Music, Good Movies (despite how few and far between they have been as of late), Computers (games and other crap), Politics, Philosophy, Stalking, and Role Playing Games
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It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul, if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
---- Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder
Faun FablesBjorkRadiohead, Squarepusher, Tool (and APC), Dan Bern, Sigur Ros, DangerDoom, Pinback, NIN, The Books, The Cure, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Avec, Lucky Pineapple, Veuns Trap, Follow the Train, Ultra Pulverize, P.O.S., Nakatomi Plaza, PJ Harvey, Lamb, Depeche Mode, Blackalicious, Boards of Canada, Marvin Gaye, Beulah, Morphine, Everything but the Girl, Massive Attack, Iron & Wine, Morcheeba, Annie Lennox (Eurythmics), Fishbone, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Aphex Twin, Sade, Love Spirals Downwards, Old Dave Matthews Band, Immortal Technique, Loreena McKennitt, Autechre, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pink Floyd, Van Morrison, Ani DiFranco, Del The Funkee Homosapien, Duran Duran, Coldplay, Primus, a tribe called quest, White Zombie (but not Rob's solo stuff), Old U2, Stevie Wonder, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Enya, Portishead, The Beastie Boys, Blackstar (Mos Def and Talib Kweli), Stabbing Westward, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Marilyn Manson, Foetus, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, Led Zeppelin, Tenacious D, Skinny Puppy, Fiona Apple, The Police, Tom Waits, Poe, Ministry, The Cranberries, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Joy Division, The Smiths, New Order, Janes Addiction, The GoGos, Pixies, Eydea and Abilities, Dismemberment Plan, Neurosis, Outkast, Digable Planets, Deftones, Our Lady Peace, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Hanz Zimmer, Philip Glass.
Batman Begins (finally a REAL fucking Batman movie) I
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anything and everything by Hunter S. Thompson, Clive Barker, and Chuck Palahniuk, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Dammed, 'Salem's Lot, IT, Pet Semetary, The Crow, The Communist Manifesto, The X-Wing novels (yes all of them), Stupid white men, Dude where's my country, Pigs at the Trough: How corporate greed is undermining america. Harry Potter and the...
Spider JerusalemV.I. LeninKarl Marx,Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Linklater, Dennis Kucinich, Robert Smith, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Han Solo, Benjamin Sisko, John Crichton, Indiana Jones, Corran Horn, Albus Dumbledore