Love

Love, is such a complicated matter. As with most things in life, love is ever evolving within relationships. It appears as though love is formed through the release of every fraction of a human's being into another person - both good and bad qualities. Through necessity, philosophical ideas, values, and approaches to life should be similar. These form a basis of understanding, of mutual respect. However this also describes the elements of friendship. So what causes friendship to evolve to a higher level, to love? Is this merely attraction? Yes and No. Yes attraction is key, but it is more involved than that. Attraction is usually the initial catalyst to love leading to a deeper understanding of the individual. But all of this is so abstract. Love is an emotion shared between two people.

Quotes

I am free of all prejudice; I hate everyone equally. W.C. Fields

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. William Shakespeare

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. Louis Ginsberg

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that over flow. Frederich Neitzsche

Nobody can ever make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy

Life

Philosophies on life differ greatly from one individual to the next ergo this is merely my personal interpretation for the time being! Life is a series of events and reactions. Life is also our interpretation of these events. We assign emotions to accompany these as well. So on one level, we approach life as an attempt to create the most favorable emotions, and thus the most favorable events. However there is also the importance of our impact on the world we live in. We feel a deeper need to at least have an effect on the people around us. We want to touch people through our ideas of life. (hence this ridiculous page) To at least speculate on how individual we are and what are commonalties of the human race. Life is simply whatever you want it to be, because you can always make a change that will effect the next series of events.

Music

It is that which moves us and causes us to remember the passing moments of life. Music symbolizes more than that song that was "ours," music is what connects us all together. Think about it for a second, Reggae, Hard rock, Classical, Ska, Techno, Alternative, Pop, Metal, Hardcore, Jazz, Country, Blues, Emo, Punk, and Rap, there is a common thread in all of them. That is that the music touches us, no matter what the beat, or words, Someone out there had not only been in similar situations as you, but also felt the same way! Which is pretty remarkable, So not only does music help us remember those moments in life which are both happy and sad, music also conquers the language/culture barrier.

Soundtrack to my life:

Vast - Here, Touched, Three Doors, Pretty When You Cry

Sigur Ros - all of their stuff

Free Kitten - Never Gonna Sleep

Fionna Apple - Limp, Paper Bag, Never Is A Promise, Sullen Girl

The Pixies - Where Is My Mind, Gouge Away, Nimrod's Son, Here Comes Your Man, Caribou

Ani Difranco - Shy, Gravel

Huggy Bear - Fuck Your Heart

The Smiths - Ask, What Difference Does It Make

Tori Amos - Professional Widow, In The Springtime Of His Voodoo, Cruel, Leather

Portishead - Numb, Wandering Star

Sleater Kinney - You Ain't It, The End Of You, One More Hour (actually every song they've ever done and Cadallaca, Heavens To Betsy, & The Spells)

Mineral - If I Could, Silver, Take The Picture Now, Parking Lot

Natalie Merchant - My Skin

Appleseed Cast - Fishing the Sky, Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets, Poseidon

Air - Playground Love, How Does It Make You Feel, The Vagabond

Garbage - When I Grow Up

Cat Stevens -The Wind

Me

I have a few favorite books, which include Sophie's World, The Fountain Head, The Count of Monte Cristo, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Candide. Movies that I would recommend are: Fight Club, The Virgin Suicides, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Sunset Boulevard, Waiting for Guffman, Citizen Kane, Momento, The Cable Guy, Office Space, Moulin Rouge, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and The Suicide Kings. New Classics such as Reservoir Dogs are of course delightful as well. Reading, listening to music and watching movies are favorite activities.