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My self-summary Propose an edit

I am alternatingly contented and mortified by the world. I am generally (too) carefree and am fond of non sequiturs. Unfortunately, i am enamoured with Popculture and spend an inordinate amount of time on avclub.com. I am kind of smart, i'd like to think, but most of my knowledge is scattered and just about all trivia (ex: the queen bee's average lifespan is seven years. John Adams liked to exercise naked).
I like to read, but i've given up on trying to improve my life through books. Even the "greats" only give me a feeling of fleeting satisfaction that is eventually replaced by the mundane and makes the mundane more extreme (not x-treme).

I have trouble taking things seriously. Like this. I take this pretty unseriously. Saying that i don't take things seriously does not mean all things lack gravity. "There are all these little tragedies in life, but are they really tragedies or just amusing." I don't know if i quoted that right.

"He admired equally the sanguine, the phlegmatic, the choleric, the melancholic, the splenetic, and the balanced man, the fool and the sage, the enthusiast and the stick-in-the-mud, the talkative and the taciturn, and, most dilemmal of all, the consistent and the inconsistent. Similarily, it seemed to him a fine thing to be fat as to be lean, to be short as tall, homely as handsome...and as for ethics, could he have been all three and not just one, he'd have enjoyed dying once a saint, onve a frightful sinner, and once lukewarm between the two.
The man...was dizzy with the beauty of the possible; dazzled, he threw up his hands at choice and like ungainly flotsam rode half-content the tide of change."-John Barth The Sotweed Factory
That pretty much sums it up. I know it is uncreative to quote someone else for my profile, but i don't care...and i care dearly.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

spinnin' my wheels at the moment (not literally)

Just got a shit job to pay for my vices and loans. Who knows how long it will last?
Not literal shit. and not "the shit."

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Tell you what i'm not good at: thinking of things i'm good at, also sorta suck at grammar when i'm not paying attention to it.

I might be good at funny? I used to be in a comedy group when i was in college, but haven't really tried any open mics in cleveland because i have no self-confidence. Eugene Mirman, Mitch Hedberg, and Steven Wright are among my favorite comedy peoples

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

the cloud of cigarette smoke and the musky smell

or my walk. i sorta bounce on the toe part of heel-toe.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

authors: henry miller, jack kerouac, john barth, john steinbeck, kurt vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, william s burroughs
Random books whose authors i have not read extenively: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, Franny and Zooey by Salinger, The Watchmen, Trainspotting, and most books about heroin etc etc
The Acme Novelty Library series by Chris Ware is probably the greatest thing ever written.

movies: anything by wes anderson, anything that has paul newman, anything with Bill Murray, westerns with anti-heroes, coen bros films, Titticut Follies, Will Smith movies (i do not know if i like them ironically or not), movies about con artists, movies based on books i like, movies about heroin junkies

Musics: The White Stripes, Bob Dylan, Greg Ashley, Son House, The Kinks, The Pixies, The Rolling Stones, Queens of the Stone Age, The Hunches, beck, Radiohead, Against me!, NOFX, Rancid, John Lee Hooker, steve malkmus, the dead kennedys, the gun club, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casanova Dre, Outkast, The Soledad Bros, The Black Lips, sage francis, songs about heroin, etc etc

Listen: I know i had heroin in all those, but i am not heroin user guy. I am just interested in the subculture of heroin addicts.

food: americana

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

1.rationalization
2.books
3.roadtrips
4.alcohol
5.cigarettes
6. i could live without kittens but what kinda life would that be

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Whether or not America will have another depression in my lifetime, and whether or not it'd be awesome.

the relationship between humor and fear. seriously look at someone who is so afraid they're screaming and a picture of someone laughing hysterically.

How to be original, witty, happy and inscrutable without being pretentious.

I am so afraid of being pretentious. It is ridiculous. I stopped writing because of it. I try to hide when reading in public because of it. It is the scariest thing in the world.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Every friday is different.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I live in my mom's basement. WOO

You should message me if Propose an edit

if ya want

or if you live close, want a new friend, and don't mind picking him up.

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