Reading, Writing, Eating, Riding, Cooking, Movies, Music, Karaoke, Kickin' w/ my friends (Quadeus, Frieda Cherry, Funky Cold Claudia, Rhiannon & Aron, Sherry, Stomper, Jewels, etc. w/ appologies to those relegated to the etc. catagory).
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
www.factsandlogic.org
www.wnd.com
www.aynrand.org
http://patriotpost.us/
www.CommonSenseDrugPolicy.org
www.DrugWarFacts.org
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I'd like to meet:
The Invitation: by Oriah Mountain Dreamer-- "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 like a fool for love, for your dream, 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 centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled 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, be realistic, 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 trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is 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 at the edge of the 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 centre 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."
Music:
RUSH (fav rock song; A Farewell To Kings), Joey Gian (fav crooner tune; What if I Loved You), __Pink Floyd/Roger Waters/David Gilmour (fav rock message; Amused To Death), Blue Oyster Cult (fav rock album; Secret Treaties), Supertramp, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Kansas, The Doors, Frank Zappa, The Moody Blues, Queen, Judas Priest (fav live album; Unleashed In The East), AC/DC, The Grateful Dead, The Pretenders, The Ramones, The Police, etc. etc. (3 fav rock instrumentals; 1. Europa/Santana 2. La Villa Strangiato/RUSH 3. Hibernation/Ted Nugent) 4 fav romantic rock tunes; Don't Get Me Wrong/The Pretenders, Time After Time/Cyndi Lauper, Innocent Man & For The Longest Time/Billy Joel.
Movies:
12 Angry Men, Tombstone, Silverado, Heat, A River Runs Through It, Legends Of The Fall, Dogma, Braveheart, Rob Roy, Kingdom of Heaven, Blade Runner, Henry V, Lady Jane, Sense and Sensibility, Return To Me, Good Will Hunting, Scent Of A Woman, What Women Want, As Good As It Gets, Something's Gotta Give, Kate and Leopold, French Kiss, A Walk In The Clouds.
Television:
I am gross and pervertedI'm obsessed 'n derangedI have existed for yearsBut very little has changedI'm the tool of the GovernmentAnd industry tooFor I am destined to ruleAnd regulate youI may be vile and perniciousBut you can't look awayI make you think I'm deliciousWith the stuff that I sayI'm the best you can getHave you guessed me yet?I'm the slime oozin' outFrom your TV setYou will obey me while I lead youAnd eat the garbage that I feed youUntil the day that we don't need youDon't go for help...no one will heed youYour mind is totally controlledIt has been stuffed into my moldAnd you will do as you are toldUntil the rights to you are sold(TV Anouncer voice)That's right, folks.. Don't touch that dial...
-Frank Zappa-
Books:
The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings & The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien—The Fionavar Tapestry, Tigana & The Lions Of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay—The Dune chronicles & The White Plague by Frank Herbert—Ender’s Game, Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide & Children Of The Mind, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow Of The Hegemon, Shadow Puppets & Shadow Of The Giant, The Alvin Maker series by Orson Scott Card—The Chronicles Of Narnia by C. S. Lewis-The Hound And The Falcon by Judith Tarr—The 1st Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever & Mordant’s Need by Stephen R. Donaldson—The Amber Chronicles & Jack Of Shadows by Roger Zelazny—The Horatio Hornblower Novels by C.S.Forester—The Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O’brien—The Idiot, Crime And Punishment, The Possessed & the short stories A Gentle Creature & The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky (nobody did tragedy like Dostoevsky)—The Covenant, Chesapeake, Alaska & Hawaii by James A. Michener—The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara—Gods And Generals (a prequel to his father Michael’s book), The Last Full Measure (a sequel to dad’s book), Gone For Soldiers, Rise To Rebellion & The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara—Animal Farm & 1984 by George Orwell—White Fang, Call Of The Wild & The Sea Wolf by Jack London—The Sea Lions by James F. Cooper-Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling—Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr(I'm a freak for anything about sailing ships).—Anything by the Bard, but especially Richard III, Henry V & Titus Andronicus—anything by Friedrich Von Schiller—Robinson Crusoe, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Sense And Sensibility, Anything by Dickens, anything by Hemmingway and a host of classics too numerous to mention.
Poets; Seamus Heaney, Tennyson, Frost, Dylan Thomas, Poe, Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Thoreau, Shelley, Keats, Yeats, D.H.Lawrence, of course The Bard, & Schiller, among others.
Heroes:
All the brave souls who have pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors, from the founding fathers and mothers to the soldiers in harm's way today and tomorrow, to establish and defend our liberties. The first responders who lay their lives on the line daily for people they do not yet know just because that's how they roll.
GOD Made Firefighters So That Cops Could Have Heroes!All those who do not hide their light under a basket or bury their talents, but use them to enrich the world around them whether they receive the thanks they deserve, or not. Finally all who stand up for and speak out on what they truly believe in, in the face of overwhelming opposition. The late, great Ronaldus Magnus. The late, great Milton Friedman. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, David Limbaugh, the late Col. David Hackworth, Lt. Gen. Hal Moore U.S.Army, retired, Lt. Col. Olly North U.S.M.C. retired (as true a patriot as ever was).
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