Logan

• Gender: Male
• Location: Utah

About Me

I am a ne'r-do-well, a wannabe writer, an occasional poet, a lexiphile, and a Romantic-Cynic. (Romantic Cynicism is — that you recognize, explicitly, both the completely material, mundane, genetic, environmental, and generally selfish causes of all human behavior, and humanity's ultimately pointless existence and insignificant end: but thus having been enlightened, you are not obligated to asceticism: rather, by all means revel in whatsoever parts* of the human experience you deem "good", and accept them passionately. *e.g., gourmandery, foppery, trampery, casual sex, serious sex, make-your-friends-gag bird-love, tragic unrequited love, paranormal investigation, scientific investigation, heresy, apostasy, philosophical sedition, rabble-rousing, admiring the French, making fun of the French, urban urchining, desert hermiting, et al. & c. and so on.) The television show Firefly is near and dear to my heart and someday I will find a parallel universe where it was not cancelled.

Interests

• Walking
• Hiking
• Backpacking
• Canyoneering
• Spelunking. Exploring southeastern Utah. Going to the cinema. Writing stuff. Reading historical texts. Sleeping. Contemplating the universe that appears...
• history
• esp. the European late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
• the ancient world
• prehistory
• deep time
• physical anthropology
• nomadic primitivism
• strategic thinking
• gravitational mechanics
• planetology
• hypothetical cosmologies (e.g. Miltonian or Lovecraftean)
• languages
• philology
• historical English
• Latin
• conlangs
• animals
• birds
• dromeosauridae
• cats
• all kinds of art
• narratology
• alliterative verse
• novels
• hard science fiction
• film
• the real as surrealism
• the video game as literature
• the adventure paradox
• the conflict between personal love and group friendship

Favorite Movies

• Millennium Actress
• Paprika
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Castle in the Sky
• (pretty much all of Japanese cinema)
• Serenity
• Blade Runner
• Gladiator
• Fight Club
• Syriana
• The Bourne Identity
• Apocalypse Now
• Full Metal Jacket
• Children of Men
• V for Vendetta
• Gattaca
• Interview with the Vampire
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact
• Star Trek:
• The Wrath of Khan
• The Undiscovered Country
• First Contact
• Star Wars old eps
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Rushmore
• The Blues Brothers
• Ghostbusters
• Back to the Future
• Jurassic Park

Favorite Music

• Baroque
• ... some Classical
• Romantic
• Operatic. Latin polyphonic chorale. European folk. Some classic
• progressive
• & symphonic rock. Video game & cinema soundtracks. In general I'm rather picky
• or don't know terminology to describe what I like. In any case
• active listening only: otherwise silence is preferable...
• Bach
• Koji Kondo
• Nobuo Uematsu
• Susumu Hirasawa
• The Moody Blues
• Led Zeppelin

Favorite Books

• Dune
• The Monkey Wrench Gang
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Zodiac
• Heart of Darkness
• Letters From the Earth
• If This Goes On—
• Ecclesiastes
• Till We Have Faces
• Julian
• Interview with the Vampire
• The Last Unicorn
• The Silmarillion
• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Ringworld
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• nonfiction:
• The Shock Doctrine
• A People's History of the United States
• Civilization and its Discontents
• Gödel Escher Bach
• the essays of Edward Abbey
• Gore Vidal
• Isaac Asimov
• many others I've forgotten.

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