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What is there to tell. I could write about 30 pages here and people would be all judgmental about it. I think I'll skip it, want to know something? ask. Sorry, I might put something here later, but I'm tempted not to.

Comment: I just got an error "New York was not one of the United States"

Real idiocy unvailed: NY and New York are both not legit states for the USA.
I had to put Taiwan, and I couldn't find it on the time zone list, so I put in Saipan
Taiwan is GTM+8, and Saipan is GMT+10, so no way can I live in Taipei and have that TZ.

Okay, I'm googling who put this site together now.
Another comment I made before I got the BSoD was the comment "computers" as an interest was listed as "good". Computers? You have to be kidding me. If you don't live in the stone age, you use computers. If you're not a total geek, then why are you signing up to a social networking site? I think "I support opensource as an idea, but I think ultimately it has an evolutionary weakness in competition with market forces" is a statement. "I like computers" is sort of like saying "I like girls."

I had to continue my interests here because I got error:too many interests
Okay, this site is designed by a moron. I think that the new owners have their work cut out for them

Damn, I got the Blue Screen Of Death while filling out the Music, Movies, etc., making fun of the defaults, it was fun, and now they're gone :(
I want my defaults back.
Lost and Real World are not movies guys, and neither is Brad Pitt, a movie.
Fight Club is a movie, but if my mind were organized I could make up a great list of stuff, but it's really still all a mess in there, so best not to ask?

Okay, I can make fun of this:
GOOD Example: biking, snow skiing, computers, dvds, mp3s, cheese

BAD Example: I like lots of bands and watching movies and talking to friends and going to clubs. That sort of stuff goes in your bio below.

Um, no, wrong again, who runs this site? Now I have to google that. But first, to comment.

Biking just means that you're able bodies and bipedal. Snow skiing? As opposed to what, sand skiing? That just says I live somewhere really cold. Computers? Really. Like 90% of people don't use computers but forget that, someone is signing on to a social networking site. If you weren't a computer geek, you would not be on this page. Here's more of a comment: I like to keep my linux small, so it will run on an ssd. That's a line that the audience would actually understand, and it would means something, but I like computers? that says nothing about me. Who wrote this, Sumner Redstone?

mp3s. Ah, yes, I am a user of these information machines, and I like to listen to the tonal collections of pitches that have more order than John Cage, I think you call it music. If your music is all on m4a You're probably a cult of mac person, but maybe not. But still: Cheese? Yes, I like cheese, I'm from a Dairy state, NY, and we have some strong cheese, but not as strong as these defaults.

Okay, now back to those pesky questions.

Music.

First, are people going to judge me on what kind of music you listen to? Is this a fair judge of character? I don't know, I'm just throwing it out there. Like, if someone doesn't listen to Kanye West are they uncool? Nothing against Kanye, he was just the default. Okay, almost nothing I listen to was originally recorded in english, and 1/2 of it is still not in english. I think I have 12 languages on my mp3 cue. But honestly, if someone listens to Django Reinhardt you might say "that's cool." Or, you might say "Who the hell is Django Reinhardt?" and then someone might say "You've never heard of Django? What are you, like totally out of it, man?" No, it's like no you've never heard of Django Reinhardt and that's okay.

But for real, okay, my music changes, because I go into addictions. I like music that's good, and that says something. For me this means musicians. I will grant I have a lot of stuff on my mp3 that doesn't fit this definition, but I can't say Kelly Clarkson isn't music. That's just not true. Kelly Clarkson just isn't Kelly, she's some factory product, like all of these guys. I just call them all Avril Lavigne cover bands, because that's where all of this started, Avril's songwriters as I understand it are writing most of the stuff out there from the boys at MSM. Anyway, screw that for the moment. Serious, okay. My current addtiction is Nightwish, and anything symphonic. Epica, Forever Slave, etc. Evanescence is okay. I think the intro to Whisper is really great, and My Immortal is a good song, but like too many american's, she falls into this lead sheet formula which, it just is repetition, it's formulaic, it's like old bollywood on mp3. Take country. Country hates itself. It's hard to get over that. If nashville would just get out of the way, there's a lot of great music waiting to happen, but it loves the formula and hates the innovation that built it. Johnny Cash, Connie Francis, etc. they make the playlist. June Carter is awesome, did you see that movie?

Okay, movies. Dark, noir, clever, and real.
I like fantasy, sci-fi. Bladerunner, Labyrinth, push that idea forward and fill in the gaps, I'm not going to waste everyone's time, and can't remember it all. The bank job was good.
Here's what I don't like: movies that are full of themselves, down on life, or preachy, or just trying to make a quick buck, but pretending they're something else.

Great movie: PotC1, terrible movie PotC3
Worst movie: SW ep3
Something so bad it couldn't possibly be called a movie, but more of a still shot that whines at you, About Schmidt. Make it worse, and let it get drunk and yell at you: Sideways. Better yet, this sort of just is really full of itself and adds nothing to reality. It's not even commentary on reality. It's like taking a camera and following around depressing people we'd never really like at all, and watching them destroy themselves.

Okay, a good movie opens up new perceptions, or a new angle on a new idea of something about life. That doesn't mean it has to be genre, or even fiction, but it has to have something to say, and to say it well, to have thought about it, and then it just gives you the "we report, you decide." Anyone who is out there with a preconceived notion mof the answers and manipulates story elements to make their position the moral conclusion is really just a thin disguise for holding forth. If I want to hear someone hold forth I can just watch Lou Dobbs or Keith Olberman. At least Bill Maher is funny when he holds forth. But still, he holds forth, and it's annoying. Jon Stewart keeps it real, most of the time. That's about as well as television can do.

Aside from Joss Whedon. Buffy, Firefly, add everything else. Also, segue into decent genre, Farscape, etc. Anime, esp. Hayao Miyazake.
Gotta hand it to Sam Raimi: The guy doesn't have what it takes, he's not a great director, not a master storyteller, and sometimes it's just cheese, but he loves doing it so much, that the result is just thoroughly enjoyable, and Sam, if you're listening, it always helps to have someone to say "hey, if Uncle Ben says that line to Peter one more time I'm going to shoot the machine with my Soviet RPG-7 which I just bought off ebay from Sarah Palin.

Okay, moving on. Politics. I don't have any. I volunteer for the DNC on a low level for about 5 years now. I disagree with everyone and don't argue about it. Unless we find ourselves in an oligarchy where you and I are sharing power over the future of the planet, then political argument is pointless. I like the candidates that are running, personally, I think they have a lot of good qualities, it's a step up from the past, or the possible. Platform, I think I disagree with almost everything they say. I get in trouble for this because people want me to hate someone, and I don't. I like most of our enemies also, I think Ahmadinejad is a stand up guy, I have a lot of respect for him, if he could run here, I might vote for him. I like most of our allies, Manmohan Singh, the completely unelectable and yet excellent leader of India. I mean, a guy coming in with 1% popular support turns a third world nation into a superpower? Take that, you legit democracies, you! S. Korea winning a lot of points, Tony Blair, not so much. Okay, pet peeves: people who support people that they know are wrong because horror of horrors the other side might win. So what? If your side is wrong, correct it. Let the other side worry about the other side. None of us really has any control over who wins, we only have control over who we are. If we can master that, we're doing pretty damn well, fate will decide the rest.

Okay, that was a long rant and if you're still reading, my apologies.

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