pedanticsatire
female, 21 |
Student
Harrisburg/Manipal / United States/Karnataka
member since 10.03.2006
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I'm full of paradoxes and contradictions. I'm an optimistic existentialist, a humanistic pessimist, a nihilistic romantic, a cynical humanist. I'm a nerd and proud of it. I'm an intellectual, and I love literature and learning. I'm a crazy, radical feminist and a wacky left-wing nutjob. Depending on my mood, I'm either a capitalist (mostly this since I'll be living in India for the next 3 years of my life) or a socialist. I'm a misanthrope, and it takes a lot for me to respect/like people. I seem shy, but I usually just act reserved because I don't like you or I have nothing to say to you. I'm insanely obsessive compulsive. I'm a grammar freak, so if I ask you how you are, please don't tell me that you're good. My list of books tells you a lot about my personality.
Books:
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, especially Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, Bluebeard, Slaughterhouse Five, Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, anything by Emerson, Wordsworth's poems, Blake's poems, Dickinson's poems, Kartography by Kamila Shamsie, Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Emma by Jane Austen, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Paradise Lost by John Milton, god this list could go on forever.
Music:
Vivaldi, Debussy, Chopin, Pachelbel (=D), Saint-Saens (What?! I like Carnival!), Satie, Grieg, Beethoven, Bach (yes, I finally gave in...Stupid Adam), Gershwin, Zakhir Hussein, Ustad Alla Rakha, Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Jagjit Singh ( I just saw him in concert!), Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Ramones, Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Vertical Horizon, Barenaked Ladies, Beach Boys, Bright Eyes, Guster, John Mayer, Norah Jones, Anna Nalick, Queen, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, the list goes on...
TV: Gilmore Girls, House, Crossfire, Sex and the City, The Daily Show, Grey's Anatomy, ER, Iron Chef America, and I watch CSPAN sometimes (shh... don't tell anyone)
Movies:
MONTY PYTHON (Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Flying Circus, Meaning of Life, Spamalot - do musicals count?), Dead Poet's Society, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Syriana, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually, Chocolat, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice (What?! I like Jane Austen!), Crash, Pretty Woman, Casablanca, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Omen (the original), American Beauty, Notting Hill, About A Boy, Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Anastasia, Water, Rang De Basanti, Fanaa, Yuva, Parineeta, Tehzeeb, 15 Park Avenue, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (LoL.. I know.. how immature.. But how can you not love crazy communist Satyajit Ray?)
Favorite Quote (for now): "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" |
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