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Travis

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh

About Me

Man is a confused creature: he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes; he knows little of the world and above all, little of himself.-Goethe

My Interests

Punching autistic babies in the face and dragging dolphins upside down through the desert.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Mozart

Movies:

Are like sitting on the toilet for an hour and a half but with popcorn.

Television:

Jerry Springer and Murray.

Books:

On War: Carl Von Clausewitz - The Case for Democracy: Natan Sharansky - The End of Faith: Sam Harris - The Commission for Africa Report - Travels with Barley: Ken Wells - Into the Wild: Jon Krakauer - Imperial Ambitions: Noam Chomsky - The End of Poverty: Jeffery Sachs - American Theocracy: Kevin Phillips - Touched with Fire: Kay Redfield Jamison - The Weather Makers: Tim Flannery - Black Holes & Time Warps: Kip Thorne - Guns, Germs and Steel: Jared Diamond - Secrets of the Samurai: Oscar Ratti - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: Douglas Hofstadter - The Bell Curve: Richard J. Herrnstein - A History of Warfare: John Keegan - Understanding Iraq: William Roe Polk - A Hundred and One Days: Åsne Seierstad - Tokyo Underworld: Robert Whiting - Essays in Existentialism: Jean Paul Sartre - The Prince: Niccolò Machiavelli - Collapse: Jared Diamonds - In The Shadow of The Prophet: Milton Viorst - An Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway - Longitude: Dava Sobel - In Defense of Globalization: Jagdish Bhagwati - Brownings Complete Poems: Robert Browning - A Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho): Miyamoto Musashi - Art of War: Sun Tzu

Heroes:

People that can poop their pants in public, shake it out, and keep on going.

My Blog

A Mind Once Wasted is a Mind Forever Free

I feel like I'm walking away from a car crash. Seeing the wreckage, the bent steel and the burning fuel. But I'm untouched. Somehow, I was stronger. This machine, dead. Me, alive. Fuck the other ...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:31:00 PST

Mission Statement

I've been around the block a few times, mayhap a few times too many. But in all those trips around no where I never did stumble on to love. It didn't upset me, didn't hardly cross my mind. I was a hu...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:34:00 PST

My Journey To The Land of Fit ~ Day 1

This afternoon I began an epic journey. I will attempt to regain...muscle...shape. A place in the universe. I went to the gym, it was something that didn't sweetly call me from my bed. It was somethin...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:46:00 PST

If this be treason, make the most of it.

Our lives have become a contradiction to what our founding fathers envisioned. We are enslaved to those that lead us. We live in a modern serfdom, economically shackled. Our generation, our class, we ...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:48:00 PST

The Ocean, Me and My Heart.

They live in freedom who have gone beyond the dualities of life.  Competing with no one, they are alike in success and failure and content with whatever comes to them.  They are free, withou...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:14:00 PST

The Obsession

Obsession- What was the question, That spawned this oppression? Was it no answer, That caused this obsession? Was it the mystery, Or was it the history? The old known hurt, Or the new found misery. Wa...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:33:00 PST

The Boat

I think it's 'bout time,We start a commotion.Ladies and Gentleman,The boat is sinking, Into the motherfuckin' ocean. The captain is dead,The band is playing.The fucking fat lady,Has begun her singing....
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:00:00 PST

You went to sleep...

You sleep and I feel you dream, I close my eyes and I join you Far away from worries, wants. To where we all have, All we'll need. To be with you Is to be in you, apart of you. Your hand was extended....
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:30:00 PST

Poem for the Evening...

Ten to seven, Ten hours I sing to myself. My mantra, my cadence, My hymn to the gods. Ten years, decades, centuries. Ten is the number of my yearning. I must keep hope alive, Keep thinking, breath...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:11:00 PST

Beauty and the Beast

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil- Lao-Tzu "The Way of Lao-Tzu"ht...
Posted by Dump Truck Frumpy Pants on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:21:00 PST