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sapere aude

Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

About Me


i desperately wish i could believe
go ahead, cornelius, you can cry
"When I put my ceiling fan up I put carriage
bolts and through bolted it with lock washers
because I'd eat a pot brownie and lie on my
bed staring at the thing waiting to die."
- Adam Carolla
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
- Bertrand Russell
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." - Thomas Jefferson
"I believe there are more instances of the
abridgement of the freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachments of those
in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
- James Madison

My Interests


some things for which i have a great fondness: walnuts with chocolate pudding, duke ellington, 2600, all my cats and dogs, carli banks, scientific american: mind, green cymbidium orchids, watching mystery science theater 3000 stoned, latex, the NASA channel, tropical twist trident gum, death valley, writing, canada dry ginger ale (bottled), documentaries

"the methods of the great moralist are pretty unfair and theatrical..."

tell me something...

i'm tired of being political.
nothing will change.
it's just no use.
“the maturity of the masses
lies in the capacity to recognize
their own interests..."

Movies:
A Shot in the Dark
American Beauty
American History X
The Big Bang
Blow
Catch-22
Dead Man
Dr. Strangelove
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Gia
The Hamiltons
Interview
The Libertine
Love and Death
Notting Hill
Moonstruck
The Party
Play It Again Sam
Requiem for a Dream
The 40 Year Old Virgin
There's A Girl In My Soup
Tombstone
V For Vendetta
Wedding Crashers

Music:
Aerosmith
The Beatles
Billy Joel
Boston
Cream
The Eagles
Earth, Wind and Fire
The Doobie Brothers
Fiona Apple
Jethro Tull
Johnny Cash
Led Zeppelin
Madonna
M.I.A.
Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
Portishead
The Rolling Stones
Sheryl Crow
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
Toadies
Tom Petty

Television:
American Dad
Blackadder
Californication
Countdown with Keith Olberman
Family Guy
Frasier
Katie On Demand(HBO)
The L Word
MST3K
Nip/Tuck
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Rock of Love
Two and a Half Men
Weeds
+ anything on the Military, History or Science Channels

Books
How The Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Midnight Disease by Alice W. Flaherty
Writing on Drugs by Sadie Plant (probably not what you think)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Before the Beginning by Martin Rees
+ Right now I am reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

i don't care what people say,
i adore this girl

I'd like to meet:



Heroes:

Malo periculosam libertatem
quam quietam servitutem

James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Hitchens, Bertrand Russell, Trent Reznor, Sally Ride, Janna Levin, Hunter S. Thompson, Alanis Morissette, and my dear Madison Stone.

My Blog

i’m writing again...

i'm finally writing again.  :) perhaps i should post a little excerpt here every once in a while? my last project was delayed but now i am free to tell my story. to challenge my previous thoughts...
Posted by sapere aude on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:48:00 PST

My Random Life Sountrack

If your life were a movie, what would the soundtrack be?So, here's how it works:1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)2. Put it on shuffle3. Press play4. For every questi...
Posted by sapere aude on Fri, 25 May 2007 12:09:00 PST

"Intelligent Design" Personal Life Soundtrack

Ok, originally this was meant to be random as dictated by your iTunes shuffle.  However, I decided to create my own after posting the random one.  This one is so damn perfect because each so...
Posted by sapere aude on Fri, 25 May 2007 12:29:00 PST

YouTube Video of the Day 05/19 *A Must Watch

Christopher Hitchens is my hero.  So today I am posting a fantastic video plus some brief information about his new book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."  I highly recomm...
Posted by sapere aude on Sat, 19 May 2007 10:20:00 PST

number one reason to carry a gun

The number one reason to carry a gun is to defend yourself in situations like this one.  You never know when something like what happened at VA Tech will occur.  That is why you must be prep...
Posted by sapere aude on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:56:00 PST

bear your arms

Here is a quote from a GREAT article. I will post it when I can type it because I cannot find it online."This is the only country in the history of the world that stipulates "the pursuit of happiness"...
Posted by sapere aude on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:00:00 PST

it was in the bible so it must be true, right?

"...in the words of an eloquent blogger...'Why is God considered an explanation to anything? It's not  it's a failure to explain, a shrug of the shoulders, an 'I dunno' dressed up in spirituality and...
Posted by sapere aude on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:50:00 PST

shower reflection

I was instantly drawn to "Me, I'm Not." It just sounds like a song you would sing in the shower... but not in the normal sense. More as a moment of reflection as the water passes over your head and do...
Posted by sapere aude on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:27:00 PST

victory vvill be valid and virtuous

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vaca...
Posted by sapere aude on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:11:00 PST