Freedom for everyone and every creature, animal rights, veganism, vegan, environmental issues, animals, dogs, music, peace, drums, guitar, animal liberation, vegan food, aspiring to be like Gandhi (difficult!!), living cruelty free, buddhism, blues guitar solos, jazz drum solos, music, music, music, music
Music
Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, The Who, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Free, Hawkwind, Gong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Pink Floyd, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Bert Jansch, Eric Clapton, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Burt Bacharach, The Band, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Fairport Convention, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, Weather Report, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mountain, Cactus, Humble Pie, Small Faces, Deep Purple, Mountain, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Pentangle, Thelonius Monk, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, West Bruce and Laing, Lou Reed, Jethro Tull, Genesis, King Crimson, Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa, Manic Street Preachers, Sex Pistols, Yes, The Damned, The Clash, Xray Spex, David Bowie, The Tubes, Van Halen, Kiss, T.Rex, Slade, PIL, Velvet Underground, The Smiths, New Model Army, Buddy Rich, Nick Drake, and more
Movies
This is England, Nil by Mouth, The Firm (Gary Oldman not Cruise), Made in Britain, Ladybird Ladybird, Meantime, 400 Blows, The Third Man, Fallen Idol, Naked Lunch, The Petrified Forest, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Glengarry Glen Ross, Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, Dracula films, It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, White Heat, Deer Hunter, Being There, The Bicycle Thief, Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The Party, Mike Leigh films, Secrets and Lies, Ken Loach films, Kes, Woody Allen films, The Illustrated Man, The Swimmer, On the Waterfront, Austin Powers, Maltese Falcon, Marathon Man, Will Ferrel films, Sexy Beast, Back to the Future, Twelve Monkeys, Happy Accidents, The Matrix, Seven, Usual Suspects, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bogart, Cagney, The Taste of Others, and tons more.
Television
Tons of British comedy: Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen, Catherine Tate Show, The Mighty Boosh, The Fast Show, Only Fools and Horses, Monty Python, Ripping Yarns, That Peter Kay Thing, Phoenix Nights, Steptoe and Son, Porridge, The Office, Extras, Ricky Gervais, Royle Family, The Likey Lads, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, South Park, CNN, History Channel.
Books
Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster, Angela's Ashes, Junkie, Naked Lunch, Catcher in the Rye, Travels with my Aunt, Man's Search for Meaning, A Clockwork Orange, Music books, Buddhist books.
I'm not impressed by money, or fame, or material things. I'm impressed by the person.
I now know that peace and real happiness come from within, and not from external stuff.
I like the buddhist philosophy, but I am not buddhist.
I enjoy deep, philosophical conversations.
I am funny, artistic, really easy going, no hassle.
I'm a huge dork, and super quick witted.
I have been in LA since 1989.
Before LA, I lived in NYC, before that, London, before that, Wales.
I am a very good guitar player.
I am an outstanding drummer. Play this video of me drumming a Who song live:
I'm not into partying and clubbing anymore.
I really love all animals, and this is why I am vegan.
I am not preachy at all about animal rights or veganism. I won't even mention it.
I am involved in animal rescue.
Though I had just a high school education, I have an IQ of 138.
I always ask myself, "What would Gandhi, Buddha, or Jesus, do in this situation?".
I am not religious, but maybe a little spiritual.
So many women on myspace say that they are "bringing sexy back". Well, I prefer a sexy back than a hairy back or a hunchback any day of the week.
Isn't "I enjoy having fun" redundant. Does anyone NOT enjoy having fun?
Also, does anyone not "love to laugh"? Hands up who hates laughing!
"Life is short" is another one. Well, life is the longest thing you'll ever do. What will you do longer?
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This is the inconvenient truth for meat-eaters who care about global warming:
"In a groundbreaking 2006 report, the United Nations (U.N.) said that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined. Senior U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization official Henning Steinfeld reported that the meat industry is 'one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems.'"
The University of Chicago found that "being vegan is more effective in the fight against global warming; a vegan prevents approximately 1.5 fewer tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year than a meat-eater does. The math is simple: You could spend more than $20,000 on a Prius and still emit 50 percent more carbon dioxide than you would if you just gave up eating meat and other animal products."
Every quarter pound of hamburger was produced via 100 gallons of water, 1.2 pounds of grain, a cup of gasoline, greenhouse-gas emissions equivalent to those produced by a six-mile drive in your average car, and the loss of 1.25 pounds of topsoil, every inch of which took 500 years for the microbes and earthworms to build. How can all this cost less than a dollar, and who is supposed to pay for the rest of it?
WATCH THIS VIDEO:
Would You Like Having Your Eyes Sewn Together At A Few Months Old?
Or Would You Rather Be In The Arms Of Someone Who Has Risked Their Own Freedom To Save Your Life?
Ask Britches The Monkey ... Who's The Terrorist?
Britches when rescued by the ALF.
The apparatus in the background was reported to have been supplied by the lab as a surrogate mother.
Britches was just five months old when he was saved by the ALF. Britches was then flown to a sanctuary in Mexico and given to an elderly female macaque who had already raised several orphans.
A happy outcome for Britches, thanks to the ALF, but not so for millions of others.
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How can any person who experiments on animals be called a "Scientist"?!?! These so called "scientists" are sick, depraved, torturers more akin to Dr. Josef Mengele.
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This chimpazee shown above, was infected with syphillis, a disease that does not occur naturally in chimpanzees. What mind could think that this cruelty could be of benefit to anyone? Primates are similar in many ways to humans, but they are also VERY different too.
Laser beam directed at the eyes of the monkey causes them to sizzle and explode
Scapegoats for homicidal insanity. Under the pretext of studying the effect of pain on aggressiveness, two peaceful monkeys are tortured by electric shocks until they are seized by the same murderous frenzy that prompts this kind of experiments, and try to kill each other. At the Yerkes Primate Center of Atlanta.
Thousands of animals each year are forced to chain-smoke cigarettes, to prove that tobacco is harmful, or that it is not according to who foots the bill.
Puppy in an American university laboratory on his 51st day of fasting, watching the feeding of other animals. The sign reads: Do not feed. Give water only.
Millions of animals are poisoned every year in long-lasting alibi toxicity tests imposed by retrograde laws such as the American Delaney amendment, Result: thousands of human casualties every year from deadly but lucrative drugs, since animals react differently from man.
In October 1978, a commando of young Frenchmen freed Nana from the laboratories of Servier outside Paris, where weight-reducing drugs were being tested. Nana died a few weeks later, as did some of the consumers of those drugs, and the manufacturers landed in court.
Mechanical hammer used for smashing dogs skulls
All these cats skulls are perforated. The kittens are immobilized, the mother sticks anxiously by them.
1977: THE CASE OF NEW YORKS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
(Above) One of the male cats immobilized in a stereotaxic device built by H. Neumann & Co., Skokie, Illinois, in the laboratory of the N.Y. Museum of Natural History, as described in this book. The cat was blinded by enucleation of both orbits (removal of the eyeballs), his head was clamped in a head holder, his penis nerve was surgically exposed and then subjected to continuous electric shocks until termination (i.e. the animals death), according to the experimenters own official description.
VIVISECTION NOW
Experiments on cats carried out in Japan.
Photo obtained from BUAV (1990's)
To test the effects of burns, this beagle puppy was burned alive at the Shriner's Hospital, Cincinnati, USA.
(1980's-1990's)
This dog's leg was deliberately shattered with a hammer for the purpose of inducing psychological stress. The dog received no anaesthetic nor medical treatment during or after the injury was inflicted.
Photo drawn from: Entering the Gates of Hell, IAAPEA (1980's).
Rabbit subjected to Draize skin test for a cosmetic in the laboratories of the Mennen Company.
Experiment on the brain of a cat that has been immobilized in a restraining device.
TOP: Monkey kept in England's Royal College of Surgeons. As can be seen, the experimenters have tattooed the word "CRAP" on the animal's forehead. Yet practitioners of vivisection assert that they love and respect the animals on which they experiment.
BUTTOM:Monkey kept in a restraining device: non-human primates are often kept imprisoned for long periods in these devices without being able to move.
A rabbit used for scabies experiments at the Wright State University (USA), July 1992.
Some baby monkeys, imported to be used for laboratory experiments, were found dead on their arrival at London airport (UK).
Photo drawn from: Annual Pictorial Review of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection. (1950's - early 1970's).
A cat with an electrode inserted into his skull. Cats are popular subjects of neurophysiology experiments because vivisectors think that their brain has similarities with the human brain.
Photo from Poland (1994)
Dogs killed after experiments in the CBSC laboratories, Burlington, USA, 1990.
A cat used in experiments on blindness, involving the cutting of the nerves at the base of his brain (Boys Town Hospital, USA, 1996).
Laboratory kennel. Note that the cage on the lower left is too small so that the monkey cannot even stand inside. In the cage on the upper left, a monkey cub, chained and terrified. (Copyright Brian Gunn/ IAAPEA)
Photo drawn from: Entering the Gates of Hell, IAAPEA (1980's)
Dog killed after being used in teaching experiments in a Japanese University, Faculty of Veterinary, 15/5/91.
Goat during an experiment on a new prototype artificial heart. No animal species is spared from the torture of vivisection.
Photo obtained from BUAV (Japan - 1980's).
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Laser beam directed at the eyes of the monkey causes them to sizzle and explode
Goat during an experiment on a new prototype artificial heart. No animal species is spared from the torture of vivisection.
Photo obtained from BUAV (Japan - 1980's).
