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T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU

Work like a slave. Live like a king. Create like a god.

About Me

Firstly, I am very sane about just how crazy I am. I know I don't see things like you. I won't apologize for this. Most of us spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Saints or sinners. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. I know the lines I've crossed, sins I've committed, and people I've destroyed on my journey to here. I know who I WAS, and who I am NOW. I won't let my past decide my future. I believe we should decide for ourselves who we are, and that it's the job of each of us to invent something better than what we've been given. Don't anticipate life, meet it.In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act...Do unto others...do we really need to get much deeper into religion than that? _________________________________________________ "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."- E.E. Cummings _________________________________________________ "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams _________________________________________________ “The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark... Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”- Michaelangelo _________________________________________________ "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead... his eyes are closed."- Albert Einstein _________________________________________________ “Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before-that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will b a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.” -Buckminster Fuller _________________________________________________ The greatest lie in the world is that at some point we lose the ability to control our lives, and become the pawns of fate. It is by that which cannot be taken from us that we truly measure ourselves. Denial can make you blind.LOVEMYFLASH CODE
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My Interests

music, cooking, art, design, skateboarding, photoshop, illustrator, final cut, apple computers, books, knowledge, eyes, smiles, magazines, my friends, MAC, Duncan, people and their quirks...life, ups, downs - all of it.

I'd like to meet:

I've heard it said that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and that small minds discuss people. That said, I'd like to meet a few more great minds, and rid myself of some small ones.View All Friends | View Blog

Music:

I'll give you a taste: The Clash, Pixies, Afgan Whigs, DJ Krush, UNKLE, Julian Cope, Satchmo, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Social D, Gang of Four, Stiff Little Fingers, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Op Ivy, Mos Def, Futureheads, John Lennon, Common, Billy Bragg, The Coup, Talib, 999, Jesus and Mary Chain, Atmosphere, New Order, the b-more sound, Postal Service, The Jam, Tribe, Blackalicious, Miles, Trane, Mingus, Dylan, Marley, Boozoo, Rae and Christian, K and D, Flogging Molly, Buzzcocks, Cat Power, Stone Roses, Charlatans, Saul Williams, Bauhaus, Necro, Sage Francis, Zion 1, Dead Prez, PE, Death Cab, Dialated, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Slum Village, PUTS, Buju, Felt, Four Tet, Fugees, NERD, Dre, Generation X, Gorillaz, Fort Minor, Guerilla Black, IMA Robot, Hard FI, Handsome Boy Modeling, Faint, Love and Rockets, Steve Miller, Hollertronix, Jel, Beatles, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat, Happy Mondays, Iron and Wine, J5, Freestyle Fellowship, Koufax, Blue October, Modest Mouse, LCD, Peaches, Le Tigre, Libertines, Marvin, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, Moving Units, Mr Scruff, Nas, Outkast, Pharcyde, Radiohead, Rapture, White Stripes, Kiss, the Specials, Spearhead.....

Movies:

Amores Perros is a favorite, Amelie, Guy Ritchie Films, ANY Hong Kong/Korean/Japanese Kung Fu/Gangster film, Sin City, Dogtown (the first doc.), Harold and Maude, Motorcycle Diaries, Matrix 1 & 2, Fight Club, Blade Runner, Cohen Brothers films, Slap Shot, One Flew Over the Cuckook's Nest, Ichi the Killer, Scarface, I Like Your Work, Lost in Translation, Godfather,etc., etc.

Television:

Mostly I watch shows on TLC, History/Int'l, Discovery/Times, and the like. The Food Network, Fine Living, home and garden type shit. News from the BBC. To numb the mind proper- Law and Order, My Name is Earl, How I Met Your Mother, The Wire, Entourage. Semi addicted- Hockey (Red Wings/ Lightning), Basketball-any esp college.

Books:

My room is stacked with books, here's some favorites-Jitterbug Perfume-All Tom Robbins, Geeklove, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Minds in the Water, Soul on Ice, Nine Chains to the Moon, Choke, Invisible Monsters- All Chuck Palahniuk, Johnny Got His Gun, American Gods, Soul of a Butterfly, Fundamentals of Thought, Sombrero Fallout, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Cats Cradle- All Vonnegut books, The Dharma Bums, 100 bullets, The Mutt, Sandman-endless nights

Heroes:

mom, writers, revolutionaries, musicians, the albanian flava flav, those who broke ground ..ments that changed my life...

My Blog

Wizard of Oz...

The American government has come to resemble the characters in The Wizard of Oz. We have the cowardly congress, a president without a brain, and a foreign-policy establishment without a heart.Our pol...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:47:00 PST

For Joe...

You lit a flame in my heartAnd it is burning stillAnd every time I hear you shoutIt still gives me a thrillI can see you up thereWith your right leg pumpingGoodbye inspirationVoice of a generationGood...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:10:00 PST

live b4 I die

When pressures up and the stress is highAnd I wanna bid this world good byeI'm gonna bury my frustrationsGrab some of life's satisfactionsTry to find some peace of mindWhen life's treating me unkind P...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:27:00 PST

just to say goodbye

When tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not there to see, if the sun should rise and you find your eyes, all filled with tears for me:I wish you wouldn't cry. The way you do today, while thinking of ...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:03:00 PST

kiss me deadly...

The greyhound's rocking out tonightTo maximum rockabillyWhen two punks chose to risk the subwayFor a tube to PicadillyThe Zephrys, this gangs fast for gloryAnother dumb casualtyHaving funIn South West...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:48:00 PST

Mom

Coming up on the anniversary, not a day goes by that I don't think of youI pour out some liquor and I remenisecause through the drama, I could always depend on you, mamaand when it seemed that things ...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:49:00 PST

god?

Islam is risingChristians mobilisingAnd the world is on its elbows and kneesIt's forgotten the message and worships the creedsif you think that Jesus Christ is comingBaby you've got another thing comi...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:29:00 PST

make my day

I need you to keep me straight,When the world doesn't seem so great,And it's hard enough you knowI need you to be aroundWhen my conscience brings me downAnd the world seems so obscureI want you to be ...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:32:00 PST

Back in the day...I'm not a kid anymore...

While flying in a plane goin west,I fell asleep for to take my rest.I dreamed a dream that made me sad,Concerning myself and the first real friends I had. With half-damp eyes I stared at the rampWhere...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Tue, 16 May 2006 01:44:00 PST

Hole in the Bucket

I work 9 to 5 but it starts in the P.M.and I love the sunrise so I step out in the A.M.the street is black and shiny from the earlynightly rainin'the glory of the light it brings evaporationmorning's ...
Posted by T.h.o.m. CorneliusFU on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:55:00 PST