Maladjusted
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Bum |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Introduction | Taking a break from my great project of writing a tell-all autohagiograpy my main interest at the moment is in the intersection between philosophy, politics and religion. This blog, as well as being my excuse for some joyously arbitrary denunciations of all things in the sub-lunary world, is also an attempt to share some of my interests and concerns with as many of you as I can fit on to this particular electronic Twister board. So: welcome to the drowning! I hope you know how to wave. Or breathe underwater. Or at least scroll your way through a lot of Bolshie-Catholic-Romantic- scrawl with constant reference to Socrates. Love, -"Mal." Contact Mal @: drowninginvitriol@gmail.com |
| Interests | Philosophy, History, Theology, poetry; questions about the intersection (and tensions) between politics, religion and philosophy, literature (as long as we're not talking about novels actually written by J.M. Coetzee); I am a fan of Thomas Mann and Thomas Pynchon, Plato and Augustine, Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, G.K. Chesterton, Theodor Adorno, Chan Marshall, Borges, Plato, Evelyn Waugh, Hegel, Nietzsche, Fred Jameson, Orwell, St. Augustine, Xenophon, John Milbank and Dostoyevskyprocrastination; nerdy things (like computer games and science fiction); trying to write, leanring, |
| Favorite movies | Andrei Roublev, Mirror, Solaris (in fact, anything by Tarkovsky), Aguirre: wrath of God (ditto Werner Herzog) Barry Lyndon (Kubrick), The Sweet Smell of Success, The Lost Highway (David Lynch) Citizen Kane, Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville), Fight Club, The Godfather (I & II), The Thin Red Line, |
| Favorite music | Mozart, Chopin, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Ryan (not Bryan!) Adams, The Dresden Dolls. |
| Favorite books | "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon, "I capture the Castle" (by Dodi Smith) , "The Great Gatsby" (by F. Scott Fitzgerald), "Minima Moralia", by Theodor Adorno Orthodoxy (by G.K. Chesterton), "Labyrinths", by Borges, "Untimely Meditations"(by Nietzsche), Xenophon's Memorobilia, "The Symposium" (by Plato) "The Varieties of Religous Experience" - by William James, "Brideshead Revisited", by Evelyn Waugh "The Unconsoled" - by Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Magic Mountain", by Thomas Mann, "Harlot's Ghost" by Norman Mailer, "The Tin Drum" by Gunther Grass, George Orwell's "Essays and Journalism", "Dirk Gently's Holistic Agency" by Douglas Adams, "Citizens" by Simon Schama, |