Reading: political philosophy
Reading: political theory
Hearing: music, of most kinds
Seeing: the world, especially home
Home: Australia
Seeing: movies, documentaries, the news
Listening: to those amazing voices of inspiration
Knowing: everything
Taking: pictures, photography is beautiful
And the rest:
Loving
Cutting
Becoming that person i have the potential to be
Cars: classic Jaguars, Rolls Royces, Duesenbergs
Impecable dressers
Intractable pain
Ineffable pleasure
Ancient Greece and Rome
Renaissance Florence and Machiavelli
I'd like to meet:
Dream: Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christ, Buddha, Socrates, Seneca, Nietzsche, John Lennon, Trent Reznor, David Bowie and Maynard James Keenan!
Someone who can surrender themselves to the immediacy of any situation is a saint. If you can lose yourself completely, you are a god.
Music:
Beatles, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, NIN, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer (The Tapeworm Project!!),My Chemical Romance, Leonard Cohen, Saosin, Goldfrapp, The Mars Volta, Muse, Keane, CSN(+Y), Beach Boys, 30 Seconds to Mars, Buena Vista Social Club, Coldplay, The Postal Service, Imogen Heap, Gnarls Barkley, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Allison Krauss and Union Station, Cryptospsy, Bile, Dead Can Dance, Dillinger Escape Plan, Depeche Mode, The Doors, Tommy Dorsey, some Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction, Phillip Glass, Beethoven, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Paganini (is God, except for the fact that Trent Reznor is), Handel, Chris Isaak, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, kd lang, Annie Lennox, John Lennon, Led Zepplin, Yoy Yo Ma, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Marilyn Manson, The Who, John McLaughlin, Glenn Miller, Outkast, The Police, Radiohead, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel, Andres Segovia, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkle, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Sting, Stravinsky, Suppe, Starsailor, Steely Dan, U2, Vivaldi, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits (hell yes!), Jennifer Warnes, Brian Wilson, Bloc Party, Deftones, AFI, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Gary Numan, Rage Against the Machine, Talking Heads, Matishyahu, Placebo, Mamas abd the Papas, Lovin' Spoonful, Creedance, Deep Forest, Enigma, my dad and my brother and lots more!!
Movies:
The 300, Pan's Labyrinth, V FOR VENDETTA!!!!!! The Crying Game, Star Wars trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter! (b/c most of my favorite actors are in them, and i want to go to Hogwarts!), The Usual Suspects,Sweeney Todd, Hard Candy, In Bruges, Across The Universe, The Prestige, The Patriot, Schindler's List, the Indiana Jones Trilogy and Jurassic Park (the only Spielberg movies i like), Leon: The Professional, Boondock Saints, Hellboy, Amelie, The Last Minute, Gangster Number One, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Flight of the Phoenix, Last Temptation of Christ, Lolita, Quills, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Stigmata, Kill Bill One and Two, Underworld, Van Helsing (awww, come one! It was soooo bad it was good!), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Whale Rider, Rabbit Proof Fence, Candy, Stardust, Last Temptation of Christ, Divorcing Jack, Michael Collins, Sid and Nancy, Aliens, Predator, Blue Velvet, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising, Interview With The Vampire, Ushpizin, Paradise Now, What Dreams May Come, Hotel Rwanda, American Psycho, Batman Begins (the only true Batman!), Sin City, Closer, Gangster No. 1, Die Hard and Die Hard With A Vengeance, Peter Pan (with Jason Isaacs as Hook and Mr. Darling), Finding Nemo, Chronicles of Narnia, The Libertine, Gattaca, Why We Fight, some DAMN GOOD documentaries like Waco: Rules of Engagement, One Day in September, The Killing Fields, March of the Penguins, and more!, anything with Humphrey Bogart, Brotherhood of the Wolf, American Psycho, The Night Watch Trilogy, anything by Neil Jordan who is the greatest director of all time (i owe him a debt of gratitude for helping me overcome my heritage and smile upon it!) and many, many more!! Most films with: Jason Isaacs, Anthony Hopkins, Oliver Reed, Stephen Rea, Jeromy Irons, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Geoffrey Rush, Peter Sellers, Gabriel Byrne and Willem Dafoe! i would marry Natalie Portman. She is the greatest actress ever. i love action movies, sci fis, dramas, British and Australian comedies, French film noir, historical actions/dramas, and fantasy. i hate "chick flicks" and sappy romance stories, unless it has any of the above mentioned actors in it, or it's Love Actually!
Television:
House, M.D.,GLEN BECK!!!, 24,THE VENTURE BROTHERS!!!!!!!!, Dexter, The Tudors, Weeds and the news of the world: CNN, FOXNews, BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Animal Planet.
Books:
When it comes to fiction, you have to live up to The Dark Tower series and The Talisman by Stephen King; they are the best works of fiction ever created. Oh, and Watership Down by Richard Adams. The Prince: Machiavelli, The Discourses: Machiavelli, Art of War: Machiavelli, essentially all of the great Florentine's works, for Machiavelli is God! The Social Contract and all other works: Rousseau, anything by Seneca, Socrates, Nietzsche and Thucydides, Virgil's Aeneid is a life-changing book, Montesquieu, Maurizio Viroli, Plato, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, the Marquis de Sade (especially The Misfortunes of Virtue), Kierkegaard, Isaiah Berlin,Leo Strauss (even though i am not, and will never be, a Straussian), Alan Moore's graphic novels: V For Vendetta, From Hell, Constantine, League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Sin City: Frank Miller, The Hannibal Lecter series: Thomas Harris, DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons (the far superior of the two): Dan Brown, anything by Nick Tosches (especially In The Hand of Dante), Milton and Dante Aligheri rock my face off, Death in Venice: Thomas Mann, The Art of Memory: Francis Yates, Margaret Atwood's works are superb, Al Ghazali, Al Farabi, Avincenna, Joseph Conrad is wonderful, The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Coming Anarchy: Kaplan, The End of History and the Last Man: Fukuyama, Chronicles of Narnia: C.S. Lewis, Peter Pan: Barrie, The Myth of the State: Cassirer, City of God: Augustine, Fight Club: Palahniuk, American Psycho: Ellis, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter series is the greatest, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Robert Heinlein (Orphans of the Sky, etc.) and Michael Moorecock (Behold The Man) are the kings of science fiction. Frank Herbert and the Dune Series are fantastic. Dennis Wheatley scraes the crap out of me, particularly They Used Dark Forces. All religious texts intrigue me, and i will read them all! Any text from Ancient Political Theory, Ancient Greece, or Ancient Rome has a large place in my heart and mind! There are loads more! i have so many books i don't know what to do with myself. Other than read, that is.
Heroes:
Buddha, John Lennon, my Mum and my Dad, and the Unholy Trinity (three very specific professors at Flagler College). Trent Reznor is God, Gerard Way is G-love, and Maurizio Viroli is the patron saint of all that is Machiavelli, and i am his devoted follower. Machiavelli is, and will always be my one true love when it comes to my intellectual forays. He held my hand as i ventured into political science, philosophy and theory, and for that, i am forever in his debt. i will rectify his name in history, one day, one sublime day!!
