life, tea, self improvement, fine music, knowlege, wisdom, morality, swords, helping others, poetry, martial arts, culinary, wines, money, foriegn cultures, conversations, Italian fashion, fitness, beauty, crying, teaching, reading, rainstorms, fireflies, suicide, long walks, history, religions, and philosophy.
I'd like to meet:
Other poets, philosophers, brilliant minds, beauties. Someone to take naps with...
How do we know we're connected? If connectedness was another fad, then everyone would be connected or would they? How do I know if I am really connected? I mean I think I am, but what if I was subconsciously telling myself I was connected because thats how you stay alive?
Music:
Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Rameau, Hayden, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, good techno, classic hip hop, love songs, and melancholy melodies.
Movies:
Springtime In a Small Town, Tale of Two Sisters, Chaos, Jisatsu Sakkuru, Lain, Kadokawa, Run Lola Run, and The Dreamers to name a few.Mostly foriegn films.
Television:
I don't watch television... It doesn't do anything for me.
Books:
Anansi Boys, Wheel of Time, The Analects, Alexander of Macedon, The Complete Works of Aristotle, The Holy Scriptures, Techniques of Orchestration, Poems of the Masters: Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse, The Last of the Renshai, Ovid, Kiekkergard, Sun Tzu, Plato's Republic, the list goes on and on...
Heroes:
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
-Cao Cao
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
-Baltasar Gracian
If a bird does not sing, kill it.
-Nobunaga Oda.
Seest thou these great buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.
-Christ
The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.
-Genghis Khan
Adversity is the first path to truth.
-Lord Byron
