About
I am a strange sort of folk.
Really, there's not much else to say. I like to think of myself as dreadfully common and yet uncommonly different depending on which aspect of myself you look at.
I'm working on a middle ground between Taoism, and Buddhism. You'd think I'd settle with Zen, but I'm full of enough ignorance concerning Zen that I refuse to stake my claim there without first knowing it. (And learning what I can of other philosophies.)
I'm a poor scholar, but that doesn't stop me from trying depending on the subject matter.
Honestly I love comparing Chinese philosophy with quantum physics. For two astoundingly different concepts that came about in very different ways from very different backgrounds, their ideas are remarkably similar. As such, I gravitate towards the works of Robert Pirsig, Fritjof Capra, The Dalai Lama, and lately Matthieu Ricard. (If you have any more, please recommend them!)
I enjoy reading and writing. Sometimes. Tolkien always has been and always will be classic. Normally I find Stephen King's work to be far too commercial and made-for-tv but the Dark Tower series, for the most part, is pure genius. Other fantasy writers I like include Joe Abercrombie and the authors of the Malazan collection of novels.
And finally, we come to music. I have a wide range of musical interests and in my old age, I find myself drifting more towards instrumentals. As is obvious by the name, Lateralus is perhaps one of the most brilliantly composed pieces that I've ever heard. Indeed, it might be THE most brilliantly composed piece of modern rock. (A genre that now-a-days does so little real composing. Especially anything that makes it to the radio.) The song conveys every single bit of the theme through lyrical content down to the rhythm being in the Fibbonaci sequence.
And that, is a little bit about me. At least that I care to share at the moment.
So now you get Spike.
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this avi is for the group entry that i'm in.
i'm supposed to be Hardcore Tinker Bell