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The first act of my short film on Celebrity life in New York city. ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ "to deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.""you see it when you watch TV. You hear it on the radio. you feel it when you walk to work, when you go to church. it is the reality that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."_____________________________________________________ _________________________________"a passionate struggle for freedom is deeply embedded in the history of the western world. it still inspires us today. and it still inspires oppressed people everywhere. freedom is our great meta-meme, the crowning jewel of our civilization... we now drink more, do more drugs, live more promiscuously, spend more money, use up more resources, create more waste, and deliberately flaunt our wealth, power and sexuality more than any other culture on earth. when a modest, pious man living in a poor village a world away looks at us, what does he see?" -"we kill ourselves slowly, by eating too much, or too little, becoming fat, or anorexic, or diabedic. physically and psychologically we wither away in our culture of self-absorption and material sloth. and our boundless, insatiable greed now threatens to drag the entire planet down with us." - Abusters 70 ____________________________________________________________ __________________________"Take away our playstations and we are a third-world nation, under the thumb of some blue blood royal scum who stole the oval office in that phony election." - Ani Difranco____________________________________________________ __________________________________ "Don't tell anyone how easy this is, Justin, or people might actually start doing it." - Ryan J DAVIS. ____________________________________________________________ __________________________"We have a rather people-centric view of the world. Life will work itself out. It isn't about us. The universe is unfolding as it should." - Bryan Fox ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Suburbia will come to be regarded as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world." ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "All you need is 2 million dollars and a dream." , - Ryan J. Davis ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Both humans and rocks are equally Spirit, but only humans can consciously realize that fact, and betwean the rock and the human lies evolution." -Ken Wilber ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Each year, millions are spent on treating children with mental and emotional disorders. Millions more are made ..ing them develop such disorders in the first place." - Adbusters Culture of Death ____________________________________________________________ __________________________"In the future, we will learn to love ourselves despite our flaws. (That or all be genetically engineered to look like Gisele.)" ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Al Gore www.climatecrisis.net ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ __ "Open fire on each weapon's manufacturer, while he's giving head to some republican senator." -Ani Difranco ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Lee Raymond's legacy, on the other hand, is that he raked in $ 150,000 between sleeps while pushing the Earth ever-closer to the precipice of ecological collapse." - Eric Rumble ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "It may seem impossible that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy iself, but that is what we are in the process of doing." -Elizabeth Kolbert in her book Field Notes From a Catastrophe. ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "Step up and forfeit your frontal lobe to the sexed up strobe of celebrity. Get your subliminal decree and your false security, be all that you can be." - Difranco ____________________________________________________________ __________________________"I overparticipate in the extracurricular activities of life." ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ http://www.adbusters.org ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ http://www.thenation.com ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ http://www.stopwar.org.uk/#Terrorists ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ http://www.exploratorium.com/nagasaki/mainn.html____________ ____________________________________________________________ ______________ www.carlythomas.com_________________________________________ _____________________________________________ "I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour, it's the failed america in me. It's the fear that lives in a forest of stone underneath the corporate canopy where the sun rarely filters down, and the ground is not so soft." - ANI ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ "i love my country - by which i mean, i am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history who have fought the government to make right. where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers, came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here and behold breathlessly the sight - how a raging river of tears is cutting a grand canyon of light." -ANI ____________________________________________________________ __________AUDIO JUSTICE