All that is and is not essential to this life and the living of it...
hearts that beat and those that don't, the humyn condition, transcendental thinking, impossible dreams, great BIG Books , philosophy and the like, a FULL & Robust WINE , sm ooooo th cigarettes, chess and a competent opponent , word games, mind games, games of chance, Traveling far and near, .la Cinematheque. , art (of all kinds: music, visual, dance, etc), Agnes Martin, A.W. Tozer, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Ravi Zacharias, Ravenhill, apologetics, theology, books, coffee, coffee, coffee , improving public education,a fiery argument Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Ray Bradbury, -ISMS , GREAT small BOOKS, people, alternative news sources, things NOT in the box, debate, tennis, volleyball, cycling, hiking, and it's really not that interesting is it???? *cough*
Those that live, love and laugh to the fullest...and those that feel they cannot.
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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.-Jose Ortega y Gasset
"...because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" -Jack Kerouac
life is good. don't ever forget that, even when it's not.
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
Bertrand Russell
Bright Eyes, Brand New, Say Anything, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Tegan and Sara, Gwen Stefani and No Doubt (Tragic Kingdom, specifically), The Damnwells, The Calling, Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, The Decemberists, Anti flag, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Rush, The Black Crows, Steve Miller Band, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix, Rod Stewart, Portishead, Better Than Ezra, My Bloody Valentine, Cake, The Arcade Fire, Early November, The Verve, Don Henley, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bette Midler, Radiohead, Mars Volta, Norma Jean, Por Victoria, David Crowder Band, Shane and Shane, Mutemath, Un bound , Sublime, Chevelle, Ben Folds Five, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Flogging Molly, Rilo Kiley, The Breeders, Ani DiFranco, Ted Leo and the Pharmacist, Green Day, Rasputina, The Dresden Dolls, Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Miller Band, The Pixies, Hopesfall, CKY, Damien Rice, Third Eye Blind, Eve 6, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Coheed & Cambria, Nirvana, Hawthorne Heights, Silver Chair, Rush, Senses Fail , The Desperacidos, Switchfoot, Taking Back Sunday, The Killers, Beck, Finch, Modest Mouse, The Streets, Dropkick Murphys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Weakerthans, Wilco, The Kinks, Weezer, Third Eye Blind , Garbage, much much more...
Garden State, Pulp Fiction, Life is Beautiful, 300, Stay, Running with Scissors, Factory Girl, The Science of Sleep, Go, The Godfather (all parts), Requiem for a Dream, The Dreamers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Mansfield Park, Walk the Line, Kingdom of Heaven, Gangs of New York, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Very Long Engagement, About a Boy, Snatch, Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Sliding Doors, Sylvia, Possession, Waking Life, Amelie, Pi, Perfect Blue, Good Will Hunting, The Fountain, Dead Poets Society, Thank You For Smoking, 54, Cruel Intentions, Rushmore, Finding Forrester, Shopgirl, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Crime of Padre Amaro, The Motorcycle Diaries, Babel, Pan's Labyrinth, The Fountain, Little Miss Sunshine, The Royal Tenenbaums, Igby goes Down, Stealing Beauty, Love Actually, About a Boy, The Constant Gardener, Heaven, Open Your Eyes (the original "vanilla sky" so you can fuck off, tom cruise) , The Devil's Backbone, Nightmare Before Christmas, and many many more!!!
i turned it off before it turned me off.
Les Miserables, Moby Dick, The Shadow Spinner, The Screwtape Letters, The Qur' an, The Bible, The World is Flat, The History of God, House of Leaves, Sit Walk Stand (by Watchman Nee), Orthodoxy, The Ragamuffin Gospel, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, Farenheit 451 (pretty much anything by Ray Bradbury), Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Mansfield Park, The Giving Tree, Pride and Prejudice, The Giver, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue, The Twilight of American Culture, Something Wicked This Way Comes, R is for Rocket, The Republic, The Wind in the Willows, Ariel (by Sylvia Plath), The Prince (Machiavelli), Aristotle, Plato, and much much more!!!
sylvia plath was a great soul.
and great souls do not die .
bring me a good wine, sir, and we will sit and pass the time...
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. -Umberto Eco