Things that make me happy: My incredible Davis, my badass friends who will enlighten you and change your life, kick your ass, sleep with you - or all of the above, Music, poetry, veganism, animal rights, odd fashion, reading, writing nutty lil' ditties, dogs, babies, rock n' roll, strong people who make no excuses, working out on the daily, getting worked up, tattoos, riding bitch on my man's Ducati, and eating raw foods.
I'd like to meet:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!" Kerouac
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.†Gandhi
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.†Margaret Mead
"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. Leo Tolstoy
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.†Leonardo da Vinci
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.†Albert Einstein
"If you have people who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have people who will deal likewise with their each other."
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Wiesel
"The victim feels the suffering in his own mind and body, whereas the victimizer ... can be quite unaware of that suffering. The sword does not feel the pain that it inflicts." Philip Hallie
“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer
“We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?†George Bernard Shaw
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.†George Bernard Shaw
“By insulting vegetarianism you are insulting you own divinity. Who are you worshiping?†Rosa Ena
“"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." Pythagoras
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.†Alice Walker
““Animal cruelty is not a personal growth journey, it’s a social justice issue.†Karliin
"All the arguments to prove human superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, animals are our equals." Peter Singer
“To animals, all people are Nazi’s.†Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." Henry David Thoreau
"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together." Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Just as someone who says that human slavery is wrong but who continues to own slaves is not really an abolitionist with respect to human slavery, someone who says that animal slavery is wrong but who does not embrace veganism as a way of life is not really an abolitionist with respect to animal slavery. Let those of us who accept the abolitionist approach be clear and unequivocal and promote veganism in our words and our actions.†Gary Francione
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." Leo Tolstoy
Music:
Laura Nyro (all hail the Queen), Jim Carroll, Willy Porter, Tori Amos, Journey, Ani DiFranco, Patti Rothberg, Wanda Jackson, The Runaways, Patti Smith, Heart, Tribe 8, Motley Crue, GnR, David Bowie, Peaches, 7 Year Bitch, Regina Spektor, Hole, Cher, Kristin Hersh, Donny Hathaway, L7, Team Dresch, The Gits (R.I.P Mia Zapata), PJ Harvey, etc etc etc
Movies:
Earthlings, Waiting for Guffman, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Best in Show, Stealing Beauty, Spinal Tap, Peaceable Kingdom, The Witness, Hotel Rwanda, Basketball Diaries, Rent, Dangerous Beauty, Grey Gardens .. and this short film which must be watched by all:
Television:
Whatever dumb reality show happens to be on as I do sit ups, and my own upcoming show (STAY TUNED PEOPLE - this shit is EXCITING!!). Check out the Riverwired clips here: http://chloejo.com/cj_clips1web.mov and my Silk Soy Milk Commercial here: http://www.takeasipforward.ca/gallery.php?vid=3
Books:
SKINNY BITCH by Rory and Kim (you want to be gorgeous and healthy? read this book!), Soul Picnic - Michele Kort, Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison, The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan, The Diary of a Teenage Girl - Phoebe Gloeckner, Caucasia - Danzy Senna, Fear of Dreaming, Forced Entries, Book of Nods - Jim Carroll,Valencia - Michelle Tea, FG to the Universe - Shar Rednour, My Sister from the Blue Lagoon - Laurie Fox, Chelsea Girls - Eileen Myles, Godspeed - Lynn Breedlove, Every single book by Joan Nestle, and Inga Muscio, Henry Miller, Books by SARK and The Year of Yes by Maria Dahvana Headley.
Heroes:
Truth Spillers, Hardcore Vegans, and Animal Activists. Ingrid Newkirk, Bill Maher, Alice Walker, Michael Moore, Laura Nyro, Maya Angelou, Christopher Guest, Oprah (minus her Foie Gras habit - thanks for enlightening me, Samantha!), LGBT Activists, Joan Nestle, Erica Jong, Jim Carroll, and my motley crew - Davis, Tatiana, Twiggy, Talullah, Pleione, and Bud - for putting up with my bawdy antics.
