She dreamed of a world where beauty lay in creativity.
She dreamed of a place where peace was inevitable,
because love was in every image, every glance, every action.
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Derek, PDX, Veganism, Civil Liberties, Photography, Wake and Bakes, Meditation, Night-Time Naked Beach Runs With My Boy, Global Awareness, Feminism, Taking Bubble Baths and Bong Rips: At The Same Time, Activism, Pike Place, Robots, Skin on Skin, Mustache Rides, Glitter, Holistic Medicine, Gonzo Journalism, Existentialism, Chai Tea, Thich Nhat Hanh, Drive-in Theaters, Recycling, Hiking, Mary Jane, Time Travel, Valium, Good Tunes, Nature, Bigfoot, Anatomy, Hot Air Balloons, Paranormal Activity, Hookers, Hustlers, Unicorns, Sailing, Quantum Physics, Terraniums, Touching Faces, Meteor Showers, Dioramas, Astrophysics, Metaphysics, Prophecy, Cigars, The Smell Of Old Books, Books in General, Political Mistrust, Croquet, Beat Poetry, Admiring Space Through a Telescope, Aquariums, Drawing Pictures in Styrofoam Cups With My Fingernails, Cyborgs, Museums, Mausoleums, Horticulture, Getting Black Eyes, Scars, Bounty Hunting, Manatees, Cold Rooms, Nostradamus, Luxuriousness, Filth, Aesthetics, Altruism, Weird Art, Ghosts, Drunken Camping, Ink, Edward Gorey, Waiting For The End Of The World, Train Rides, The Carnegie, Vast Vocabularies, Canemah, Indianola, Philosophical Discussions, Street Fights, Swing Sets, Ghettos, Chandeliers, Alien Abductions, Head Wounds, Roller Skates, Drunk Cheerleaders, Treehouses
Parvin Ardalan: Iranian Feminist Activist; awarded the Olaf Palme prize for outstanding achievement.
The Baumer
Jason Schwartzman
"The kind of song that makes people glad to be where they are, with whoever they're there with."
The Long Goodbye, The Kinks, Elliott Smith, Why, Coconut Records, Keren Ann, Cocorosie, Tunng, Andrew Bird, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, The Whitest Boy Alive, She And Him, The Walkmen, Animal Liberation Orchestra, Espers, Belle and Sebastian, Kevin Devine, POS, Damien Rice, Tegan and Sara, Modest Mouse, Sage Francis, Ben Folds, The Dears, 311, Buck 65, Bike For Three, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Eisley, John Denver, The National, As Tall As Lions, Devendra Banhart, Doves, Ziggy Marley, Destroyer, Ferraby Lionheart, Band Of Horses, Neutral Milk Hotel, Brand New, Iron And Wine, Metric, Eels, Tilly And The Wall, Devotchka, The Magic Numbers, Emily Haines, Anthony Green, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, Cursive, Rilo Kiley, Murder By Death, The Postal Service, The Arcade Fire, Silver Jews, Dave Matthews Band, Incubus, Air, Caribou, Feathers, Explosions In The Sky, Death Cab, Martha Wainwright, Fleetwood Mac, Gogol Bordello, Immortal Technique, Sufjan Stevens, Electralane, The Pretenders, The Police, U2, Coheed and Cambria, Minus The Bear, Pearl Jam, The Unicorns, Nada Surf, Rage Against The Machine, Nick Drake, Mum, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Placebo, Manchester Orchestra, Mute Math, Sublime, The Shins, The Rocket Summer, Sigur Ros, Ima Robot, Elton John, Broken Social Scene, Ben Kweller, Andrew Kenny
The Root Of All Evil: The God Delusion & The Virus of Faith, The Secret Movie: Law of Attraction, Maxed Out: Hard Times Easy Credit and The Era of Predatory Lenders, Me And You And Everyone We Know, Your Mommy Kills Animals, Zeitgeist, Loose Change, Eating, The 11th Hour, Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, An Inconvenient Truth, No End In Sight, Grass, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, What The Bleep Do We Know, Garden State, The Science Of Sleep, The U.S. Vs. John Lennon, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid And The Whale, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, The Rules Of Attraction, Ghost World, Buffalo '66, Adaptation, Roman Holiday, Magnolia, The Thumbsucker, Orwell Rolls In His Grave, Pump Up The Volume, The Darjeeling Limited, Trainspotting, Blow, American Beauty, Hustle And Flow, United States Of Leland, The Ballad Of Jack And Rose, LaLehet Al HaMayim (Walk on Water), The Good Son, True Romance, Mysterious Skin, Rushmore, Amelie, Elephant, Natural Born Killers, The Weather Man, Igby Goes Down, The Good Girl, Little Miss Sunshine, Superbad, The Chumscrubber, V For Vendetta, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Ice Storm, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Illusionist, Water World, Y tu Mama Tambien, The Motorcycle Diaries, Children of Men, Syriana, Snatch, Lucky Number Slevin, Pans Labyrinth, Seven, 12 Monkeys, The Prestige, The Fountain, The Man From Earth, Juno
EcoTech, Invention Nation, Big Ideas For A Small Planet, Sierra Club Chronicles, Seinfeld, Heroes, X-Files, The Office, Freaks and Geeks, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Batman,
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS:
Oldboy, Tank Girl, 30 Days of Night, The Wasteland, X-Men: Age Of The Apocalypse, Crimson, Criminal Macabre, 100 Bullets, The Killer (Le Tueur), Sin City, Fables.
Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park, Less Than Zero, American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, Glamorama, and The Informers.
Chuck Palahniuk: Survivor, Fight Club, Stranger Than Fiction, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland Oregon, and Lullaby.
Augusten Burroughs: Running With Scissors, Possible Side Effects.
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar, Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and her unabridged journals.
Amanda Marquit: Shut The Door.
Bruce Weber: Branded Youth.
George Orwell: 1984, and Animal Farm.
Jean-Paul Sartre: The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness, Being And Nothingness, The Age of Reason, Existentialism And Human Emotions.
William Golding: Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors.
Koren Zailckas: Smashed- Story of a Drunken Girlhood.
Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa-puffs.
T.S. Elliot: Collected Poems.
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein.
Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly.
Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated.
Melvin Burgess: Smack.
Anthony Swofford: Jarhead.
Russell Banks: The Darling.
Alex Garland: The Beach.
Clinton Heylin: Despite the System; Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios.
Lois Lowry: The Giver.
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Chun Sue: Beijing Doll.
David Icke: Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion, Children of the Matrix: How an Interdimensional Race has Controlled the World for Thousands of Years-and Still Does.
Jelaluddin Rumi: The Love Poems of Rumi, The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting, Teachings of Rumi (The Masnavi): The Spiritual Couplets of Jalaludin Rumi.
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides, and Middlesex.
Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Generation of Swine.
Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain.
David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedars.
Rod Mckuen: Listen to the Warm, Lonesome Cities, In Someone's Shadow, Alone, With Love, Listen to the Wind, Street and Other Sorrows, Caught in the Quiet.
Janet Fitch: White Oleander.
Aeschylus: Oresteia.
Ernest J. Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying.
Benjamin Hoff: The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet.
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange.
Joseph Heller: Catch 22.
Harvey Pekar: American Splendor.
Arthur Nersesian: The Fuck Up, Chinese Takeout, and Unlubricated.
Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Pieces.
Euripides: Alkestis, Herakles, Hekabe and, Hippolytos.
Heather Henson: Making the Run.
Walter Dean Myers: Shooter.
John Steinbeck: East of Eden, The Pearl, Grapes of Wrath.
Michael Hornburg: Downers Grove, and Bongwater.
Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle.
Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak.
Patricia McCormick: Cut.
Thisbe Nissen: Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night, and The Good People of New York.
Susan Minot: Evening, Rapture, Lust and Other Stories.
Linda Glovach: Beauty Queen.
Luke Davies: Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction.
Rebecca Ray: A Certain Age.
Blake Nelson: Girl.
William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Complete Sonnets and Poems.
Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler, Little Eyolf.
Rebecca Godfrey: The Torn Skirt.
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire.
Cathy Coote: Innocents.
Susanna Kaysen: Girl Interuppted.
Rick Moody: The Ice Storm, The Garden State.
Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red.
Sophocles: Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Ned Vizzini: Teen Angst? Naaah: A Quasi-Autobiography.
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso.
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, The Use and Abuse of History, Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christ.
Ray Bradbury: Farenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, I Sing The Body Electric.
Plato: Republic, The Atlantis Dialoge, Symposium.
Mary Pipher: Reviving Ophelia
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Man without a Country.
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World.
Susan Orlean: The Orchid Thief.
Louisa Luna: Brave New Girl.
Anonymous: Go Ask Alice.
Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kingdom of God Is Within You.
Albert Einstein: Relativity: The Special and General Theory.
Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher.
Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin, In Awe.
Tom Lutz: Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America.
Alfred Kaufman: Existentialism, Religion, and Death.
Swami Prabhavananda: Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God.
John Milton: Paradise Lost.
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, Only Revolutions.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies.
Elie Wiesel: Night, The Forgotten.
Arthur Miller: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman.
Frank Abagnale: Catch Me If You Can.
W.B. Yeats: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats.
Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know.
Bob Dylan: Tarantula.
David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Barrel Fever and Other Stories, The Book of Liz.
James Redfield: The Celestine Prophecy.
Charles Bukowski: War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, Fuck Machine. Stories, You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense, Factotum, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974-1977, Hollywood, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame, Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps, Open All Night, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories, Pulp...I could go on all day.
My dad, who inspires and encourages me to love always, see the good in everyone, and to never give up working towards a place where only peace and safety exist for all.
Derek, we see eye to eye on everything, we respect and admire the beauty in each other and all living things.
He has my heart forever.
John Denver
“There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.â€