Charlie Knoll - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Family is very important to me. Friends come right behind that.

I like writing, visualizing and executing. I do a little drawing, not enough to be any good.

I try to relate to everyone I meet but there are some people I just don't care to relate to.

My Interests

writing, appreciating the beauty in this world, being inspired.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, artists and muses. Poetic souls. Good people with honest hearts. Really, pretty much anyone... maybe even you.

Rae Lexington

Music:

I like honest music. Nothing contrived or trite. No poseurs, back-biters or syndicators.

Jazz, blues and folk are probably my favorite genres, although underground hip-hop is my latest obsession.

I like story songs, songs with clever lyrics, quality musicianship.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Mirrormask, Across The Universe, Delicatessen, Wonder Boys, Sin City, Amelie, Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Stardust, Pan's Labyrinth, A Scanner Darkly, The Fifth Element, Dead Poet's Society, 300, The Science Of Sleep, and oh so many more

Television:

Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, PBS, The Travel Channel, History

Books:

Hunter S Thompson and Thich Nhat Hanh are probably my two favorites, then there's Alfred Tennyson, Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Burgess, Bob Dylan, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Allan Poe, George Carlin, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Rollins, Herman Hesse, Irvine Welsh, Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, Jiddu Krishnamurti, John Steinbeck, Jon Stewart, Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, Leonard Peltier, Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Mark Haddon, Mark Z. Danielewski, Michael Paterniti, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Neal Cassady, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornsby, Ram Dass, Richard Belzer, Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein, Steve Martin, T.S. Eliot, Voltaire, Walt Whitman, William Burroughs, Yann Martel, any number of others

Heroes:

Jesus Christ
Buddha
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohammed
Martin Luther King Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
Bill Hicks

My Blog

Obama 08!

A lot of people complain that Barack Obama does not have the experience necessary to be president. I think that his lack of experience makes him an ideal candidate. He is not soured to the game of pol...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:45:00 PST

hows the world treating you?

I have a severe case of writer's block. I've remembered some of my dreams recently and I wish I hadn't, except for the one where she told me not to worry, it'd be alright. I don't even know who she w...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:53:00 PST

Sleepwalk of Life

They look like little dogs following their owners, being dragged by a leash, these 'kept' men, pussy-whipped and dragged by their penis, lacking the self-confidence to contribute to the planning of th...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:50:00 PST

Beautiful Loser

"Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:23:00 PST

Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

"The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" is a fantastic movie. It taught me not to regret anything because everything that has happened has made me into the person I am today. But then, I thought, ...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:21:00 PST

Darkest Before Dawn

I think to myself, "No-one knows I'm here, Why would they notice if I was gone?" So I just finish my beer And think how it's darkest before dawn. I feel as though I haven't seen the sun in ages, On a...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:40:00 PST

Science Imitating Fiction?

Why this brain flies on rat cunning www.theage.com.au> A learning computer?Like the Terminator... If any of you know a guy by the name of John Connor, tell him to keep an eye out......
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:27:00 PST

You Learn More From Watching Than Talking

All I know about you is that your favorite beer is Bud Light. What I've gathered from watching your body language and mannerisms is that you are confident in yourself but not confident enough. You thi...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:16:00 PST

Duality

What is dark without light? How could we be happy if we didn't truly understand sad? How can someone who's never cried ever really laugh? There's a flip side to every coin. It's Like Newton said, "For...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:37:00 PST

Living and dying

Why do we live in such a hurry? Life's not a race. No-one wants to finish first. These moments we have are precious, we should share them with people we care bout while we can. These connections that ...
Posted by Charlie Knoll on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:04:00 PST