Friends, Activity Partners

Feb 2003

born in bklyn, raised in jersey.

kaman's art shoppes, (98-00), the hut, (97), MITRE (05)

http://profiles.friendster.com/taulpepper

rutgers college, rutgers university, (98-02 BA), university of edinburgh, (02-03 MSc), northwestern, (03-present, phd)

devourer of worlds

gozer the destructor, amnesty international

music, dancing, food, human beatbox, percussion, dancing, activism, human rights, conversation, science, ambiguity, language, philosophy, theories, hypotheses, vegan/vegetarian cooking, cartoons, film, reading, writing, ratiocination, partying, dump bush!

some non-fiction and some fiction.

wes anderson movies, rushmore, royal tenenbaums, cohen bros movies, christopher guest movies, spike jonze movies, adaptation, todd solondz movies, b horror movies, cronenberg, shivers, ghost world, bill murray movies, 80's movies (!), kung fu flicks

indie pop, hip hop, soul, 60s, yo la, wu tang, mf doom, tribe, johnny cash, the shins, broken social scene, the faint, cannibal ox, magnetic fields, dj shadow, postal service, ms john soda, lcd sndsystm, out hud, kanye west, nas, rjd2, outkast, small bathroom fire

In general I eschew television. I prefer interactive media, where I have at least the illusion of control. I do like adult swim, conan o'brien, the daily show, seinfeld and the simpsons, cartoons

Aries

(1) I'm in brooklyn now, sto;; shooting for a phd this. if I
get it, you may address me as dr. pepper. (2) my brain is a vat (3) eskimos do not have 57 words for "snow" (4) i'm not into using the word 'shorty' to describe attractive, young female humans. at some point the word meant 'child', and evidence from field studies suggests that the lexical ambiguity still exists. that's effed up, and I shouldn't have to explain why. (5) post-humanism is the new black. post-modernism is the old taupe. neo-conservafacism is the new mauve. (6) the beat box is hip hop in its rawest form. (7) existence precedes essence (with or without emeril and his banal line of prepared foods). (8)The dissolution of boundaries between seemingly orthogonal lines of research into unified theories of natural phenomena is a defining feature of the history of science. Scientific research in the 21st century is, of course, no exception to the rule. (9) http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/gradstudents/tepper/ (10) AIM: taulpepper (Appendix) Yes I know I write a lot. Talk too much or have a lot to say?

michael winslow, rahzel & scratch at the same time

a range of different versions of myself from different years - me from grade school, me from high school, me in 10 years, me when I'm old, etc. Then we/I could tell me/us all those things that "if we/I knew then what we/I know now, or then, or in the future, etc...," provided, of course, that our meeting did not result in a rip in the spacetime continuum, which would be bad. (And by "bad" I mean bad like complete protonic reversal bad, not like "awww sit, my bad")

chomsky