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Skarhapsody: Overture
Created on 2002-07-17 22:43:52 (#634631), last updated 2009-07-11
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Basic Info| Name: | Topher |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1984-06-24 |
| Location: | United States |
BioI'm Chris. I'm many things, bound in words, dictated by boundaries, and contained by mortality. I believe life is a fleeting, meaningless shell which we must force and push on in constant change in order to give our lives drive, hope, and happiness. I'm cynical, optimistic, existentialist, and a fighter. I'm queer, a musician, and someone who is deeply involved with art and theory.
Currently, I'm finishing my MA in Philosophy of Art. Next is the PhD.
As I think of them, I should put up some maxims of my life.
1. Life is the art of living. Aesthetics, then, is important to see how to live beautifully.
2. Music is. Ponder that statement.
3. Literature is a way of forming personal ethics.
4. Friends are the most important people in your life, past that whole 'birth' thing.
5. Our identity is a web of essentials, constructs, inconsequentials, mortality, immortality, beauty, disgust, impurity, divinity, and anything else... Learn how you are made, who you are, in relation to everything, to find yourself.
6. I study art and aesthetics because I need a constant reminder of something beautiful in this world. In any sense of the wor(l)d 'beautiful.'
Things fall apart, they fall so hard. You can't ever put them back the way they were. - Tara
Qa perimenw ga agapi mou. mia fora.
(I will wait for my love. [but] only once.)
"Into every generation, a slayer is born. One girl in all the world. She alone will have the strength and skill to... there's that word again. What you are. How you'll die. Alone. Where's your snappy comeback?"
I have NO MONEY!
Currently, I'm finishing my MA in Philosophy of Art. Next is the PhD.
As I think of them, I should put up some maxims of my life.
1. Life is the art of living. Aesthetics, then, is important to see how to live beautifully.
2. Music is. Ponder that statement.
3. Literature is a way of forming personal ethics.
4. Friends are the most important people in your life, past that whole 'birth' thing.
5. Our identity is a web of essentials, constructs, inconsequentials, mortality, immortality, beauty, disgust, impurity, divinity, and anything else... Learn how you are made, who you are, in relation to everything, to find yourself.
6. I study art and aesthetics because I need a constant reminder of something beautiful in this world. In any sense of the wor(l)d 'beautiful.'
Things fall apart, they fall so hard. You can't ever put them back the way they were. - Tara
Qa perimenw ga agapi mou. mia fora.
(I will wait for my love. [but] only once.)
"Into every generation, a slayer is born. One girl in all the world. She alone will have the strength and skill to... there's that word again. What you are. How you'll die. Alone. Where's your snappy comeback?"
I have NO MONEY!
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activism, aesthetics, analysis, ancient history, art, awkwardness, ayn rand, bass, bass guitar, belle and sebastian, books, borges, bridget jones, buffy the vampire slayer, canada, catcher in the rye, chinese food, christopher rice, clarinet, classical greek, coffee, composer, contemplation, continental philosophy, crochet, danny elfman, dante, daria, dave eggers, dementia, depression, dogma, donnie darko, eclectic music, entropy, environmental awareness, espresso, europe, existence, existentialism, experimental music, feminism, flute, folklore, foreign films, friendship, gender theory, gonzo, greece, greek, greek mythology, heartbreak, hippie, honesty, honors college, house of leaves, human nature, i &hearts huckabees, ice cream, idealism, indiana university of pennsylvania, insane, insanity, insomnia, introspection, iup, janeane garofalo, jean paul sartre, johnny truant, kermit, learning languages, lego, lexx, linguistics, listening, literature, lord of the rings, love, ludwig wittgenstein, mad tv, marching band, meaning of life, meau, metaphysics, midsummer night's dream, movie scores, movies, mst3k, muppets, music, music theory, musician, mystery science theater 3000, mythology, nietzsche, nine inch nails, nintendo, nonviolence, object of my affection, overanalyzing, people watching, pez, philosophy, philosophy major, philosophy of music, piano, poe, poetry, postmodern feminism, psychic, psychology, psychology of music, punk, queer, queer theory, rain, reading, romanticism, romeo and juliet, rufus wainwright, sexuality, shakespeare, simone de beauvoir, sophie's world, spooning, symbolism, talking to squirrels, tarot, tarot cards, tchaikovsky, teaching, the fountainhead, the postal service, the virgin suicides, thinking, thought, thunderstorms, tragedy, vegetarianism, videogame soundtracks, waiting for godot, wearing socks with sandals, weird, who is john galt?, william blake, wind, winter, wisdom
Schools:
Crestwood High School - Mountain Top, PA (1997 - 2002)King's College - Wilkes-Barre, PA (2001 - 2002)
Sunnydale High School - Sunnydale, CA (2002 - present)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Indiana, PA (2002 - 2006)
Αμερικανικό Κολλέγιο - Πανόραμα, Θεσσαλονίκη, Greece (2004)
State University of New York - University at Buffalo - Buffalo, NY (2006 - present)
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