The Bruceâ„¢

I'd like to meet:

I'D LIKE TO MEET:
Those without pulses need not apply... People who are honest to others and themselves... People that are realistic... People who are creative... People that have a great sense of humor... People that care... People who can act somewhat their age, yet discover a way to remain young at heart... People that understand what it means to forgive and forget... People that want to engage their communities through volunteering... People that love to laugh... People that are on a constant journey to find themselves... People with open minds...

FAVORITE QUOTES:

"Are you serious?" - Just about everyone I know

"So I was sitting there... eating a taco... thinking of you..." - The Bruceâ„¢

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." - Quintus Horatius Flaccus

"When I was a little girl they told me I was a sinner. It gave me something to live up to." - Amee Budd

"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." - Henny Youngman

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench. A long plastic hallway where theives and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure." - Leo F. Buscaglia

"For every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful." - The Law of Karma (Buddhist teachings)

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry." - Rita Rudner

"I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie." - Sting

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." - Hunter S. Thompson

"...I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days..." - Crash Davis, Bull Durham

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -President Theodore Roosevelt

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong

"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." - George Orwell

"Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux." - Émile Coué

"True love never dies... you have to keep shooting it!" - Anonymous

"To be is to do." - Descartes

"To do is to be." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Doo bee doo bee doo." - Frank Sinatra

"Assumptions are the termites of realtionships." - Henry Winkler

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Live with intention, walk to the edge, listen hard, laugh, practice wellness, play with abandon, continue to learn, appreciate your friends, choose with no regret, do what you love... live as if this is all there is." - Mary Anne Radmacher

"I could've wound up having sex back there. And what better way to exorcise rejection demons than to screw the person who rejected you, right? But you wouldn't be sleeping with a person, you'd be sleeping with the whole sad, single-person culture. It'd be like sleeping with Talia Shire in Rocky if you weren't Rocky." - Rob Gordon from High Fidelity

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandella
"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." - Winnie the Pooh

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." - Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction (Ezekiel 25:17)

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein

"I see you're drinking 1%. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to." - Napoleon Dynamite

"The word politics is derived from the word poly, meaning many, and the word ticks, meaning blood sucking parasites." - Larry Hardiman

"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious." - Philip Brooks

"Honey, if it starts with cake and champagne it should end with cake and champagne!" - Christian on Divorce

"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Save the Trees?...Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!" - Billy Connolly

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Music:

MUSIC:

Recently listened to - Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, Split Enz, Echo and the Bunnymen, Stevie Wonder, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Nickel Creek and The Toadies...

Two of the most dynamic, original and entertaining singer/songwriters in North America...

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An up and coming talented trio of songwriters and musicians with a deep groove rock sound and excellent harmonies....

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More favorites - Gorrilaz, Coldplay, Elton John, Patsy Cline, Rage Against the Machine, Rufus Wainwright, Allison Krause & Union Station, Buddy Holly, The Proclaimers, Grateful Dead, Jerry Chapman, Days of the New, Bob Dylan, Queen, Wham, Johnny Cash, 311, Jason LeVasseur, Rush, Miles Davis, The Nadas, Snow Patrol, Placebo, life in general, Massive Attack, Deep Forest, Five for Fighting, Primus, Iron Maiden, Nickle Creek, U2, Eminem, New Order, ABBA, Split Endz, The Cure, Jimmy Eat World, Social Distortion, Soul Asylum, New Found Glory, Flaming Lips, Black Label Society, Eminem, Aretha Franklin, Superdrag, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, Fastball, Led Zepplin, Tenacious D, Phish, Disturbed, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Genesis, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, KISS, The Doors, Frente, Sting, The Police, The Pixies, Josh Davis Group, Goldfinger, Extreme, Dwight Yokum, Michael Penn, The Smiths, Jack Johnson, Hank Williams, Outkast, Barry Manilow, Soundgarden, Creed, Karma, Public Enemy, Tori Amos, Dean Martin, Metalica, Shiny Toy Guns, The Weepies, The Heroes, Weezer, The Who, Chris Issak, The Smithereens, Aimee Mann, Audioslave, Flee the Seen, Frank Sinatra, Beruit, Barenaked Ladies, The Mavericks, Norah Jones, Ben Folds, Lyle Lovett, George Michael, Cypress Hill, Wings, The Outfield, Beastie Boys, James, Trey Anastasio, Joy Division, Garth Brooks, Morrisey, Erasure, The Beatles, Farmer Tan Funk Band, Radiohead, Oasis, Duran Duran, Stabbing Westward, Counting Crows, James Blunt, Nickel Creek, Paul Simon, The Scorpions, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Beck, Bush, Evanescence, Good Charlotte, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, NIN, Nirvana, Oasis, Papa Roach, PEARL JAM, P.O.D., Relient K, SMASHING PUMPKINS, Steve Earle, Sublime, SWITCHFOOT, THIRD EYE BLIND, TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, The Used, The Von Bondies...
RIP - Shannon Hoon, John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Jim Morrison, Jaco Pastorius, Joey Ramone, Randy Rhoades, Barry White, Benjamin Orr, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, James Brown, Jerry Garcia, Warren Zevon, Darrell Abbott, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole & James Brown

Live Shows Attended - Hank Williams Jr., New Kids On the Block, Henry Lee Summer, Andy Williams, Lee Greenwood, Motley Crue, Metallica, The Bangles, Steve Miller Band, The Beach Boys, Chicago, LeTour, C.C. Pettiston, U2, Primus, Disposable Heroes of Hip-hoprisy, Letters to Cleo, Dave Chapelle, Tori Amos, Seven Mary Three, Sister Hazel, John Michael Montgomery, Billy Joel, Jimmy Eat World, Tenacious D, Weezer, Tantric, Creed, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Barenaked Ladies, The Proclaimers, Five for Fighting, The Damnwells, Social Distortion, Placebo, She Wants Revenge...

Movies:

MOVIES:
In the Last Year - The DaVinci Code, Superman Returns, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Accepted, Crank, Little Miss Sunshine, The Matador, How to Eat Fried Worms (Gimme a break, I took my little brother to see it!), Grid Iron Gang, Jackass 2, School for Scoundrels, Nacho Libre, The Break Up, Running with Scissors, Borat, Match Point, Eragon, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Sopranos: Season 1, The Good Sheppard (excellent movie!), Pan's Labirynth (spellbinding!), My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Smoking Aces, Letters From Iwo Jima (Oscar Buzz!), 300, Shooter, Grindhouse, Spiderman 3...

All-time Favorites - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1941, The Unforgiven, O' Brother Where Art Thou, Capote, Gladiator, Pecker, About a Boy, The Pianist, Raising Arizona, Motorcycle Diaries, Ben Hur, Goodnight and Goodluck, The Rainmaker, Dogma, Field of Dreams, Fargo, El Cid, Harold and Maude, Network, Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), A Beautiful Mind, Akira, Thumbsucker, Saved!, PCU, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Brokeback Mountain, Fight Club, The Man Who Wasn't There, Iron Giant, The Royal Tenenbaums, Grease, 12 Angry Men, Shawshank Redemption, Seven, The Quiet Man, Memento, Greenfingers, The Devil's Backbone, Munich, Fight Club, Clerks, Amelie, The Ring, Gone with the Wind, All Quiet on the Western Front, Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, Saving Private Ryan, Last of the Mohicans, Bull Durham, Groundhog Day, The Big Lebowski, Xanadu, High Fidelity, The Tao of Steve, A Fish Called Wanda, 28 Days Later, Almost Famous, The Doors, Office Space, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Ghost in the Shell, The Graduate, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Matrix, Meet Joe Black, Logger Heads, Dark City, Vanilla Sky, The Truman Show, Garden State, A History of Violence, Little Miss Sunshine...

Television:

TELEVISION:
Don't spend a lot of time watching it on a regular basis... It's definitely too mind numbing, but I do enjoy The Riches, Deadwood, Heroes, Scrubs, The Daily Show, Venture Brothers and Robot Chicken...

Books:

BOOKS:
Currently Reading - Bleachers by John Grisham
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, For One More Day by Mitch Albom, blink by Malcolm Gladwell, A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, The Partner by John Grisham, Kokology by by Tadahiko Nagao, The Rainmaker by John Grisham, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Loving Each Other by Leo Buscaglia, PaPa My Father by Leo Buscaglia, Fight Club by Charles Michael Palahniuk...

Heroes:

HEROES:
My father and my mother both come from blue collar families on different sides of the world, never finished high school yet they managed to raise three kids through tough times personally and professionally - I know I can be successful in anything I do if I have half the spirit and determination they had and still have to this day!


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