Ping
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Mostly harmless.
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FoundryMusic.Com Profile URL
http://evanweb.foundrymusic.com
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Pleasanton, TX |
| Member Since: |
3/12/07 |
| Last Login: |
3/12/07 |
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Ping's Blurbs
About Me
" ... imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; it is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding that we just think of it as a different class of object, a different class of matter; 'life', something that had a mysterious essence about it, was God given, and that's the only explanation we had. The bombshell comes in 1859 when Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species'. It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made of anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well."
"The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned."
- All as quoted in Richard Dawkins' eulogy for Douglas Adams
Interests
My AIM is VBwam
My ICQ number is 157143895
My XBox Live gamer tag is Bwam
My MySpace profile is www.myspace.com/evanweb I'm also on Facebook.
Books
To quote Steven Colbert..
"I don't trust books; they're all fact, no heart."
- The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
- Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch
- Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America by Gary Laderman
- When We Die : The Science, Culture, and Rituals of Death by Cedric Mims
- Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground by Tim Matson
- Thud! by Terry Pratchett
- Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
- Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
- The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
- When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
- Brain Droppings by George Carlin
- Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin
Movies
Anything directed by Mel Brooks, Anything directed by Kevin Smith, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, The 40 Year Old Vigrin, Anchorman, Braveheart, The Lord of the Rings, Spider Man, Batman Begins, They Live, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Sin City, Jackass the Movie, Shawshank Redemption, Crash, Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2, The Matrix, Saving Silverman, Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, The Da Vinici Code, V for Vendetta, American Psycho, Super Troopers, Beerfest
Music
30 Seconds to Mars, +44, Angels and Airwaves, AFI, Amos Lee, Audioslave, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Ben Taylor, The Black Crowes, The Black Keys, Black Label Society, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, CKY, Clutch, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, Damien Rice, Death Cab For Cutie, Dragonforce, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Gavin DeGraw, Gnarls Barkley, Green Day, H.I.M, HORSE the Band, Incubus, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Jack Johnson, G. Love, James Taylor, Jamie Cullum, Jason Mraz, John Frusciante, John Mayer, Keane, Kenna, Kill Hannah, Marc Broussard, Matisyahu, Metallica, Modest Mouse, Monster Magnet, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, Nickel Creek, Norah Jones, Ozzy Osbourne, Queens of the Stone Age, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rascal Flatts, Ray LaMontagne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rilo Kiley, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, Seether, The Shins, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Switchfoot, Tenacious D, Turbonegro, Weezer, The White Stripes, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zakk Wylde
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