A lot of people feel that way in general. I might as well do another too.
Name: Hurp
Gender: Durp (The mirror tells me I have a quite nice twanger)
Favorite color: I'm as presumptuous as the next guy, but I know I don't know myself well enough to propose a favorite color. For example, Slate Blue is the color I vastly prefer for notebooks, knick knacks, certain vintage cars, but I
never wear clothes of this color because it makes me feel like a mook in some dystopian setting.
Place of birth: It doesn't matter.
Where am I now: Because everywhere is the same.
Favorite food: Oranges, melons, peaches.
Favorite music: I'm currently listening to Muse, Foo Fighters (no relation to the forum's cool cat), The Killers, Beatles.
As for more pretentious musics: Four Tet, Schubert, Bartok, Liszt, CBL, Frank Sinatra, and a slew of jazz. I like jazz as a body of music. I don't like people who think listening to a few albums makes them a connoisseur, which seems to happen alot.
Favorite animal (s): Tigers. Lions. Cats. Sometimes dogs. Wild stag. Falcons and zebus, I think. Consider the lobster. Helpful microbes. Anemones. Tons of amphibians, fish, and other crazy marine species, like medusa worms. I giggle whenever I imagine wading my feet on a strange beach dotted with things like trilobites and zoophytes of every epoch.
Your favorite reads: Thank you for asking, so glad you're interested. It's a fact that most people lie about having read books, because most people lie about virtually everything they think other people have no concrete method of verifying, whether it's encounters with the paranormal, preternatural human ability (most self reported geniuses are exposed as frauds through examination), their height, their weight, not wasting their life on a couch with their thumbs in their tuchus, their boring boring lives, not jerking off, what they want to
and how they want to
them/it, excuses for lapses in responsibility, the characters they play, their true feelings about things, or whatever it is people lie about. Maddox doesn't actually speak chinese.
It's a bit silly, because most classics aren't really going to capture their interest or increase their probability of getting laid. Furthermore, most people who read books know better than to ostracize themselves by publicly talking about it. Ahem.
Anyway, of well known literature: Gilgamesh (I helped inform the usually amiable Solemn about this one), around 8 of the books of the bible (Job is my favorite), Homer, Bacchantes, Donkey Haughty, Dante was a tough read; Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice; Bacon, the other guy famous for his essays, The Pilgrim's Progress, Racine - Phaedra, John Milton, Italo Calvino, Pirandello, DeQuincey, Autveamov, Keats, The Rubaiyat, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Bronte, Kant (I agree with the notion of categorical imperatives), Dracula, Prometheus Unbound, Tolstoy - The Cossacks, Chekhov, Poe, Kafka, Twain, Primo Levi, Penguin Island, The Stranger, Saki, Malik Octavia, Hafiz, The Master and Margarita, Stanislaw Lem, Octavio Paz, Isak Dinesen, Karel Capek - RUR, Cormac McCarthy, Hegel (when he wasn't on drugs), Rudy Rucker (when he was), Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Clarke, Gregory Benford, Tolkien (I haven't read much fantasy beyond him), Lovecraft and Lovecraftians, William Gibson (specifically because he's not funny), Neal Stephenson (because he's funny, though our JC is an unfunny dbag), Robert Anton Wilson, Sladek. Also, 40 or so of the 160 or so scifi novels I read as a guilty pleasure, including, yes, Dune. Science fiction by non science fiction writers are pretty good.
Of less well known literature, I'd need to be asked to jog my memory. I'm just not that bright.
Politics: Not poor enough to be a democrat, not controlled enough to be a repub, so basically, a variation of Norsefire. Maybe Libertarian, but I don't agree with the incredible smallmindedness they sometimes project.
Food: Falafels, gyros, American food.
Stuff I like: People doing good things to eachother, photography, programming (my own skills are intermediate; Simon really knows his stuff), woodworking, parkour, mountaineering, billiards, chess, card games, sports, circuit bending (I unfortunately destroyed several Casio keyboards this way), threatening people in the most ridiculous ways, other cultures that aren't immoral, :palm:ing, things that can be done with radio. I also like seeing people get better at things, like Dani deciding to apologize, and how eventually Billfred will learn to be blunt. Oh, and Shartak.
Stuff I hate: I don't like this question. That's not intended as a joke, I just don't like the question. Maybe customers who think they're entitled to everything.
