"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." - Henry Miller
Music
Bass Guitar
Burning Man
Shows/Raves
Philosophy
Learning
Photography
Writting
Snow Skiing
Anime
Aikido
Sailing
Theatre
Reading
Sleep
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Why do most men always commit to affairs that often result in bloodshed? Some people simply can't understand why most men would do such things. It is true. Men possess a side that is barbarous, as you have observed. But it is a double-edged sword, one that can be used as a tool for winning precious things as well as protecting them. When I speak of precious things, one might think of friendship, or maybe even love. For some men, these are the most precious. But I believe, that beneath them, there is something even more precious than these. They are driven to pursue it, and they pursue it solely for their own sake, and no other. One man's dream can hold dominion over the entire world. Another man can dedicate his life to the forging of a single sword. While many can pursue their dreams in solitude, other dreams are like great storms blowing hundreds, even thousands of other dreams apart in their wake. Dreams breathe life into men, and can cage them in suffering. Men live and die by their dreams. Even long after they've been abandoned, they still smolder deep in men's hearts. Some see only life and death. They are dead, for they have no dreams. They could never be considered my friends. In my mind, a true friend never relies on another's dream. The man who would be my friend must have his own reason for living, beyond me. And he should put his heart and soul into protecting his dream. He should never hesitate to defend it, even against me. For me to really call a man my friend, he must be equal to me in all respects." - Berserk
"When I open my eyes, I must sigh... I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Some of my favorites include but are definately not limited to:
Above & Beyond
ACDC
Anti-Heros
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Black Flag
Dave Brubeck
The Doors
Antonin Dvorak
A Global Threat
Infected Mushroom
Albert King
Led Zeppellin
Pink Floyd
Rage Against The Machine
Franz Schubert
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Tool
Oi Boys
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." - George Eliot
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"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." - George Eliot
"Everything a lie, everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out! They keep coming, one after another. You’re in a box, a moving box. They want you dead… or in their lie. Only one thing a man can do, find something that's his, and make and island for himself." - The Thin Red Line
Amelie
The Doors
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
Ghost in the Shell
Jin-Roh
Kill Bill
The Last Samurai
The Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
Pride and Prejudice
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Requiem for a Dream
The Shawshank Redemption
Sin City
Spirited Away
The Thin Red Line
Trainspotting
V for Vendetta
What Dreams May Come
"There is only one conlusion to every story... we all fall down." - Domino
"I can’t do this Sam." "I know, it's all wrong... by rights we shouldn't even be here, but we are. It's like in the great stories, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. Sometimes you didn't want to know the ending because how could the ending be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass; a new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that really meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding on to something." "What are we holding on to Sam?" "That there is some goodness in this world Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for." - Lord of the Rings
Are you livin in the real world?
See you space cowboy...
... another day, another time.
You're gonna carry that weight!
Band of Brothers
Crest of the Stars
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Cowboy Bebop
Fooly Cooly
Futurama
Ghost in the Shell
Last Exile
Outlaw Star
Planetes
Samurai Champloo
Trigun
Trinity and Beyond: Atomic Bomb Testing and Development
Wolf's Rain
"Do not fear death. Death is always at your side. When you show fear, it will spring at you faster than light. If you do not show fear, it will only gently look over you." - Cowboy Bebop
"Until they become concious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become concious." - 1984
1984
Among the Hidden
Animal Farm
The Art of Peace (Aikido)
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Giver
The Hobbit
If I Die in a Combat Zone
The Lord of the Rings
Medic!
One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest
Sex for Dummies
"I’m not just intellectually opposed to violence, I’m absolutely frightened by it. It’s impossible to separate in my mind the gut fear from the pure reason. I’m really afraid that all the hard, sober arguments I have against this war are nothing but an intellectual adjustment to my horror at the thought of bleeding to death in some rice paddy." - If I Die In A Combat Zone
Tobin "Gomer" Tuscarora
Ruby "Rubechan" Caliente
Wingnut "The Zing" Orovada