perform random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
Rugby, Rugby, Rugby, Running, Pullups, Pushups, Dips, 8 Minute Abs, German, Spin Class, Pilates, Music, Beer, Philosophy, Atheism, Hindu, Objectivism, Ayn Rand, Sippin on Gin and Juice, Genetics, Science, Geekiness, Jersey Shore, Food, Pistaschio Fudge, Entrepreneurism, Rugby, Bad Cable Porn, James Flesher, Really Good Cutlery, The Finer Things in Life, Peanutbutter, Strawberries, Fat Kid Tendencies, Standup Comedians, Humor, Sitcoms, Television as a Medium for Social Change, Skydiving (Someday), The Change of the Seasons, Inessa Shor, Nursing, Activism, Blowjobs, High Fiber Cereals that Still Taste Good, Vegetarianism, Veganism, Environmentalism, Soy, The Paranormal, Rugby, International Travel, Away Message Stalking, Sexual Politics, Neurosis, Attention Deficit Disorder, Banana Republic Suits, Looking Fantastic Even if I Only Have 15 Minutes to Get Ready, Tofu Scrambles, The Boardwalk, Rollercoasters, Really Good Horror Movies, Really Bad Horror Movies, Stairsteppers, Freshly Ground Pepper, Biking the Boardwalk at 5 AM,Long Walks Anywhere but YES Esepcially on the Beach, Making Pinnochio Noses out of the Helicopter Leaves (Inquire within for an explanation if you never enjoyed this as a child.), Treehouses, Staying up All Night, Chakras, Late Night Talks, Technology, Large Machinery, SUV's, Mannual Transmissions, Green Eyes, Threatening Death by Spork Stabbing, Ridiculous Impressions, Good Grammar, Feminism, Eclectic Furniture, Old Mustangs, Scrumming, Hooking, Sleeping In, Yuengling Premium Lager
A lesbian couple who want to raise a startlingly handsome little vegan atheist baby. Cause they need my sperm. And I need an egg. Cause I want kids, but will probably never settle down.
A woman who isn't afraid to call another woman a cunt when she deserves it.
Someone with the same exact opinions as me.
Someone with the exact opposite opinions of me.
Someone with a different opinion, philosophy or world view than anything I've ever heard or considered.
Those who dedicate their everyday lives to fighting misogynsy, racism, homophobia and all other forms of overt and covert opression.
Someone with whome I can handucff my self to the gate outside the Whitehouse, protesting the latest "compassionate conservative" atrocities being commited by President "I didn't even win the popular vote for my first term" Bush.
Pink.
I also want to meet people who make the best of their situation. Blind people who tell Helen Keller jokes. Abused women who get out of those relationships and find the strength to start a support group or a women's shelter in their town. Cancer patients who refuse to wear a wig or a toupee. The entrepreneur who, even after 3 bankruptcies, knows that his or her million dollar idea is right around the corner. Drag queens who, regardless of taunts and jeers, still put on the lipstick and strut down the street in 6 inch stilettos, refusing to be anyone but their own fabulous selves.
Who I wouldn't like to meet:
I would not like to meet any of the following people: racists, misogynists, those who are homophobic, or bigoted people of any other shape or kind. I would not like to meet you if are unmotivated, pity yourself, or don't take personal responsibility for your actions and the quality of your life.
I would not like to meet you if your myspace pictures are whoreish and trashy cleavage and/or abs shots. If and when I have excellent abs and decide that there should be a picture of them on Myspace, I will take the picture at the beach, or in some type of other shirt-optional appropriate situation. I will not pull up my shirt and take a picture of my own abs in front of the mirror. I would not like to meet me if I did.
I would not like to meet George W. Bush, becuase I hear the Secret Service frowns on kicking our Commander-in-Chief in the shins
Most of all, I would not like to meet those who take life too seriously; afterall, they'll never get out alive.
Greenday, AC-DC, Bheethoven, Billy Joel,Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna,The Doors,Frank Sinatra,The Who,Technotronics, Real McCoy,Any & all awesomely bad 90's techno music, Simon and Garfunkel, Something Corporate, Flogging Molly,Ben Folds Five,Queen,Glenn Miller,Michael Jackson,Journey,The Kinks,Badly Drawn Boy,Doria Roberts
American Beauty,Little Miss Sunshine. Fight Club, Igby Goes Down, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, One Hour Photo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Pulp Fiction,Party Monster,Requiem For a Dream, Dead Poet's Society, Fried Green Tomatoes, First Wive’s Club, Annie Hall, Interiors, East of Eden, With Honors, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Death to Smoochy, Dogma, Boondock Saints, Seven, Van Wilder, Mean Girls, Camp, The Usual Suspects, K-PAX, Pay it Forward, The Shipping News, Ocean's 11,Sister Act, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Sand Lot, 40 Year Old Virgin,Stand by Me, Rudy, Rocky, Rocky IV, (I need to see the other Rocky movies),Brokeback Mountain, The Family Stone,Rent,Walk the Line,Ocotber Sky,Transamerica,Dress to Kill,V is for Vendetta,8 Minute Abs
Will & Grace, Friends, Scrubs, ER, All in the Family, Maude, Golden Girls, Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy, Sex and the City, Oz, The Sopranos,Queer As Folk,Murphey Brown,The Fairly Odd Parents,Rocko's Modern Life,Family Guy,Looney Toons
The Fountainhead, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, We the Living, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Awakening,Needful Things,The Secret Garden,It's Like This Cat, The Girl in the Box,The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Wizzard of Oz,Gnomes,The Little Prince, The Giver,Life is So Good,Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in Twentythree Chapters,The Trial and Death of Socrates,The Joy of Solomon,First Person Plural:My Life as a Multiple,GQ,Krik? Krak!,Abeng,From Eve's Rib,i is a long memoried woman,The Technology of Orgasm,I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight,Black House,The Gunslinger,The Drawing of Three, The Waste Lands,Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla,Song of Susannah,The Dark Tower,Pillars of the Earth
ACTIVISTS, Lucille Ball, my mom, Ayn Rand, George Dawson,Margaret Sanger, MLK Jr, Florence Nightengale, both Presidnent Roosevelts, Margaret Cho, Martha Rogers,Gavin Newsom,Nancy Pelosi,People who vote Democrat,Howard Zinn,Bishop Desmond Tutu,Harvey Milk,Audre Lorde,Eve Ensler,Dennis Kucinich
Quotes:
"The revolution came - not as it has been pictured, nor as history relates that revolutions have come. It came in my own life. It began in my very being...There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! "
-Margaret Sanger-
"Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well aimed slingshots can topple giants. "
-Maggie Kuhn-
We'll fight, not out of spite
For someone must stand up for what's right
'Cause where there's a man who has no voice
There ours shall go singing
-Jewel-
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Nelson Mandela-
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority ; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
-Ayn Rand-
"The stuff I do, calling up gay teenagers to see how they livin', writing trannie kids to help them from feeling alone, hanging with little boys who know they are girls inside and who want to kill themselves, because it's hard to be that way when you live in the here and now - and they might just if they didn't have me around - is not high profile, doesn't attract the paparazzi, because real life isn't pretty, and neither am I. We're not pretty. We're fucking beautiful.
-Margaret Cho-
Well I've got a hammer
And I've got a bell
And I've got a song to sing
All over this land
It's the hammer of justice
It's the bell of freedom
It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
-Peter, Paul & Mary-
so i pledge allegiance to independence
to the united efforts of my heart and and mind
and to the good of the public for which we should all stand
undivided
no longer invisible
with dignity
and justice for all
-Doria Roberts-
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid"
-Audre Lorde-
Poems
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
e.e. cummings
Dressed in Dynamite
by Giaconda Belli
I have to go buy the makeup I use to disquise myself each day so that non one finds out my eyes are tiny -- like a mouse's or an elephant's. I've wanted to leave for an hour, but the warmth of my room keeps me from going. So does the solitude that, at least for now, I'm enjoying. And the books spread out on my bed are like men I've made wove with in an orgy of legs and arms that awaken my passion for life, biting my nipples, my sex, and fillinf me with a special semen made from letters fecundating me, and I don't want to go outside with such a serious face when I'd rather be laughing out loud for no other reason except this feeling of being word pregnant, struggling against a consumer society that entices me with its store windows filled with unattainable things, things I reject with all my feminine hormones when I remember the spent and sad faces of my people who woke up today the way they always wake up and will continue to wake up until we dress our selves in dynamite and invade government centers, ministries, headquarters....with a match in our hands.