Films (creating them), broadcasting - as it was my major...comedy, writing, reading, traveling, camping, and going out anywhere and everywhere.
I love the feeling I get from being in places such as libraries, studios (TV/music), antique shops, museums, caverns, farms, large cities, and small quaint towns.
I love openminded, encouraging, talented, and considerate people. The three things I hate most in people? Narrow-mindedness, manipulation, and inconsideration.
I hate when I can see through people, and I usually do right away - especially if they're a just a fake mirage to begin with.
I'd like to meet:
This case of 3 seemingly framed teens - "The West Memphis Three" - continues to be one of the most intruiging true stories I've ever heard about. Check it out if you have the time.........."If they don't become a part, they've become apart" Just listen to the gal, honestly. Genius..........
Music:
Everything sucks lately...I love Tori Amos...'Boys for Pele' saved me a few times. She's an amazing lyricist, composer, and performer. But I enjoy everything, really. I'm a pretty musical person. Classical music is actually my favorite, but: Nine Inch Nails. Radiohead. Portishead. Mozart. Etta James. John Williams. The Cure. Missy E. Nirvana. The Clash. Yeah Yeah Yea's. John Lennon. U2. The Cars. Fiona Apple. Elvis. Jimmy Hendrix. Billie Holiday. Smashing Pumpkins. Prince. Death Cab for Cutie. R.E.M. Madonna. Tracey Chapman. Tchaikovsky. The Doors. Eminem. Sinatra. The Eagles. Sublime. Danny Elfman. Depeche Mode. Led Zeppelin. Jerry Goldsmith. Sno Patrol. Moby. Elle Fitzgerald. Pearl Jam. Ray Charles. Fleetwood Mac. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Ben Folds/BFfive. The Beatles. Thomas Newman. James Horner is my all-time favorite film composer.
Movies:
I adored The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky - it's a work of art to behold, but it's a puzzle, so you'll either love it or hate it depending on how much work you're willing to do with that whole "thinking for yourself" thing. Or if you just don't like beautiful films. Braveheart. I like Gibson's eye, and it's clear his heart was in his work. Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt), Office Space...I love Mike Judge's humor- Bevis and Butthead gets me every time, and it never seems to get old. Dumb and Dumber is classic. Goonies, ditto. Reality Bites. The Hours. The Sixth Sense. The Matrix is cool and all. Oh, yeah, and the Lord of the Rings series are gorgeous, you have to appreciate them, even though they bored the hell out of me for some reason, I can't explain it, maybe I was just tired..every time I viewed each of the different films. Anything Jean- Luc Godard...(Alphaville)
or Alain Resnais...(Hiroshima, Mon Amor)
Quentin Tarentino (Pulp Fiction) ....Douglas Sirk(Imitation of Life)....Hitchcock was a genius (Vertigo).
Micheal Moore can do a very good documentary piece, proving his point and beliefs.
Even though I was taught to hate them - I'm a sucker for the Speilberg and John Williams (composer) combo (ET, Jurassic Park, Empire of the Sun, Indiana Jones, Close Encounters, Saving Private Ryan)
and Ron Howard and James Horner combo. (A Beautiful Mind/Apollo 13/ Cinderella Man)....
Stanley Kubrick.
Holy shit, how'd I forget Michel Gondry (Enternal Sunsine of the Spotless Mind)Or - MY god...
brilliant Tim Burton using Danny Elfman's music....that guy is just beautiful...
Television:
No thanks. Mostly every program on TV is of the reality genre lately, which pisses me off. It's truly making people dumber; there's no consistency to it. Shame, watching it fizzle (and, in turn, viewers' brains) into a pile of shit - it was the field I wanted to go into. The trend is not ending anytime soon, sadly. Networks are making too much money now - shamelessly just trying save cash and make money while doing it - not having to pay for writers, or artistic talent whatsoever. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but why does the media/government seem to want to make us dumbass drones? Who was it that said, "Make the people stupid, and you can make them do anything"? Some dude...
When I did watch TV, it was FUNNY SNL, (not what they're attempting now) The X-Files, ER, The Simpsons, South Park, Reno 911, Fraggle Rock, Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Today's Special, Mr. ED, Seinfeld. Anything Discovery or History Channel. And yes, I do like the Sopranos.
Books:
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"I yelled over and asked old Ackley if he wanted to go to the movies. He could hear me all right through the shower curtains, but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy who hates to answer you right away. Finally he came over, through the goddam curtains, and stood on the shower ledge and asked who was going besides me. He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in a goddam boat, he'd want to know who the guy was that was rowing it before he'd even get in. I told him Mal Brossard was going,He said, "That bastard..all right,wait a second." You'd think he was doing you a big favor.".....................................................
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"Always learn poems by heart, they have to become the marrow in your bones. Like flouride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay"......................................................
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"I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone. I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.
From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out.
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go back, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground by my feet."......................................................
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Heroes:
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"It doesn’t matter to me any more whether something is bad or wrong. I’ve been too busy with that my whole life. Life is a test, and you learn from the moment things happen to you. How do you react? Do you feel like a failure? Or do you think, “Ok, that happened, and this is what I said†One who plays life safe will never know what he or she is capable of. If you are afraid to go to far, or to show who you really are, you are not living life to the fullest." - My favorite, Ms. Amos........................................................
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We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.- The lama........................................................
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There's no such thing as failure - it's defined by our reaction to it. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are." - Miss Winfrey.....................................................
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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. I think
that is a much greater hunger, or poverty than the person
who has nothing to eat. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. "
- Theresa.....................................................
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"We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. " - King........................................................
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"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms?
This knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men." - Albert......................................................
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abe.........................................................
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"I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle." -Sitting Bull........................................................
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted."
- William.....................................................
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"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare." - Queen Liz.........................................................
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Joan of Arc
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"Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision. - Hellen Keller " "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. " - Anne Sullivan....................................................
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They did tell me always you were dead, and I knew no other till I came to Plymouth. Yet Powhatan did command Uttamatomakkin to seek you, and know the truth because your countrymen will lie much. -Pocahontas.................................................
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"Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent." - Cleopatra...................................................
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......................The mysterious Magdalene.
