things i like
~music
~horses
~law
~reading books
~poetry
~writing
~art
~collecting stuff
~photography
~running
~tae kwon do
~ballroom/salsa dancing
~movies
~social issues
~politics
~volunteering
~learning to cook
~learning to speak spanish
~teaching other people to speak english
~chia pets
~origami
~surreptitiously observing the hilarious antics of my neighbors
~paying off my immense student loans
~growing lovely flowers in flower pots on my balcony
~futbol/soccer
things i do not like
~wilfully ignorant people
~chick flicks
~boredom
~wal-mart
~debt
~war
~hyper-conservativism and hyper-liberalism (you get too close to either end, you're going to fall off)
~whiny people
~celebrities who try to push their opinions on me
~celebrity magazines that think i care what celebrities do
~politicians who lie
~people who lie to me and then later claim they've told the truth all along, i just wasn't listening
~people who can get jobs and don't
~people who don't understand that some people cannot get jobs
~car insurance rates (they're all too high)
~unflattering photos of me (they're all unflattering, but some more so than others)
~people who cannot disagree without calling names
~people who take themselves too seriously
~people who take life too seriously
I'd like to meet:
people who might interest me
i like people who like themselves and others, who enjoy life, who have a sense of humor and can laugh at themselves but who don't need to laugh at others, who have common sense and are not full of themselves, and who preferrably aren't serial killers. i'd rather not meet any more narrow-minded bigots or people with xenophobia. i know enough of those already. i would like to meet people who are broad-minded, creative, and interesting.
i'm also looking for people to eat sushi with me. i like sushi.
never say never
"never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-napoleon bonaparte
"never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
-unknown
"never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
-elbert hubbard
"never eat more than you can lift."
miss piggy
"never keep up with the joneses. drag them down to your level."
-quentin crisp
"never knock on death's door: ring the bell and run away! death really hates that!"
-matt frewer
"never confuse movement with action."
-ernest hemmingway
"never believe anything until it has been officially denied."
-chad cockburn
"never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
-isaac asimov
"never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
-sam brown
"never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
-niels bohr
"never fight an inanimate object."
-p.j. o'rourke
"never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there."
-mickey friedman
"never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."
-norman ford
"never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."
-marlo thomas
"never go out to meet trouble. if you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
-calvin coolidge
"never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
-dame edna everage
"never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
-thomas jefferson
"never give a child a sword."
-latin proverb
"never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit."
-the talmud
"never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
-miguel de cervantes
"never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."
-winston churchill
"never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. it was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."
-sydney smith
"never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law."
-japanese proverb
"never regret something that once made you smile."
-amber deckers
"never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
-marcus aurelius antonius
"never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."
-john collins
"never argue with a fool. someone watching may not be able to tell the difference."
-anonymous
"never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
-anthony j. d'angelo
Music:
what i listen to
i am musically promiscuous; i'll listen to anything at least once. i really like the music i make in my head. it's better than the voices.
Movies:
movies i enjoyed
serenity, unleashed, lord of the rings, napoleon dynamite, kung fu hustle, charlie and the chocolate factory, hero, dreamer, lethal weapon, casablanca, school of rock, hero, fight club, mean girls, ocean's eleven, ocean's twelve, ocean's thirteen, the ring (but not the ring 2), identity, mystic river, all the pretty horses, blow, shrek, chicken run, once upon a time in mexico, chronicles of narnia, lord of war, crash, walk the line, wallace and gromit: curse of the were-rabbit, the ice harvest, chicago, kung phooey, hotel rwanda, flightplan, ultraviolet, pirates of the caribbean 1, 2, and 3, 16 blocks, lucky number slevin, brick, nacho libre, over the hedge, school of rock, the producers, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, a day without a mexican, death to smoochy, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, the family stone, thank you for smoking, the protector, envy, the devil wears prada, skeleton key, little miss sunshine, running with scissors, the departed, the prestige, 300, pan's labyrinth, babel, a beautiful mind, road to perdition, children of men, the black dahlia, casino royale, proof, blood diamond, amelie, the reaping, the good shepherd, stranger than fiction, volver, the pursuit of happyness, bobby, casino, swordfish, fun with dick and jane, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, cold mountain, les miserables, hot fuzz, the painted veil, the holiday, surf's up, 1408, the good the bad and the ugly, the quick and the dead, cool hand luke, the shawshank redemption, i am legend, secret window, eastern promises, breach, the orphanage, amores perros, rounders, iron man, atonement, no country for old men, michael clayton, the golden compass, gone baby gone, there will be blood
Television:
how i waste time
court tv, x-files, arrested development, house, monk, law and order (especially criminal intent), psych, cartoon network, 24, burn notice, the daily show & the colbert report, the chaos known as the 2008 presidential primaries
Books:
i love books
war and peace, clockwork orange, lord of the rings, the hobbit, for whom the bell tolls, pride and prejudice, adventures of huckleberry finn, crime and punishment, good night moon, memoirs of a geisha, a time to kill, to kill a mockingbird, sir arthur conan doyle mysteries, all the pretty horses, snow falling on cedars, something wicked this way comes, animal farm, 1984, the chronicles of narnia, like water for chocolate, catch 22, dark tower series, east of eden, fahrenheit 451, a farewell to arms, don quixote, the good earth, los demonios del eden, the darkness that comes before and the warrior prince, one hundred years of solitude, a widow for one year, love in the time of cholera, no country for old men, the kite runner
Heroes:
my heroes
my mom. she's the strongest, kindest, sweetest woman i have ever met.
"so when people ask me if i am willing to lose my life, i tell them i am not willing to lose my life. but i am willing to give it." -lidia cacho
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