Aesop Rock, Afrika Bambaata, Al Green, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, Beastie Boys, Beck, Betty Davis, Black Sabbath, Blackalicious, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Brothers Johnson, Buffalo Springfield, Cake, Calvin Harris, Chemical Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Dr. Dre, Earth Wind and Fire, Erykah Badu, Faith No More, Funkadelic, Gnarls Barkley, Go! Team, Heart, Holy Fuck, Ike and Tina Turner, Isley Brothers, James Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Kool and the Gang, LCD Soundsystem, Miles Davis, Muse, NWA, Nikka Costa, Outkast, Parliament, Pink Floyd, Prince, Rick James, RJD2, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Strapping Young Lad, Talking Heads, The Who, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Movies
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, On Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Star Trek, The Day the Earth Stood Still, THX 1138, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Dr Strangelove, Brazil, Inherit the Wind, Snatch, Clerks, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof
Television
This American Life, Arrested Development, Everybody Hates Chris, Lost, Alias, Big Love, Weeds, Family Guy, American Dad, Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders, Little Britain, The Young Ones, The Singing Detective, PBS
Books
Skinny Legs and All, Another Roadside Attraction, Jitterbug Perfume, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Tao Te Ching, The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966, So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away, Revenge of the Lawn, Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, An Unfortunate Woman, Trout Fishing In America, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Satanic Verses, Shame, Fury, The Moor's Last Sigh, Siddhartha, Demian, Steppenwolf, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hell's Angels, Kingdom of Fear, Fear and Loathing in America, Generation X, Miss Wyoming, Choke, Slapstick, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, Running with Scissors, On Liberty, Rights of Man, All the King's Men
Heroes
Bill Hicks, Hunter S Thompson, Tom Robbins, Salman Rushdie, Richard Brautigan, Gene Roddenberry, George Clinton
If I had just a little bit of wisdom
I should walk the Great Path and fear only straying from it.
Though the Way is quite broad
People love shortcuts.
The court is immaculate,
While the fields are overgrown with weeds,
And the granaries are empty.
They wear silk finery,
Carry sharp swords,
Sate themselves on food and drink
Having wealth in excess.
They are called thieving braggarts.
This is definitely not the Way.
- Chapter 53, Tao Te Ching
"It's time we were patriotic about something other than war." - John Edwards
"America doesn't start wars - we end them.
We don't turn away from the world - we lead it.
And we don't commit torture - we condemn it." - Sen. Chris Dodd, former candidate for 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination
"Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness."
-Hermine, in Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
"There are as many ways to God as there are created souls." - Muhammad
"Trust in God, but tie your camel's leg." - Muhammad
Tear aside veils of all you see in this world, and you will find yourself apart in solitude with God. If you draw aside the veils of the stars and the spheres, you will see that all is one with the Essence of your own pure soul. If you will but tear aside the veil, you will see nonexistence, and you will see forthwith the true meaning of God's purpose. When you have cast aside the veil, you will see the Essence, and all things will be shown forth within the Essence. If you draw aside the veil from the Face of the Beloved, all that is hidden will be made manifest, and you will become one with God, for then will you be the very Essence of the Divine. - Attar
If you could get rid
Of yourself just once,
The secret of secrets
Would open to you.
The face of the unknown,
Hidden beyond the universe
Would appear on the
Mirror of your perception.
- Rumi
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One who knows does not speak.
One who speaks does not know." - Tao Te Ching
Who I'd like to meet: Barack Obama. William Shatner. George Clinton.
And some new people to hang out with. I left the suburbs for Seattle a few months ago, but now I go out less and know fewer people, which is exactly the opposite of what I expected/wanted to happen. I could use some good conversation and a little bit of fun.
Dang! R u ok??? seems your a bit angry..... sorry go take a shot of tequila...this will make you feel a bit better! I seen your dad this weekend, He and I still love ya!
Wishing you well with your tolerence of stupid annoying people, met enough on my way to the studio this morning (however they were stupid annoying, drunk racist people, which is in a class of its own). Hope all is good with you, lots of UK folk hoping Obama gets through (just so you know... ok I know you know but just incase).
aww, I am sorry! Being in love with someone makes life hard at times. I hope all works out for yall, just remember "communication is the key to a great relationship, if you dont communitcate, you will loose him and him you, put yalls guards down and take the step. Believe me here lately I have learned alot!!!
Wow! hello! I've been sick for days and done nothing but sleep, but you haven't even called to tell me about your new place. I hope it's wonderful. Miss you guys...do you even have internet yet???
Ok first of all the Star Trek comment makes me laugh, and secondly, you never got back to me about my impending divorce and subsequent marriage to Wentworth Miller. This is serious business.
