...and a rant. This is, perhaps, me thinks, my favorite quote from a movie...
...EVER.
Loki: "Human, have you ever been to Hell? I think not. Do you know that once Hell was nothing more than the absence of God? And if you'd ever been in His presence then you'd realize that's punishment enough. But then your kind came along, and made it so... much... worse..."
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"Evil is an abstract! It's a human construct. But, true to his irresponsible nature, man won't own up to being the engineer of Evil, so he blames his dark deeds on my ilk. But his selfishness is limitless, and it's not enough
for him to shadow his own existence. No. He turned Hell into a suffering pitt! Fire, wailing, darkness -- the kind of place anyone would do anything to get out of! And why?
Because he lacks the ability to forgive himself.
It is beyond your ability to simply make recompense for, and regret, the sins you commit. No, you choose, rather, to create a psychodrama and dwell in a foundless belief that God could never forgive your "grievous offenses". So you bring your guilt and inner-decay with you to Hell, where the horrid imaginations of so many gluttons-for-punishment give birth to the sickness that has infected the Abyss since the first one of your kind arrived there begging to be punished. And in doing so, they've transformed the Cold and Solitude into Pain and Misery! I've spent eons, privy to the flames, inhaling the decay, hearing the wail of the damned. I KNOW what effect such horrors have on the delicate psyche of an angelic being!"
"And all I really want...is some patience...
A way to calm the angry voice...
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And what I wouldn't give...to meet a soulmate...
Someone else to catch this drift.
-- Alanis Morisette, "All I Really Want"
Trance, lounge, and ambient reliably get me high...but, basically, anything that I can inject directly into my bloodstream...metaphorically speaking...
Any and all international and domestic current events media, Maxim, Time Magazine, The Davinci Code, The Amber Series, The Time Traveler's Wife, Harry Potter