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Name: Johnny
Location: California, United States
Birthday: 10/24/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Acting, Writing, Reading, Movies, Music, The usual!
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Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
10/8/2001
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| I'm bored... so... LISTS!
Top 15 Tori Covers from the Original Sinsuality/Summer of Sin Tour(s)... (couldn't fit just 10)
1. Dream On (Aerosmith)
2. Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
3. Rocket Man (Elton John)
4. Father Figure (George Michael)
5. Livin' On a Prayer (Bon Jovi) <--- Saw this one live!
6. Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis)
7. Like a Prayer (Madonna)
8. Penny Lane (Beatles)
9. All Through the Night (Cyndi Lauper) - Saw this live too!
10. Can't Get You Out of my Head (Kylie Minogue)
11. When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin) - notice that there's a song for tori to cover associated with any current event going on in the world...
12. Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)
13. My Favorite Things (Sound of Music Soundtrack)
14. Karma Police (Radiohead)
15. Moonshadow (Cat Stevens)
Top Ten Movies of 2005 (so far... from what i've seen of course):
1. Broken Flowers
2. Crash
3. Sin City
4. Palindromes
5. Batman Begins
6. The 40 Year Old Virgin
7. Fever Pitch
8. War of the Worlds
9. Charlie And the Chocolate Factory
10. Cinderella Man
The Worst Movies of 2005 (1 being the Worst, and so on):
1. Cursed
2. White Noise
3. The Ring 2 (notice a trend here?)
4. Kingdom of Heaven
5. Be Cool
6. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
... could only fit 6 comfortably....
Top Ten Movies this Year I'm looking forward to:
1. Aeon Flux
2. King Kong
3. Jarhead
4. Walk The Line
5. Stay
6. Elizabethtown
7. The Producers
8. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
9. Memoirs of a Geisha
10. Fun with Dick & Jane
runner-ups: Munich, Match Point, Flightplan, The Prize Winner of Defience, Ohio, North Country, In Her Shoes, The Weatherman
Top Ten Tracks from "The Beekeeper":
1. Ribbons Undone
2. The Beekeeper
3. Martha's Foolish Ginger
4. General Joy
5. Sweet The Sting
6. Sleeps With Butterflies
7. Toast
8. Parasol
9. Marys of the Sea
10. Original Sinsuality
Top 8 Tori CDs, in order of greatness:
1. Boys for Pele
2. Little Earthquakes
3. The Beekeeper
4. From the Choirgirl Hotel
5. Under the Pink
6. Scarlet's Walk
7. To Venus and Back
8. Strange Little Girls
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| Why oh why do I have to have a Sociology essay and a Speech midterm the day after the Tori concert? My teachers couldn't have planned it better. Oh well, I'll be up late tonight!
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| R.I.P. Terri Schiavo
If Terri Schiavo were to have miraculously recovered yesterday, and strut right out the front doors of the Pinellas Point hospital, how many people would have really even noticed? The frenzy surrounding this case has been uncermountable. The Supreme court, Florida courts, the U.S. government, churches, and the public (liberals and conservatives) have now joined the circus of moral questioning attached to the Schiavo matter, but one must wonder how many individuals are actually concerned about Terri herself?
At this point, any care about the individual would be irrelevant. Terri passed away at 9:00am this morning, with her much-publicized teddy bear in her arms, and her husband Michael at her side. After 15 years and 14 days of what must have been sheer and utter misery, she is now either in heaven or hell - it is no one's issue anymore but God. And yet, I have a feeling this ordeal will continue to drag out for a good time. As if six appeals to the Florida courts were not enough, I'm sure her parents will now file a lawsuit of wrongful death against Michael Shiavo.
So while thousands of children and women of the town of Darfur, Africa are being brutally slaughtered every day, and thousands of Iraqis and American soldiers are dying every day, and worldwide poverty is at an all time high, with millions starving to death every year... this single brain-dead Florida woman is at the center of American concern.
It has easily surpassed the interest of the Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, and Robert Blake cases. And those guys are pedophiles and murderers.
There are a few things I do find truly upsetting about the case. 1) The fact that we live in a society where George Greer, a county judge in Florida, has more power than the Florida governor Jeb Bush, or the U.S. president George W. Bush. When the U.S. government has stated that they have done all they can to stop this, and it is out of the president or governor's hands, there is something wrong with that picture. 2) The uncontrollable amount of finger pointing involved in the matter. This is not the fault of liberals, nor conservatives, nor "jesus freaks", nor atheists. The media frenzy would have been present whether a democrat or republican was our president. To suggest that this would have been a quiet matter if it occured during the Clinton years is absurd - democrats and liberals are equally opinionated about the case. In a recent poll, 79% of democrats were against the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, compared to 86% of republicans. Many of these people would say that she is being murdered by the Florida courts. She is not being murdered - the removal of the feeding tube merely puts Terri in her natural state. It has also been called "an attack of God," which is even more absurd, for Terri's death today was God's will. If there was no divine intervention, then nothing more need be done.
And again, while mass genocide is worldwide, and the country is at war, and millions of unborn babies are killed every year, the most controversial death in American society is that of a woman who has been brain dead for 15 years. The president said today that "millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo," but I would argue that the true grief lies in the idea of those millions that they won't have anything exciting to talk about anymore.
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| Listening to: Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (This song rocks!)
My Top Ten Movies of 2004:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Sideways
3. Vera Drake
4. The Aviator
5. Maria Full of Grace
6. Garden State
7. Shrek 2
8. Ray
9. Kill Bill: Volume 2
10. Collateral
Five Runner-ups: Finding Neverland, Closer, Phantom of the Opera, Napoleon Dynamite, The Passion of the Christ
Worst Ten:
1. Catwoman
2. The Butterfly Effect
3. I Heart Huckabees
4. Troy
5. The Day After Tomorrow
6. The Stepford Wives
7. The Grudge
8. Spanglish
9. Dawn of the Dead
10. The Terminal <--- not horrible, but couldn't think of a 10th horrid film
Overall Year of Movies: **1/2 (Somewhat dissapointing)
Five Best Male Performances:
1. Jamie Foxx - Ray
2. Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
3. Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
4. Paul Giamatti - Sideways
5. Thomas Hayden Church - Sideways
Five Best Female Performances (Coulda had 10):
1. Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
2. Annette Bening - Being Julia
3. Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake (gooey gumdrops!)
4. Uma Thurman - Kill Bill: Vol. 2
5. Bryce Dallas Howard - The Village
Five Best Movie Scenes:
1. Hilary Swank telling off her mom - Million Dollar Baby
2. Bryce and Joaquin on the front porch at night - The Village
3. The pregnancy test - Kill Bill: Vol. 2
4. Paul and Virginia talking about wine on the porch - Sideways
5. Nicole crying on the beach - Birth
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| This is an ACTUAL album review excerpt from an ACTUAL magazine:
"I may as well come out and say what you’d be thinking if you sat all the way through Tori Amos’ career from Y Kant Tori Read to The Beekeeper: the only way that we’re going to get a good album from her in this day and age is if someone has the decency to abduct and kill her daughter. " - Stylus Magazine
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ZOE AND JOHNNY GO TO HOMECOMING!
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On October 27, 2001, John Martin and Zoe Hogue went to the 2001 West High Homecoming Dance, where a lot of fun and dancing was had. For more on this story... ask someone else!
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