Cody Davis
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Occupation | Pharmacy Technician |
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| Location | Eugene, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | I'm like Arthur Rimbaud before he sold out. I plan to stay that way. On an ideal day, I sit on a pew hewn from truth, gaze up at the crucifix of history's failures and listen to the intoned words of humanity's possibility gently inundate my heart like worn mallets on a loved timpani drum. |
| Interests | Communication & The Impromptu, Politics, History, Running, Basketball, Guitar, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Religion, Shows (going to and playing at _), The Pit, LYRICS, Social concern, Philanthropy, Biodiesel, WVO/SVO, Voluntary Simplicity, Diet, Vandalism, Tagging, Eugene Cacophony Society, The Rose Gardens, Trails that make you die (while running them), Singing loudly in the car with both windows down to some really loud obnoxious band, Many other random things |
| Favorite movies | Open City, Amarcord, Sansho the Bailiff, La Pointe-Courte, Persepolis, Bicycle Thieves, Carmen, Ugetsu, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Rent, White Christmas, M, Stardust, Ed Wood, The Trial, The Lower Depths (Kurosawa), The Thin Man (30s movie series), The Apartment, Sunset Blvd., Hot Fuzz, Knocked Up, Pan's Labyrinth, 8 1/2, Children of Men, Samurai Rebellion, Waitress, When Harry Met Sally, Rear Window, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Straw Dogs, Jesus Camp, Going in Style, The Prestige, Donnie Darko, Fast Food Nation, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, The Host, Downfall, Roman Holiday, Casablanca, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, American Beauty, Good Night And Good Luck, Manon of the Spring, Divine Intervention, Paradise Now, Forbidden Marriages of The Holy Land, The Bombing, City of God, Magnolia, Bad Taste, North by Northwest, Deer Hunter, V for Vendetta, Sin City, Cache, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, Godfather trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, BEASTMASTER, Conan movies, Criterion Collection. Documentaries such as Triumph of the Will (chilling and so revealing about human nature), Baraka (visually, and without words, how quickly can we put our shallow existence in context?), Troma Films, Anything extremely highbrow or absolutely ghetto. Wes Anderson, Aronofsky, Fellini, Hitchcock, Nolan, Kurosawa. Going to the Bijou or the $1.50 theater |
| Favorite music | Sunny Day Real Estate, Have Heart, Set It Straight, Minus The Bear, Amon Tobin, The Fully Down, DJ Z-Trip, Betrayed, The Matches, Poison The Well, Django Reinhardt, Envy, Katatonia, Gojira, LAMB , Mew, Melee, Orff (Carmina Burana, for instance), New End Original, RX Bandits, Far, Killing the Dream, Incubus' S.C.I.E.N.C.E, Taproot's Gift, Darkest Hour, The Philistines, Rush, Al Di Meola, Robert Johnson, Return To Forever, Tower of Power, Mutemath, The Books, The Microphones, Reggie and the Full Effect, RX Bandits, Brand New, Cursive, Palestinian Rappers, Bela Bartok, Strunz & Farah, Joey Eppard, Raul Midon, Paul Hindemuth, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Vivaldi, Stanley Clarke, Rage Against The Machine, Camel, Day One Symphony, The Album Leaf, Aphex Twin, BT, Kate Bush, Jaco, Jared Paul, Collective Efforts, Victor Wooten, Oingo Boingo, Kraftwerk, Mack Lethal, The Coup, Dead Kennedys, MDC, Blind Willie Johnson, The Draft, Ed Gein, Marathon, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Protest the Hero, Converge, Dragonforce, Undying, Mare, Billie Holiday, Sage Francis, Kansas, Bane, Jethro Tull, The Cars, Fela Kuti, Victor Jara, Lamb, Iron Maiden, John Coltrane, Head Automatica, Ella Fitzgerald, Tori Amos, Above This Fire, Miles Davis, A Wilhelm Scream, Rise Against, Say Anything, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Thrice, Thursday, Rites of Spring, Black Flag, The Smiths, Isis, The Cure, Death Cab for Cutie, Gorilla Biscuits, Much The Same, Only Crime, Daggermouth, Countdown to Life, Broadway Calls, Across the Sun, If Inertia, Cynic, Tool, Aghora, Buried Inside, Alice In Chains, Pantera, Emperor, Old Man's Child, Bad Religion, Lagwagon, Woven, Dredg, Old In Flames, Old Soilwork, Old Metallica, Strike Anywhere, Glassjaw, Opeth, Rage Against the Machine, Jurassic 5, The Roots, De La Soul, Between the Buried and Me, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Clash, Iron & Wine, Public Enemy, and many more... |
| Favorite books | Steppenwolf, If the War Goes On..., Burn Collector, Choke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Island, Franny and Zooey, The Destructors, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Ishmael, The Making of a counterculture: reflections on a technocratic society, Subculture: the meaning of style, Our Band Could Be Your Life, The Little Prince, Where The Wild Things Are, Shel Silverstein, The Wasp Factory, Howard Zinn, Edward O. Wilson, Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, David Sloan Wilson, Steve Mithen, Stephen Pinker, Edward Hagen, Noam Chomsky, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Edward Said, Naomi Klein, Dick Hebdige, Theodore Roszak, Stephen J. Gould, Elaine Pagels, John Shelby Spong, Bruce Bawer, Karen Armstrong, Andrew Weil, Film Comment, Cinema Scope, Cineaste, Wolphin, McSweeney's, The Believer, Adbusters, The Nation, The Progressive, Utne Reader, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Humanist, Natural History, Foreign Affairs, The International Socialist, Z Magazine, Herbivore, Middle East Report, Punk Planet, Lapham's Quarterly (you know what I'm talkin about Paul). Poets: Brecht, Julia de Burgos, Anne Sexton, Hilda Doolittle, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, W.H.Auden, e.e. cummings, Jack Gilbert, Charles Bukowski, Delmore Schwartz, Arthur Rimbaud, Rashid Husain, etc, etc, etc. |