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BASICALLY...
I am a 16 year old boy who
lives in Batavia, Illinois. I live in a middle class house (who doesn't) and goes to a public high school. I have a brother
who goes to Temple University in Philladelphia, and a labrador named Samantha.
WHAT I AM
I really do not know what I am.
I do not fit into any social group at school, so I guess I am an "outsider". I also prefer to be alone... sometimes...
But
this is what I am not:
I am not an over-acheiver, but I am a perfectionist
I am not a punk, because
simply... punks are stupid
I am not a jock, because I am not very strong and I don't enjoy most sports.
I am not a gear-head, because I think making a slow, japanese car look fast by putting stickers and chrome tailpipes on
it is ridiculous.
I am not a nerd because I was not born to be one
I am not an anime freak because
I am not on a computer all day, looking at anime movies because "they have a good plot" ... yeah, right.
I am not an Emo because I don't exactly know what an Emo
is
I am not a communist because I'm simply not a communist.
I am not a goth because I don't want everyone looking at me.
I am not a christain because I
don't really follow any religion
I am not a video game nerd because I rarely think about video games
I am not a hippy because I realize that war is inevitable
I am not a prep because I am not popular (in the preppy way)
I am not different because 90%
of my brain is like everyone else's.
THINGS I AM INTERESTED IN:
-brains
-artificial
intelligence
-any musical instrument
-insanity
-computer programming
-Bic pen drawing
-good music
-photography
-human social classes and groups
-physics
-astronomy
-film making
-anything
that's old
-computer animation
-mathematics and geometry
-infinity
Music I like:
-J. S. Bach
-Dominico Scarlatti
-Kraftwerk
-The Cure
-Front 242
-Gary Numan
-Emerson, Lake, and
Palmer
-Pink Floyd
-Nirvana
-Pearl Jam
-Stone Temple Pilots
-Weather Report
-Tangerine Dream
-Nine Inch Nails
-Local H
-The Flaming Lips
-Badbrains
-DOA
-A bunch of bands that I hear places but don't know
the name of
-Anything that is quality music, with some thought put into it, and is not mindless, money-driven, trend following,
pop drivel. Really, sometimes I like anything as long as it follows those parameters.
MUSIC I DO NOT LIKE
-Linkin Park (you spelled "Lincoln" wrong, you're sooo cool!)
-Dave Mathew's Band
-Disturbed
-Usher
-Justin
Timberlake's music
-Good Charlotte
-Sum 41
-Nelly
-Led Zepellin (over played)
-Queen (Especially "Bohemian Rhapsody")
-Elton John
-The Eagles
-Anything that is advertised to death
-Anything that is played to death
-Anything that relies
on putting sound effects in sequence and/or screaming in a microphone rather than actually making music that is catchy
Infact, I don't think anyone really LIKES these bands or their music. I think the radio stations pretend that some race
of people somewhere has been listening to this stuff and so they play it to death. Whenever something is repeated, you remember
it, so they think that if it's stuck in their head, that it's good music and they go buy the CD.
SOME OF THE BEST CDs THAT I HAVE HEARD
- Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Very high quality music with some real emotion put into it. If you can't at least respect this album, then you have
no taste.
- Wendy Carlos: Switched On Bach/The Well Tempered Synthesizer
I can't even imagine how difficult and time consuming it was to make these CDs; to play as every instrument in complex
Bach and Scarlatti peices, while playing it perfectly and in sequence. Not to mention that the music and the synthesizer programming
is excellent.
- Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation
THE soundtrack of a teenager's brain, or at least mine. This was the first album with "weird" music on it, recorded
in the late 1960s. It's annoying to listen to at first, but soon you start to like it, because you can't listen to it, you
just have to kind of "experience" it I guess. Plus, they can portray thoughts and feelings without writing any words
very well, which is a good skill. It's good to listen to while your staring at a wall...
- Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Tarkus
This is just cool music, it just is.
And that's it so far. I don't get new CDs that often, so there's probably a bunch of music that's this good that I haven't
heard already.
Well that's all I have listened to so far, hopefully I will find more great CDs.
Favorite Books
"Godel, Escher, Bach; The Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Holfstadter
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"1984" by George Orwell (although very clausterphobic!)
"The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem
That's all I can think of right now...
Favorite Foods
-Ice Cubes
-Church Hosts
-Any Asian food
-Peanut butter sandwiches
-Cereal
SOME GOOD RULES / ADVICE TO LIVE BY
(atleast to me)
1. Some one ALWAYS has it worse than
you
2. People are just complex animals
3. Put yourself in other people's shoes and you can figure out why they are
doing anything
4. Get a big vocabulary... it makes you sound smarter even if you aren't
6. Be yourself, and don't be
someone who is being themselves (probably the hardest thing to do)
7. If you don't like who you really are, make yourself
better
8. Death is nothing. Don't be afraid of it
10. Tommorrow is not the end of the world, so don't worry about
living life to the fullest.
12. You can't change people's dumb habits and behaviours. It's a waste of time to try. Find people
who don't act that way and talk to them as much as possible.
13. Listen to your parents every once in a while. Or anyone old really.
14. No one gives a shit unless it involves them.
15. If the person you were hating died right now, would you apologize for your behaviour to their
dead body? If so, be nicer.
This is where I work. It's the white hen refridgerator room and I am one of the stock boys. It's a good job, although sometimes
I have to mop up rotten milk, but then I just think about the Untouchables in India, who have to swim through septic tanks
and work in acid mines, and then I think, "Wow! This job is great!"
It's also interesting to watch what drinks people buy and what they don't buy, especially Gatorade and Pepsi vanilla/twist.
They spend so much money on advertising and cool names like "fierce grape" and "X factor", but they don't
sell that well. So they waste their time! HAHA
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