" 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." - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
"I treat the happiness I have now with great respect, great appreciation, because I know how fragile and precarious it is -- how easily it can go. I am more aware that happiness is a composite total, that it is not some sort of sweet, safe heaven. To mean anything, it must include unhappiness." - Elizabeth Taylor
CARTOGRAPHY
As you lay in sleep
I saw the chart
Of artery and vein
Running from your heart,
Plain as the strength
Marked upon the leaf
Along the length,
Mortal and brief,
Of your gaunt hand.
I saw it clear:
The wiry brand
Of the life we bear
Mapped like the great
Rivers that rise
Beyond our fate
And distant from our eyes.
- Louise Bogan
IN BLACKWATER WOODS
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
-Mary Oliver
I'd like to meet:
People who love animals, have an interest in artistic expression, have an intellectual curiosity and desire to learn, and who have understanding, compassion, and a desire to better themselves... other things too [just a guideline].
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Music:
A
- Air
- Akimbo
- Alexi Murdoch
- Alice In Chains
- The All-American Rejects
- All Girl Summer Fun Band
- Angelfish
- Ani DiFranco
- Aphex Twin
- A Perfect Circle
- Arcade Fire
- Arch Enemy
- Arctic Monkeys
- Azure Ray
B
- The Bandits
- Bangs
- Baumer
- B.B. King
- Beastie Boys
- The Beatles
- Beck
- Ben Folds Five
- Ben Lee
- Beth Orton
- Billie Holiday
- Bjork
- Black Sabbath
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl
- Blind Melon
- Blondie
- The Blow
- Blur
- Bob Marley
- Bowling For Soup
- The Bravery
- Brazilian Girls
- Broken Social Scene
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Bush
C
- Caesars
- Cake
- Candypants
- Cardigans
- Chad VanGaalen
- The Chalets
- The Chemical Brothers
- Children of Bodom
- Chopin
- Chris Garneau
- cKy
- The Clash
- Clinic
- Clint Mansell
- Cold War Kids
- Coldcut
- Coldplay
- Cold War Kids
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Cowboy Junkies
- Cradle of Filth
- Cream
- The Cure
- Cursive
D
- Daft Punk
- The Dandy Warhols
- Dark Funeral
- The Darkness
- Daughters of Mara
- Dave Brubeck
- Dead Will Rise
- Dean Gray
- Death Cab For Cutie
- Decomposure
- Deftones
- Depeche Mode
- Dethklok
- Diana Krall
- Dido
- Dimmu Borgir
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Dirty Vegas
- Dishwalla
- The Distillers
- DJ Cheb I Sabbah
- Don Byron
- The Doors
- Doug Graves
- Doves
- The Dresden Dolls
- The Dust Brothers
E
- Edenbridge
- Eels
- Ekova
- Elephant Parade
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elliot Smith
- The Emperor
- Enzo Enzo
- Eric Clapton
- Etta Jones
- Eve 6
- Everclear
- Everything But The Girl
- The Expendables
- The Eye Sores
F
- The Faint
- Faithless
- Fatboy Slim
- Feist
- Filter
- Finley Quaye
- Fiona Apple
- Fleetwood Mac
- Flogging Molly
- Foo Fighters
- Franka Potente
- Franz Ferdinand
- The Fratellis
- The Fray
- Frente
- Frou Frou
G
- Garbage
- Gorillaz
- The Gossip
- Gotan Project
- Green Day
- Gregory and the Hawk
- Guillemots
H
- The Hacks
- Heather Nova
- Hive
- Hole
- Hoobastank
- Hot Chip
I
- Imogen Heap
- Imperial Teen
- In Flames
- Incubus
- Industrial Monk
- Interpol
- Iron Maiden
- Islands
- It’s Me Margaret
- Ivy
J
- J. DiMenna
- Jack Johnson
- Jack Off Jill
- Jamie Lidell
- Jane's Addiction
- Janis Joplin
- Jem
- Jerry Cantrell
- Jimmy Eat World
- Joe Satriani
- Joni Mitchell
- Joseph Arthur
- Junior Boys
K
- Karen O.
- Kay Starr
- Kidney Thieves
- The Killers
- Kittie
- Klint
- The Kooks
- Korn
- Kosheen
- KT Tunstall
L
- Lacuna Coil
- Lady Sovereign
- Lain OST
- Landon Pigg
- LCD Soundsystem
- Le Tigre
- Led Zeppelin
- Lennon
- Lesbians On Ecstasy
- Life Without Buildings
- Linkin Park
- Lo-Fidelity Allstars
- Louis Armstrong
- Louis XIV
- The Lovemakers
M
- M.I.A.
- Madonna
- Mafikizolo
- Marcy Playground
- Marilyn Manson
- Marvin Gaye
- Massive Attack
- Matchbook Romance
- Matchbox Twenty
- Matisyahu
- Meat Puppets
- Megadeth
- Metallica
- Metric
- Minor Threat
- Mira
- Miranda Sex Garden
- Mirwais
- The Misfits
- Miss Kittin
- Missy Elliot
- Moby
- Modest Mouse
- Mono
- Morbid Angel
- Motorhead
- Mozart
- Mr. Oizo
- Mudvayne
- The Muppet Show
- Muse
- Mushroomhead
N
- Natalie Merchant
- The New Pornographers
- Nine Inch Nails
- Nirvana
- No Doubt
- NoFX
- Norah Jones
- Nouvelle Vague
O
- Oasis
- Of Montreal
- Opeth
- Orange 9mm
- Orgy
- Osman Ismen
- Our Lady Peace
- OutKast
- Over The Rhine
- Overseer
P
- Panic! At The Disco
- Pantera
- Peaches & Tracy
- Pearl Jam
- Peggy Lee
- The Phenomenauts
- Pills
- Pinkback
- Pink Floyd
- The Pinker Tones
- Pixies
- PJ Harvey
- Poe
- The Postal Service
- The Presets
- Primus
- Prodigy
- Propellerheads
- Puya
Q
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- Queensryche
R
- Rachmaninoff
- The Raconteurs
- Radiohead
- Rage Against The Machine
- The Ramones
- Rancid
- Ranee Lee
- Ratatat
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Regina Spektor
- Richard Cheese
- Rinocerose
- Rise Against
- Rob Zombie
S
- Saliva
- Santana
- Sarah Harmer
- Sarah McLachlan
- Satanic Surfers
- Saves The Day
- Scarling.
- Scott Weiland
- The Servant
- Sevendust
- She Wants Revenge
- The Shins
- Shiny Toy Guns
- The Shroud
- Sia
- Sigur Ros
- Silverchair
- Simon and Garfunkel
- Skinny Puppy
- Skrape
- Slayer
- Sleater-Kinney
- Slightly Stoopid
- Smashing Pumpkins
- The Smiths
- Snow Patrol
- The Sounds Of Animals Fighting
- South
- Spoon
- Stabbing Westward
- Static-X
- Stone Sour
- The Stranglers
- Stroke 9
- The Strokes
- Sublime
- Sufjan Stevens
- Switchblade Symphony
- Symphony X
- System of a Down
- Systematic
T
- Teddybears
- Tegan and Sara
- Thee More Shallows
- Thelonious Monk
- Therapy?
- Thom Yorke
- Tonic
- Tool
- Tori Amos
- Transplants
- Travis
- Tsunami Bomb
- Turin Brakes
- Type O Negative
U
- Under The Influence of Giants
V
- The Vandals
- Vast
- Vaux
- Veruca Salt
- The Verve
-Violent Femmes
- Voltaire
W
- Waterproof Blonde
- Weekend Players
- Ween
- Weezer
- Wheatus
- The White Stripes
- White Zombie
Y
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Z
- Zeromancer
Movies:
Amelie
As Good As It Gets
Being John Malkovich
Breakfast On Pluto
Danny Deckchair
Death to Smoochie
Dumb and Dumber
Edward Scissorhands
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
Gia
Good Morning Vietnam
Gremlins
Happy Endings
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
I Am David
Jesus' Son
Lila Says
Memoirs of a Geisha
Monster
Novacaine
O Father Where Art Thou?
Pan's Labyrinth
Pieces of April
Pleasantville
Requiem for a Dream
Run Lola Run
Saving Silverman
Secretary
Shadow of a Vampire
Shopgirl
ShortBus
Silence of the Lambs
Snatch
Some Like It Hot
Squid and the Whale
Stardust
Suckers
Sugar
Tank Girl
Thirteen
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Willow
Young Frankenstein
Y Tu Mama Tambien
etc.
Television:
Gorillaz
Chad Vangaalen
Buckethead
Dethklok
I will sit down to watch South Park, Family Guy, Metalocalypse, Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy, The Munsters, What Not To Wear, The Office, Arrested Development, Scrubs, and pretty much anything on the National Geographic/Discovery/History channels.
Books:
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" Dave Eggers
"On The Road" Jack Kerouac
"The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
"Survivor" Chuck Palahniuk
"Lullaby" Chuck Palaniuk
"Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk
"Bloodsucking Fiends" Christopher Moore
"Dante's Inferno" translated by Robert Pinsky
"The Satanic Verses" Salman Rushdie
"The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories" Tim Burton
