Susan

I'd like to meet:

Quotes and Poems and Stuff
When did the body first set out on its own adventures? ...after having ditched its old traveling companions, the mind and the soul, for whom it had once been considered a mere corrupt vessel or else a puppet acting out their dramas for them, or else bad company, leading the other two astray. It must have got tired of the soul's constant nagging and whining and the anxiety-driven intellectual web-spinning of the mind, distracting it whenever it was getting its teeth into something juicy or its fingers into something good. It had dumped the other two back there somewhere, leaving them stranded in some damp sanctuary or stuffy lecture hall while it made a beeline for the topless bars, and it had dumped culture along with them: music and painting and poetry and plays. Sublimation, all of it; nothing but sublimation, according to the body. Why not cut to the chase? But the body had its own cultural forms. It had its own art. Executions were its tragedies, pornography was its romance.
-oryx and crake

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
~Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini (catcher in the rye)

"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
-1984

He [Aureliano II ] had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
"After the war, as the years went by, I couldn't help contemplating the promises that had been made about what the war would accomplish. You know, General Marshall sent me -- and 16 million others -- a letter congratulating us for winning the war and telling us how the world would now be a different place. Fifty million people were dead and the world was not really that different. I mean, Hitler and Mussolini were gone, as was the Japanese military machine, but fascism and militarism, and racism were still all over the world, and wars were still continuing. So I came to the conclusion that war, whatever quick fix it might give you -- Oh, we've defeated this phenomenon, fascism; we've gotten rid of Hitler (like we've gotten rid of Saddam Hussein, you see) -- whatever spurt of enthusiasm, the after-effects were like those of a drug; first a high and then you settle back into something horrible. So I began to think that any wars, even wars against evil, simply don't accomplish much of anything. In the long run, they simply don't solve the problem. In the interim, an enormous number of people die. I also came to the conclusion that, given the technology of modern warfare, war is inevitably a war against children, against civilians. When you look at the ratio of civilian to military dead, it changes from 50-50 in World War II to 80-20 in Vietnam, maybe as high as 90-10 today."---Howard Zinn

Music:

Moody Rock
Pearl Jam, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft, Weezer, the Cure, Widespread Panic, Mars Volta
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Classic Rock
Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Rush, Blue Oyster Cult

singer/somgwriters
pj harvey, tori amos, fiona apple, neil young, jeremy egnick, woodie guthrie, bright eyes, lizzie west,

Punky-Politcal Stuff
Rise Against, Strike Anywhere, RX Bandits, Against Me!

Movies:

how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen
Best Movies Ever
Dead Poet's Society, Hotel Rwanda, Dogma, Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Singles, The Wall, Reality Bites, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction

These Make Me Giggle
Wedding Singer, Spaceballs, Office Space, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Run Ronnie Run,
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Childhood Favorites (that I still watch all the time)
Labyrinth, Legend, Never Ending Story, Princess Bride
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Television:

My faves are the Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as well as reruns of Friends and That 70s Show, and my dirty secret...I am a Desperete Housewives fan *gasp* i know.

You scored as Jean Luc Picard. You are intellgent and introspective. You like spending quiet time reading or listening to music. You are a natural leader who prefers diplomacy to war.

Jean Luc Picard

Deanna Troi

Data

Worf

Geordi LaForge

Beverly Crusher

William T. Riker

Books:

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."---F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Time Travelers Wife
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The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake (both Margaret Atwood)

One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, all the Norton Anthologies
1984, Brave New World, Catch 22, Amazing Grace, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Baghdad Diaries, Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis, The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh, Kafka's the Metamorphosis, Revolution on Canvas (poetry from the indie music scene), Word of Mouth (Poems featured on NPR's All Things Considered), and the Sexual Politics of Meat

You're The Sound and the Fury!
by William Faulkner
Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major crisis in your life. You can see many different perspectives on the issue, but you're mostly overwhelmed with despair at what you've lost. People often have a hard time understanding you, but they have some vague sense that you must be brilliant anyway. Ultimately, you signify nothing.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid .

William Shakespeare

Robert Burns (yes, I know he's Scotish!!!)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Geoffery Chaucer

Sir Phillip Sidney

Alexander Pope

Mary Shelley

John Milton

Beowulf Poet

Marie de France

Heroes:

Anyone who has the balls to stand up for (true) peace and justice.