Dale
- Age: 38
- Gender: Male
- Occupation: Flake Tester
- Location: Oregon : United States
About Me
I try to be awake, and if I can manage that, to be reasonable. "With any other man I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence. But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but in a wonderful manner touched and disconcerted me. I began to reason with him." My e-mail is dances with anxiety [at] gmail dot com.
Interests
- running
- poetry
- drumming
- writing
- reading
- fitness
- free will
- determinism
- god's existence
- god
- philosophy
- ethics
- walking
- empathy
- whales
- scorpions
- cats
- vegetarianism
- prehistoric fauna
- prehistoric humans
- prehistory
- voluntary simplicity
- climate change
- creativity
- the chicken as a metaphor
- finding something new under the sun
- evolutionary psychology
- grammar
- math
- chess
- paradoxes
- illusions
- aporia
- Ponca City
- depression
- dissent
- dark beer
- red wine
- science
- anti-intellectualism
- reality and its adversaries
- atheism
- freethought
- secularism
- humanism
- faith
- ethics
- authority
- belief
- rhetoric
- persuasion
- politics
- judgment
- etymology
- eschatology
- teleology
- hermeneutics
- epistemology
- history
- literature
- evolution
- skepticism
- religion
- reason
- justice
Favorite Movies
- The Bicycle Thief
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- 8 1/2
- The God Who Wasn't There
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
- The Magdalene Sisters
- Office Space
- An Inconvenient Truth
- The Road to Perdition
- Bowling for Columbine
- The Planet of the Apes
- Braveheart
- Borat
- Election
- Pulp Fiction
- Little Children
- The Passenger
- The Corporation
- American Beauty
- Reservoir Dogs
- Citizen Kane
- Fargo
- The Virgin Spring
- La Dolce Vita
- Caddyshack
- The Proposition
- The Seventh Seal
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Godfather
- Jarhead
- Blow Up
- L'Avventura
- Funny Games
- Wild Strawberries
- Goodfellas
- Groundhog Day
- Roger & Me
- The Autumn Sonata
- Man Bites Dog
- Five Easy Pieces
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Simpsons Movie
- The Woodsman
- Saving Private Ryan
- Rob Roy
- Kentucky Fried Movie
- Winter Light
- The Yes Men
- Monty Python's Life of Bryan
- Magnolia
- Rushmore
- The Barbarian Invasions
- Il Grido
- My Left Foot
- Sophie's Choice
- Through A Glass Darkly
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Stripes
- Good Will Hunting
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Better Off Dead
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut
- The Silence
- This Is Spinal Tap
- 13 Tzameti
- Persona
- Hamlet (Branagh
- Olivier)
- Macbeth (Finch
- Welles)
- Richard III (McKellen
- Olivier)
- Othello (Fishburne)
Favorite Music
- Bob Dylan
- Neko Case
- Yo La Tengo
- Radiohead
- The National
- Jimmie Dale Gilmour
- Lucinda Williams
- The Shins
- The Beatles
- Sonic Youth
- U2
- Bach
- Laura Cantrell
- Mozart
- Miles Davis
- Uncle Tupelo
- Interpol
- Stravinsky
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Wilco
- Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins
- R.E.M.
- Franz Ferdinand
- The Pogues
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Schubert
- Public Enemy
- Stephen Malkmus
- DeVotchka
- The Spinanes
- The Waterboys
- The Beatles
- Rachmaninoff
- Silver Jews
- Johnny Cash
- Pavement
- Stereolab
- Liszt
- Monade
- Chopin
- D. Scarlatti
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Junior Brown
- Massive Attack
- Luna
- The Eagles
- Nirvana
- Brahms
- Beethoven
- PJ Harvey
- Broadcast
- The New Pornographers
- frente!
- The Sundays
- The Arcade Fire
- Blonde Redhead
- The Mountain Goats
Favorite Books
- The Aeneid
- Against Love: A Polemic
- Ecclesiastes
- Why I Am Not a Christian
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- Language Truth & Logic
- The Age of Reason
- The Devil's Dictionary
- Paradise Lost
- The God Delusion
- Confessions (Augustine
- Rousseau)
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- The Book of Job
- The Iliad
- The Blind Watchmaker
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- The Jungle
- How The Mind Works
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Walden
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Truth and Method
- Frankenstein
- The Oresteia
- Lolita
- The End of Faith
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- The Odyssey
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- Montaigne
- John Irving
- David Sedaris
- Christopher Hitchens
- Steven Pinker
- Richard Dawkins
- Sam Harris
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Voltaire
- Plato
- Kafka
- Twain
- Vonnegut
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Shakespeare
- Chaucer
- Cioran
- Stanley Fish
- Lucretius
- Peter Medawar
- Richard Rorty
- Flannery O'Connor
- Kundera
- Lewis Lapham
- Melville
- Joe Conason
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- Dostoevsky
- Nietzsche
- Thomas Frank
- Marx/Engels
- Camus
- Peter Singer
- Wallace Stevens
