music, friends, painting, current events, movies, coffee, fashion, reading, art.
I'd like to meet:
Bill Nelson, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Gandhi, Marya Hornbacher, Leonardo DiCaprio, the SHAC 7, John Irving, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Ishmeal Beah, and you.
If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration.
-Joaquin Pheonix, Earthlings
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always has the same thought: In their behavior towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories; the principle that might is right.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies, a love story
Music:
Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Spoon, Incubus, Taking Back Sunday, Lovedrug, Paramore, Fiona Apple, The Format, Muse, Brand New, Queen, Death Cab for Cutie, The Faint, OK Go, The Postal Service, Bright Eyes, Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day, Gym Class Heroes, My Chemical Romance, Copeland, Britney Spears, Christina Aguleria, The Killers, Band Marino, Between the Trees, Azure Ray, Aerosmith, Beck, Madonna, Avenged Sevenfold, Cursive, Death from Above 1979, Fischer Spooner, Inkwell, Weezer, Hot Hot Heat, Journey, Lifter, Minus the Bear, Something Corporate
Movies:
Closer, Garden State, Fight Club, Anchorman, Dumb and Dumber, Donnie Darko, Mallrats, 10 Things I Hate about You, Harry Potter hahaha, Finding Nemo, Brokeback Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Goonies, Monty Python, When Harry Met Sally, Curious George, The Little Mermaid, Lady and the Tramp, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Invisible Children, The Life of David Gale, The Wall, Thank you for Smoking
Television:
That 70's Show, America's Next Top Model, Law and Order, Project Runway, Miami Ink, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Sex and the City
Books:
"The Giver" Louis Lowry, Harry Potter (all of 'em) J.K. Rowling, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" Stepen Chbosky, "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold, "The World According to Garp" John Irving, "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown, "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahunik, "Wasted" by Marya Hornbacher, a lot.
Heroes:
We are the living graves of murdered beasts
Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites
We never pause to wonder at our feasts
If animals, like men, can possibly have rights
We pray on Sundays that we may have light
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread
We're sick of war We do not want to fight
The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread
And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead
Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat
Regardless of the suffering and pain
We cause by doing so. If thus we treat
Defenseless animals for sport or gain
How can we hope in this world to attain
the PEACE we say we are so anxious for
We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain
To God, while outraging the moral law
Thus cruelty begets its offspring: war.
-George Bernard Shaw, "Living Graves"
