Activities: blogging, caffeinating, cooking, dancing, devoting mad amounts of time and energy to randomly conceived art projects, documenting, event planning, exploring, falling down the rabbit hole, filmmaking, finger crossing, following bread crumb trails, going to concerts and shows, hanging out with friends, having adventures, hoping, joking, learning, living, loving, making stuff, networking, observing, overthinking, people watching, pontificating, ranting, reading, singing, spontaneous aimless driving, traveling, wanting, wishing, writing
Interests: adventures, art, banter, board games, books, candor, cloud of surreal, cocktails, coffee, coincidence, concerts, design, epiphanies, experimental documentary, explosions, film, fire, honesty, insomnia, intensity, interactivity, irony, late night endless rambling conversations about nothing and everything all at once, literature, museums, music, networking, nostalgia, openness, participatory media, photography, problem solving, production, psychology, quirks, ritual, road trips, sarcasm, satire, serendipity, sleep deprivation, social dynamics, sociology, spirituality, spontaneity, storms, synchronicity, tea, time, theatre, tradition, travel, trust, video, water, wine, words
Music
I could go on forever, and I probably will: drum n bass, jungle, breaks, electro, 80's, new wave, one hit wonders, classic rock, indie rock, emo, nerdcore, abstract hip hop, trip hop, soundtracks, industrial, The Streets, The Shins, Nine Inch Nails, Pixies, Brian McKenzie, Cake, Liz Phair, Pish Posh, Hybrid, DB, High Contrast, Calibre, Pendulum, The Smashing Pumpkins, Telepopmusik, Lamb, Interpol, Tool, Doves, Jackal & Hyde, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Ben Folds Five, Beatles, Ben Lee, They Might Be Giants, Tom McRae, Beastie Boys, Portishead, Beth Gibbons, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Prodigy, Tears For Fears, King Crimson, Chris Isaak, Depeche Mode, Weezer, Madonna, L7, Hole, MC Paul Barman, The Police, Sting, Atom and his Package, Bjork, VNV Nation, Pete Yorn, Sondre Lerche, Nina Simone, A Tribe Called Quest, Air, Black Eyed Peas, Frank Black and the Catholics, Blonde Redhead, Enon, U2, REM, David Bowie, Gorillaz, Cat Power, Coldplay, Radiohead, Magnetic Fields, The Cure, Danny Elfman, Mono, Etro Anime, Lullaby for the Working Class, Zero 7, Stone Temple Pilots, Clint Mansell, Pop Will Eat Itself, Dieselboy, Lullaby for the Working Class, Dara, Angelo Badalamenti, James, The Sundays, Goldie, David Gray, Ben Harper, Digable Planets, Damien Rice, Old 97s, System of a Down, Jurassic 5, Veruca Salt, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bruce Springsteen, Jack Johnson, Wu-Tang, Black Crowes, Nick Drake, Front Line Assembly, Ministry, Sonic Youth, J.P. Shilo, Sister Machine Gun, Front 242, Pig, Pigface, KMFDM, Genitorturers, Marilyn Manson, Counting Crows, Woven... and PIRATE RADIO.... YARRR, MATEY!
Movies
In no particular order: various B horror movies, Gilliam, Lynch, Tarantino, Jeunet, Caro, Coen Bros, Soderbergh, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Tony Scott, Evil Dead Trilogy, Batman Begins, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Hurlyburly, Buffalo 66, City of Lost Children, Schizopolis, Garden State, 12 Monkeys, Lost Highway, Better Off Dead, Real Genius, Freddy Got Fingered, Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Flatliners, Jacob's Ladder, The Player, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, Labyrinth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Alice in Wonderland, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, The Limey, Out of Sight, The Goonies, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, At Close Range, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Beetlejuice, Rushmore, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, A Clockwork Orange, St. Elmo's Fire, Uncle Buck, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Dream a Little Dream, Heathers, Back to the Future, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, Almost Famous, Dune, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, V for Vendetta
Television
Twin Peaks, House, Lost, Dexter, Northern Exposure, Gilmore Girls, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Invader Zim, Disinformation, Wonderfalls, Joan of Arcadia, MST3K, Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Tales from the Crypt, Kids in the Hall, The State, Mythbusters, Mysterious Cities of Gold
Books
Tom Robbins, Ayn Rand, Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, A.M. Homes, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Robert Anton Wilson, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Clive Barker, C.S. Lewis, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Tom Stoppard, Bret Easton Ellis, Aldous Huxley, Carolyn Cassady, George Orwell, JD Salinger, Douglas Rushkoff, Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, T.S. Eliot, Oscar Wilde, David Foster Wallace, Christopher Moore, Jonathan Safran Foer, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Leyner
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." -Chuck Palahniuk
"The shaman lives outside the social system, refusing to have any part of it. Yet he seems to connect the populace to the heavens and the earth far more directly than the priest." -Tom Robbins
"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted." -Jerome Blattner
"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed." -Chuck Palahniuk
"Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be." -Chuck Palahniuk
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time." -Chuck Palahniuk
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand
"There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. So don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future."
"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character." -Ayn Rand
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change." -Frank Lloyd Wright
"If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked." -Tom Robbins
"To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought." -Tom Robbins
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." -Frank Lloyd Wright
"Jerry Falwell is dead. Hitler is dust. McCarthy sleeps with the fishes." -Aaron Moore
“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.” –Abraham Maslow
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." -Tom Stoppard
"The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's Cat." -Robert Anton Wilson
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” -Oscar Wilde
"This little thing, I am making more out of it than there is... But I like to think when something disturbs me that it is important." -Steven Jesse Bernstein
"It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want." -Chuck Palahniuk
"The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art." -Chuck Palahniuk
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." -Tom Robbins
"I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees." -Tom Robbins
"In the 60s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal."
"When life shits on your head, you don't run around shrieking. You take a shower." -Jessica Rosch
"Idealism is what precedes experience. Cynicism is what follows." -David T. Wolf
"Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another." -Tom Robbins
"Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef." -Tom Robbins
"Never make someone a priority when they only consider you an option."
"Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek." -Tom Robbins
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later." -Mitch Hedberg
"I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality." -Mitch Hedberg
"If the total scheme of nature required man to be a specialist she would have made him so by having him born with one eye and a microscope attached to it." -R. Buckminster Fuller
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." -Alfred Hitchcock
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." -Bertrand Russell
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." -Bertrand Russell
“Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.” -Tori Amos
"If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, then maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore." -Tori Amos
"When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?" -Tori Amos
“If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.” -Tori Amos
"Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be." -Tori Amos
"What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close." -Tori Amos
"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them." -Tom Stoppard
"There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out." -Richard Dawkins
"Everything popular is wrong." -Oscar Wilde
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” -Oscar Wilde
"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart." -Kurt Vonnegut
"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?" -Kurt Vonnegut
"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." -Kurt Vonnegut
"No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning." -Haruki Murakami
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” -Ray Bradbury
“The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.” -Ray Bradbury
“If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.” - Ray Bradbury
"If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.” -Robert Anton Wilson
“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.” -Robert Anton Wilson
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being." -Tom Robbins
"When you get the blanket thing you can relax because everything you could ever want or be you already have and are." -I Heart Huckabees
"Let's just pause. Put that down. Let's just take a step back. No, I was wrong. I'm sorry. Take a step forward. Now, take a step back. Step forward. Back. And then we're cha-cha-ing!" -Real Genius
"The question isn't what are we going to do today, it's what aren't we going to do today." -Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised." -Tom Robbins
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -H.L. Mencken
"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born." -Mark Twain
"If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite." -Dennis McKinsey
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry." -Richard Dawkins
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." -Bertrand Russell
"If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?" -Tom Robbins
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." -Richard Dawkins
"I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose." -Clarence Darrow
"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide." -Tom Robbins
Who I'd like to meet: Fatally honest people who habitually throw caution to the wind in favor of truth. People who believe that the benefit of risk outweighs the safety of precaution. People who embrace challenges. People who are comfortable in their own skin. People who are brave enough to stand up for themselves, for their friends, for their loved ones, and for that in which they believe. People who are brave enough to admit when they are wrong. People who do not allow their egos to interfere with their ability to admit that they might be able to learn from others. Original thinkers. Anyone who can, and will, blow my mind daily. Anyone with a killer sense of humor. People who aren't afraid to be sentimental. People who can hold their own. People with thick skins and deep souls. People who thrive on the heat in the kitchen. People who make lemonade.
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