LANDO
Jun 11, 2010
There’s a funny story about
Joe and I from the first year of our having met. Joe lived in a
college suite with some friends of mine while I was living in
blessed isolation in the single rooms across campus. I was working
on my BA with a double major in English and Psychology and hadn’t
yet discovered the desire to learn everything, though it was
bubbling. I did however discover a rather comprehensive personality
test in the Psychology Office’s library, which, I then administered
to most of my friends in Joe's suite. Afterward, I administered the
test to myself, waiting to score them all together so that I
wouldn’t slant my own answers based on subconsciously desired
results.
After several hours of
crunched numbers, I ended up with a set of results for my friends
and Joe. What I saw was a group of people with very common
personality traits, you might almost call them stock personality
types, which make up most of the population. What I had not counted
on was that Joe and I would fall into a personality type that was
shared by no one else in the suite, and in fact only shared with
three to five percent of the population. It was a leadership type,
a personality that refused to take orders blindly and which sought
to instead discover its own path. What made it funnier was that Joe
and I were counter point inside the type. Joe was a leader who
preferred to lead from the shadows and remain out of the spotlight,
effecting control of the world without demanding recognition. I was
a leader who did not want control but through effect of personality
drew people to me and created tribes. A drastic simplification of
the types of course, but the point was that I had met someone like
me, just on the opposite end of the pendulum.
This show is the interest on
years of friendship between two people of a less common personality
type who refuse to be led and instead lead themselves. Joe went the
way of Art and I went the path of English and Psychology. I have a
MA in Writing, and MA in Psychology, and a MA in Literature. I
believe that knowledge is the greatest wealth and would keep myself
in education forever if I could. Instead I read a lot and subject
myself to college courses on tape in a constant struggle to learn,
well, everything.
I was raised on Fantasy and
Led Zeppelin and matured into Cyberpunk and Techno. I am the child
of immigrants who themselves stepped out of the common roles their
parents expected from them, starting a tradition of rebellion.
These days I read every genre but my love of the sea is always the
seas of Science-Fiction, or as some have started calling it,
Speculative Fiction. Beyond my education and reading I don’t have
much more to say, I never really liked the idea of bios and the
like. I have been writing since I was eleven, and one day I do hope
to touch the minds of others the way my mind was touched at a young
age, starting me off into the lands of mind and question. Gibson’s
Neuromancer was more than just futurist crime fiction, it taught a
boy like me that life could be very different from what the
everyday dictated.
I hope this gives our
listeners some better ideas of their hosts. Oh, and one more thing,
I am confident that Theodore Roosevelt would kick Ernest
Hemingway’s ass in an old style fistfight. That said, enjoy the
show and thanks for your time.
