Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music & never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers & warriors
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
" Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. "
(Jack Kerouac from his book, On the Road)
Favorite Artists (Music):
Radiohead, The Roots, Miles Davis, Sonic Youth, Jimi Hendrix, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Jane's Addiction, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Steely Dan, Thelonious Monk, Joy Division, The Smiths, Interpol, The Style Council, Sunny Day Real Estate, Donald Byrd, Broken Social Scene, Lush, Charles Mingus, The Pharcyde, Slum Village, Little Brother, De La Soul, The Pixies, Dwele, Paw, Echo & The Bunnymen, Husker Du, The Breeders, Dinosaur Jr, Roy Ayers, Sleater Kinney, Earth Wind & Fire, Catherine Wheel, Metric, The Stone Roses, Pavement, Grizzly Bear, Wilco, Dirty Projectors, Death Cab for Cutie.
Favorite Movies:
Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, To Kill A Mokingbird, A Clockwork Orange, Sin City, Full Metal Jacket, Blade Runner, V for Vendetta, Unforgiven, The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Trainspotting, Mystic River, Walk the Line, Leaving Las Vegas, Gangs of New York, Bull Durham, The Untouchables, Sweet Sweetback's Badaaasss Song, Uptown Saturday Night, Let's Do It Again, She's Gotta Have It, Annie Hall, Singles, Heathers, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Crooklyn, Blue Velvet, Network, Friday Night Lights, Truck Turner, Three The Hard Way, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Raising Arizona, There Will Be Blood.
Favorite Quotes:
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ~ Frederick Douglass
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. ~ Noam Chomsky
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
War remains the decisive human failure. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ~ Howard Zinn