Josh
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Student/Pre-service Teacher |
| Location | Beaver, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | I am many different things to many different people: hero, poet, warrior, revenant, fiend, saint, despot, space-cowboy, gangster of love, etc. But above all else, I am a thinker: a ponderer of the great ponderables of the world; a lover of words and of language and a scholar of the human condition. For it is only through his pondering that man can truly achieve freedom. It was Nietzsche himself who said: “Wherever there have been powerful societies, governments, religions, or public opinions—in short, wherever there was any kind of tyranny, it has hated the lonely philosopher; for philosophy opens up a refuge for man where no tyranny can reach: the cave of inwardness, the labyrinth of the breast; and that annoys all tyrants. That is where the lonely hide. But there too they encounter their greatest danger…” And it was Kierkegaard, I think, who said: “If it ain’t metal, it ain’t music.” Rock on, Kierkegaard. Rock on... |
| Interests | Literature, writing, film, filmmaking, philosophy, travel, cooking, golf |
| Favorite movies | Pulp Fiction, Miller's Crossing, Fight Club, Heat, Chasing Amy, Kill Bill, Requiem for a Dream, Sexy Beast, The Big Lebowski, Gangs of New York |
| Favorite music | Type-O-Negative, Slayer, Clutch, The Misfits, Nick Cave and the Badseeds, Queens of the Stone Age |
| Favorite books | The Plague, No Exit, Crime and Punishment, Candide, Naked Pictures of Famous People, Welcome to the Monkey House, The Picture of Dorian Grey |