White Hawk Griffith [Band of the Hawk]

I'd like to meet:

Edward Gorey, The Brothers Grimm, Aesop, or Edgar Allen Poe. When I think about great storytellers, they immediately come to mind as my favorites. I like that their work [except Poe] was also adapted for children (Although, Grimm is hilariously dark). I view life as one giant narrative, filled with a million frame-stories. All of these gossamer vignettes float down through our memories, like backlit autumn leaves, and pile, uniquely, as the tales of our existences, our adventures.We are the recorders of history-- the weavers of an infinite tapestry. Writing is nothing more than a craft, but taken passionately, becomes something much more metaphysical. The words breath. The pulse of the story beats, steadily, faster. The page is alive. We are the resurrectors of the past. We are the necromancers of fable.

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" ~ Poe

"'Now if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can begin to feed.''But not on us!' the Oysters cried, Turning a little blue. 'After such kindness, that would be A dismal thing to do!' 'The night is fine,' the Walrus said. 'Do you admire the view?'" ~ From Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There ~ Lewis Carroll, 1872.

"VENTIDIUS. Just, just his nature. Virtue's his path; but sometimes 'tis too narrow For his vast soul; and then he starts out wide, And bounds into a vice, that bears him far From his first course, and plunges him in ills: But, when his danger makes him find his faults, Quick to observe, and full of sharp remorse, He censures eagerly his own misdeeds, Judging himself with malice to himself, And not forgiving what as man he did, Because his other parts are more than man.-- He must not thus be lost." ~ Ventidius Speaks about Marc Antony ~ A.1 s.1 ~ from John Dydren's All For Love (1678)

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Music:

Rilo Kiley, Johnny Cash, The Birthday Massacre, Emilie Autumn, I:SCINTILLA, Collide, The Decemberists, Ayria, Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, mc chris, MC Frontalot, The Stone Roses, Mew, Jack Off Jill, Switchblade Symphony, Lacuna Coil, Kells, Lore, Krypteria, Welten Brand, Lunarclick, Moi Dix Mois, Sky Salt, Haggard, Death Cab For Cutie, Postal Service, Linkin Park, Dashboard Confessional, The Beatles, Jay-Z, Less Than Jake, Millencolin, Tori Amos, Offspring, Apples in Stereo, The Arcade Fire, Band Marino, Evanescence, Within Temptation, Rasputina, A Perfect Circle, Simon and Garfunkel, Allison Krauss, Coldplay, Dredg, Strung Out, No Use For a Name, Yoko Kanno, Andrew Bird, The Shins, Shiny Toy Guns, Mindless Self Indulgence, Rush, Marazene, Radiohead, Freezepop, Joy Division, DJ Tiesto, DJ Doboy, Sonorous, BT, Acosta, Hybrid, Cascada, DJ Encore, Alice in Videoland, Mystikal, Trick Daddy, Bone Thugs, Ludacris

Movies:

Lady in the Water, The Last Kiss, Broken Saints, Dune, Boondock Saints, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine, Beetlejuice, Seven Samurai, The Good the Bad and The Ugly, Donnie Darko, Addams Family, What Dreams May Come, Disney's Robin Hood, LOTR, Office Space, Super Troopers, 28 Days Later, The Virgin Suicides, Rules of Attraction, Thirteen Ghosts, The 13th Warrior, Kingdom of Heaven, The Big Lebowski, The Edukators, Lola Rennt, Die Manner, SLC Punk, 24 Hour Party People, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Battle Royal, Wet Hot American Summer, Alice in Wonderland, Tristan and Isolde, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaa, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, Samurai X, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Serenity, Walk the Line, Rocky

Television:

FIREFLY, Berserk, House, Futurama, the Boondocks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Family Guy, Aqua Teen, Sealab 2021, Robot Chicken, The Naked Trucker and T-Bones, Haunting Evidence, Cops, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop, YuYu Hakusho, Samurai Champloo, FLCL, Tenchi

Books:

Beowulf, Grendel, Eaters of the Dead, Dune, LOTR, Paradise Lost, The Sportswriter, The Vampire Chronicles, Essential Jung, Vonnegut (All), Heart of Darkness, Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there, E.A.Poe (All), The Crying Game, Wuthering Heights, A Seperate Peace, Lord of the Flies, Winnie the Pooh, The Circle Within, We Didn't, The Book of Paradoxes, Frankenstein, The Encyclopedia of Magickal Herbs, All For Love, How to be Idle, Mouse Guard, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Pon and Zi, Richard Corben's Haunt of Horror, Moby Dick, Johne Donne (All), Keats (All), Merry Wives of Windsor, Bowling Alone, Things Fall Apart, A Seperate Peace, Crime and Punishment, Arden of Faversham, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The Zombie Survival Guide

"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson - 1842

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vest the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers; Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breath were life. Life piled on life Were all to little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle- Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me- That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads- you and I are old; Old age had yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in the old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal-temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Heroes:

Uncle John "Johnny O" O'Connell, We All Miss You. RIP. Hang loose, brotha. Benjamin Franklin, Aristotle, Kant, Alexis DeTocqueville, Salvatore Mula, Tomo Ohka, Vyse, Link, Samwise Gamgee, Joss Whedon, Anyone who has fallen and refused to stay down-- and also pirates and ninjas, because you just can't not like pirates or ninjas.