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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Mental Health Technician |
| Location | Goshen, Indiana, United States |
| Introduction | I'm in a position in life where I've overcome the singular paradigm of my upbringing and am still soaking up the manifold diversity that reality has to offer. I haven't made any strong conclusions from this process, other than I can only hope to leave the world in a better place than what I found it in. In the meantime, I'm highly grateful for meeting some of the other pilgrims in this process. |
| Interests | Music appreciation/creation, movies, philosophy, reading, socializing, board games, frisbee games, traveling; tom foolery, chicanery, and "habberdashery, " not exactly in that order. |
| Favorite Movies | "Casablanca" probably has the best script ever; the original "Manchurian Candidate"; "Star Wars" movies for the most part; "Ghostbusters" was a childhood classic though my understanding of certain parts changed throughout the years; "Back to the Future" trilogy; "Indiana Jones" trilogy; I lived in a "Star Trek" and James Bond house; "Field of Dreams"; many people are sorry I ever saw "Ace Ventura"; "Shawshank Redemption"; "Pulp Fiction"; again, many people were sorry I ever saw "Austin Powers"; "THE BIG LEBOWSKI"!!!; I'm one of the few people who likes the whole "Matrix" trilogy; "FIGHT CLUB"!!!; "American Beauty"; "LOTR" tirology; "The Whale Rider"; "Kill Bill" I and II, "Baraka"; The Qatsi trilogy; "Watchmen". I'm fairly easy to please, actually. |
| Favorite Music | Mozart's "Requiem" and "The Marriage of Figaro"; Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture, " "Sleeping Beauty, " and "The Nutcracker Suite"; Rachmaninov's "Prelude in C# Minor" and "Vespers: All Night Vigil"; old delta blues (e.g. Robert Johnson, Skip James, et al.) or any blues without synthesizers; old country (e.g. Roy Whitley, Sons of the Pioneers, Johnny, Willie, Jerry Jeff Walker, et al.); The Beatles; Jimi Hendrix; Rolling Stones; Led Zepplin excluding "All of My Love" due to, again, synthesizers (there is a place for them, but not from the mid 70's through the mid 90's for the most part); some oldies and classic rock; "Weird Al" Yankovik helped me through Henderson banality; The soundtrack to "Shawshank Redemption" was and perhap is one of my favorite albums to listen to. I think Thomas Newman writes music for timless memory; Jeff Buckley's "Grace" is a snapshot of an autere; BRIAN ENO!!! "Music for Airports" is absolute bliss; Al Green; U2 ("POP" is my most personal, "Actung Baby!" is probably their best, and playing as a side band to Eno named as Passengers is probably the best kept musical secret of the last 15 years); Nirvana; Pearl Jam (thank you Freemanites not for the introduction but for your PJ passion); STP; I value honesty, so, I had an "interesting" dcTalk period; Metallica was influential in the high school weight lifting club; RADIOHEAD!!!; Sigur Ros' "()" was near perfection; BOB DYLAN!!!; TOM WAITS!; Devendra Banhart. |
| Favorite Books | Was raised on the Bible and I'm still amazed at what a bizzare collection of genres it is; "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C. S. Lewis; William Butler Yeats; "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey; "Tao De Ching" by Lao Tzu; "The Sandman" graphic novels by Neil Gaiman transcend media; "The Tao of Phyics" by Fritof Capra; any Swift, Sterne, Wilde, or Beckett will do. Irish writers rock!; "The Phenomenology of Spirit" by Georg Hegel was a nice western philosophy companion to Capra's work in my mind; "Wastelands" by T. S. Elliot; "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman; "Innocent When You Dream" is a great collection of Tom Waits interviews; "Chronicles Vol. I" by Bob Dylan; give me Noam Chomsky any day; "Watchmen" by Alan Moore. |