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Life has a soundtrack
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Created on 2003-06-01 14:08:51 (#1091083), last updated 2009-07-09
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Basic Info| Name: | Paul Nabil Matthis |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1982-05-30 |
| Location: | LA, California, United States |
| Website: | http://www.paulmatthis.com/ |
BioHow to not hate the world so much:
There are two things in this world, Truth, and lies. Everything starts with what it is, what is real, and this truth is what makes the world so beautiful. The lies are what hides this truth from us, makes it difficult for us to see the beauty in which we live; it disillusions us. Lie begets lie, and it grows and propagates over the world like tire grease.
All we have to realize is while all this muck looks sickening, it is still, beneath it all, a lie. In other words, it isn't real. We can be sad for those that hurt others because they can't see through to what is real, and we can strive to stop those who are beyond help, but ultimately we know that what is real is that divine, ancient, simple beauty, and any and all evil is this big web of nothing built up around people's sad confusion. Think of any wrong this way, find the lies that led to its occurence, and you will weep for those you used to hate, and you will find yourself filled up to bursting with the simple reality of the world around you.
Yeah. Just some guy with a beat in his head.
I should change this journal's name to, "A list of people I feel sorry for and why they shouldn't be afraid."
There are two things in this world, Truth, and lies. Everything starts with what it is, what is real, and this truth is what makes the world so beautiful. The lies are what hides this truth from us, makes it difficult for us to see the beauty in which we live; it disillusions us. Lie begets lie, and it grows and propagates over the world like tire grease.
All we have to realize is while all this muck looks sickening, it is still, beneath it all, a lie. In other words, it isn't real. We can be sad for those that hurt others because they can't see through to what is real, and we can strive to stop those who are beyond help, but ultimately we know that what is real is that divine, ancient, simple beauty, and any and all evil is this big web of nothing built up around people's sad confusion. Think of any wrong this way, find the lies that led to its occurence, and you will weep for those you used to hate, and you will find yourself filled up to bursting with the simple reality of the world around you.
Yeah. Just some guy with a beat in his head.
I should change this journal's name to, "A list of people I feel sorry for and why they shouldn't be afraid."
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42, a clockwork orange, adult swim, aeon flux, akira kurosawa, albert einstein, allen ginsberg, amélie, aphex twin, bach, beauty, becoming teapots, big answers little details, bill hicks, bleeding chocolate sauce, blue bell ice cream, bob marley, bone, bruce lee, calvin and hobbes, candy corn, cheese, climbing everything in sight, cogito ergo sum, curious george, dancing, danny elfman, deinocheirus, disbeliefism, dispatches from the future, douglas adams, dr. seuss, dragons, drawing, eddie izzard, edward gorey, electronic music, ella fitzgerald, epistemology, funk, gallows humor, george bruns, glamour killing, go, goethe, grendel, grey goose, grokking in fullness, guildenstern, guitars, hayao miyazaki, headcase for the bass, hemlock, hobbits, hong kong cinema, houses eaten alive, huge fucking bonfires, ibc, j.d. salinger, j.r.r. tolkien, jim henson, judging strangers, kudzu graveyards, kyuzo, langston hughes, lao tzu, live, louis armstrong, m.c. escher, maleficent, martial arts, mbira, memorizing shel silverstein poems, metaphysics, milan kundera, miles davis, momentum ball, monty python, mr. rogers, museums, music, my pillow's cooler side, nick drake, nietzsche, nobuo uematsu, odometers, outkast, paper street soap company, people, pez, philip glass, phosphorescence, piece of string, radiohead, raga, ravi shankar, really spicy food, reception crashing, rhythm in nature, road trips, robert heinlein, robert johnson, rosencrantz, sandwiches, sergey prokofiev, sheesha, showbiz pizza, singing, somnambulists, squarepusher, stanley kubrick, stars, steve martin, sushi, swimming, syria, tetherball, the 150 interest limit, the beat, the brave little toaster, the family guy, the golden rectangle, the mars volta, the ocean, the progression, the proletariat, the slow clap, the smurfs, thelonius monk, thunderstorms, tongue rings, tool, touch, trees, using too much reverb, vocal percussion, wasabi, where's your head at?, wherethewildthingsare, will o' the wisps, winking at trees, women, xanth, zen
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Schools:
Bahrain School - Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain (1996 - 1998)Centennial High School - Franklin, TN (1998 - 2000)
Lambuth University - Jackson, TN (2000 - 2002)
Florida State University - Tallahassee, FL (2002 - 2004)
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