussing them, I don't know what I want to do for a living, I believe in an open book government, I don't believe in fear tactics, I believe I would be a great politician but I don't believe I would get elected, I love artsy films/video, I am not a film maker, I am a video artist, I believe there is a reason behind everything, I believe that everyone has a responsibility for everything, I think logically and love logic, I believe if something doesn't make sense at first glance you missed something, I believe that I'm really tired, I love sleeping, goodbye, bleeep
This deserves a separate paragraph:
I love waffles....I do. If you ever want to make me happy or get on my good side, make me a good waffle. I don't know, waffles have this intrinsic idea of goodness built into each gridtite. If I'm ever pissed off, all I have to do is make waffles. I don't know where this came from, except I always in my memory have loved waffles. And good waffles too, you know the ones that don't need ANYTHING else on them.....I'm gonna go make some right now...cya
If the purpose of scientific method is to select from among a multitude of
hypotheses, and if the number of hypotheses grows faster than experimental
method can handle, then it is clear that all hypotheses can never be tested. If
all hypotheses cannot be tested, then the results of any experiment are
inconclusive and the entire scientific method falls short of its goal of
establishing proven knowledge.
"Suppose a child is born devoid of all senses: he has no sight, no
hearing, no touch, no smell, no taste - nothing. Thores no way hwatsoever for
him to receive any sensations from the outside world. And suppose this child is
fed and kept alive for 18 years in that state. Does this 18 year old person have
any thoughts in his head? If so where does it come from? How does he get
it?"
He brings up the point of time is not a sensory perception, that it is a
assumption because of the construction and observation of movement of objects
and our perception of how those move through space-time.
This starts to make me anylize how sensory perceptions can be fooled and
perceived differently by others. How do you know that someone elses perception
of time is the same as yours. Yes dropping a ball is going to take 2.5 times the
speed of throwing it. But what is that time. Yes it accelerates at 9.8 meters a
second and takes 1.4 seconds to hit the ground. But what IS a second. How can
you describe a second without sensory perception association? You cant....
When i say that somehting is taking a 5 min, someones reality may have a
different perception of time and this 5 min translated into my reality would
actually be 3 seconds of my reality. Is there anyway to relate this perception
of time between to individual contiousnesses.
Than onto the topic of personal sensory unreferenced thoughts. is there a
thought in your head that is not associated with any sort of sensory perception.
This discounts: sound, touch, taste, sight, smell and time. Anything you think
about has this connnection to our sensory perceptions. We dont really see the
world, we dont really touch the world smell it or hear it. It just exists in a
compiling of all the sensory data that our body interperets from its receptors.
Can you prove to me that you exist? seriously. If you slap me, that is merely
a input of my physical touch sensors, (sight and sound too). These can easily be
fooled, phantom pains and dream states show that something doesnt always need to happen or exist in order for pain to be received. Dreams of sight and lucent
dreaming shows to us that our vision can be inpaired and fooled.
Gravity is one of these things that has "always" existed, an
absolute truth if you will. But this has only existed in the mind. Numbers are
created and manipulated by the human mind. Without the human mind numbers would
not exist. Logic is the same thing. without the human mind, there would be no
such thing as logic, there would be no systematic method that the mind must
follow, or objects must obey. Science would not exist, quarks, fission, fusion
never would exist
If all of our data in our head comes from sensory input from substance. And
since there is no sensory impression of substance itself. Logically one can
follow that there is no knowlege of substance. The idea that there has to be
something there to give off these sensory inputs we encounter is just one of
those logical common sence things that we are taught to beleive.
"You can not gain something without sacrificing something else of the equal value."
Who I'd like to meet: anyone and everyone who is genuinely entertaining and fun.
I would love to meet someone who will be able to solve that one and final puzzle. The puzzle in question is the one that everyone has and noone can complete. This puzzle has an infinite amount of pieces many of which are faded broken or bent. Some puzzle pieces look like they have been chewed on by small animals along with other humans. Some of these pieces are of a completely different color, so different in fact that one believes that they are pieces for another puzzle out there, which somehow got mixed in at the production factory. these stray pieces although not thought to be belonging to this set are still attempted to be placed in the puzzle, fucking everything up. These puzzles are so complex and obscure that there is no table anywhere that can hold them, so just as you piece together one chunk of the puzzle and believe that you are getting somewhere, the opposing side slides off the table and shatters on the floor into a million gloriously confusing pieces making your puzzle ever more complex.
I also just got back from Jamaica with - a whole heap of incredible new ska, rocksteady and early reggae 45s on labels like Beverley's, Top Deck, Tuneico, Treasure Isle and more! - a selection of Jamaican vinyl LPs we've never had in the store before! We've also got a new batch of Roots Reggae titles (not yet available on the regular site) in the CD Sale, and a huge selection of clearance 45s. You can only find out about the Secret Sales by signing up for the Stubborn Records e-mail list at http://www.versioncity.com/lists
dude! 9 days and I'll be home for the holidays. You gonna be around? If so, we should hang out. Funs is a must. But, not so much something strange, and kinda gross happens... ahhh what the hell!? BRING IT ON!
I met Ben at the local homeless shelter. I was there cooking them hotdogs, beans, and rats. He was wearing hammer pants and a hefty bag as a tank top. His toothless grin won my charm, so I gave him some of my lottery money so he could start up his own meth lab and also run some ubber shitty apartments. You could say that Ben wouldnt be the sleazy drug dealing slum lord that he is today without my help.
I got nothing happening Friday actually, I'm down for anything you got time for dude. Thanks for offering to do something man! It's hard to get excited about turning 25 lol.
