I used to have LOTS of interests & hobbies..until Pharmacy school that is. But i can remember a time when i used to be able to just sit around, hang out, & have time for reflection & self-contemplation. That time is no more. However, when time does permit, I enjoy reading, skateboarding, mountain biking, SNOWBOARDING, and having philosophical conversations w/ friends. I LOVE Traveling & experiencing this great world with all it has to offer us. Through my travels, I seek to become culturally enriched & to discover the essence of what it truly means to be human. I like to play the drums (so much that i brought my set to austin with me & cannot move in my bedroom now haha). I like Photography (until my awesome camera got stolen on a beach in Athens, Greece that is). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My long-term life goal & passion is to bring about the fusion of eastern and western medicine & thought to improve quality of life for society as a whole. There is just so much beneficial, life-changing info that can be obtained from each; it all just needs to be filtered, condensed, and presented in a digestible manner for the masses. I am currently studying western approaches to medicine by working on my Doctorate in Pharmacy. From there...who knows. I will probably move to China, then Europe, for a good while to see what knowledge they can bestow upon me
John Lennon, Aristotle, Da Vinci, Golden Aphrodite, Julius Caesar, Einstein, Woody Allen, Alexander the Great, and some absurdly beautiful virgin princess with lots of money.
THE BEATLES, Sublime, 311, Incubus, the White Stripes, The Cardigans, Say Anything, Rage Against the Machine, Anti-Flag, Rancid, Led Zeppelin, Toadies, Nirvana, Operation Ivy, Chillipeppers, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Ben Folds, Thrice, BOB MARLEY, Brand New, the Clash, No Doubt, Elvis Costello, Lucky Boys Confusion, Less than Jake, G. Love and Special Sauce, Sparta, CAKE, Jimi Hendrix, Hippos, Sloppy Meat Eaters, John Lennon, MadCaddies, Mars Volta, the Living End, the used, Pietasters, Blondie, Reel Big Fish, QUEEN, vandals, yellowcard, Transplants, Box Car Racer, At the Drive-in, the Police , Northstar, Wilco, Matisyahu, Kings of Leon, Aquabats, NOFX, Zom Zoms, Tom Petty, The Velvet Underground, , Black Crowes, Of Montreal, Muse, Flaming Lips, Hooverphonic, Tori Amos, Paul McCartney, the Cure, Toots & the Maytals, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Stevie Wonder...AND many many MANY more.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Loose Change, America: Freedom to Facism, The Science of Sleep, The Illusionist, Waking Life, American History X, Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Dogtown and the Z boys, What the bleep do we know, Donnie Darko, SLC Punk, O'brother Where Art Thou, Go, All the Jay & Silent Bob movies: Clerks, mallrats, chasing amy, etc..., Sin City, Bowling For Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Half-Baked, I am Sam, Requiem for a Dream, The Score, Interview With a Vampire, Dracula, Garden State, American Beauty, Ocean's 11, Imagine, Napoleon Dynamite, Rounders, Boondock Saints, There's Something about Mary, The Count of Monte Cristo, Butterfly Effect, Back to the Future, I 3 Huckabees, and finally...Don't Be a Menace to South Central while Drinkin' Yo Juice N Da Hood, Terrorstorm, La Dolce Vita, Deconstructing Harry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First off, I do not even own a TV and refuse to obtain one. I am morally against the detrimental effects it has on one's perception of reality and will not be voluntarily brain-washed. Television is the Roman coliseum of modern-day used to distract, and program the masses. However, I still download a FEW shows: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROME (only show presently actually that i watch), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monty Python, Entourage, Family Guy, South Park, The Daily Show!, Seinfield, Drawn Together, Dave Chappelle Show, Any Stand-Up Comedy, Weeds, any educational documentary on Discovery, National Geographic, or Animal Planet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Grapes of Wrath, Siddhartha, Plato's Republic & Symposium, Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, To Kill a Mockingbird, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, The Illiad & Odyssey, Oedipus Rex (Mythology in general), Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Aristotle's Children, LOVE National Geographic magazines... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
John Lennon, Socrates, Andrew Weil; Bands and celebrities that use their fame and media exposure to try to instigate change or bring about awareness in the social and political realm.
I rather make this the "Quote" Secition:
"...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself."
- Plato
"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess."
--- Louis Nizer
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
- Maharishi
"Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed."
---Walter Russell
"The unexamined life is not worth living" & "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. "
---Socrates
"My faith, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests."
~ George Santayana:
"Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da,
Life goes on..."
- The Beatles
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans"
- John Lennon
"I am a pharmacist,
Prescriptions I will fill you,
Potions, pills and medicines
to ease your painful lives..."
~ Guided by Voices
"My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty."
~ Woody Allen
"My faith, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests."
~ George Santayana: