CURRENT MISSION

To identify and categorize all the things I don't understand

ABOUT ME

Most of my traveling has been in the US as I've been trying to familiarize myself with my own country before venturing out into others. I'm just about done with that. I prefer smaller, slower paced destinations to big cities primarily to avoid kitschy overpriced tourist traps and homogeneous corporate culture. But then again, I'm a sucker for museums, architecture, public transit, and many other things that can only be found in metropolitan areas. "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

PHILOSOPHY

Yes please.

Interests

Philosophy (esp. metaphysics, epistemology, and ontology), natural sciences, frisbees, soccer, hiking, camping, mathematics, story telling, vegetarian cuisine and cooking.

• culture
• architecture
• cooking
• vegetarian
• traveling
• hiking
• camping
• soccer
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Rushmore (+ rest of the Anderson corpus), Lebowski (+ all things Cohen Bros.), Eternal Sunshine (may as well include all Charlie Kaufman scripts there too), Donnie Darko, Waking Life, Huckabees (and I will defend those last two to any bitchy philosophy snobs), Lost In Translation, Pee Wee's Big Adventure (+ most Burton stuff), Lynch stuff, Jarmusch stuff, Herzog stuff, Chaplin stuff...

Music: Pavement, Spoon, Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, Elliott Smith, New Pornographers, Fiery Furnaces, Starlight Mints, Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel, Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, early Stevie W., Orbison (+ Wilburies), Monk, Mingus, Miles, Clifford Brown...to name a few. I'm not interested in putting my entire record collection on this thing

Books: The Fan Man-Kotzwinkle, Trout Fishing In America-Brautigan, Gravity's Rainbow-Pynchon, Youth in Revolt- C.D. Payne, D.F. Wallace, Eggers,Sadaris, Vonnegut, Aristotle, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Neitzsche, Oliver Sacks, Stephen Gould, Peirce, Rorty, Kant...blah blah blah...