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Samuel

blessed are the peacemakers

About Me

but I'm praying for rain- I'm praying for tidal waves. I want to see the ground give way. Please flush it all away! i want to see it go riding down...

My Interests

brazilian jiujitsu, writing, music, and insight meditation, classical literature!

I'd like to meet:

it's not a matter of meeting for the first time; it's a matter of reunion.

Music:

TOOL, Rachmaninoff, Pablo Sarasate, Gypsy music, The Chieftains, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tan Dun, SUBLIME! Janis Joplin, wait- hold on a sec- Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alison Krauss, Disturbed, Rammstein, Perfect Circle, Beethoven, a lot of good Opera, Metallica, and traditional Scottish bagpipes

Movies:

CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon, Amelie, Blackhawk Down, Shine, The Hunted. Likewise, there's too many more.

Television:

I loathe television

Books:

Let's go by authors: Homer, Sun Tsu, Victor Hugo, Mitsuge Saotome, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein (did you know they corresponded quite a bit?), Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Thom Jones, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Pressfield, Khaled Hosseini. Beowulf, the ancient authors of Caedmon's Hymn, Riddles, Battle of Maldon, The Ruin, The Wanderer; Catullus (one word: lascivious), Sappho, the Good Stuff

Heroes:

Arlie Geoffrey Capps, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, David Hackworth, Garner Harston, T.S. Eliot, Gustaf Mahler, the Gracie family, Richard Strozzi-Heckler