My summer holiday reading list:
- Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye (finished, liked it a lot)
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (finished, don't think I "got" it)
- Keigo Higashino - The Devotion of Suspect X (finished, no strong feelings)
- John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Intimacy & other stories
- Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
- Peter Doherty - The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize
- Susan George - How the Other Half Dies
- Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
- Al Gore - The Assault on Reason
- Alexandre Dumas - Georges
- Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
- J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
- Michael Foley - The Age of Absurdity
- Isaac Asimov - Foundation (finished, liked the first half a lot)
- Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate (finished, extremely good)
That picture isn't made from a photo of me, I'm not nearly that cool, nor am I brown. It's a photo of Dave Chappelle that I stenciled. I saw the photo in a little article that some guy wrote on his blog, he said that he ran into Dave outside a theatre and chatted with him about skateboarding for a while, before he was rushed by a crowd. He managed to take a couple of photos before that, though, after promising that he wasn't a papparazzo. It was a much more interesting story in the original article, and I just thought it was a great photo of a funny man.
My home is in New South Wales, Australia, but during the semester I live in college in Canberra.
When not studying, I do very little, no matter what grand plans I make. I like to sleep and waste time on the Internet. I'm a university student, I study science (physics, trying to upgrade to theoretical physics) and economics with no particular career in mind. Lately I've been warming to the idea of doing postgrad medicine, entering the family profession.
I am an English-speaking middle-class privately educated white male living in a first-world country. So if I start complaining about anything, just ignore me.
I like warm rice, cold milk, tall trees, mountain roads, cliff edges, drum beats, thick jackets, long movies, dark hair, cardboard boxes, fine-tipped pens and proper use of punctuation marks.
My greatest fear (apart from my fears of torture, mutilation, and early death) is that I am far more obnoxious than I think I am, and that people secretly hate me for it. I take consolation in my suspicion that almost everyone is more obnoxious than they think they are, and that absolutely everyone is secretly hated by some people. I am also afraid that I smell terrible and nobody will tell me.
"If Thai citizens think and act in an agreeable and constructive manner, then the country will surely thrive."
-The King speeched, 9 June 2006
Sunday, October 3, 2010.
For the last few days, I've been thinking about the future, and I think that both the best and worst are still to come. There's nuclear proliferation, the global food crisis, peak oil, cultural atrophy and the aging population. But there's also friends to be made, gardens to be grown, films to be made, music to be heard, and great fun to be had. It's a huge mixed bag, and I don't know whether to be scared or excited. Honestly, I'm both at once.
I've disliked my E2 username almost since the moment I made it. It doesn't mean anything, and I think it sounds pretty pretentious, but I wasn't trying to say that I am, have, or want a muse. I was racking my brains for a decent username, and at that moment I was listening to Muse (the band), so that's what I chose. I don't know why it was so hard to think of a good one anyway, because I can think of some right now, off the top of my head. Some good usernames, I think, would be NoComplaints, dot.dot.dot or Kersplunk. Please feel free to use one of those if you like.