Bastard Academic

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Technology
Introduction A dabbler in the arts intellectual, technological and scientific. A student perpetual. Amateur Trans/Posthumanist. Wannabe polymath. Professional beer swiller. I also have delusions of authorship, which may get beyond mere illusory ambition should I get past the first page of anything I write
Interests The universe, Physics, Transhumanism/Posthumanism, Technology, History, literature, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Philosophy, Music, Films, Beer, Politics
Favorite Movies Casablanca, Ghost in the Shell 1+2, Boondock Saints, Tales from the Golden Age, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, Frost-Nixon, Akira, Metropolis, Harold and Kumar, Love Exposure, The Titfield Thunderbolt, The Cell, Event Horizon and a myriad others I have neither the time nor inclination for fill in here
Favorite Music Apocalyptica, Muse, Radiohead, HIM, Nobouo Uematsu, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Kate Bush, Faith and the Muse, Dead Can Dance, Psychedelic Furs, Sonata Arctica, Tori Amos, Bellowhead, Kate Rusby, Rammstein, t.A.T.u and many, many more
Favorite Books Dune (but only the Frank Herbert books), Hyperion Cantos, Sharpe, The Stand, The Dark Tower, The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Foundation, The Art of War, The Prince, The Culture novels, The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, The Books of the Art, The Sandman, Lucifer, Transmetropolitan, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, DMZ, The Books of Magic, Poison Elves, The Horus Heresy, Azincourt, The Millennium Trilogy

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