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"As I grow older I see clearly and distinctly what is right and wrong in our way of life and how ridiculous is everything not achieved with one's own blood and one's own soul and everything not infused with love."
-- Marc Chagall

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  • Bukowski - Style
  • Bukowski - bluebird
  • Bukwoski - 40,000 flies
  • Bukowski - A CHALLENGE TO THE DARK
  • Bukowski - Horse and Fist
oct 19 2011 ∞
oct 19 2011 +
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  • live in london
  • visit jim morrison's grave
  • watch every single one of the Back to the Future movies
  • get laid
  • ditto, outdoors
  • lie down on a wet pavement, in the rain, around lots of strangers
  • sneak down into a major capital's sewers
  • fly an airplane
  • see Johnnie Whitney, tell him that he changed my life
  • visit Cuba
  • see Stalin's enbalmed body
  • revisit every country that I've ever lived in or gone to
  • go on a long (at least 2 weeks) sea voyage
  • try heroin [Nope. Not doing this one. I know better now. 8/'12]
  • try lsd
sep 20 2008 ∞
dec 23 2012 +
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  • I've got this epic problem / This epic problem's not a problem for me / And inside I know I'm broken / But I'm working as far as you can see / And outside it's all production / It's all illusion set scenery / I've got this epic problem / This epic problem's not a problem for me -- Fugazi, Epic Problem
  • I still miss those heavy metal bands / She used to go see on the landing in the summer / She fell in love with a drummer / She fell in love with the drummer / She fell in love -- Wilco, Heavy Metal Drummer
  • And I looked up at the sky last night / And I thought I saw a bomb / And why won’t you just tell me what’s going on? -- Eels, 3 Speed
  • What can I ask of you / What would you want from me / What would you say if I just fell asleep -- Hello Saferide, Loneliness Is Better When You're Not Alone
may 15 2009 ∞
may 13 2011 +
  • south korea
  • u.s.a. (w/in living memory) IL, HI, NV, AZ, SD, MT, CA, WI, CO, GA, SC, LA, DC, MD, NY, NJ, PA, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, ME
  • japan
  • costa rica
  • panama
  • thailand
  • philippines
  • norway
  • sweden
  • spain
  • u.k.
  • france
  • denmark
  • italy
  • germany
  • slovakia
  • slovenia
  • czech republic
  • austria
sep 10 2008 ∞
jul 2 2016 +

Talenti Gelato

  • Caramel Cookie Crunch (5/5)
  • Raspberry Cheesecake (4/5) (June '15)
  • Tiramisu (3/5)
  • Banana Chocolate Swirl (2/5) (July '15)
  • German Chocolate Cake (4/5)
  • Sicilian Pistachio (4/5)
  • Sea Salt Caramel (4.5/5) (August '15)
  • Double Dark Chocolate

Ben & Jerry's

  • Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core (4/5)
  • Half Baked (3.5/5) (August '15)
jul 15 2015 ∞
oct 2 2016 +
dec 21 2011 ∞
dec 22 2011 +
  • "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. "

~ Rabindranath Tagore

  • While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men--a great reader of men. He had a genius for studying a man and learning his strengths and weaknesses and hopes and fears, his deepest strengths and weaknesses: what it was that the man wanted--not what he said he wanted but what he really wanted--and what it was that the man feared, really feared.

- Robert Caro, Lyndon Johnson

  • Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a ...
jul 11 2011 ∞
jan 11 2012 +
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Zodiac : Taurus Sun, Scorpio Moon, Leo Rising Compassionate, caring, nurturing, reserved, responsible, helpful, perfectionist, emotionally stable, reflective, cautious Has an inherent polarity in personality because of the ability to see everything from many perspectives. Can be indecisive. Complex, self aware and self analyzing.

Myers-Brigg : ENFP

Enneagram : 4-7-1 (sx=so/sp)

may 15 2009 ∞
dec 31 2012 +
  • china, the long march
  • egypt, the sealing of tut's pyramid
  • germany, hitler's suicide
  • easter island, the carving of the stone faces
  • the silk road, golden ages
  • constantinople, golden ages
  • constantinople, the sacking of
  • .....much more (don't know yet)
sep 10 2008 ∞
may 13 2011 +
  • W Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
  • Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
  • Irving Stone - Lust for Life
  • Chaim Potok - My Name is Asher Lev
  • Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
  • Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy
  • Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund
  • Anna Gavalda - Hunting and Gathering
  • Chaim Potok - The Gift of Asher Lev
  • John Berger - A Painter of Our Time
  • William Gaddis - The Recognitions
  • Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard
  • James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • W Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
  • Honore de Balzac - The Unknown Masterpiece
oct 1 2016 ∞
oct 1 2016 +

Freshman Year '12-'13

  • Baldwin, James - Giovanni's Room (4.5)
  • Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road (5)
  • Shekerjian, Denise G. - Uncommon Genius (4.5)
  • Miller, Frank - Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (4)
  • Small, David - Stitches (4.??)
  • Bayles, David & Orland, Ted - Art & Fear (4.5)
  • Ott, Thomas - Panopticum (3.5)
  • Miller, Frank - Sin City: Family Values (3)
  • de Botton, Alain - How Proust Can Change Your Life (4.7)
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day (5)
  • Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore (*, for special reasons)
  • Max, D.T. - Every Love Story is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (4)
nov 8 2012 ∞
oct 1 2016 +
  • Donnie Darko (*)
  • I Love You Philip Morris
  • American History X (*)
  • Spirited Away (*)
  • Fight Club (*)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (*)
  • The Cat Returns
  • Brokeback Mountain (*)
  • Whisper of the Heart
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Thirteen
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Les Triplettes de Belleville
  • Laputa: Castle in the Sky
  • 올드보이 (*)
  • 친절한 금자씨
  • Amelie (*)
  • Heavenly Forest
  • 순정만화
  • Eternal Summer (盛夏光年) (*)
jul 13 2010 ∞
oct 2 2016 +
  • Anton Chekov - The Complete Short Novels
  • Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
  • Chuck Klosterman - Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
  • David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
  • David Foster Wallace - Girl With Curious Hair
  • David Foster Wallace - The Broom of the System
  • David Sedaris - When You Are Engulfed In Flames
  • Ernesto Che Guevara - Che Guevara Speaks to Young People
  • Ernesto Che Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries
  • Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
  • Franz Kafka - The Collected Stories
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons
  • Hayden Herrera - A Biography of Frieda Kahlo
may 13 2009 ∞
jul 6 2014 +
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  • David Choe
  • Bast
  • Ashley Wood
  • Beth Cavener Stichter
  • Edvard Munch
  • Rick Berry
  • Francis Bacon
  • Egon Schiele
  • Phil Hale
  • Vermeer
  • Rubens
  • ths
  • Vincent Van Gogh
  • Gris Grimly
  • Audrey Kawasaki
  • Mark Chagall
  • Auguste Rodin
  • Ren Si Hong
  • Caravaggio
  • George Grosz
sep 10 2008 ∞
nov 21 2012 +