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Music (everything from Modest Mouse & The Shins to Shadows Fall & Opeth); Writing; Forensic Science; Serial Killers ((mostly Charles Manson & Jack the Ripper) - I blame the fact that I'm so interested in Forensic Science & Criminal Profiling - getting inside their heads, yanno? Funness); Travelling (Destin's definitely been the best - because of the company I was in); Roller Coasters; Self-Analyzation; Reading; Cartoons; Piercings (current count is 13: an industrial on the top of my right ear & cartilage piercing on the top of my left ear (both 14g), eyebrow (16g), tongue (14g), four lobe piercings on each ear - top 3 in each ear stretched to 14g, & bottom lobe piercings stretched to 00g); Tattoos (so far, I only have one - a star on my right ankle, done by my most wonderful friend Silas); Movies; Reminiscing; Dreams; Horoscopes; Laughing; Love; Paranormal; Rain; Being Myself; Van Gogh; Nerds; The Night; Boardgames (see? Jess = nerd)
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts
"What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy." - Unknown
"I speak without reservation for what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding all people should have the right to offer the voice to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance." - Ani Difranco
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." - Gerry Spence
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Socrates
"Never part with your illusions. Without dreams you may continue to exist, but you have ceased to live." - Mark Twain
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder." - Anton LaVey
"Most people see what is, and never see what can be." - Albert Einstein
"Never be pulled into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein
"Knowledge speaks; Wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." - Leon J. Suenes
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"A [person's] ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. [We] would indeed be in a poor way if [we] had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein
"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they're doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious & smart & bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard & slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are ALWAYS making up the future as you go." - XKCD
Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Gandhi, John Lennon, Shadows Fall (again), Maynard James Keenan, assorted friends from around the world that I've met online over the years, Jim Carrey, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Dubya (so I could let him know how fucked up this country & world is becoming because of him), Anyone that has any affiliation with Westboro Baptist Church (google 'em.. srsly) so I could beat the living shit out of them, Devin Townsend, Jimi Hendrix, Mikael Akerfeldt, Alexi Laiho, Peter Steele, Ani Difranco, Tim Curry, Eric Idle, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Ellen Degeneres, Seth Macfarlane, Edgar Allan Poe, mc chris, Tegan & Sara, Stephen Lynch...
My People
I have a few friends..
John
Heather
Pirate
Jamie
Josh
Penn
Gerbil
CB
My kid brother, Joseph
Savannah
Matt |m|
Kyle |m|
Stacy
Stef
Atomic Mike
Emz
Pia
Joe
Dan
Fabio
View the rest..
In no real particular order: Shadows Fall, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Type O Negative, Children Of Bodom, A Perfect Circle, Dark Tranquillity, Opeth, Strapping Young Lad, The Haunted, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Queen, Ani Difranco, Alkaline Trio, Reggie & The Full Effect, Bjork, Coldplay, Brand New, The Postal Service, Sarah McLachlan, Dave Matthews Band, Modest Mouse, Silverchair, Pearl Jam, Collective Soul, Green Day, R.E.M. Pearl Jam, Maroon 5, The Beatles, Fear Factory, The Clash, Metallica (old - ie. Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, etc), Live, Spin Doctors, Blind Melon, Oasis, Foo Fighters, The Cranberries, Stabbing Westward, Guns 'N Roses, Beastie Boys, Death Cab For Cutie, Iron & Wine, Interpol, The Shins, The Bloodhound Gang, MC Chris, Early November, Franz Ferdinand, Dressy Bessy
Beetlejuice; Big Fish; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Edward Scissorhands; Girl, Interrupted; Gia; Dead Poet's Society; What's Eating Gilbert Grape; The Virgin Suicides; Drop Dead Fred; Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory; Beauty & The Beast; Alice In Wonderland; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Chicago; Moulin Rouge; Grease; The Breakfast Club; Sixteen Candles; Pretty In Pink; Heathers; Some Kind Of Wonderful; The Goonies; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; St Elmo's Fire; Monty Python & The Holy Grail; Clerks; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; Finding Nemo; Reservoir Dogs; Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2; The Neverending Story (1 & 2); Airheads; Wizard Of Oz; Office Space; Lost In Translation; Se7en; The Wall; City Of Angels; Star Wars; Napoleon Dynamite; But I'm A Cheerleader; Garden State; The Notebook; The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Full Metal Jacket; Stanley Kubrick's The Shining; A Clockwork Orange; Amelie; It; Poltergeist; The Exorcist
Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Inuyasha, The Oblongs, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, Harvey Birdman, South Park, Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Simpsons, That 70s Show, Miami Ink, Mythbusters, Absolutely Fabulous, The Young Ones (awesome 80s Brit comedy starring Rik Mayall from Drop Dead Fred), Invader Zim, The L Word, CSI, Forensic Files, The Investigators, The OC, Viva La Bam, Jackass, Wild Boyz; Television channels that I can't live without = Comedy Central, Food Network, Cartoon Network, IFC, TLC, BBC America, CourtTV, Bravo.
Anything by Stephen King, Anne Rice, or Edgar Allan Poe; "Lost Souls" by Poppy Z. Brite; "War Of The Worlds" by H.G. Wells; "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding; "Rubyfruit Jungle" by Rita Mae Brown; "Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen; "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman; "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll; "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte; "The Silver Kiss" by Annette Curtis Klause; The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
I'm not sure I have one. I've never had anyone in real life that I've looked up to & off hand, I can't think of anyone - past or present - that's had a big influence on me.