Alexander the Great was puzzled to find Diogenes examining a heap of human bones. "What are you looking for?" he inquired. "I am searching for the bones of your father," replied the philosopher, "but I cannot distinguish them from those of his slaves."
This website is dedicated to my family and friends. It is a sight for my views, thoughts, and pictures for all to see. Also, I share to you my favorite works of art. If you have any suggestions, email me. I'm open for any additional art, be it classical and/or the avant garde.
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The above picture was taken in front of the Persian Gulf.
The above picture was taken in Dhaharan, Saudi Arabia.
The above picture was also taken in front of the Persian Gulf.
The above picture was taken during a scouting mission, looking for scud missles.
The above picture was also taken during a scouting mission, looking for scud missles.
The above pictures were taken in Birmingham, Al. and Virginia.
The above picture is Shirley, my sister, and Dr. Beau Bruce at his Emory Medical School graduation.
The above picture is Shirley and her marathon buddies.
The above picture is Christy, my sister, and Jasmine, her daughter, my neice.
The above picture is Ray, my brother-in-law, and Jasmine.
The above picture is Jason, my nephew, Kevin, my brother-in-law, and Mary, Kevin's wife and my sister.
The above picture is my mom in Pensacola, Florida.
Likes: playing tennis, reading, writing, art, painting, drawing, watching movies, traveling, and shopping.
Dislikes: moody, insensitive, late, bad-tempered, ignorant, closed-minded people, and religious zealots.
Favorite movies: American Beauty, Immortal Beloved, Pride and Prejudice (1940), Last Temptation of Christ, Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil, Barfly, Romeo and Juliet, Dead Zone, Radio Flyer, Gone With the Wind, Excalibur, Swingers, Bottle Rocket, It'A Wonderful Life, The Color Purple, To Kill A Mockingbird, American Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Somewhere In Time, Requiem for a Dream, Titanic, Grosse Pointe Blank, Anne of Green Gables, Breakfast Club, What Dreams May Come, Jerry Maguire, Casablanca, Dangerous Liasons, Ghost, Shakespeare In Love, True Romance, Annie Hall, Amadeus, Braveheart, The Sixth Sense, The Princess Bride, About A Boy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Glory, Forrest Gump, Sling Blade, Wuthering Heights, The Excorsist, The Evil Dead, Trainspotting, Star Trek II, etc...
Favorite books: To Kill a Mockingbird, Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil, Anne of Green Gables, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, Le Morte D'Arthur, On the Road, Thinner, The Color Purple, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Schindler's List, The Art of War, The Prince, etc...
Favorite authors: Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Sir Thomas Mallory, John Berendt, Shakespeare, Jack Kerouac, L.M. Montgomery, John Steinbeck, F.Scott Fitzgerald, etc..
Good-looking people: Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Kelly Rutherford, Zhang Ziyi, James Dean, Pierce Brosnan, Taye Diggs, Sherilyn Fenn, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Famke Jansson, Ewan McGregor, Greer Garson, Jennifer Connelly, Rob Lowe, Robin Wright, Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Joseph and Ralph Fiennes, Charlize Theron, Bruce Lee, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, Rock Hudson, Carey Grant, Grace Kelly, David Boreanz, Jane Seymour, Wes Bentley, Heath Ledger, Lisa Marie Presley, Neve Campbell, Benicio Del Toro, Johnny Depp, Ashley, Judd, Prince William, James Caviezel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, etc...
Favorite actor/actress: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, John Malkovitch, Robert Deniro, Anthony Hopkins, Christian Bale, Lawrence Olivier, Robin Williams, James Caviezel, Benicio Del Toro, etc...
Favorite artist: Michelangelo, Bernini, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Monet, Michael Parkes, Raphael, etc...
Favorite music: classical, jazz, new age, pop, R&B (60s), etc...
Favorite band: Dave Matthews Band, Smashing Pumpkins, Tears For Fears, Peter Gabriel, Nora Jones, Tracey Chapman, Enya, Vanessa Carlton, Sixpence None the Richer, Peter Cetera, etc...
Favorite Songs: In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel and Kimmie Donovan), Carribean Blue (Enya), Storms In Africa (Enya), Ode To Joy (Beethoven), Glory of Love (Peter Cetera), Crash (Dave Matthews Band), Fast Car (Tracey Chapman), Tonight, Tonight (Smashing Pumpkins), Head Over Heals and Woman In Chains (Tears For Fears), 1000 Miles (Vanessa Carlton), Summertime (Billie Holliday), Take Five (Dave Brubeck Quartet), Girl from Ipanema (Stan Getz), Rahpsody In Blue (Rachmaninoff), etc...
Great thinkers: Da Vinci, Socrates, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas More, Stephen Hawking, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Carl Sagen, Jesus, Buddhism, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Napoleon, King Arthur and the Round Table, etc...
Favorite hero/heroine: King Arthur, Lancelaut, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Anne Shirley, Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Gandhi, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, William Wallace, Jesus, Buddha, Ricky Fitz from American Beauty, etc...
Things and/or people that are overrated: Eminem, Rap, boy-bands, Howard Stern, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, John Grisham, Christina Aguilera, Julia Roberts, E.R., Cameron Diaz, Madonna, Jennifer Aniston, overly expensive automobiles, Will and Grace, pseudo-intellectuals, etc...
Acts of ignorance/stupidity: Hitler and Germany in WW1 and WW2, Japanese and Italy ally with Germany during WW2, N. Korea and China going against USA, China, Russia, France, and Germany's lack of cooperation against Iraq, racism (esp. reverse racism), Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Iran's death threats on Salman Rushdie, John Wilkes Boothe, John Mcenroe, Adam and Eve, Caine, Nero, Ini Amin, September 11th, Mobsters, Senator John Mccarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, etc...
Senseless Acts of Violence: Trail of Tears, Bataan Death March, American Indian treatment, September 11th, Death of Lincoln, Persia attacking the Spartans, the Spartans way of life, etc...
Memorable Quotes:: "Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you think, and I'll believe what I know."-Kevin Spacey in Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
"We'll always have Paris."
"Listen I'm not good at being noble. But it doesn't take much to realize that the problems of three little people amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now... now... here's looking at you kid." -Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
1. Click here to see my favorite works of art.
2. Click here to see my top ten lists.
My website is still under construction. In the future, I'll have historical facts supporting my views. If you have any opinons, be it for or against my views, email me. Click on my email address below. Also, if you don't agree with me, the HELL with you.
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