Inscribed On Tombstone:
Born: New Year's Eve, 1983
Location: SkateTown
Occupation: Incorrigible Slacker Real Occupation: Media Student
Herein lies a...
Die-hard romantic
Tireless advice-giver
Certified gun-nut
Lazy-ass whore
Loyalist to a fault
Parody-lover
Electronic Entertainment Enthusiast
Football Fanatic
Conspiracy-theorist Crackpot
Wordsmith
Unrealistic idealist
Self-righteous moralist
Born individualist
Former atheist
Penchant for the melodramatic
Sentimentalist
Quotable Quotes
"Soon the reason is gone, and all that is left is the feeling itself..."
- Anonymous
"The thrill is in the hunt."
- Myself
"Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue."
- Nietzsche
"Fortune favours the bold."
- Virgil
"It is but a shadow and a flicker that you love..."
- Aragorn
"Beneath this mask is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
- V
"I have dreamed a dream... but now that dream has gone from me."
- Morpheus
"God does not play dice."
- Einstein
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
- Academician Prokhor Zhakarov
"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic."
- Stalin
"In one dimension I find existence, in two I find life, but in three, I find freedom."
- Foreman Domai
"You see, people believe what the media tells them to believe. And I tell the media what to believe."
- Kane
"Optimists and pessimists die the same way. Optimists just live differently."
- Shimon Peres
"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
- David G. Farragut
"You know you are in love, when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world."
- David Levesque
"Music... the language to stir the hearts of men."
- Shakespeare
"A man always finds it hard to accept he has lost a woman's love, no matter how badly he may have treated her."
- Sherlock Holmes
"He who attacks where his enemy does not know how to defend, will be victorious."
- Sun Tzu
"Without purpose, we would not exist."
- Agent Smith
"I know guys like you, you can do any terrifying thing you're ordered to do... but you have to do it running."
- Carl
"History has been one long series of conspiracies... the successful ones, we call governments."
- Stanton Dowd
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
- Winston Churchill
"One thing is true of all governments... the most reliable records are tax records."
- Eric Finch
"When a guy sleeps around, he's a player. When a girl does, she's a slut."
- Sean
"A person is smart. People are dumb, stupid & panicky, and you know it."
- K.
There's a new wind blowin' like I've never known I'm breathin' deeper than I've ever done And it sure feels good, to finally feel the way I do I wanna love somebody, love somebody like you
And I'm lettin' go of all my lonely yesterdays I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made Now there's just one thing, the only thing I wanna do I wanna love somebody, love somebody like you.
Yeah, I wanna feel the sunshine Shinin' down on me and you When you put your arms around me You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do
I used to run in circles goin' nowhere fast I'd take a one step forward and two steps back Couldn't walk a straight line even if I wanted to I wanna love somebody, love somebody like you
- Keith Urban, Somebody Like You
What makes a movie like LOTR so popular to the masses?
The book is one hell of a tedious read, to be frank. The movie has great action, romantic and poignant scenes, but so do alot of other movies. What makes this trilogy stand out?
It's the way the characters relate so closely to us.
Take Frodo, much-maligned gay hobbit and bearer of Sauron's ring. As a protanganist, he doesnt exactly portray the image of courage, steadfastness or dedication. He keeps weakening against the insidious influence of the ring, turns against Sam and even loses the battle for his mind at the end. So why is Frodo so powerful as the hero?
Because of this: like so many of us, Frodo is chained with a deep dark burden, that cannot be shared, that cannot be gotten rid of, that eats away at him incessantly. Like so many of us, with a deep dark secret that cannot be revealed - that is why we relate to Frodo.
Other examples, too - brothers Boromir and Faramir embody the age-old vice of human greed and avarice, the former giving in to his temptation and paying the ultimate price for it. LOTR doesn't try to make heroes that stand for the best or the worst in human nature, because people aren't so narrow-minded anymore to see the world in pure black and white. Instead, the world's a riot of shades of grey, just like all the characters have their good and bad sides.