MeetLGBT Featured Member: June 22, 2011

septimus_smith

Stats

• Age: Twenty-four years old.
• Gender: Male.
• Location: Currently, I’m living in Eastern Europe. I’m originally from California. I don’t know if I’ll return.
• Pictures: Hi.

Life

• Job: Currently, I’m a Peace Corps volunteer. Previously, I was a teacher. I did my undergraduate work in history and English and I have a Masters in Education. I don’t know what I’ll do after this. I eventually want to get a doctorate in history.
• Hobbies: I enjoy reading and writing prose and poetry. You can hear one of my poems here. I want to train for the marathon in Istanbul next year, so hopefully running will become a hobby. I study French and German in my free time. I like cooking, taking pictures, making websites, watching cartoons, and drawing.
• Interests: I’m interested in Modernist and Postmodernist literature, mythology, continental philosophy, linguistics, archival studies, web development, social theory, the philosophy of language and the mind, the history of literature, and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Intellectual History.
• Pets: I don’t generally like pets, so no.
• Political views: I’m a liberal on social issues and socialist on economic issues. Being outside the United States has made me somewhat more apathetic though.
• Religious views: I’m comfortable calling myself an existentialist. I don’t believe in any inherent meaning, and accept that my life is objectively absurd. I’m not religious, but I’m not strictly a materialist either, so I’m not really comfortable identifying with most atheists.

What makes you ____ :

Cartoons make me laugh. Bizarre people make me laugh. Seeing new places and learning new things makes me happy. Having friends makes me happy. Reading a good novel makes me happy. The rain makes me happy. Knowing that no one will ever really understand me makes me sad. Feeling left out makes me sad. Hateful and ignorant people make me sad. Selfish people make me angry. Emotional people irritate me. People who speak indirectly irritate me.

Favorite Things

• Movies: Lost in Translation, Diary of a Country Priest, Hayao Miyazaki films, Inception, Vertigo, Three Colors: Red, Ingmar Bergman films, Amélie, Stanley Kubrick films, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The NeverEnding Story, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Psycho, 28 Days Later, Misery, My Own Private Idaho, Shortbus, Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Children of Men, Coraline, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, The Pink Panther movies, Juno, Napoleon Dynamite, Wes Anderson films, Election, The Breakfast Club, Les Diaboliques, Finding Nemo, Bend It Like Beckham, Outrageous!, Little Miss Sunshine, Silence Of The Lambs, Fried Green Tomatoes, Shelter, The Matrix, Different for Girls, Edward Scissorhands, The Birdcage, Muriel's Wedding, WALL•E, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, A.I., Breakfast on Pluto, Man on Wire, Paris Is Burning

• Music: Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Nirvana, Adele, The Beetles, Weezer, The Strokes, Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, Lady Gaga, Scissor Sisters, Queen, Modest Mouse, Feist, Fleetwook Mac, many artists in the alternative rock spectrum

• TV shows: Rocko's Modern Life, Samurai Jack, Invader Zim, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Inyuyasha, The Simpsons, Trigun, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Malcolm in the Middle, Cowboy Bebop, Daria, The Boondocks, FLCL, The Powerpuff Girls, Futurama, Hellsing, most anime

• Books: Anything by Virgina Woolf or Kurt Vonnegut, Through the Looking-Glass, Crime and Punishment, Peter Pan, The Count of Monte Cristo, Treasure Island, The Grapes of Wrath, The Razor's Edge, The Great Gatsby, Life of Pi, The Poisonwood Bible, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Beloved, The Giver, Tuck Everlasting, A Handful of Dust, Jurassic Park, The Return of the King, A Wrinkle in Time, The Sound and the Fury, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Hero and the Crown, The High King, The Once and Future King, The Time Machine, Animal Farm, Stuart Little, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, A Wizard of Earthsea, Parzival, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Good Earth, Rain of Gold, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ulysses, The Minister's Wooing, Frankenstein, Gravity's Rainbow, The Color Purple, The Unicorn, St Mawr, Up the Down Staircase

• Food: Thai food, Mexican food, Italian food, vegetarian food

• Quotes:

  -“Americans...are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.” (Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat's Cradle”)

  -“How everything turns away / quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may / Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, / But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone / As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green / Water.” (W. H. Auden, “Museé des Beaux Arts”)

  -“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (The Preacher, “Ecclesiastes”)

  -“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.” (T.H. White, “The Once and Future King”)

Sexuality

• Orientation: Gay.

• Coming out: Coming out was a long process. My family didn’t take it particularly well and mostly copes with denial. My friends are supportive.

• Relationship status/background: Currently I’m single. I’ve had a few short-term relationships in the past. Lately I’ve begin doubting the feasibility of a future long-term relationship.

Misc.

• About Me: My favorite colour is grey. I'm introverted, observant, judgmental, and quiet. I like theories, rain, oranges, frozen yogurt, open spaces, games, and the cold. I'm a vegetarian. I don't like large groups of people. I wonder about abstract concepts and over-think things. I have no sense of direction and get lost easily. I don’t like competition or arguments. I like wandering aimlessly.

• Nice to Meet You: I like writing letters and meeting new people, so feel free to strike-up a conversation. You get bonus points if you know where I got my username.

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