Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen

About Me

"Wenn Sie darauf bestehen, Ihre Augen und Ohren geschlossen zu halten, vergessen Sie nicht, Ihren Mund auch zu schlieÃŸen." -Me
"Si insiste a mantener los ojos y los oidos cerrados, no se olvide a mantener su boca cerrada tambien."
Translation: If you insist on keeping your eyes and ears shut, don't forget to keep your mouth shut as well.
"I'm happy to be alive, but I'm waiting for the years to pass." Carly Gentry
"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." James Baldwin
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." Bertrand Russel (1872-1970)
"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."
Your World View
You are a fairly broadminded romantic and reasonably content.
You value kindness and try to live by your ideals.
You have strong need for security, which may be either emotional or material.
You respect truth and are flexible.
You like people, and they can readily make friends with you.
You are not very adventurous, but this does not bother you. What Is Your World View?
Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
35% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

My Interests

Languages
Europe, most definitely including Russia
Science, how/why things work
History
Maps/Geography
making new friends, catching up with some old ones
being spontaneous
driving to nowhere

I'd like to meet:

Anyone respectful and of good character who realizes to receive respect is to give it. OH and let's not forget specifics: Kathy Griffin, Jake Gyllenhaal...

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Music:

I pretty much will listen to anything except most country. I like alternative, hip/hop, some pop, techno, rock...you know just music that sounds good...

Movies:

Forrest Gump, all-time fav
Little Miss Sunshine
Sommersturm
Rent
The Good Girl
All National Lampoons
Anchorman
The X-MEN Trilogy
The Object Of My Affection
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Fried Green Tomatoes
Donnie Darko
Brokeback Mountain
Saved
Office Space
Running with Scissors
and of course Zoolander.

Television:

I never watch TV anymore, but if i did...
History Channel
Travel Channel
Discovery Channel
Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List
Will & Grace
Nip/Tuck
MADTV
Daily Show With Jon Stewart
South Park
True Life
Intervention
Real World sometimes
Golden Girls, cliche I know
Sons & Daughters
Six Feet Under
Pasadena

Books:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Tuesdays With Morrie
Ender's Game
The Secret Life of Bees
The Catcher in the Rye
Brave New World—more intriguing now then when I read it

Heroes:

Now onto a more serious note folks...Hero is a really strong word to apply to someone but if I had to I would call my mom and grandma heroes just because they were the ones that were always there, and they each have endured much.

My Blog

Keep this in mind...

"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clear...
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:31:00 PST

just me

i am who i am, and don't even try to make me feel bad about it, because i guarantee you i have done the job for you about a million times over, and a lot better than you could ever do. it is what it i...
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Fri, 04 May 2007 03:57:00 PST

LIFE

I've come to the realization that life is full of disappointments, no matter what, people inevitably will disappoint you and you will inevitably disappoint them. Disappointment sucks!
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:25:00 PST

My new schedule

So yea, after much parental interference in the guidance office, I finally got switched out of AP Calculus and into BPE.... 1 Spanish 4 2 Sociology 3 BPE 4 AP US History 5 ...
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:24:00 PST

Emily Dickinson is good

Water, Is Taught By Thirst. Water, is taught by thirst. Land - by the oceans passed. Transport - by throe - Peace - by its battles told - Love, by Memorial Mold - Birds, by the snow. She's righ...
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:41:00 PST

Where I Stand

Where I Stand I am a teenager, and no, I do not consider myself reckless. My name should not matter, unless you plan to meet me. I am...
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:20:00 PST

Class Schedule

Alright, not excited about this, but school's inevitable, so if you're interested... 1) AP Calculus- Hunnicutt 2) Sociology- Davis 3) AP U.S. History- Yielding 4) Honors Physics- Leterle 5) Hon...
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:50:00 PST

Philosophy moment

I was just reading a quote on a poster I had bought recently, and I was pondering on what it really meant. The quote reads as follows: "I'm a pilgrim on the edge, on the edge of my perception. We are...
Posted by Zach[ary] R.I.P. Coach Thigpen on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:42:00 PST