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Richard

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About Me

Not too much special here, I guess. I'm 19 years old and something of a strange one...If you don't know that you will soon enough, I promise.Some Whitman:
Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
Else it were time lost listening to me.
I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth.
Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,
I wear my hat as I please indoors or out.
Why should I pray? why should I venerate and be ceremonious?
Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair,
counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,
And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
I know I am solid and sound,
To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
I know I am deathless,
I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
I know I am august,
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,
I laugh at what you call dissolution,
And I know the amplitude of time.
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Your Love Life is Like Annie Hall
"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies."
You believe that love (if you even believe in love!) is a very complicated thing.
Maybe love is pain. Or maybe it's all a big therapy session. You're still figuring it out.
Your love style: Brainy and a bit neurotic
Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Realistic and reflective What Movie Is Your Love Life Like?

My Interests

Let me read and leave me alone when I do. I love being with people, though, even though I seem like I don't at times. Just having good 'ol fun with my best friends makes my life worth living. Love is the most important thing in the whole wide world to me. I value being content with my life, in peace and in love with no trauma or drama going on around me.

I'd like to meet:

Whoever wants to be met?

Music:

You really can't go wrong with classic rock (you name it, I like it, but the 80s really blow), though I am open to some modern music that appeals to me. I have been known to listen to jazz and classical, on occasion, as well.

Bill O'Reilly Flips Out — DANCE REMIX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE

Movies:

Indie movies are the best. I like movies that actually stimulate brain cells above all others. A good dark comedy always sounds good to me.

Television:

Game shows are great (particularly Jeopardy!) and I hope to be on another one soon enough, stay tuned! I watch PBS with regularity and prefer Frontline, American Experience, Nova, Bill Moyers, etc.....For my news, I have to go with MSNBC, "the place for politics." Gotta love slogans....

Books:

If more people would read, there would be a hell of a lot less ignorance and stupidity in this world. I'm fond of Kurt Vonnegut and am reading a lot of poetry right now. I don't think I'd be remiss in calling "Leaves of Grass" my Bible. Check it out, it's by Walt Whitman, in case you didn't know.

Heroes:

Heroes? Eh...not particularly. Anybody who tries to make the world better for their fellow humans without imposing their will on others. People like Albert Schweitzer, though I wouldn't call him a personal hero, he's just somebody who came to mind.

My Blog

Something About Trees

Try sitting under a treewithout expecting some golden apple to fall into your head.Tree-sitting is too uncomfortable for profound thought, anyhow.(Newton had a singularly plush ass)Instead, expect not...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:30:00 PST

So it Goes...

Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. Many of you don't know who he was, but you should. He was an author who understood who we are as a society and expressed his pure humanism and worry for where we are head...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:47:00 PST

At Peace

Right now, I feel about as good about myself as I possibly can. Life has been rather so-so to me over the past couple of weeks when events are purely viewed as they are, but I feel good about it. I do...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:38:00 PST