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I'm David. Pretty biblibical ain't it?



I enjoy irony, everything seems to end with it.

Why YES! I AM going to copy and paste my facebook profile DIRECTLY onto here.
David: 1 ; Nexopia/Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: 0


Colleges:

* McGill
* Concentration? I miss the last 4 centuries, when real gentlemen would have laughed at this question.

* University of Calgary
* Risk Management: Finance and Insurance



Employer:
Earls
Position:
Server - Alcoholic
Description:
If you don't know what a server is for, you're MY kind of customer.

Information

Activities:
[Insert Verbs]

Interests:
[Insert Nouns]

Favorite Music:
This question is absurdly myopic

Favorite Movies:
Donnie Darko (Director's Cut)
Sylvia
La jetée
Tarnation
The Fall
Pumpkin
The Virgin Suicides
Mulan (Mulan....mulan, mulan, mulan...enough said.....................................MULAN).
Reprise (Norwegian)
Happy Endings
The Celluloid Closet
Gods and Monsters
The Fountain
Paper Moon
Imaginary Heroes
Stay
Trainspotting
Baby Mamma
Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo (A Thousand Clouds of Peace Encircle The Sky)
I'm Not There

My memory is not made of celluloid. I am bound to forget a couple.

Favorite Books:
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Rack - A.E. Ellis
The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Portrait Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
The Wars - Timothy Findley
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Virgin And The Gypsy - D.H. Lawrence
Maurice - E.M. Forster
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Nocturnes For The King Of Naples - Edmund White
Ten Commandments - J.D. McClatchy
Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crush - Richard Siken (The best poetry I have read in a very long time)
Journals: The New York Times, The Economist, The New Republic, New Statesman, The New Yorker.

Favorite Quotations:

"What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms" - Nietzsche

"You are the music while the music lasts" - T.S. Eliot

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead

Of Oedipus:
"...the same man who solves the riddle of nature - that Sphinx of two species - also must break the most sacred natural orders by murdering his father and marrying his mother. Indeed, the myth seems to wish to whisper to us that wisdom, and particularly Dyonisian wisdom, is an unnatural abomination; that he who by means of his knowledge plunges nature into the abyss of destruction must also suffer the dissolution of nature in his own person" - Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

The entire middle section of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.

"This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard,
and make a wish. " - "Wishbone", Richard Siken

If Sartre wasn't here, I'd be a fascist.

"I want to show you, in my writing, what I love (my friends) and what I savagely hate (what happens to them)" - Philip K. Dick

"It wasn’t enough this time. But the time is coming." - "Eight Is Enough", The New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg on the passing of Proposition 8 against gay marriage. [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/12/01/​081201taco_talk_hertzberg?yrail]


"Asked by nagging reporters once too often
Why, despite the count of body bags,
We were in Vietnam, LBJ unzipped
His fly and slapped it on the table.
'Gentlemen, this is why,' he barked 'this is why.'"
- J.D. McClatchy

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

Any civilization ""gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. " - "Farewell to Penn Station," New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963
About Me:
Music is a color to me. I would rather go without red.

Eventually I would like to learn to levitate, in every way.

In truth, yes. It's always hard to win a chess game with pawns alone.

"ism", is he?

I am also "a firm believer in straight up jungle fever".

Language is an unhappy venture. Compact mirrors to sunsets.

Baby if it ain't luck, it's memory.

Interests?
Drinking, driving, eating, children.

Haha, yes, yes, I know..

The world ends with a laugh, not a whimper. Because there is a God.

Oh...and

Political Views:
Liberal
Religious Views:
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes so he is" - Bhagavad Gita



Haha I feel so achieved.

I'm actually pretty shy. No, for real. Ask my fan club.

Yes I'm 20 - I enjoy liquor (gin), dancing and friends.

Generally against stating album, artist, year, era, period preferences. Each piece of art should stand alone, you never hear anyone raving about Monet''s 1884 work.

But...

On the shelf:
NIetzsche anytime, anywhere - roughly in the hay.
Plath, Jane Kenyon, Valentine, Dickenson, Woolf, Hall, T.S. Eliot, Hirshfield, Garcia Marquez, Neruda, Possea, Lorca, A.E. Ellis, Bishop, Nakobov, "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas" by LeGuin should have its own step on the nutrition pyramid, Marianne Moore, William Carlos William, Margaret Atwood, Arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Yeats, Rita Dove, John Donne, Joyce, W.H. Auden, Camus, Foucault, Plato, Shakespeare...Shakespeare's greatest tragedy being that no one likes him as much as they say. oh well, here's to Sonnet 49, Blake, Anne Carson, Anne Sexton, Whitman, Capote, Hass, Frost, Aaron Smith,
J. D. McClatchy, Thom Gunn, Campo, Tory Dent, the list goes on

Th bees in your ears:
Sufjan Stevens - Hot Chip - Zsammy - The Maccabees- Charles Mingus - Sigur Ros - John Coltrane - Dirty Three - The Album Leaf - Bright Eyes - A Northern Chorus - Apostle of Hustle - Architecture in Helsinki - Feist - Tegan and Sarah - Four Tet - Mogwai - Radiohead - Metric - Regina Spektor - Hayden - Sia - DeathCab - Snow Patrol - The Sounds - Bloc Party - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Anthony and The Johnsons - Phoenix - Nina Simone - Edith Piaf - Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah - Gotan Project - Belle And Sebastian - Damien Rice - Yo Yo Ma - Brahms - TV On The Radio - The Weakerthans - Yo La Tengo - Snow Patrol - Smashing Pumpkins - John Frusciante (and Josh Klinghoffer as a consequence)- God Speed You! Black Emperor - Bob Dylan - Taking Back Sunday - Radiohead - Voxtrot - Tracy Chapman - Feist - Aqualung - Brand New - The Bravery - The Sounds - Brian Adams - Vivaldi - Sparta - Nirvana - Chopin - Wolf Parade - Billy Talent - Pink Floyd - Tom Waits - Coldplay - Fleetwood Mac - The Mars Volta - Django Reinhardt - Samuraj Cities - Stephane Grapelli - No Doubt - Aimee Mann - Patrick Wolf - Rilo Keily - Neko Case - Flowers From The Man That Shot Your Cousin - Cat Power.
and this list too goes on....actually the list has changed. Oig.

Pollock
Dali
Monet
Whistler
Degas
Rodin
Hirst
Cecily Brown
tired of list-making now
etc, etc..cake.


The Deep (1953)
Jackson Pollock
Sui Generis Genius.

For the sentiments recalled.