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I'd like to meet:
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
-Maya Angelou
Still I Rise
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Music:
Antonio Vivaldi
Aretha Franklin
B.B. King
Bad Religion
Billie Holiday
Billy Joel
Bob Marley (for the message, you effin' stoners)
Buddy Guy
Cab Calloway
Chuck Berry
Count Basie
Credence Clearwater Revival
Curtis Mayfield
DeBarge (I hate to admit that in public)
Dropkick Murphys
Earth, Wind, and Fire (They’re back on the list now)
Edwin Starr
Fats Domino
Fiona Apple
Flogging Molly
Frank Sinatra
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Gladys Knight(and the Pips)
Green Day
Guns n' Roses
Howlin' Wolf
Janis Joplin
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Tex
John Coltrane
Johnny Cash
Little Richard
Louis Armstrong
Louis Prima
Ludwig van Beethoven
Lynryd Skynyrd
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
(Old school) Michael Jackson
Nat King Cole
Nirvana
NoFX
Old school Michael Jackson
Prince
Rancid
RENT
Richard Wagner
Smokey Robinson (and the Miracles)
Sublime
Teddy Pendergrass
The Blues Brothers (God bless John Belushi)
The Coasters
The Commodores
The Contours
The Dells
The Doors
The Drifters
The Four Tops
The Isley Brothers
The O'Jays
The Spinners
The Temptations
The Whispers
Tina Turner
Tori Amos
Van Morrison
Wilson Pickett
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Movies:
Woo...
10 Things I Hate About You
The Addams Family
The Addams Family Values
A Fish Called Wanda
The Airplane! series
Along Came a Spider
Aladdin
American Beauty
Analyze This (and That)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
As Good As It Gets
Back to the Future Trilogy
Batman
Be Cool
Beetlejuice
The Beverly Hills Cop trilogy
Big Daddy
Biloxi Blues
The Big Lebowski
The Birdcage
Blow
Blues Brothers
Boondock Saints
The Bone Collector
Braveheart
Canadian Bacon
Cats and Dogs
City Slickers
Clerks
Clue
The Crow
Death Becomes Her
The Departed
Desperado
The Devil Wears Prada
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Dogma
Dr. No
Dragonheart
Drop Dead Fred
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Empire
Empire Records
Fallen
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Instinct
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fierce Creatures
Fight Club
From Russia With Love
Full Metal Jacket
Girl, Interrupted
Gladiator
Glory
Goldfinger
Good Morning, Vietnam
Gremlins
The Green Mile
Happy Feet
Harlem Nights
Hercules
Hitch
Hook
I Heart Huckabees
The Hebrew Hammer
Ice Age
The Incredibles
The Indiana Jones trilogy
Interview with the Vampire
The Jungle Book
Kiss the Girls
K-PAX
Kung Pao: Enter the Fist
Labriynth
The Last Dragon
The Legend of Drunken Master
The Legend of Zorro
The Life of David Gale
Lilo and Stitch
The Little Shop of Horrors
Little Nicky
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Manchurian Candidate
The Mask of Zorro
Meet the Robinsons
Mel Brooks
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Monty Python
Ninja Turtles Trilogy
O, Brother, Where Art Thou?
Phantom of the Opera
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rush Hour Trilogy
Schindler's List
Se7en
Secretary
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Shakespeare in Love
The Shawshank Redemption
Shrek (1 & 2)
The Silence of the Lambs
SLC Punk
Snakes on a Plane
Star Wars
Stepmom
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization As We Know It
Super Troopers
The Sword and the Stone
Swordfish
Thunderball
Tombstone
Trainspotting
The Untouchables
V for Vendetta
Varsity Blues
What Dreams May Come
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Which Way is Up?
White Chicks
Willow
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The ones crossed out are for my personal use. I don't own the ones that aren't crossed out so this is like my unofficial shopping list. Don't mind me.
Television:
Rome, Law & Order, Family Guy, Futurama, Harvey Birdman (y'know, Adult Swim), The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Books:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Youth in Revolt, The Sword of Truth Series, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the Ender's Game series, Brave New World, and Bastard Out of Carolina
Heroes:
My parents, my maternal grandfather,my paternal grandmother, Queen Elizabeth I, and Caligula.
