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Dante

I am here for Friends

About Me

MySpace is the Devil.
Despite believing that wholeheartedly, I will write a little bit about myself.

ILOVE languages, and want to speak them all!

I have travelled to Japan and Argentina, and from the two experiences I have learned very different things. In Japan, I learned
WHO. I. AM.
In Argentina I learned to ♥ myself, and I have realized my own strengths.
PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WHAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY HAVE NO OTHER RESOURCES BUT THEMSELVES.

My favorite laugh word is chortle, followed in a close second by guffaw.

I am a Freshman at New York University. I love New York City. There's nothing else to it.

My Interests

Foreign Languages! French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, Thai, Norwegian, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, Turkish, Portuguese, Hindi, Russian, Dutch

I'd like to meet:

Un(e) Petit(e)-Ami(e). Besides that, I don't really know who I'd like to meet, so I'm going to put some quotes here that I like a lot. If you don't like them, kiss my ass. Have a nice day.

"Only when the last tree is cut down, when the last river is poisoned,
and the last fish is caught, will we realize we can't eat money."
--Green Peace

...Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
--Thomas Paine, Common Sense

"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."
--Solomon Short

"You can't take it with you."

"From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little being came;
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower."
--Philip Freneau, Wild Honeysuckle

"Love is the only thing about which nothing absurd can be said."
--Fortune Cookie

Music:

Cursive, Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, Jewel, The Unicorns, Il Divo, Shakira, Keane, Daddy Yankee, Missy Eliott, Reggaetón, AqME, Malice Mizer, Asian Kung Fu Generation, Iron & Wine, Trampled By Turtles, Pedro the Lion, The Fire Theft, Something For Kate, Jim's Big Ego, Coldplay, Dave Matthew's Band, Our Lady Peace, John Legend, The Living End, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Xavier Naidoo, Die Toten Hosen, Audioslave, Boomkat, X Japan, The Decemberists, The Beatles, Foreigner, The Cure, Styx, Aerosmith, Ludacris, Louis Armstrong, Garbage, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rachel Yamagata, Rilo Kiley, Starlight Mints, The Zutons, Dolour, Foo Fighter, Spoon, Interpol, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Jealous Sound, Watashi Wa, System of a Down, The Superjesus, theSTART, The Capsules, Asahi, 3rd Five Speed, India Arie, Jack Off Jill, Kinky, Alejandro Sanz, Obie Bermudez, Damien Rice

Movies:

Donnie Darko, The Price of Milk, The Fifth Element, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Closer, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Melvin Goes to Dinner, The Neverending Story, Amelie, Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Love Actually, Secret Window, I Am Sam

Television:

Who still watches TV? Get a real life and watch anime!

Books:

Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Swan Song, The Dark Tower Series, Tommyknockers, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Over Sea Under Stone, Silver on the Tree, Dragon Song, The Death Gate Cycle, Invisible Man, The Alchemist

Heroes:

Angela Giertych
Nicholas Doliber
Rachel Voter
ME!

My Blog

College sucks sometimes

I miss Yuba City.     :-(
Posted by Dante on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:16:00 PST

What is the world coming to?

So I keep hearing on the news all the reports of the tragedies involving US Troops in Iraq: "Two US soldiers killed in bombing"..."Four US soldiers gunned down by Iraqi militia", ad nauseum.  I d...
Posted by Dante on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:56:00 PST

Only in New York

So yesterday in the midst of volunteering for AFS I met, and took a photograph with, a famous person on the set of a movie.  The other AFS volunteers and I were walking around waaaaay downtown, v...
Posted by Dante on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:33:00 PST

...

I hate people.
Posted by Dante on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:36:00 PST

We were Swiffering... (an ammendment to the previous entry)

...says the douche bag in the wife-beater.  "Swiffering?" I ask.  There was very little to convince me that this was the source of the insane raucous.  The four of them snicker and one ...
Posted by Dante on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:27:00 PST

Dorm Life

So my third week here in New York began today, and I must say, what an insane two weeks it has been.  I walk fifteen minutes back and forth to class everyday, I pass crazies on a regular basis, a...
Posted by Dante on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:51:00 PST

Why must I obsess?

I obsess over everything in my life.  It's unhealthy and makes for a rather crazy Dante.  I obsess over things and activities...I obsess over people that I like.  Every aspect of my bei...
Posted by Dante on Mon, 22 May 2006 06:52:00 PST

Heavy Heart

A strange and eerie feeling has taken hold over the past few days, and I know not under what name it should fall. On the verge of crying as I walked through Target, I asked myself what could possibly ...
Posted by Dante on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:07:00 PST

Life is about big jumps

I feel like my life is falling down around my ears, and that I'm happy about it in some sick, roundabout way. I will be coming home from six months of self-reflection and personal growth, my parents a...
Posted by Dante on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:34:00 PST

Damn you preachy people

I hate people who preach at me.  It makes me want to kill them.  Today I had to explain to the 57th person my reasons for not having a religion. If people would just accept the fact tha...
Posted by Dante on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:51:00 PST