Activities:
Evoking love and compassion, meditation, education (in various forms), random opportunities that arise, photography, painting, sketching, confusing people, inspiring others, observing, singing, dancing (in its plethora of forms), yoga, pilates, parkour, buildering, climbing, kung fu, hula dancing, learning (from anything and or anyone - even if it is simply a recalled lesson)

Interests:
Abstract Art, Anti-racism, Art Journaling, Baton Rouge, The Beach, Books (the way they smell and content), Buildering, Candles, Trying New Foods, Choral Music, Cinematography, Classical Music, Computer Networking, Computer Architecture, Cooking, CS, Creativity, Dancing, Differences, Drama, Drawing, Details, Dreams, Fashion Design, Fashion Statements, Fire, Flexibility, Frozen Gummy Bears, Fruit, Funny Stuff, Hanging Out, Haute Couture, Health, The Human Form, Hyperactivity, Improv, Innovation, Inspiration, Inspiring People (everyone), Inspiring Things (everything), Intelligence, Intelligent conversation, Intelligent people, Intrigue, James Douglas Morrison, Journaling, Knowledge, Latin, Learning, Life, Louisiana, Mardi gras, Martial Arts, Meeting New People, Memories, Music, Nature, Old Stuff, Oscar Wilde, Partying, Pencil Drawings, People's Experiences, Photography, Poetry, Platonic Love, psi/y-vamp, Puzzles, Rain, Reading, Romance, Sight Reading, Silent Conversation, Singing, Smoothies, Snowboarding, Social Justice, Succulent plants, Spirituality, Standing Out, Surfing, Sushi, Swimming, The Legend of Zelda, The Mind, Over-analysis, Thrift Stores, Tim Burton, Trance colors/music, Vampires, movers and shakers (not people who help you move, or vessels for spices, but rather those people that strip you in all the right ways), Vibrating Astronaut Toothbrushes, Water, Weird, Working Out, Writing, bdsm, s&m, Corny jokes, Sophisticated Jokes, CMOS batteries, Guacamole (with cilantro in it), Unbirthdays, Sitting on the Roof Blowing Bubbles, Hitler, and Having Fun

Favorite Music:
I enjoy a wide span of music - instrumentals, a capella, combinations - and I love suggestions; The Doors, Weezer, Ken Medema, Jason Becker, The Beatles, Zepplin, Lennon, Lemon Jelly, AC/DC, The Postal Service, Captain Beefheart, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Turtles, Jefferson Airplane, The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Hootie and the Blow Fish, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Pink floyd, Enya, The Ramones, The Temptations, The Mars Volta, Beach Boys, O.A.R., Gloria Gaynor, Whitney Houston, Queen, Metallica, The Starlight Mints, Alkaline Trio, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkl, Ace of Base, Animal Collective, Bjork, Belle and Sebastian, Bananarama, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, His Nerdy Clothes etc., Iron & Wine, Modest Mouse, Muse, Sufjan Stevens, Silverstein, Regina Spektor, The Flaming Lips, The Sex Pistols, The Scorpions, Iggy Pop, Aqua, They Might be Giants, Mozart, Rachael Yamageta, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Beck, Sigur Ros, Guns N' Roses, The Cranberries, The Strokes, John Butler Trio, Phish, Real big Fish, North Mississippi All Stars, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Andrea Boccelli, The Temptations, Pavarotti, Jars of Clay, Pink, Christina Aguilera, Allyiah, Missy Elliot, Jimmy Buffet, Dinah Washington, Chaka Chan, Betty Wright, Girl Talk, Mad Happy, Ladytron, The Decemberists, Radiohead, Celine Dion, Rachel Yamageta, Sia, Azure Ray, KT Tunstall, Emma Krkby, Chantal Kreviasuk, Linda Eder, Julie Andrews, Natalie Cole, Natalia Imbrugalia, Natasha Beddingfield, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wolf Parade...

Quotes:
Sometimes I am not old enough to know better, but never too young to care. I love the beautiful, and I appreciate the ugly. I have much more in life to harness, and I'm looking forward to the challenge. I'm on an endless quest for knowledge. I'm not afraid of the unknown. I can see in the light but I can feel in the dark, and sometimes feeling is more important than seeing. I wish to live, but understand death. I get along great with those I have things in common, and I admire those who are different.

Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.

I am an experiencer experiencing and experimenting with this amazing yet quizzical thing called life. It baffles me yet amuses me. Constantly I am reminded that there are things out there I have no understanding of, and quite possibly no one else does either.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.- Bill Nye

Criticism is opportunity.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ” - Aldous Huxley

I was looking for a degree and I walked away with a life. ~ Lauren Carter (BSC Class of 2004)

We know we are more than just neurons firing. Or, at least we think we are, while the neurons are firing.

Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.

Motto: People are particularly stupid today. I can't talk to them anymore.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. - Jim Morrison

Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come, and you are that idea - Alan Cohen

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. -Swetchine

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.-Og Mandino

me: what would I most likely be booked for while drunk?
bill: philosophizing without a warrant

Before someone will accept your criticism, you need to acknowledge their strengths. -- David Rabner

"Claire, you need a hand rail going up the stairs. Stoner kids don't do stairs without hand rails." -anon friend

Meg: What is wrong with you?
Martha: I am perfect, besides my tan lines.
James: You know, vanity is a sin, Martha.

me: ...3 men
me: hell, I can't get one
katie: you can get as many guys as you want if you lower your standards
katie: if you lower your pants too

amoeba52: So tell me all about the golden treasures you buried on the island, Meagan.
HottNGlitter: well, one was a cluster of the hearts of many men encased incased in liquid gold
HottNGlitter: another was a conglomerate mass in a slightly spherical shape composed of the fingernails of people who have scratched the metaphorical chalkboard of my mind
HottNGlitter: another is a vivid composition of blood in various states of drying swabbed onto a canvas with the hair from a human found on the floor of a hair salon
HottNGlitter: a journal with the middle page torn out and folded into a paper cup and tucked between page 16 and 17
HottNGlitter: and finally, the only other one I can remember - the knuckle bones of my spiritual partner in my last past life

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it." ---Oscar Wilde

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." ---Nietzsche

Me: take a poop, let it dry, make a flute, and play him a song in c minor for the sad fact he will never get another chance with me

"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."- Gilbert K. Chesterton

MENTAL:
Man is evil
Man is good
Man is spirit
Man is blood
Man is weak
Man is strong
Man is right
Man is wrong
Man is hunger
Man is lust
Man is biased
Man is just
Man is brutal
Man is kind
Man is Mental
Man is Mind

"Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man? Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi? Never assume that which you see or feel is actually real!" - Chrono Trigger

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us. --Leo Buscaglia


Movies:
The Life Aquatic, The Doors, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wilde, Interview With the Vampire, Monty Python movies, Dogma, A Fish Called Wanda, The Birdcage, Raising Arizona, A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Ring, The Boondock Saints, The Girl Next Door, Sixteen Candles, Ray, Cruel Intentions, 40 Days & 40 Nights, The Breakfast Club, The Phantom of the Opera, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Somethings Got To Give, The Bridget Jones movies, Casanova, The Wedding Date, 10 Things I Hate About You, Catch Me if You Can, Gladiator, The Grinch, Finding Nemo, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Hitch, O, Brother Where Art Thou?, Memoirs of a Geisha, Million Dollar Baby, Garden State, The Producers, RENT, Fern Gully, Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, What Dreams May Come, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Patch Adams, Blood Diamond, Stranger Than Fiction, Eragon, Apocalypto, Eating Raoul, Dreamgirls, The Illusionist, The Lakehouse, A Good Year, Arthur and the Invisibles, Catch and Release, The Holiday, Because I Said So, The Family Stone, Match Point, Night Shift, LadyHawke, Eating Raoul, The Green Mile, The Lookout, Benny and Joon, Teeth, The Dead Poet's Society, Brick,
...many more - and I have a plethora I need to see