thesubtleface
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | The below was written in 2009. I might update it at some point..... I hope I will be a 'late developer' despite my view that there is nothing *inherently* wrong with being idle. I work contentedly 9-5 in an office in London, but have plans to escape the office lifestyle and am currently busy putting these plans into motion. My view of life is that there is no one definitive meaning that humans can recognise: there are only individual meanings and purposes. That said, I advocate human beings having a (humanistic) sense of morality and maintaining strong communitarian and other social links (no radicalism there then and could we ever in practice revert to anarchy?). And although there is no meaning, as somebody once said "as we are here we might as well dance"! |
| Interests | Long-distance walking and cycling, travelling in general, 'good' music and 'good' films. |
| Favorite Movies | Gosford Park and Reservoir Dogs are the films I find most aesthetically pleasing (both very different of course but both incredibly well-executed). Others that stand out are Twelve Angry Men, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and possibly Judgment at Nuremberg, although the last has a few directional crudities. I need to see more Spencer Tracy. |
| Favorite Music | Popular: Since the early 1990s this has been the singer songwriter Neil Young. Classical: Beethoven - late and named piano sonatas, and 3rd and 5th symphonies especially. NOT the 9th symphony or any string quartets!! Also Chopin's nocturnes. |
| Favorite Books | My favourite author since the early 1990s has been British author John Fowles (author of French Lieutenant's Woman). He was the duplicate of Neil Young's (pre-2001)* music in literature (completely genuine, exciting and passionate). *Most regrettably Neil's songwriting has suffered since 2000, and in my opinion at least this legend should stop making albums if they are not great (for the sake of his fans and his legacy, if not for himself). |
I'd be grateful if someone could explain this: If at any second in time, there was a second before it, there could not have been a start to time, something which of course is completely illogical to the human brain.