People. People are really interesting. How humans communicate fascinates and baffles me. All in the same language people can experience the most mind-boggling miscommunnication, and also the most uncanny on-the-same-pageness...and hot-damn, does English lend itself to on-the-spot word combination/invention. Shakespeare was the king of it. Rock on, old Bard! Rock on!
Music
Yes, please.
Movies
If you're 5 years old, you have yet to see a full-length movie, you haven't been desensitized to violence because you don't have a television set in the house because you live on a land trust on a mountain in the middle of the woods in New Hampshire, but your second-closest neighbors a mile up the mountain do have a tv...watch The Land Before Time over at their house. Sharp Tooth will scare the pants off of you and you will compare scary movies to The Land Before Time for the rest of your life because, in comparison, you will never, ever, be so scared!
Television
What's... Television, Precious?
Books
Good Omens by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman. More to post later. For the past couple years my reading material has mostly included college textbooks...precious little pleasure reading....sob...Although, by the by, if anyone's interested in some truly decent books designed for children, The Agony of Alice and Frindle come highly recommended. Frindle is even the Wayne County "everybody-read-this-book-and-we'll-all-discuss-it" book right now...
Okay...it's later. I think Wayne County is on to a new book and Jackson and I have worked out a handy way to feed our newfound addiction to Terry Prachett's Discworld Series. He buys a book (or 3) and takes a day or 3 to read one. Then I borrow it and read it in a day or 3 and borrow the next one. It's awesome! I am letting myself read one more before Fall Semester starts because if I am reading Terry Prachett when classes start I won't read my textbooks or do any homework! Damn you, Terry Prachett, you silly genius! Damn you to the layer of hell to which Om ineffectively damned the monk who couldn't hear him in the garden toward the beginning of Small Gods...but not really.
Heroes
People who re-cut preexisting footage and synch it up with audio tracks to produce hilarious results. Like whoever made this little gem:
Indiana University-East
Richmond, INDIANA
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Psychology
Clubs: Psychology Club, PsyChi, Students Against War, Women Studies Organization, Conflict Resolution Center
2002 to Present
Richmond High School
Richmond, IN
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Spanish, Fine Arts
Clubs: Didn't get out much at that point.
2001 to 2002
Lincoln Sr High Sch
Cambridge City, IN
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Spanish, Fine Arts
Clubs: Spanish Club, French Club, Academic Teams: Social Studies & English, Track (that was a funny joke!), Key Club, Indiana Junior Historical Society
About me: I'm into grammatically correct run-on sentences, to which all my friends, current and former professors, and high school teachers can attest.
I love conversing with people in a context of what's possible, not just probable given the past.
I think the English language, which has stolen/borrowed so much vocabulary from around the world, is too often grossly misused and underappreciated for its conversational and descriptive potential by its supposed speakers. On a related note, I delight in people who are unapologetically playful with language, like Joe!
Who I'd like to meet: People who are curious about stuff.
At some point I realized that that first sentence (which occupied this space all by itself for nearly a year) was probably at fault for a lot of unsolicited, sexually explicit messages from married women who were curious about lesbian sex and requested my services as an instructor of sorts. That is not what I meant by "curious about stuff!" I was thinking along the lines of Politics, Philosophy, Art, Social and Community Organizing, Travel, Language, Religion, Sexuality, Culinary Experimentation, Ethics, Sustainable Agriculture, Music, Good Beer, Composting, Tree Houses...etc... you get the picture.
And, of course, people who want to buy hand-stenciled T-shirts. Andy and I make'em now. Woo!
indiana misses you, but thanks for the sweaters!! i've been in indy at my sisters since saturday and it reminded me that next time i see you i think we should get together with jack and whoever else and maybe make some veg-o chili.
Hey Satya how are you? So I thought of you the other day. I was sifting through songs on my friend's iPod the other day, and came across...believe it or not..Gogol Bordello :)
To my beautiful friend this is my interpretation that I feel friendship is about. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. Best friends need not be physically present, each keep the other company in the hearts. A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. You've got troubles, I have troubles too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me. God bless you have a wonderful day
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