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Shanti

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

About Me

"We learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth." Ernesto "che" Guevara....."For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."-PtolemyI want to live in Europe a little too much...I hate living here

My Interests

rich conversation, traveling, social activism, foreign films, Argyle, running errands (Target, Whole Foods), coffee houses, attempting to understanding the root of oppression, walking on leaves, listening to music and overanalyzing the lyrics, cooking fresh foods such as Pesto pasta, reading novels, novellas, and biographies, Bob Doll Studies

I'd like to meet:

homosapiens

Music:

Smashing Pumpkins, Cursive, Belle and Sebastian, Murder by Death, The Walkmen, Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, Apostle of Hustle, Devendra Banhart, David Bowie, Bloc Party, The Arcade Fire, Ladytron, The Postal Service, The Faint, Interpol, Radiohead, The Beatles,The Doors, Mos Def, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Ravel's Bolero, Rachmaninov, and Bartok, also Hossam Ramzy percussion music

Movies:

Amelie, Requiem for a Dream, Dead Poet's Society, Matchpoint, Tsotsi, Motorcycle Diaries, Hotel Rwanda, Moulin Rouge, Life is Beautiful, I heart Huckabees, Goodbye Lenin, Monseiur Ibrahim, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bend it Like Beckham ( I heart Indian British films), Half Nelson, Live and Become

Television:

Project Runway, Top Chef, Sex and the City, Star Trek Next Generation

Books:

Bhagavad Gita, The Motorcycle Diaries, GO Ask Alice, Les Miserables, Native Son, Jane Eyre, and the Stranger, Orlando, Sorrows of Young Werther, Siddartha, The Sexual politics of meat, Middlesex

Heroes:

Arjuna from the Bhagavad Gita, Ernesto Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Eugene Debs, Muhatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and my dog Athena. Buddha

My Blog

Past Year

Much better school year, lovely roommate, more interesting classes, nice new people, more stress, more financial woes, more family woes.... I just calculated how much I have in student loans already a...
Posted by Shanti on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:28:00 PST

You know...Top 22

Okay, I just had to break down and do this after talking to Naila and Katherine about it and then seeing their blogs about it. So here it goes:  Top 22 Sexiest Men 1.  Jonathan Rhys-Meyers,...
Posted by Shanti on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:22:00 PST

Leaving

The end of my relaxing winter break is hanging over my head and drenching itself with skepticism of what my second semester in college will be like. Oddly a great part of me wants to st...
Posted by Shanti on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:03:00 PST

Winter Break

I have been home for a week now, away from Marquette, away from Milwaukee, away from the academia and constant hum of people.  I am back in Grayslake, back to the chaos of family, back to the sol...
Posted by Shanti on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:54:00 PST

nothing

It's been awhile since I have written a blog, there really has been nothing worth writing about.  However, I can write about the cold, I hate it, I absolutely detest this weather.  I know wi...
Posted by Shanti on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:30:00 PST

random online quiz

I took this quiz after seeing it on October's myspace, I feel dumb.   The PrissDeliberate Brutal Love Dreamer (DBLDf)    Mature. Responsible. Aristocratic. Excuse me. The Priss.   ...
Posted by Shanti on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:40:00 PST