About Me
- About Me: Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as the measure of worth.
Music
- Favorite Artists: Alanis Morissette, Alash, Anoushka Shankar, Natacha Atlas, Ayreon, Azam Ali, Chirgilchin, Cirque du Soleil, Collilde, Dead can Dance, Del'fin, Dimmu Borgir, Enigma, E Nomine, Fågel Roc, Gåte, Garmarna, Huun Huur Tu, Irfan, KMFDM, Kongar-ol Ondar, Laibach, Lacuna Coil, Lustmord, Marilyn Manson, Muse, Nightwish, Niyaz, Mercan Dede, Off the Beat, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Run Lola Run OST, Russkiy Razmer, Sa Dingding, Schubert, Sirenia, Snake River Conspiracy, Stratovarius, t.A.T.u., Tarkan, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Therion, Tristania, Vas, Giuseppe Verdi, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Antonio Vivaldi, Weird Al See last.fm for more - http://www.last.fm/user/Karanis
- Favorite Albums: Therion - "Secret of the Runes" Ayreon - "The Human Equation" Laibach - "Volk" Tomás Luis de Victoria - "O Magnum Mysterium", "Motet Ascendens Christus In Altum" Antonio Vivaldi - "The Four Seasons"
- Favorite Genre: Primarily either international (Russian, German, Scandanavian, Latin, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Tuvan) or Classical (e.g., choral, vocal, opera), also Industrial, Gothic, Opera/Symphonic Metal, Darkwave, and Oldies
- Favorite Songs: E Nomine - "Schwarze Sonne" Tristania - "Crushed Dreams" Therion - "Ginnungagap" Nightwish - "Ghost Love Score" Natacha Atlas - "Like the Last Drop" Niyaz - "Iman"
- Favorite Lyrics: Foreign ones
- Songs I hate: Country, Mainstream American music
- Guilty Pleasure: Shania Twain, Yanni
- Songs I repeat the most: "Плотию Уснув", "Тело Христово" - Хор Спасо-Преображенского Собора п/у Владимира Львова "Shanti Mantra" - Nina Hagen "La Serena" - Azam Ali "Iman" - Niyaz "Ara'ya" - Omar Faruk Tekbilek "Refuge" - Vas "Endless Reverie" - Azam Ali "Like the Last Drop" - Natacha Atlas "Enogoom wil Amar" - Natacha Atlas
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Ashes and Snow, Batman Begins, Day Watch, Дневной Дозор, Devdas, Dogma, Equilibrium, Hero, Jodhaa Akbar, Lagaan, Ночной Дозор, Night Watch, aka, Nochnoi Dozor, Pan's Labyrinth, Pi, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Resident Evil, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Run Lola Run, A Scanner Darkly, V for Vendetta, Waking Life, Zeitgeist
- Favorite Actors: Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Drew Carey, Jim Carrey, John Lithglow, Lucy Liu, Whoopi Goldberg, Uma Thurman
- Favorite Genre: Action, Comedy, Philosophical, Musical
- Favorite Soundtracks: Lagaan, Run Lola Run, Resident Evil, Devdas
Contact Info
- AIM: Karanis90
- Yahoo: Karanis_90
- MSN: ShadeSephiroth@hotmail.com
More About Me
- Nationality: Korean, Caucasian
- Religion: Atheist
- Heroes: Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Meslier, Celsus, Richard Dawkins, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, James Randi, Penn Jilette, Harry Browne
- Interests: Science, Computers, Philosophy, Religion, Skepticism, Atheism, Sufism, Humor, Art, Music, Tea, Narghile, Khoomei, Singing, Politics, Libertarianism, Economics, Photography, Russia, Scandanavia, India, Turkey, China, Languages, Culture, Foods
- Expertise: Arguing and debating intelligently. Being smart. Being arrogant. Being really kind. Being a complete ass. Ranting. Communicating. Boring my readers by making them read the very crap they're looking at right now. Again, I don't feel that this section says much about me, despite that its purpose usually does seem to serve to characterize people with some degree of thoroughness.
- Occupation: Student
- Website: http://www.youtube.com/user/Karanis
Television
- Favorite Shows: Daria, Look Around You, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Penn & Teller: Bullshit, Wonder Showzen
- Favorite Channels: PBS
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Conan O'Brien, Dave Letterman
Video Games
- Games I Play: Browser-based games mostly, nowadays
- Consoles: PC
- Favorite Characters: Sephiroth, Scorpion, Vincent Valentine
- Gaming Alias: Karanis, Antaeres, Kyteron, Xeltaoth
- Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Commodore 64 games
- Favorite Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII
Travel
- Places I've been: Ecuador, Canada, Mexico
- Places to see before I die: Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, China, India, New Zealand
Style
- Where I shop: Thrift Store, Marshall's, WalMart, Target
- Brands I love: Unbranded
- I like to wear: Plain stuff
- Can't live without: Grayscale
- Guilty Pleasure: Gay shit
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Authentic Chinese, Indian
- Favorite Dishes: Salmon, sushi, fish, chicken, vegetables
- Favorite Drinks: Teas (Green, Oolong, Rooibos, White, various tisanes), Soy Milk, Water
- Favorite Restaurants: Hunan Kitchen, Zaiaka
- Foods I hate: Fast food, greasy American shit
Books
- Favorite Books: 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Brotheres Karamazov, Candide, Catch-22, The Catcher in the Rye, Common Sense, The Communist Manifesto, Confessions, Considerations on Representative Government, Crime and Punishment, A Critique of Pure Reason, Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man, Divine Comedy, The End of Faith, Fahrenheit 451, The God Delusion, Guide to the Perplexed, Hitchhiker's Series, The Inferno, Letter to a Christian Nation, Leviathan, On Liberty, Lord of the Flies, The Metamorphosis, Of Mice and Men, Naked Lunch, Nausea, The Origin of Species, Philosophical Dictionary, Proslogion, Provocations, On Religion, The Social Contract, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Summa, Slaughterhouse-Five, Treatise on Tolerance, Two Treatises of Government, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Trial, Utilitarianism, Why I Am Not a Christian
- Favorite Authors: Douglas Adams, Dante Alighieri, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Ray Bradbury, William Burroughs, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sam Harris, Joseph Heller, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Thomas Kuhn, John Locke, Moses Maimonides, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Ayn Rand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bertrand Russel, Marquis de Sade, J.D. Salinger, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Steinbeck, François Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut
- Favorite Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Classics
College
- School Name: Messiah College
- Status: Undergrad
- Attended: 2003 - 2004
- Organizations: Concert Choir
High School
- School Name: Franklin Regional Senior High School
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 2003
- Attended: 1999 - 2003
- Organizations: Chamber Choir
Karanis
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- Name: Kevin
- Country: United States
- State: Pennsylvania
- Metro: Pittsburgh
- Birthday: 5/7/1985
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 6/21/2003
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