Calvin
Calvin Lawson
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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33 years old
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
United States
Last Login: 8/20/2009
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Science, Technology and the Internet
Religion and Reason
Distributed Models for computation and society
Poker (got into after watching Rounders -1998- so I guess that makes me an old timer of sorts.)
Phyics, Chaos Theory, Quantum Dynamics
Movies and the art of movie making,
Literature(non-fiction, sci-fi, experimental literature, classics).
the INTERNET! slashdot.org, boingboing.net, eff.org, fark.com. Bloggers in general (more of a fan than a writer). | | Music |
It's no cooler to be a musician than a truck driver, as far as I'm concerned. Musicians have allowed the RIAA and commerce to take over, and I have a hard time with that. Don't blame me for your failed business model!
Pop Music I think is awesome? pretty short list, that.
Radiohead
Johnny Cash
Nirvana
Massive Attack
Sonic Youth
Pixies
The Beta Band
De La Soul
Rage Against the Machine
Tupac
Hip-hop, rock, and dance. Jazz and blues. Old Country. I really do listen to a lot of different styles, but I'm picky too. Generaly pop music just isn't that original, so it can't be that interesting.
Honorable Mentions (in no particular order): Explosions in the Sky, Tool, White Stripes, White Zombie, Yo La Tengo, Jurassic 5, TI, Flaming Lips (Yoshimi...), Modest Mouse, Postal Service, GnR, Method Man, DJ Shadow, Pogues, Portishead, Rock Central Plaza, 1200 Micrograms, Gorillaz, Ozzie, The Shins, Travis, Death Cab for Cutie, Infected Mushroom, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Eels...oh never mind, there are too many good musicians, not nearly enough great ones. Or maybe it's just finding them that's the problem. That's what myspace is for, right? | | Movies | Don't even get me started on the MPAA!
I do love movies, though.
Movies of 2006:
The Departed, Casino Royale, Little Miss Sunshine, "Good Night, and Good Luck", Pan's Labyrinth, Walk the Line, The Hills Have Eyes (remake), Crash, Munich, Hostel, The Worlds Fastest Indian, The Constant Gardener, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, The Good Shepherd, Grizzly Man, The Producers, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Thank you for Smoking, The Last King of Scotlan, Children of Men, Borat, A Scanner Darkly.
Unforgiven. City of Lost Children. Donnie Darko. Life is Beautiful (Italian), Scarface, Casino, Black Stallion, Star Wars, Godfather, Secretary, Fight Club, Antitrust, Brazil, City of God, Bad Lieutenant (not only is it one of Harvey Keitel's best, but my cuz Eddie Daniel's in it). Way to many to mention.
Danish Movies
Breaking the Waves, The Celebration, The Inheritance, Dancer in the Dark
Japanese Anime
Akira, Spirited Away, Metropolis
Japanese Movies
Suicide Club, City of Fire, All About Lily Chou-Chou, and anything by Akira Kirosawa.
Korean movies
Oasis, Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Ms. Vengeance, JSA
French
The Dreamer, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Three Colors Trilogy, Amelie
Daren Aronosky (Requim for a Dream, Pi, The Fountain)
Harmony Korine (Julien Donky Boy, Gummo)
Stanley Kubrick (2001, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket).
Wes Anderson (Life Aquatic, Rushmore, BottleRockets).
Sophia Coppola (Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation).
Steven Sodenberg (Traffic, The Limey, Out of Sight).
Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation).
Cronenberg (Existenz, VideoDrome, Crash).
Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks).
Coen Brothers (O Brother Where Art Though, Fargo, Big Lebowski, Blood Simple).
Roman Polanski (The Pianist, Chinatown).
Trey Parker (South Park, Cannibal the Musical, Orgasmo--a movie about a mormon who becomes a porn star to have a wedding in the temple. No sex, though, he has a "stunt cock"---)
Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Howard Hawkes...Countless others;
I have about 500 movies at last count. I went to film school for a while, but dropped out to work for a dot com.
| | Television | World Poker Tour
World Series of Poker
Mythbusters
Lost
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Smallville
I like TV DVDs; not big on just watching, unless I'm tired. | | Books | Random Good Books read sort of recently
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
Illium
No Limit Hold 'em: Theory and Practice (Skansky)
Accellerando
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Light
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Zinn, Howard)
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Vurt
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
The Plague
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Red Storm Rising
The World Is Flat
American Gods
Anansi Boys
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (all about Open Source)
Silverlock (Excellent!)
The Gnostic Gospels
Monster Island
Girl Meets God
Chasing Daylight
The Budayeen Trilogy (cyberpunk at it’s very best)
Mind Hacks : Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain (read at your own peril)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (weird 70s counterculture conspiracy stories)
The Sheltering Sky
Blindness
Graphic Novels:
Sandman
Preacher
DMZ
Y: The Last Man
Niel Stephenson (Baroque Cycle, Crytonomicon, Snowcrash, Diamond Age)
Cory Doctorow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Someone Comes to
Town Someone Leaves Town...Creative Commons author!)
Umberto Eco (Foucaults Pendulum, The Name of the Rose)
Undaunted Courage (Lewis and Clark Expedition)
History of God (history of monotheism)
Copyright in Historical Perspective
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
This is just highlighting books or authors I'm reading or have read recently. I'm an avid reader.
Here is some of my favorite Non-Fiction
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Dancing Wu Li Masters (Gary Zukav)
Chaos: Making a new Science (James Gleick)
Genius: The Life and Times of Richard Feynman (James Gleick)
The Life of the Cosmos (Lee Smolin)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Stuart Kauffman)
The Unathorized Version (Truth and Fiction in the Bible)
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Dating, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Aberdeen, WA | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | Some college |
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