I just realized that this would take me a long long time.
I like a lot of music. I think that music is obviously an influence or reflection of how you feel. That being said I do these day's prefer hip hop to metal.
Hesher rock to r&b.
World music, reggae, rap, crap, even some bluegrass and true country music. Not that whinny crap that most of it is today, oh wait ..I didn't just say that did i. I like female country.
and whatever group someone like paul simon or prince end up in.
Movies
Movies ended up replacing books in my life. Sad I know, but I love seeing other peoples artistic(visual) representations of life or fictional experiences.
Again, hard to have a favorite.
2 that have stood the test of time, and I never think are really cheesy ever, are the princess bride and the labyrinth.
I really like good kung fu flicks including kung fu hustle and kill bill.
Some of the best movies for action and action fantasy/kung fu out there though are japanese, chinese and korean.
Everything about their movies outclasses all the same whithered and almost dead plot lines of western movies.
And I'm one of those people that doesn't always need to have a happy ending.
I'm a realist. I know life isn't like the fairy tales.
That being said one of my favorite if not my favorite anime, is a movie called grave of the fireflies.
This movie is all story and plot driven and is guaranteed to make you cry, even if you are a guy.
Television
Boston legal, south park, heroes, lost, anthony bourdain, hells kitchen. pseudo news, and more pseudo news.
Books
Read so many books you've never even heard of because i can't remember the names of them anyway.
Heroes
My mom,
her mom
anyone that has been through any type of real struggle and hasn't allowed that to turn them into some sort of monster.
About me:
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security."
~ Albert Einstein, 1950
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes we fail to see both sides, or the whole picture.
Or if we do see it, it doesn't always process correctly.
are the lines horizontal ,vertical or slanted?
You see the old man, but what about the 2 people kissing?
Life is full of illusions, some created for you. Other's created by yourself.
Sometimes being in the moment is a lot harder than it sounds.
But it's situations like these, and how we act when we are in them, that allow us to learn who we really are, and exactly how much we need to grow as a person.
And then as a society.
Countries the United States has bombed since the end of World War II
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Libya 1986
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991-2002
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Croatia 1994 (of Serbs at Krajina)
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998 (airliner)
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001-02
"We are by far the most violent nation on earth. We have the highest numbers of rape and murder in the world and incarcerate the greatest percentage of our citizens. We are the largest producer and exporter of weapons of mass destruction and have the world's biggest military budget comprising 36 percent of the total world military spending and gobbling up more than 50 percent of our own national budget" Yellow Times
Or why we incarcerate so many of our own people.
The USA has the most number of people in prison in the world, at 2.8 million. Next is China with 1.4 million. However China's total population is 4.6 times that of the USA, so the number of people in prison per 100,000 of population is very different: 1000 people per 100,000 in the USA, 115 per 100,000 in China. 'Unlawful combatants' held on a military base in someone else's country are not included.'
Who I'd like to meet: anyone who happens to be awake enough to make the coffee.
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The rogue professor entered the basement at thirteen hundred hours. The walls were coated with a mat black rubber. They absorbed the deep blue lighting shining from multiple lamps placed around the room. There appeared to be a large group1 of individuals standing in a grid formation. They were static. Casting steady shadows upon the floor on which they stood. The professor mingled through them. Observing each one with scrutiny. Then, rubbing the stubbles on his head he clearly voiced for the lights to rise to medium exposure. A slight hum filled to room as the human features of all present became more obvious in the rising clarity.
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