Roleplaying, Larping, D&D, Film, Acting, Theology, European History, Archeology, Anthropology, Theoretical Astrophysics, Fencing.
Funny Quote of the Evening:
"There is menstrual blood everywhere!"
"Thats because you shot the bard."
I'd like to meet:
Someone who can tickle my fancy.
Music:
I enjoy a ton of different music.
Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Eat World, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Howard Shore, U2, The Wallflowers, Fatboy Slim, Harvey Danger, Bliss 66, Otep, The White Stripes, Eisley, Jet, Coldplay, The Cranberries, Everlast, Fastball, Guns N' Roses, Korn, Marilyn Manson, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Matchbox Twenty, Alanis Morissette, Barenaked Ladies, No Doubt, Our Lady Peace, Queen, Powerman 5000, Unwritten Law, Verticle Horizon, Hans Zimmer, Smash Mouth, Cold, Limp Bizkit, Tenacious D, Eve 6, AC/DC, Adema, Orgy, Queens of the Stone Age, Kittie, 3 Doors Down, Nickelback, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Sheryl Crow, Eagles, Everclear, Green Day, Beck, Sister Hazel, Seismonic, Soundgarden, Sting, Sugar Ray, The Temptations, Weezer, Creed, Rammstein, The Hives, Something Corporate, The Strokes, System of a Down, Box Car Racer, Staind, The All-American Rejects, Audioslave, Aerosmith, Saliva, Good Charlotte, Gavin DeGraw, Counting Crows, Foo Fighters, Jewel, Ozzy Osbourne, Tantric, Dirty Sanchez, Mynx, Hollywood Undead, Dresden Dolls, Head Automatica, The Postal Service, Duncan Sheik, Josh Kelley, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Five For Fighting, Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, David Gray, Edwin McCain, Ben Folds, Pat McGee Band, The Verve Pipe, Ingram Hill, Avion, Harry and the Potters
And of course, the Bilge Pumps!
Movies:
The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Gamers, The Man who Would be King, Kingdom of Heaven, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Fifth Element, Stargate
Television:
Survivorman, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, X-files, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: CI, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab, The History Channel.
Books:
Quotes to Remember:
"Hump it before you dump it"
- Scott Damaske"I just wanna fuck something, like a women."
- Bobby Jividen"Wrap it before you tap it."
- Scott Damaske"Get in. Get On. Get Out."
- Scott Damaske"Tuck it before you suck it."
- Scott Damaske"As for MHS… be aware that the universe is, in fact, a vacuum"
- W.M Hasley“The Mid-East ain’t no place for pilgrims!â€
- W.M Hasley"A job means money. Money means available women. As a potential anthropologist, you are no doubt aware that I just defined civilization."
- W.M Hasley"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
- John D. Rockefeller"Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places."
- Milton Berle"Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet."
- Robert Bly"I don't get all the women that I want. I get all the women that want me."
- David Lee Roth"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
- Woody Allen"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."
- Francis Darwin"There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it."
- Charles Edward Montague"Fate chooses our relatives; we choose our friends."
- Jacques Delille"A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
- Joseph Conrad"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
- Bertrand Russell"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
- Edgar W. Howe"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."
- Mark Twain"Only Spartan women give birth to real men."
- Queen Gorgo, Sparta (300)"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Alexander Pope"Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
- Pete Seeger"Happiness isn't a goal; it's a by-product."
- Eleanor Roosevelt"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
- Calvin Coolidge"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
- Henry Kissinger"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
- Dorothy Sayers"Science is like sex: Sometimes something useful comes out of it, but that is not the reason we are doing it."
- Richard Feynman"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet."
- Aristotle"Punctuality is the politeness of kings."
- Louis XVII"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
-Baltasar Gracian"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
- Lord Chesterfield"Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way."
- Lester B. Pearson"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right -- especially when one is right."
- Nietzsche"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried."
- Mae West"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
- Albert Einstein"You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be."
- Godfrey of Ibelin"It was not that they had no right to take you, it was the way they asked."
- Godfrey of Ibelin."I once fought two days with an arrow through my testicle."
- Godfrey of Ibelin."All death is certain."
- Hospitaller."What man is a man who does not make the world better?"
- Bailian of Ibelin"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless. Do no wrong. That is your oath."
- Godfrey of Ibelin"Alakum-al-salam"
- Saladin"When you stand before God, you cannot say, 'But I was told by others to do thus.' Or that, 'Virtue was not convenient at the time.' This will not suffice. Remember that."
- King Baldwin IV"If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong."
-David Keirsey"Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view."
-David Keirsey"Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly."
-David Keirsey"Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be."
-David Keirsey"I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you."
-David Keirsey"I may be your spouse, your parent, your offsping, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences. "
-David Keirsey"Who is the Lion? The Lion is Jesus! Why did the Lion die? He died for your sins! If you believe this to be true and are a Christian say Amen!"
- Random Christian Guy"You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power."
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
- Josh Billings"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
- Sophocles"Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after."
- Henry David Thoreau"When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are."
- R.H. Grant"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."
- Harry S Truman"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."
- Charles Buxton"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad."
- Arnold H. Glasow"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."
- Unknown"If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing."
- Anatole France"Complain to one who can help you."
- Yugoslav Proverb"Pain is temporary, pride is forever."
- Anonymous"Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett"Even God cannot change the past."
- Agathon"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
- Samuel Butler"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
- Lee Iacocca"If you wish to forget something on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
- Edgar Allen Poe"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."
- Aesop"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."
- Andre Malraux"You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil."
- Aesop"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
- Robert Frost"Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all."
- Henry Ford"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
- Aesop"I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet."
- Ancient Persian saying"Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser."
- Donald Trump"It is easy to despise what you cannot get."
- Aesop"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm Forbes"You're the groom. It's your wedding day and you're not even the best man."
- Scott Faulconbridge"Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror."
- Aesop"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."
- Al Pacino"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."
- Lou Holtz"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey"When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job."
- Donald Trump"He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great."
- John Ruskin"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred."
- Henry Rollins"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
- David Russell"A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later."
- General George S. Patton"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in."
- Evan Davis"The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
- Harold Geneen"I know, I know, you're a feminist and that's adorable, but this is grown up time and I'm the man."
- Peter Griffin from The Family Guy"Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories."
- Polybius"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity."
- Dale Carnegie"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
- Herbert Kaufman"There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing."
- James Kouzes & Barry Posner"I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out... Just my enemies."
- Al Pacino as Michael Corleone"Heaven on Earth can be found in the pages of a book, on the back of a horse and between the breast of a women."
- Arabic Proverb"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."
- Aesop"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world."
- Thomas Carlyle"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
- Voltaire"A gentleman is a patient wolf."
- Henrietta Tiarks"Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice."
- Stanley Horowitz"I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away."
- Richard Nixon"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."
- Lyman Beecher"You don't slow down because you get old; you get old because you slow down."
- Unknown"All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that 'luck' is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation."
- Unknown"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."
- Aesop"We often give enemies the means of our own destruction."
- Aesop"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
- E. Sitwell"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself, a leader is interested in the group."
- Russell H. Ewing"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
- Al Pacino"I'm a vegetarian but I'm not hardcore. I eat a lot of meat."
- Dylan Moran"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."
- Unknown"Calling the shots carries a great deal of responsibility, not only for yourself, but for your troops."
- Donald Trump"Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold."
- Lord Chesterfield"While we are ... unconstrained in our private intercourse, a spirit of reverence prevades our public acts."
-Pericles
Heroes:
While I don't have any heroes, I admire and love my father who I have not seen much in many years due to life's progression. We're polar opposites almost and yet I still admire him.
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