PHILOSOPHY

I've been falling in love with life and drinking it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain.I'm also getting excited about learning the basics of blacksmithing, pouring history into my head through countless audiobooks and trying to figure out what the future will hold.

Interests

• drinking
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

My tastes here vary with the season.Summer lends itself to poetry and creation-catalyzing people in the vein of Isabel Allende, Tom Robbins, the beats that weren't awful people and writings that respectfully challenge the way people think about things.Fall asks for the likes of Sartre and Céline and other dense, generally dead, dark, philosophical types but quickly fades into winter.Winter feels like history, pop-science and social commentary like Malcolm Gladwell, Carl Sagan, and learning about the causality of the rise and fall of empires.Spring leans heavily on sentiment with anything illustrated byEdward Gorey (preferably in concert with Bellairs), ShelSilverstein, Roald Dalh, and old, oxygen-stained, leather-bound books that smell like they've thoroughly soaked up life and stories of their own through the hands they've passed through.Plays by Stoppard, Beckett and the like are a constant, if not only for the fact that I have the attention span of a hummingbird.I default to Bryson, Allende and Robbins.As for movies, my favorite include John Waters (it takes a special kind of mood to be prepared for his creations, like Gravy Train!!!! for your eyes), Terry Gilliam, anything to ever come from the Coen Brothers, Alejandro González Iñárritu or Steven Moffatt (excepting Torchwood), pre-code Hollywood movies, and cutesy '80s romances with the same synth-pop dance-lust smoky seduction aesthetic as Dirty Dancing and the music video for "Take on Me" by A-Ha, you know exactly what I mean.I can seldom keep up with the audiophiles in my life, but in the spirit of the I'll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours approach to comparing this wonderful noise my day was filled with the Monkees, Jimmy Cliff, a little bit of Bizet, Odetta, Ratatat, the Turtles, Saul Williams, Eurythmics, Jedi Mind Tricks, Nit Grit, Meat Loaf, with Telekenesis and other indie-pop goodness filling in the holes.Danceable beats and well thought-out lyricism (eg. Saul Williams) make me weak in the knees.Cash, Kottke, Waits, and Bon Jovi are never far from reach.