living life as a work of art
I'd like to meet:
open minded people.
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Movies:
Amelie, Tekkonkinkreet, Life Is Beautiful, The Science of Sleep, Pan's Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Instinct, The Fountain, Il Postino, Studio Ghibli films: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Howl's Moving Castle, Tales From Earthsea... Akira Kurosawa's films: Dreams, Rashamon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai... Cat Soup, Bill Plympton films: I Married A Strange Person, ect... The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Casablanca, Amadeus, The Corporation, Akira, Blue Submarine No. 6, Ninja Scroll, Seven, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Army of Darkness, Requiem for a Dream, the Machinist, Donnie Darko, Waking Life, American History X, The Goonies, Fight Club, Death to Smoochy, Pulp Ficton, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas... theres more, i just don't really want to list them all
(the end of "Sunshine Through the Rain" from Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)
Television:
television disappoints me.
Books:
Anything by Fyodor Dostoevsky like Notes From Underground, The Brothers Karamozov, White Nights, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, and especially The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (http://www.kiosek.com/dostoevsky/library/ridiculousman.txt)
. Against His-story, Against Laviathan! by Fredy Perlman; Original Wisdom by Robert Wolff; Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban; One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization and Against Civilization by John Zerzan; Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda; The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin; The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures selected by Lee Stetson; Ishmael, The Story of B, My Ishmael, and Tales of Adam by Daniel Quinn; Welcome to the Machine and Strangely Like War by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan; Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey; The Nose, The Overcoat, Dead Souls... really anything by Nikolai Gogol; The Devine Comedy by Dante Allegheri; things by Chuck Palahniuk like Choke, and Survivor; stories by Mark Twain... the Mysterious Stranger for example; Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; The Arts of the Beautiful by Etienne Gilson; Das Energi by Paul Williams; Don Quixote by Miguel de Cerventes; The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance by Robert Pirsig; Phaedrus, and The Great Dialogues of Plato; and it just kind of goes on like that...
Heroes:
Efrim Menuck, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Socrates, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Edward Abbey ........................................................... .. ..>
