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(Alex) 17 y.o., Male

Last logged in 4 months ago
Last updated at 2:15am BST on June 2, 2008
Joined on May 30, 2008
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About Me:

There's not a whole lot to say... I'm a native english speaker out of the U.S., and i can speak french, although i've only been studying it for about 5 years. I'm of Korean descent, so I would like to learn the language. I'm a Marxist and a Nihilist (if you don't know what they are, ask me! I'd love to share) and I play a few instruments (Viola is my first instrument, but i play Bass, Guitar, Cello, Violin and Piano). I love music and writing, and i would love to meet people around the world.

Requests:

I'll talk to anyone in English, but if you speak French, tell me and i'll do my best.
Also, I would like to speak with people from Korea, Japan and Britain.

Interests, Hobbies, etc.:

We do so much

Favorite Music:

A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Alaska in Winter, The Apples in Stereo, The Arcade Fire, Architecture​ in Helsinki, Beck, Beulah, Belle & Sebastian, Blur, Beirut, Ben Kweller, Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds, Blonde Redhead, Camera Obscura, Circulatory System, Chocolate USA, Clap your Hands and Say Yeah, The Coral, The Decemberists​, Dressy Bessy, Elefant, Elf Power, The Essex Green, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand, The Gerbils, Islands, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, The Killers, Kings Of Convenience,​ Ladybug Transistor, LCD Soundsystem,​ The Libertines, The Magnetic Fields, Margot & The Nuclear So And So's, Marjorie Fair, Mika, Modest Mouse, Mosquitoes, Muse, The Music Tapes, Nada Surf, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographer​s, Oasis, Of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, Phoenix, Pipes You See Pipes you Don't, Pinback, The Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rilo Kiley, Rogue Wave, Seabear, The Shins, The Smiths, The Sounds, Spoon, Stars, Sunshine Fix, Tears for Fears, Tegan and Sara, Tilly and the Wall, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Favorite Movies:

The Science of Sleep, The Royal Tenenbaums, Across the Universe, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Juno, Empire Records, V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show, Little Miss Sunshine, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Darjeeling Limited

Favorite Books:

The Prince, In Cold Blood, The Kite Runner, Shakespeare,​ The Inferno, Confessions,​ Siddhartha, The Metamorphosi​s, Just Another Modern Rock Story, The Interpretati​on of Dreams, Walden, The Republic, The Bonds of Freedom, Ethics, The Age of Reason, The Social Contract, Summa Contra Gentiles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Ideal of Rationality

Favorite Quotes:

"Before​ I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
Andy Warhol

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
Andy Warhol

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol

“I suppose I have a really loose interpretati​on of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”
Also, Andy Warhol
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johnnyfox 32 at 11:21pm BST on Jun 18, 2008
Yeah what's your definition of nihilism and what's your definition of marxism and is it possible to be both? Can I ask if your parents have shared the same views or maybe as a 17 year old you might just be feeling a little bit of teenage angst. I think we sometimes get our views from our parents, which might explain why there have been two lunatics in the White House. But I often get a feeling that some teenagers are just being a little bit rebellious and choose opposing views from their parents.

Johnny

Johnny
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koreanpride 17 at 10:24am BST on Jun 15, 2008
:DDDDDDDDDDD​D im learning french on itunes.. phew its hard! :)
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rubywuby 19 at 3:29pm BST on Jun 13, 2008
Ah so you like Belle and Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand, that's cool, to be honest i've never really listened to Belle and Sebastian but they're quite popular here. Franz Ferdinand are good, i really liked their first album.
Yeah i agree with you about bands having to conform to the mainstream in order to get radioplay, i think it's a shame that they have to do that which is probably why i prefer bands that no one here has heard of, though some of the less mainstream bands get some airplay here, but not that much. I agree with you about the music sounding more natural when a band has more freedom, i always like music with weird or distorted vocals which is quite difficult to sell to the mainstream but i sometimes think that the vocals are more natural when they aren't all typical Britney Spears type vocals
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Ganymede 16 at 2:34pm BST on Jun 12, 2008
Thanks for the explanation :) I've heard of that school of thought before, actually, just had no idea what the name for it was. Truth is relative, I agree, because all truth is a point of view. Society uses 'truth' as a form of social control, I think.
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zestar 17 at 12:58pm BST on Jun 10, 2008
ok, alors, quoi de neuf?
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koreanpride 17 at 8:48am BST on Jun 10, 2008
bonjour! L~~~~O~~~~~~​~N~~~~~~~~~G​ time no see
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rubywuby 19 at 4:51pm BST on Jun 8, 2008
I'm sure if you moved here for a while you'd enjoy it, there are some nice things to enjoy here, i suppose i'm just a little jaded with it because i've always lived here, i think most people feel that way about where they grew up. What's your favourite band? I don't know that many bands based here really apart from some of the bands that friends or schoolmates are in. Most of the bands i like ten to be from Scandanavia bizarrely.
Wow molecular biology and chemistry sounds really intense, but then again i never enjoyed science.
I am at university, i just finished my first year studying film and media, french and economics
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Ganymede 16 at 5:50pm BST on Jun 7, 2008
Hey, how are you? Would you mind explaining to me what Nihlism is? I have a vague idea, but I'm not 100% certain.
I find Marxism fascinating,​ though I haven't yet managed to get round to reading the whole of 'Das Kapital'. I've read The Communist Manifesto, and I have to agree with you that its ideals are very interesting.​
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sunshine17 17 at 5:10pm BST on Jun 7, 2008
Cool :)
Thank you for telling me that :)
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zestar 17 at 4:58pm BST on Jun 7, 2008
sorry, if I turn your head off.
I just preferred to speak french as for you to practise.
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