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Rue

All the Children are Insane

About Me

"While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free." - Eugene V. Debs

My Interests

Art, Reading, Writing, Philosophy, World Religions, Films, Creating Music, Poetry, Exotic Music, Rollerblading, Dance Clubs, Surrealism, Club Shows, Cats, Driving, Vintage Videogames, I could go on forever...

I'd like to meet:

No one. This is for people I know only.

Music:

Air, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Bauhaus, Cee-Lo, Cinema Strange, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Dungeon Family, Enrique Bunbury, Franz Ferdinand, Garbage, Gnarls Barkley, Gogol Bordello, Gravy Train, Heroes del Silencio, Iggy Pop, IMA Robot, Interpol, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Juanes, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, London after Midnight, Manu Chao, Marilyn Manson, Mellowdrone, Metric, Mindless Self Indulgence, Moving Units, Muse, , Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Outkast, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Plastilina Mosh, Postal Service, Queens of the Stoneage, Rammstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RZA, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Switchblade Symphony, System of a Down, The Beatles, The Doors, The Faint, The Pixies, The Rolling Stones, The Smashing Pumpkins, The White Stripes, TV on the Radio, Vegas in Space, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Movies:

28 days later, A Clockwork Orange, A History of Violence, Akira, Amelie, Art School Confidential, Battle Royale, Being John Malkovich, Blue Velvet, Cantinflas (Any Movie), City of God, Crash (Cronenberg), Dark City, Dead Man, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Dumb & Dumber, Easy Rider, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Gattaca, Ghost World, His and Her Circumstances, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ichi the Killer, Interview with a Vampire, Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2, Kiki's Delivery Service, Lain, L'age D'or, Las Hurdes, Macross Plus/Zero/Saga, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge, Party Monster, My Neighbor Totoro, Naked Lunch, Neon Genesis Evagelion, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Requiem for a Dream, Robocop, Samurai X, Scanner Darkly, Scarface, Science of Sleep, Simon del Desierto, South Park, Space Balls, Spirited Away, The Crow, The Doors, The Matrix Trilogy, Taxi Driver, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, V for Vendetta, Vanilla Sky, Velvet Goldmine, Un Chien Andalou, Waking Life, Run Lola Run, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Spongebob Squarepants, American Dad, Robot Chicken, Dave Chappelle Show

Books:

Brodie's Report, Bhagavad Gita, Art of War, Alice in Wonderland, The Doors of Perception, TimeQuake, Sophie's World, Slaughterhouse Five, 1984, A Scanner Darkly, Flow my Tears the Policeman Said, UBIK, Radio Free Albemuth, Valis Trilogy and just about anything by Philip K. Dick, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The Works of: William Blake, Carl Jung, Lao Tzu, Jorge Borges, Carl Sagan, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Vonnegut, Emily Dickinson, and Oscar Wilde.

Heroes:

Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Philip K. Dick, Salvador Dali, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ghandi, William Blake, Kurt Vonnegut and John Lennon.

My Blog

A Memorable Fancy

Once I saw a Devil in a flame of fire, who arose before an Angel that sat on a cloud, and the Devil utter'd these words: 'The worship of God is: Honouring his gifts in other men, each according to his...
Posted by Rue on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:38:00 PST

Thus Began Priesthood

"....The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and wha...
Posted by Rue on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:33:00 PST

False Prophets

Question: What is the role of the intellectual when dealing with imperialism and are the intellectuals doing their job? Noam Chomsky: Unfortunately, intellectuals are doing their historic job. The his...
Posted by Rue on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:16:00 PST

Fairy Tales

"Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk lor...
Posted by Rue on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:04:00 PST

Sons of Los

"The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los" -William BlakeSomething is coming. I've been working on this for the last two years and have lately been collaborat...
Posted by Rue on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:58:00 PST

Contemplation

Heavenly goddess! I am wrapped in mortality, my flesh is a prison, my bones the bars of death, Misery builds over our cottage roofs, and Discontent runs like a brook. Even in childhood, Sorrow slept w...
Posted by Rue on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:30:00 PST

Gettin' Grown

I recently purchased the CD "Cee-lo Green and his Perfect Imperfections" and was impressed with his ability to manipulate words to create such uplifting emotions. The beats are also just as amazing. ...
Posted by Rue on Sat, 20 May 2006 08:38:00 PST

Opposition is True Friendship

"Opposition is True Friendship" - William BlakeThis quote makes more sense the older I get. I have found more respect for someone who can honestly point out a personal flaw within me or challenge me t...
Posted by Rue on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 07:55:00 PST

Cold Turkey (article by Kurt Vonnegut)

This is a 2004 article by one my favorite authors. It's an old article but the message is still relevant and its a great read for those of you who are not in tune with the demise of the American cultu...
Posted by Rue on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:02:00 PST

I Love

...her and still the words fail to do justice to what I feel. Love is a relative emotion that we, in vain, forge into a four letter word to comply with a social consensus; to relate, to identify and c...
Posted by Rue on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:08:00 PST