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I've been a big mess the past few years-after my English degree I tried law school, art school, and had a brief lapse where I considered just bartending for the rest of my life, and have now gone back to grad school for animal behavior & conservation. I'm smitten.
(My journal is currently 80% locked, but feel free to message me if you want to be added)




Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." - Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928

Music: Dead Kennedys, Operation Ivy, Refused, Dick Dale, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Angry Samoans, Grade, Teen Idles, Black Dahlia Murder, Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, Fear, The Freeze, Fugazi, Rich Kids on LSD, The Stooges, At the Drive-In, Small Brown Bike, Adam's Castle, Death From Above, Sunny Day Real Estate, Conflict, Mineral, Choke, Cursive, Quicksand, The Misfits, Squarepusher...

Movies: Harold & Maude, They Live, A Boy and His Dog, Earthlings, True Romance, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Up in Smoke, Big Fish, LOTRings, Don't be a Menace..., Pecker, Shaolin Soccer, Triplets of Belleville, Shaun of the Dead, Pooty Tang, Battle Royale, Better Off Dead, Three Amigos, South Park, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Stacy Peralta shit...

Books: The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins), The Moral Animal (Robert Wright), Animals in Translation (Temple Grandin), The Great Ape Project, Steppenwolf (Hesse), Notes From Underground (Dostoevsky), The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton), The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), Dr.Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Shakespeare, Edward Abbey, Bukowski, Freud, Kafka, Goethe, Mann...