User:Andrew-1999

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About me

I was born in the year included in my username. My first interest was music, specifically that of the Beatles and Michael Jackson. I was also interested in animal rights from an early age and became vegetarian around the age of 10. In middle school, the summer after it, and the early years of high school, I voluntarily read both classic and present-day novels such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927), Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001), and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012), affected by the ability of these authors to build complex models of humans’ emotional lives and relationships in ways that taught valuable life lessons. I had an insatiable need to seek out such lessons.

Seeing certain films that struck me as containing good ones, like The Social Network (2010), made me simultaneously interested in film, and I would go on to write reviews of a number of films for my high school newspaper from 2015 to 2017. I argued late in my sophomore year for the importance of films’ formal qualities, but became more focused in my last review for that paper on content over form. You can see a re-posting of one of the reviews I wrote here, and another one here.

In the nine years between my graduation from high school and the present-day, I have joined the question-and-answer site Quora as an autodidact. My first run of answers there, which largely advocated educational reform and youth rights, began shortly after high school and concluded in early 2022. In the same time, I came to see some of the connections between different intellectual subjects and created a series of detailed diagrams on a particular work of continental philosophy, posting it to YouTube privately.

These days, I am a vegan who watches some television (e.g. The Wire, Girls) and attends some groups via Meetup. I have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and OCD. Some outputs I hope to master in my lifetime are those of Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Captain Beefheart, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Sufjan Stevens, and Fiona Apple. In the cases of some of these, I’m familiar enough with a number of their albums already. But I may not get around to all of the works of all of them because I'm one of those people who cares about knowing their lyrics…and also because, in any given week, there will also be certain books I'm getting through, such as biographies of similarly gifted artists or other non-fiction works about certain left-wing causes…

Articles I have created

The bolded pages are the ones that I have made, in my view, the best contributions to. The actual links are to the contribution histories. {{

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