CURRENT MISSION

To explore the planet & network with interesting human beings the world over.

PHILOSOPHY

Existential Nihilist/Secular Humanist

Interests

art theory & art history, arguing, painting, drawing, architecture, design, climbing things, printmaking, installation, fine single malt scotch whisky, baby elephants & bulldogs & pugs, disease, wine, The Black Death, vampires, weather systems, Scotland, cheeses, Tetris, guitar, bass, drums, being Texan, etymology, hedonism, cryptozoology, krakens, economics, kicking your ass in POGS, abbreviations & acronyms, politics, philosophy, cleaning, coffee, World War I & II, geography, sailing, the Mariana Trench, schmoozing, buried treasure, plate tectonics, outer space, salt, not wearing socks or underwear, adventures, skepticism, cilantro, sea monkeys, opera, epistemology, ontology, Max Weinberg & La Bamba, nihilism, noise, oceanic life, dinosaurs & pre-historic life, historical geology, the Devonian, Silurian, and Ordivician, archaeology, paleontology, well manicured lawns, cooking, making lists, insects...

• insects
• arts
• architecture
• design
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• politics
• painting
• drawing
• guitar
• drums
• opera
• sailing
• rock climbing
• art history
• economics
• etymology
• geography
• geology
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:

Iggy & The Stooges, The Clash, Wire, Fugazi, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Fear, X, The Germs, The Pixies, Minor Threat, Black Dice, Björk, The Smiths, Ramones, Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground, Squarepusher, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed, Black Flag, Danzig, Converge, Deerhoof, Bad Brains, Blondie, Brian Eno, Television, Lightning Bolt, Hella, Autechre, Misfits, New Order, Metal Urbain, Mogwai, Devo, Gang of Four, John Coltrane, New York Dolls, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, Hank Williams Sr., Sigur Rós, Tom Waits, Nirvana, Meat Puppets, Napalm Death, Battles, Dead Kennedys, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubenstein, Boris Berezovsky, Glenn Gould, Enrico Caruso, Motörhead, Boredoms, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Minutemen, The Damned, Richard Hell & The Voitoids, Sex Pistols, Michael Jackson, Chopin, Handel, Pachelbel, Rachmaninoff, Tortoise, Death from Above 1979, Beck, Debussy, Liszt, Dizzy Gillespie, Marc Johnson, Dave Brubeck, Bach, The Teen Idles, MC5, Herbie Hancock, Bob Dylan, Charles Mingus, Don Cavalli, Blonde Redhead, REM, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, T.S.O.L., Queen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Cash, Aphex Twin, Butthole Surfers, Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Neutral Milk Hotel, Scarlatti, Schumann, Pollini, Wagner, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brahms, Corelli, Piefke, Prokofiev, Donizetti...

MOVIES:
The Seventh Seal, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Shining, Der Untergang (Downfall), Down By Law, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lives of Others, Chinatown, Milo & Otis, Love & Death, Tron, American Hardcore, Match Point, Wild Strawberries, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...

BOOKS:
The Conspiracy of Art, Blood & Guts: A History of Medicine, Five Quarts, The Classical Language of Architecture, Trainspotting, The Invention of Art, Open Up And Bleed, Please Kill Me, Rip It Up And Start Again, Breakfast of Champions, Guns Germs & Steel, American Hardcore, A Tale of Two Cities, A Storm in Flanders, Les Miserables, Crime & Punishment, The Idiot, Mutants, Two Lives of Charlemagne, Collapse...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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