real name: joesmith (really.)
sex: occasionally
born: 1960
first memory: funeral of John F. Kennedy on television
worst year: 1968 – MLK assassinated, RFK assassinated, Cardinals lose World Series, Nixon elected President
best year: So far, it’s 2009. Also 1981, 1987, 1988, 1996, 1998, 2002 or 2004.
inclinations: human potential, human creations, music, thinking too much, lethargy, mental tornadoes, darkness, flashes of light, injecting humor or chaos into dull/ing circumstances, laughing at the fact that nothing is really funny, the here and now,
oppositions: wasted potential, mass non-culture, humanity en masse, being well-adjusted to a broken world, growing up, confidence, hope, faith, the future, the past, death
love: my wife, my children, family, selected friends, women, music, learning, reading, and yes, even life. very much. really.
hate: yes. too much. too often. maybe you.
fave writers: Samuel Beckett, E.M. Cioran, Franz Kafka, Hunter S. Thompson, Albert Camus, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, James Tate, Russell Edson, Charles Simic, Cormac McCarthy, Warren Ellis, William Gibson
fave thinkers: Socrates/Plato, Lao-Tsu, F Nietzsche, M Heidegger, M Foucault, J Derrida, EM Cioran, Jean Baudrillard, Roy Arthur Swanson, Herb Blau
fave music: McLusky, The National, X, Regina Spektor, Future of the Left, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, The Jam, The Clash, Billie Holiday, The Damned, The Rolling Stones, Willy DeVille, Rickie Lee Jones, Man Man, The Walkmen, The Thermals, Josh Ritter, The Feelies
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secret ambitions: author, punk band singer, actor, wolf, bat, owl
death: ca. 2028 (projected by actuaries)
shameful claim to lame fame: most hated guy on twitter
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