Constantly reinventing myself! or at least refining my profile information.

Right now I'm trying to get myself pumped up about going to school fulltime... I want to study psychology, anthropology, philosophy, music, drawing, and (edit) a class called Contemplative Education about meditation practice!

I believe that the distinction between science and art is meaningful but porous... I want to create sciencey art and arty science. I am leaning more towards a Bachelor of Arts, as opposed to science.. why must I choose!?

When it comes to my sense of humor I try to appreciate the big and unyielding absurdities (in addition to little quirksomes), which might seem like a tendency to laugh at bizarre and sometimes horrible facts of life... to talk seriously about the state of world and not be able to laugh a bit invites fatal seriousness.

I have been inspired by ideas of the political left/liberalism/anarchism/humanism/existentialism/feminism/postmodernism/pragmatism and many more!

I like doing anything in the vein of discovery, exploration and creation over most things you need to buy a ticket for. I do love good movies and various sorts of performances, but if you want to drag me into a dark room where people have to be quite for two hours you usually have to give me the hard sell. (Basically any activity that gets between me and your tantalizingly charming and unique person is just not okay with me)

I am sometimes sorta spiritual.. more of an existentialist, and leaning towards atheism. I enjoy meditation, but lack the self discipline to be completely enlightened yet (I should probably go on a trip to India where all the really spiritual places are.) I have spent most of my life here in Portland and plan on traveling abroad in the near future. I am an optimistic skeptic, but for all the right reasons... probably... i think.

Building a network of friends whom are compelled to, in their own individual and unique ways, make the world a better place.

Reading! I am such a huge nerd that I sometimes read books of fringe sociological theories and dusty tomes of neglected philosophies instead of narrative fiction. The suspense comes from the knowledge that it could degenerate into ridiculous bullshit at any time or... be the discovery of a lifetime...!

I'm trying to meet totally awesome and interesting people in any way that works....*cough* (gestures to website)

I recently sponsored a child! I'm glad I did, but monetary charity feels like consumerism... I should probably send them a letter... can they even read though? Sigh...

Tryin to learn an instrument. Trying to draw more. Trying to convince myself I will somehow learn how to can rap so I lay down some bomb tracks for my friends spoke word/rap project called World Wide Gangster Communist Computer God. Trying to read more because I really don't get around to reading all the books that I could. Trying to find a new place to live. Trying to be a better bigger brother to my littler brothers. Trying to do or do not, because there is no try.

Drawing weird things.

Geeking out about psychology, politics, philosophy and old school nintendo.

When I have longer hair they notice my impressive mane!

Right now I'm reading Generation X and falling in love with Coupland's prose... I'm also reading "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession." I am usually reading several non-fiction books simultaneously...

Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Anton Wilson, Chuck Palahniuk, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Pinkwater, David Foster Wallace, Ken Wilber or Wilbur ....and many more

Movies:

Adaptation(and other Charlie Kaufman movies rock my socks off, but this is probably my favorite. Metatextual to the Max!)

I Heart Huckabees (How could I not be into this movie!? I want to be Dustin Hoffman's character when I grow up.)

Harold and Maude (One of the most poignant and interesting movies about love I have seen with a great soundtrack too!)

The Squid and the Whale (A darkish, psychologicalyl chargey Dram-edy about family seperations issues)

Princess Mononoke/Spirited Away(these movies make me feel bad for people, usually older folks, who refuse to give animated movies a chance at moving them in ways human actors often can't)

Jason and the Argonauts (Stop motion animation thrilled me as a youngster. As a naive spud I thought I might grow up to be an animator. Now I realize how tedious and unfullfiling it would be. Ah, youth!

Fight Club (because I aspire to one day be a 30 year old boy)

Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson... before he sold out! heh, kidding)

Lately I have been thinking about systemic suffering and what small little part and I can play in relieving some it. What to study in school as a means to this end, or whether school is even the right way to go to make the most difference. Also, what is the value of helping out one individual a whole lot through personal attention in comparison to trying to change structural economic things to help lots of people just a little bit in an economic way... and stuff. Also, the role of art and entertainment in inspiring people to do things versus anesthetizing or distracting them from long term goals/problems.