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| Bio: | "I love my country; by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history who have fought the government to make right." -ani difranco, "Grand Canyon" "In this sense the Dionysian man resembles Hamlet: both have once looked truly into the essence of things, they have gained knowledge, and nausea inhibits action; for their action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things; they feel it to be ridiculous or humiliating that they should be asekd to set right a world that is out of joint. Knowledge kills action; action reqauires the veils of illusion: that is the doctrine of Hamlet, not that cheap wisdom of Jack the Dreamer who reflects too much and, as it were, from an excess of possibilities does not get around to action. Not reflection, no - true knowledge, an insight into the horrible truth, outweighs any motive for action, both in Hamlet and in the Dionysian man." -Nietzche, the Birth of Tragedy “…all love-making to one less instructed than oneself has the added delicious thrill which comes from the consciousness of perverting, of pulling them down into the mud from which passions rise – together with poems and theories of God.” -Durrell, Balthazar “Why shouldn’t the death of a person you love bring you into a lurid ruin? You don’t know how to love the ones you love until they disappear abruptly.” -DeLillo, The Body Artist "Man, when a fag and a dyke have sex, it's still queer sex!" -Travis Jeppesen, October 1999 "'The path is the Stone. The point of departure is the Stone. If these words are unclear to you, you have not yet begun to understand. Every step you take is the goal you seek.'" - Jorge Luis Borges, The Rose of Paracelsus "...he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing it for a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came." --Tostoy, the Death of Ivan Ilych  Welcome to what has been dubbed by some as the LiveEpic. Because of a sequence of incidents, most of the interesting material of this journal is now friends-only; feel free to request access. All the same, enjoy what you read, but please keep it to yourself. Rather, a Dramatis Personae: in alphabetical order: Aidan/Milamber: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mcsaidan. XRDS'97. One of my best friends from high school. Went to Yale with Dan. Just starting Stanford Law.Alanna (Lovely): SJC'07. Took a year off before her Sophomore year to spend time in India, Nepal, Tibet, and Frankfurt. Leo from Auburn Valley, CA. In the words of Sebatian, "a shard of the eternal wisdom that chose to take the form of a tigress." Alexis: SJC'06. A 22 year old Gemini from Marin. She was a Febbie in Santa Fe several years ago, but took two years off. I fell in love with her, but she had a boyfriend. 2007: Relocating to Baltimore. Anna Breon: SJC'06. Febbie. She was good friends with Shannon over the summer, but the two have mostly parted ways. 2007: Graduated and returned home to central PA. Anutachka: NY. She fled the USSR with her parents as a child. Her surname is 2000 years old, translating to 'tailor' from the Aramaic. Employed as an architect, having graduated from Columbia. Her bbqs are the stuff of legend. Her chin disappears when she laughs. We briefly tried to date at the beginning of 2006, but decided it was a poor idea. She lives near me in Park Slope. Ari: eldacar351. LA. Ari went to Palisades High with Claire (until she transferred to Crossroads). Armenian, 27, working on his thesis for a theater MA. Lives in Bushwick (Brooklyn). Still games a lot. One of the sweetest individuals you will ever meet. Topic of his MA in Theater: 13th-Century Egyptian pornographic shadowpuppet plays.Bosslady: NY. A middle-aged Jewish lesbian whom I buy groceries for. She's a riot, a character from a sitcom taken up a notch. Brightie: NYU'06. Texan that graduated from Wellesly. Very nice girl. (mildly) Catholic. MA student. Brumley: SJC'06. My former housemate from Annapolis. Febbie. Kansan. Casey. caseysarah. UCB'02: Though we met in high school, it was really during our junior years abroad that Casey and I bonded, she in Barcelona, I in Paris. After I graduated, she and Dan and I got an apartment together in Berkeley, and spent a year as a happy little family. Even if she and I threatened to strangle the other on occasion. Now she's off at Cambridge in a puff of bliss emanating in part from a delightful boyfriend (who I still have yet to meet) and a game-show sweep.Chris: SJC'05: Shannon's ex-boyfriend. He teaches the Spartan Workshop, lives with Lovely Alanna and is one of her best friends. Now living in Williamsburg, working as an investor. Claire: clairesquare. XRDS'98. My first girlfriend and one of the greatest loves of my life. Currently in LA working with an up-and-coming director. Now living in the Village and working on a Paris Hilton documentary. Given to sudden trips to exotic locals.Colleen: MPCDS'89?. My first babysitter; about 10 years older than I. Lived across the street from me in New Orleans. Her mom and my mom taught elementary school together. Now lives in Park Slope with her husband and two kids, about four blocks from me. Dan/Darkforge: darkforge. XRDS'97. One of my best friends from high school. Went to Yale with Aidan. I lived with him for two years after college. Works for Plumtree Software.Danny/Gamecat: gamecat_daf. XRDS'98. One of my best friends from high school. Recently graduated from Reed, and still in Portland. 2006: Returned to LA, recovering his credits at Loyala Marymount, heading for LMU Law for 2008.Egyptologist: SJC'99. Columbia Ph.D. She's an anthropology grad student at Columbia, doing archaeological digs mostly in the Middle East. Met her through my Greek reading group. Astonishingly intelligent and studious. 2007: Dissertation and job-market. Elizabeth: UCB'00. Originally a lump in Sky's bed Freshman year at Berkeley. We really became close during our Junior Year Abroad, during which she was in Gottingen, Germany. After graduating from Minnesota Law, she is now a corporate tax lawyer for the IRS in NYC. Emily: urbanpanther. Paris. My third girlfriend. Met in Paris, and continued waving in and out for several years afterwards. Things have been very spotty since 01/03. Now at Yale for Public Health. Moving to New York spring 2008. Erin: NYU. Was a PhD student (late Victorian and postcolonial), but has pretty much dropped out. Lives very close to me in Park Slope. Originally from Cape Cod via Chicago. Glamazon/Jen: Bio. A senior at U of Maryland. Photo major, formerly journalism. Plays volleyball and thereby pays for school. Originally from Allentown, PA. Very tall, very attractive. Admires people who have something and aren't afraid to own it, whatever 'it' may be. Has now moved to Brooklyn to study at Pratt for an MFA in Photography. Granny: Maternal grandmother. Lives in Lafayette, LA. 2007: Deteriorating rapidly. Harry: MPCDS'98. My best friend from New Orleans. Plays in Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes. Brilliant violinist. Married with a kid on the way. Laina NYC. A brilliant photographer. I heard stories about her via Eric Tuttle years before I actually met her. Me/Jason Hill: I'm a graduate student in English at NYU. I just received an MA from St. John's College in Annapolis (SJC'04), and went to UC Berkeley (UCB'01) prior to that. I graduated from Crossroads (XRDS'97) for high school. I debase myself before others on a regular basis. I like waking up to the sound of the the rain. I underwent what I refer to as my Chrysalis on Jan. 3rd, 2003: I left Emily and gaming and my alias in the space of three days. This is the record of the rediscovery of myself. 2007: Having begun teaching, I find myself the happiest I have been since before puberty. Mimi: Paternal grandmother. Lives in Picayune, MS. Jodie: The man who introduced me to cheesecake. If you're in the Berkeley area, go say 'hi'. Kaleidoscope Eyes bipolarcurious. NY. A lovely young woman from Ohio who recently joined up with the publishing-industrial complex upon arriving in Manhattan. For some reason I find her eyes spectacular.Katie: Spirituality Revisited. BPC. One of my best friends from high school (though she went to Brentwood). We became friends though Alyse, who took me to meet Katie and attend a youth group at Brentwood Presbyterian Church. Katie, a year older than I, went to Berkeley and got mixed up with the worst side of the Woolsey House. She eventually returned to LA, graduated from Westmont Christian Academy, and now works as an Assistant Youth Pastor in Sierra Madre. Married, April of 2005. Keating: SJC'05GI. An Irish Catholic from Wisconsin, graduated from U of Dallas, now a Graduate Student at SJC. Has a wife (who he's seven years older than) and a newborn daughter. 2007: Second child born. Kim(berly): MPCDS. Older sister of Meredith. I've known her since I lived in New Orleans; my mother taught Kim for her K-1-2 years. Recently spent a year in Uganda on a grant organizing an AIDS community outreach center. Currently starting Harvard Med. Kira: UCB'01. When we were both English majors, we took a Shakespeare class together at Berkeley. Instant - and enduring - crush. She went on to a full-ride scholarship at ACT in SF, and has now moved to NYC to pursue her acting career. Lepidopterist/Jenny: SJC'05GI. A Graduate Student as well. A Georgian Presbyterian. A stranger in a strange land, she is perhaps more socially awkward as me, though does hides it in a different way than I. Marketer: NYC. Sells candy to the NFL, NBA, MLB. Originally from New Orleans. 26, attended Mt. Carmel High School. Very pleasant but very New Orleans. Melody: RV. Noah's former girlfriend. Incredibly talented as a painter and beautiful to boot. She has disappeared into Montana. Meredith: NOLA. Younger sister of Kim. Just graduated from Columbia/Barnard, studying architecture and Latin American Studies. Now working for Bernard Tschumi, some architect bigwig. In a flurry of late night heart-to-hearts, we have cemented ourselves as little sister and big brother. She starts Harvard in the fall of 2006 for a MA in Architecture. Mina: NYU. Ph.D. student. She will make one hell of a professor someday. Nathan: NY. New roommate, summer of 2007. Paralegal, applying to law school. Nikki: heartshapedkey. NY. On-again, off-again roommate of Stacey. Relocated to NYC six months after Stacey. BFA in Comic Booking. Currently roughing it in Bed-Stuy.Noah: RV. My best friend from college (*cough* though I didn't meet him until after I graduated). We worked at Reel Video in Berkeley together. One of the coolest cats around. Used to date Melody. NuAn/Anna A.: SJC'06. Shannon's Sophomore roommate. From Monterey, CA. Ortiz: SJC'05GI. SA Mexican Catholic, graduate of U of Chicago's Fundamentals program. I trust him as far as I can throw him. In fact, I foster a general dislike of him, but his friendship with Keating precludes my exclusion of him from my life. Papaw: Step-maternal-grandfather. Lives with Granny in Lafayette, LA. Peasant/Rachel S.: shultzie. SJC'07?. Rachel took a year off for money reasons. A Catholic libertine; she knows what the 'right' path is, and comforts herself with the knowledge that some day she will walk it.Poppa: Ex-step-paternal-grandfather. Lives in Fairhope, AL. Prussian/A(lexis) Claire: SJC'06. Originally from Texas, though her parents both grew up in Long Beach, CA. One of the most indefatigably cheerful individuals I've ever met. In some ways, she reminds me a lot of Emily, minus the jealousy. She has a darling mutt named Anna. 2007: Married. Qichao: qichao. A source of consternation. Lives outside of Baltimore, the fourth generation to be born on the family farm, the ninth to live in the area.Rachel C.: caecadea. SJC'07. Steve's little sister. A pseudo-goth from Florida.Ralph: NYC. Roommate for a year and a half, before getting an apartment with his girlfriend Karen. Originally from Catskill, NY, he spent several years in CA (with white dreads, no less). Works in the music industry. Raya: cylon6. XRDS'98. A dear friend of mine from high school. Working on breaking into the music industry.Sam(antha): cogito_ergosumo. SJC'03. Alexis' (former) best friend.Sebastian: SJC. A Sioux Shaman and Jesus-devotee who works as a groundskeeper at SJC and lives on the street. He expects live less than seven more years, as he imagines that he will pass from this earth before the great tectonic upheavals of December 21st, 2011. Seer: NYC. Grew up in Miami, attended Vanderbilt. Works in women's fashion. Scorpio. Probably the most 'normal' (in all the best senses of the term) person I've met through the internet (she picked me up on Friendster). 2007: Dated Nathan their senior year in college. Serena: pikpokkettt. SJC'07. Rachel C.'s best friend from Florida. Febbie. Kind of like an adopted sister to Steve.Shannon: SJC'06. A Febbie that I had a huge crush on for four or five months; my obsession-cycle had its most peaceful resolution ever in the context of her. A Tae Kwon Do prizefighter from New Hampshire. She drops her 't's in the most charming manner. Currently attending Fe. Sky/DTR: skyskyrashby. XRDS'97. UCB'02. One of my best friends from high school; he was assigned to show me around on my first day of 8th grade. Hippy guerilla microbiochemist. Lived with him for three years during college. Currently starting a Ph.D. program at CalTech.Stacey: onlypapermoon. NYC. Arrived 9/05 in New York from Minneapolis. Picked me up on Spring Street Networks/FastCupid. Writer/Cinematographer, trained to work with the mentally disabled (Autism, Downs Syndrome, etc.). Insomniac. Fiesty. Endearingly awkward. Returned to Minneapolis after a year.Stephanie Z. LA. She describes herself as the sister I never wanted. I refer to her as my parents' personal paparazzi. A brilliant cook, she has crippling ADHD and therefore dogwalks and house-sits for a living. She used to be a receptionist at Bernini, which is how my family ended up adopting her. She sends cards with photos of Baci dressed in absurd costumes (which she purchases for Baci) to my grandparents every month. Steve: SJC'05. An ADHD leo from Texas (by means of Florida). Alexis' boyfriend. Rachel C.'s big brother. Turned 23 in August. Stylist: NYC. My former Park Slope roommate. 25, from New Orleans, attended Mt. Carmel High School. Styles hair for Aveda. Swarthmore/Becca: XRDS'97. A girl I almost dated in ninth grade. Went to Swarthmore, now a second-year Anthropology Ph.D. student at NYU. Lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Tanner: Meredith's boyfriend. Attends BU (maybe BC) to be an entrepreneur. Thea: Another great love of my life. Eight (?) years later, and still involved in some way or another. She's fourteen years my senior. Finished her DMA at UCLA this Spring. Now Assistant Director for both the Washington Chorus and the Gay Men's Chorus of DC. Now starting the NYC Master Chorale. Viking/Anna L.: SJC'07?. A Massachussettan (sp??) psychic Jesus-lover. 6'1" and resembling something of an engorged Kate Hudson. Friends with the Peasant. White Chocolate Reese's Pieces: meriwether. NYC. Currently works for http://www.kbears.com/, previously a teacher at a Brooklyn public middle school. Loves Faulkner, tequila, and Smallville. 2007: Relocated to Portland, OR with a boyfriend. | |||||
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| Interests: | 140: abolish death penalty, absinthe, ambient, amnesty international, angels, ani difranco, anorexia, antiques, artists, bakhtin, beausoleil, being tied up, berkeley, billie holiday, bisexual, black books, black velvet, books, bookstores, cal, cats, cavafy, cemeteries, cheese, chopin, cloves, cocaine, coffee, coffeeshops, critical theory, dancing, darren aronofsky, dating, derrida, documents, dostoevsky, dreams, durufle, dwinelle, electronica, ethiopian food, eugene carriere, femme boys, fischerspooner, foucault, friendster, fucking, georges bataille, goths, green party, healing, hedonism, hermes, hermeticism, herradura, holly cole, industrial music, ingmar bergman, inpassing.org, introspection, intuition, jorge luis borges, julie wolf, kabbalah, kafka, ketel one, language, le petit prince, leos, lesbians, linguistics, literary theory, literature, love letters, lovecraft, marcel proust, massive attack, maurice blanchot, melancholy, misanthropy, mourning cloak, mourning cloaks, narrative medicine, narrative theory, new orleans, new york, new york university, nicole blackman, nietzsche, nightmares, nihilism, nine inch nails, old buildings, orpheus, orson welles, pacifism, paris, photography, poetry, portishead, postmodernism, pro-choice, rachmaninoff, rain, recoil, religious choral music, requiems, rimbaud, roland barthes, saint john's college, saint-emilion, san francisco, sex, sisyphus, stories, strange birds, sushi, swimming with sharks, synesthesia, techno, terry gilliam, theodore gericault, theory sluts, thievery corporation, thomas didymus, thoth, tool, trance, uc berkeley, underworld, university of california berkeley, vampires, victorian houses, vienna, vladimir nabokov, william faulkner, wine, women, writers, writing | |||||
| Schools: | Metairie Park Country Day School - Metairie, LA (1984 - 1991) Lincoln Middle School - Santa Monica, CA (1991 - 1992) Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences - Santa Monica, CA (1992 - 1997) University of California - Berkeley - Berkeley, CA (1997 - 2001) St. John's College - Annapolis, MD (2003 - 2004) New York University - New York, NY (2004 - 2006) | |||||
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