I enjoy travelling alot. My father was in the Air Force, so I guess my love for seeing new places kind of stems from that.
I read alot. But not as much as I feel like i should. As of late, my book collection has become somewhat of a "lending library"...but it's nice because it usually starts off with me saying "have you ever read anything by [insert author's name here]?...i think you'd really be into them"... and then a few weeks later that same person comes back to me and is like "that was the most amazing book I've ever read."
I'm a big-time people wacher. If I had a day with nothing that needed to be done I could literally just sit in one place and watch people for hours. Sometimes it's humorous, sometimes you hear or see things that really upset you...but rarely do people who don't know they're being watched bore you.
I hate really hot OR really cold weather. So living in Albany, I like the weather roughly 3 days out of any given year.
If you asked me to name my top 5 all time favorite bands/albums and then asked the same exact question like 3 hours later...you'd probably get a completely different list each time.
I'd like to meet:
I prefer REAL people and REAL conversations to the chit chat you normally find online...but if you have AIM, feel free to hit me up at xvgunlinx
"This is the customary time when the defendant expresses regret for the crimes they committed, so let me do that because I am not without my regrets. I am here today to be sentenced for my participation in releasing mink from 6 fur farms. I regret it was only 6. I'm also here today to be sentenced for my participation in the freeing of 8,000 mink from those farms. I regret it was only 8,000. It is my understanding of those 6 farms, only 2 of them have since shut down. I regret it was only 2.
More than anything, I regret my restraint, because whatever damage we did to those businesses, if those farms were left standing, and if one animal was left behind, then it wasn't enough.
I don't wish to validate this proceeding by begging for mercy or appealing to the conscience of the court, because I know if this system had a conscience I would not be here, and in my place would be all the butchers, vivisectors, and fur farmers of the world.
Just as I will remain unbowed before this court- who would see me imprisoned for an act of conscience- I will also deny the fur farmers in the room the pleasure of seeing me bow down before them. To those people here whose sheds I may have visited in 1997, let me tell you directly for the first time, it was a pleasure to raid your farms, and to free those animals you held captive. It is to those animals I answer to, not you or this court. I will forever mark those nights on your property as the most rewarding experience of my life.
And to those farmers or other savages who may read my words in the future and smile at my fate, just remember: We have put more of you in bankruptcy than you have put liberators in prison. Don't forget that.
Let me thank everyone in the courtroom who came to support me today. It is my last wish before prison that each of you drive to a nearby fur farm tonight, tear down its fence and open every cage.
That's all."- Peter Young's statement to the court at his sentencing on 11/08/05
Music:
This week the playlist goes something like this:
Lucero
Propagandhi
Uncle Tupelo
Catharsis
Neurosis
The Postal Service
His Hero Is Gone
Occassionaly I've been throwing in Breed/Extinction, Son Volt, and Utah Phillips.
Repeat as many times as necessary.
Also, on a side note.....as far as live bands go ENGINEER pretty much kicks the everliving piss out of whatever dumbass floppy haired girl pants mosh band you and your friends think is hip this week.
Books:
NON FICTION - "IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST", "A PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES", and "DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA"....I'm pretty easily sucked into any book on the subjects of unions, labour history, socialism/communism, direct action, American foriegn policy, Russian history (mostly pertaining to the revolution), German history (particualry from the end of WW1 to the end of WW2)...I'm also fascinated by this new book i picked up called "Experimental Formats and Packaging- creative solutions for inspring graphic design"
FICTION- im pretty into stuff along the lines of "EVASION", "SURVIVOR", and "THE STAND"
i like zines too, but this is already too long and i wouldnt want to bore you anymore.
Heroes:
"But the putting of labour-power into action — i.e., the work — is the active expression of the labourer's own life. And this life activity he sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of life. His life-activity, therefore, is but a means of securing his own existence. He works that he may keep alive. He does not count the labour itself as a part of his life; it is rather a sacrifice of his life. It is a commodity that he has auctioned off to another. The product of his activity, therefore, is not the aim of his activity. What he produces for himself is not the silk that he weaves, not the gold that he draws up the mining shaft, not the palace that he builds. What he produces for himself is wages; and the silk, the gold, and the palace are resolved for him into a certain quantity of necessaries of life, perhaps into a cotton jacket, into copper coins, and into a basement dwelling. And the labourer who for 12 hours long, weaves, spins, bores, turns, builds, shovels, breaks stone, carries hods, and so on — is this 12 hours' weaving, spinning, boring, turning, building, shovelling, stone-breaking, regarded by him as a manifestation of life, as life? Quite the contrary. Life for him begins where this activity ceases, at the table, at the tavern, in bed. The 12 hours' work, on the other hand, has no meaning for him as weaving, spinning, boring, and so on, but only as earnings, which enable him to sit down at a table, to take his seat in the tavern, and to lie down in a bed. If the silk-worm's object in spinning were to prolong its existence as caterpillar, it would be a perfect example of a wage-worker." -Karl Marx, WAGE LABOUR AND CAPITAL
