Max

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation student
Location Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction predominantly right-brained young chicago boy dabbling in conceptual visual arts, introspection and proto-adulthood in general :)
Interests philosophy, literature, neuroscience, reading, writing, music, debating, meta everything, systems, constructs, cultures, history, humanity, travel, urban renewal and urban decay, leftism, Scandinavia, The French Language, falafel, cycling, aesthetics, macro vs. micro, subjectivity vs. objectivity, minutiae etc.
Favorite Movies American History X, Apocalypse Now, Babel, Cashback, Cheaters, Cidade de Deus, A Clockwork Orange, Coming to America, Donnie Darko, Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Frida, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, In America, Juno, Kundun, The Last Emperor, My Cousin Vinny, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Planet of the Apes, Pulp Fiction, Rashamon, Rear Window, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Seabiscuit, The Silence of the Lambs, The Squid and the Whale, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Thank You for Smoking, To Kill a Mockingbird, Trainspotting, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Favorite Music AIR, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, The Beatles, Bjork, Blockhead, Boards of Canada, Crystal Castles, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Imogen Heap, John Lennon, Massive Attack, Mew, M.I.A., Moby, Modest Mouse, Muse, The National, Nico, Of Montreal, The Postal Service, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Sigur Ros, Sondre Lerche, Spoon, St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, Vampire Weekend, Weezer
Favorite Books Angela's Ashes, Animal Farm, Beowulf, The Brothers Karmazov, Chicago; City on the Make, The Canterbury Tales, A Clockwork Orange, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Lolita, Me Talk Pretty One Day, No Exit, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Fire, The Stranger, Things Fall Apart