"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-Albert Einstein
Beverly Cleary, Michael Baisden, Sebastian Bach, Judd Apatow, Queen Latifah, and Tina Fey. Preferably at the same time, because how AWESOME would THAT be!!!
Alanis Morrisette
Alice in Chains
Architecture in Helsinki
Aretha Franklin
The Bangles
The Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Beck
Brand New
Carrie Underwood
The Chameleons
Children of Bodom
Christina Aguilera
Cibo Matto
The Clash
The Cocteau Twins
The Cure
Daddy Yankee
Deathcab for Cutie
Debbie Gibson
Dinah Washington
Ella Fitzgerald
Etta James
Flaming Lips
The Fugees
The Go-Gos
GNR!
Heart
Janis Joplin
Jenny Lewis
Jewel
Jimi Hendrix
John Denver
Judy Collins
The Killers
Led Zeppelin
Lisa Loeb
Louie Armstrong
Magnetic Fields
Maximo Park
Mazzy Star
Muddy Waters
Nina Simone
Nirvana
Notorious BIG
Ohia
Otis Redding
Pat Benatar
Patsy Cline
Pavement
Pixies
The Pogues
The Popes
Pretty Girls Make Graves
REM
The Rentals
RILO KILEY (Most Beloved)
Rob Zombie
Simon & Garfunkel
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Skid Row
Slick River
The Sounds
Sparks
Straylight Run
Suicide City
The Sundays
Suddenly, Tammy!
Tracy Chapman
Tegan and Sara
Tom Waits
Wilco
World Inferno Friendship Society
All my friends who are musicians!
Show Tunes!
Your Taste in Music:
80's Alternative: Highest Influence
90's Alternative: High Influence
Classic Rock: High Influence
Hair Bands: High Influence
Old School Hip Hop: High Influence
How's Your Taste in Music?
"FIGHT CLUB!!!," "Full Metal Jacket" (Finally saw it, in HD no less, and words can't describe), "Ghost World" (Didn't really like it so much the first time, probably wasn't cynical and bitter enough yet, but it RULES!), "Knocked Up" (Judd Apatow and I need to talk), "Poltergeist" (My favorite horror movie ever), "Waiting for Guffman"(GENIUS), "Clueless" (gets unjustly written off as a chick flick, but is an extremely strong, impeccably cast comedy, and I will fight you till the cows come home about its merit!), "Proof" ( obsessed 'cause I finally saw them, "Planet Terror" (It's GO GO. Not CRY CRY!!!!!), "Crazy/Beautiful" (I know it looks awful, but it's really not, and Jay Hernandez and Kirsten Dunst are awesome together), "Sunshine" (BRILLIANT!)...
30 ROCK 4 LIFE!!! ~ Gilmore Girls ~ Buffy ~ Survivor ~ Bleach ~ Degrassi ~ Heroes ~ Grey's Anatomy ~ How I Met Your Mother ~ Six Feet Under ~ Veronica Mars ~ The Office ~ Arrested Development ~ Lost ~ Freaks and Geeks ~ Felicity ~ Family Guy ~ Friends ~ Chappelle's Show ~ Lovespring International ~ The Brady Bunch...
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Why Girls are Weird by Pamela Ribon, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, everything by Beverly Cleary, who had one of the biggest impacts on my life. Right now I'm reading Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer.
My mother
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Oh, Lord,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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