"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to all things."
-Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Recorded by Tashiro Tsuramoto in the book "Hagakure" or, "In The Shadow Of Leaves"
"Belief is the death of intelligence, for as soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."
-Robert Anton Wilson
This man also wrote the craziest book I've ever read with Robert Shea called The Illuminatus! Trilogy, although I realized this years after I memorized the quote and read the book.
Boredom is a plague. Wait... that made no sense... because the more people you have, the less boredom is a problem... but plagues are contagious... Forget it. I don't know. Interesting people.
By the way- IM: EmpyreanVagrant
Tool, The Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Incubus, Orgy, Disturbed (The Sickness only), (Early) Staind, Bush, Placebo, Cake, Porcupine Tree, Tori Amos, Various Trance (But only the good kind), Alice In Chains, Stephen Lynch, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Cure, Minos Conway, Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Say Anything, Wolf Parade, ...
Donnie Darko, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Half Baked, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol. 1 (and 2), Natural Born Killers, Seven, Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, V For Vendetta, Lucky # Slevin, 300, Desperado, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, The Lantern...
Music Videos, The occasional bit of LeMans Racing or Rally, Family Guy, Futurama, Sealab 2021, FLCL, Hellsing, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under, Samurai Champloo, Zatoichi, Kingdom Hospital, The Whitest Kids U' Know, Good Eats(haha... I'm serious though), The Boondocks ...
Hexwood, Watership Down, Lord Of The Rings, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, The Dark Tower... a hundred others that I can only vaguely remember... mostly science fiction or fantasy, with weird fiction novels mixed in... reality usually doesn't make for an interesting story.... And last but not least "The Mad Gods" (Working title), an epic multi-volume tale slowly being spun by myself and Wayne M. Sisson (Screenwriter of "The Lantern")