Inspiring, mentoring, teaching, learning, experiencing, searching, & always prefering to be David slinging those rocks at Goliath. Making change is like D-Day, man, a lot of people are going to go down but a few of us are going to get off the beach. It's all about being evolutionary, not just revolutionary. Creep up on them, surprise them, show them you got balls and you got no fear of death.Oh, and a damn good laugh at least a few times a day. Thank you, Jason Pettigrew."They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them." - to the few that have stolen my heart."If people hate the media, it’s not because of Jayson Blair. Why, then? Take your pick. There are the perennial charges of bias, which grow louder the more bitterly split the electorate gets. But there’s also the problem that many big-media journlalists are now cautious, well-paid conformists distant from their audiences and more responsive to urban elites, powerful people and megacorporations- especially the ones they work for. Hence the bland news anchors who verge on self-parody; magazines so commercial they’re practically catalogs; timid pack journalism (We love dotcoms too! I mean, we never believed in them either!); local newscasts shilling for their corporate parents (â€Up next: the hottest SURVIVOR finale parties! Plus, the rest of the news!â€); saturation coverage of trials-of-the-minute and movies we know will be lousy but will have big opening weekends. Yes, people watch and buy all this stuff. That doesn’t mean they respect it. They see a profession that acts excited about a lot- Laci Peterson, The Matrix Reloaded, political horse races- but cares about nothing." -James Poniewozik/TIME MAGAZINE
Someone that gives a shit...
Right Now? My Chem Romance, 7 Seconds, the Fight, Rise Against, MxPx (ROCK!), Bersuit, old Killing Joke, The Police, Explosion, Audioslave, Casualties, Cafe Tacuba, Caetano Veloso, Jimmy Bosch, Boys Night Out, American Hi-Fi, Keane, Flashlight Brown, Further Seems Forever (B4 the new record, ugh), Jarabe de Palo, Kinky, the Leaves, Living End (again, B4 the new record), Los Amigos Invisibles, Break The Silence, Meat Beat Manifesto, Minor Threat, Muse, Nick Cave, RATM, Rancid, Rufus Wainwright, Thrice, Slick Shoes, Sparta, The Thermals, Thursday, TSOL, Underworld, the Unseen, Washdown, Viva Death, Sinatra (late 50's to late 60's period), Brazilian & Latin (tropical y rock), Wolfgang Press, Test Dept, Einsturzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, New Order, Soundgarden (yeah i just went thru my iPod- shut up...)my friend eric's band- the limousines- gonna be big! i'm tellin ya...DEAD CAN DANCE: "Don't Fade Away"
all the movies in my head I never got to make...(yet)
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann, Daily Show, Heroes, any shows where things blow apart
Best ever: THE RADICAL CENTER (changed my entire view of politics and social reform), THE 48 LAWS OF POWER (being a boss it reminds you not to always trust those with a smile on their face each morning), and...i miss BLOOM COUNTY...
Howard Dean, Buster Keaton, Teddy Roosevelt, Gene Krupa & bulldogs.