my democracy. my blood. my drink. my teams.my revolution.my priorities. 1. yeshua ha mashiach - the way, the truth, the life // 2. revolution - see quotes to get inspired to join in // 3. the red sox - it's not an obsession if you're from new england! // 4. making inane observations & writing about them - see my blog site - timmy talk // 5. music music music // i'm basically wicked awesome :)and i think new england should secede from the union.
meg white.
my mancrush.for more go to my RATEYOURMUSIC profile
anything by wes anderson, everything by tim burton w/ a few exceptions (hey, everyone makes crap sometimes), all the seth rogen + judd apatow projects, documentaries - seriously i can watch a documentary about anything, i also love the simon pegg/edgar wright (shaun of the dead, hot fuzz, spaced) combo.
LOST. damn it's vile hypnotic grasp on my soul! and the office. i love both the US & UK, but hate it when people get all uppity and say "oh the UK one is so much better, blah blah blah". no! dunder mifflin will not be stopped!
flannery o'connor. clive staples lewis. james joyce. george rr martin. william butler yeats. fyodor dostoevsky. gk chesterton. brendan behan. oscar wilde. jrr tolkien. leo tolstoy. chaim potok. anton chekov. michael patrick mcdonald. noam chomsky. ralph nader. jim wallis. rob bell. becky garrison. soren kierkegaard. the early church fathers. and all the people down in the quotes section if they've written anything.
"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." ~ EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I. ///////"Apostles of freedom are ever idolized when dead but crucified while alive" ~ JAMES CONNOLLY. ///////"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ~ MOHANDAS GANDHI. ///////"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." ~ MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ///////"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." ~ BOBBY KENNEDY. ///////"The lesser of two evils is still evil." ~ RALPH NADER. ///////"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." ~ FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT ///////"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation." ~ JIMMY CARTER ///////"I would rather die standing up, than live life on my knees." ~ EMILIANO ZAPATA. ////////"All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases." ~ CHIEF JOSEPH. ////////"The great only appear great because you are on your knees. Rise up." ~ "BIG" JIM LARKIN. ///////" The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself." ~ LEON TROTSKY"Every generation needs a new revolution." ~ THOMAS JEFFERSON. ///////"What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes." ~ SAMUEL ADAMS. ///////"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." ~ PATRICK HENRY ///////"Those who would give up their essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither and will lose both." ~ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ///////"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement." ~ ANGELA DAVIS. ///////"Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living." ~ MOTHER JONES. ///////"Real Christian love is founded on commitment to a more just society and action to bring it about." ~ GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ. ///////"Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed." ~ JIM WALLIS. ///////"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." ~ C.S. LEWIS ///////"Real life, as opposed to the dull, murky substitute life that modernity provides us, is much greater than what we can understand through our physical sense, our science and our facts. Truth itself is much greater than our finite minds can understand or comprehend" ~ J.R.R. TOLKIEN ///////"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal." ~ OSCAR WILDE ///////"More blessed though it is to give thanks when life becomes a darkened story; more blessed though to give thanks when the heart is oppressed and the soul darkened, when reason is a traitor in its ambiguity and memory is mistaken in its forgetting, when egoism recoils in fright, when human wisdom resists, if not in rebellion then in discouragement — more blessed then to thank God, for the one who thus is thankful truly loves God. He dares to say to You, You all knowing God: Lord, You know all things, You know I love You." ~ SOREN KIERKEGAARD. ///////"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." ~ MOTHER TERESA. ///////"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is." ~ KRISHNA ///////"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." ~ LAO TZU ///////"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." ~ TENZIN GYATSO, DALAI LAMA ///////"Turn your mind away from the things that are not permanent." ~ SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA ///////"How do people get better? Well, from my understanding people get better when they start to understand that they are valuable. And they're not valuable because they got a whole lot of money or cause somebody think they sexy but they valuable cause they been created by God, and God makes you valuable. Whether or not you recognize that value is one thing." ~ MOS DEF. ///////"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all." ~ ROBERT NESTA MARLEY. ///////"I am a friend to God, a sworn enemy of the saccharine and a believer in grace over karma." ~ PAUL "BONO VOX" HEWSON. ///////"The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life & joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render & old wounds to heal. Life & love go on, let the music play." ~ JOHNNY CASH. ////////"Preach the Gospel at all times, when necessary use words." ~ ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. ////////"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy." ~ ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX ///////"O God of truth, grant me the happiness of heaven so that my joy may be full in accord with your promise. In the meantime let my mind dwell on that happiness, my tongue speak of it, my heart pine for it, my mouth pronounce it, my soul hunger for it, my flesh thirst for it, and my entire being desire it until I enter through death in the joy of my Lord forever." ~ ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO ///////"Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger." ~ ST. PATRICK. ///////"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.' Then the righteous will answer him and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?' And the king will say to them in reply, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.' Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?' He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.' ~ YESHUA HA MASHIACH.