Hi From Neptune

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Neptune: a planet on the outer edges of our solar system. Population: Me, and whatever thoughts batter their way to freedom. Please keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times... Didn't you always want your own planet?

Nouvelle y Nuovo

• Betty's Page (en Francais)
• My Travel Blog: Beware Pictures!
• Un Uovo Nuovo: photos from around the world
[[24 August: Nemi]]

Bloggy Goodness

• French Toast Girl
• Loobylu
• Wish Jar
• Michelle's Days
• Illustration Friday
• Pigs With Crayons
• Singing Hawk
• Crayon Box of Doom
• [Mad-Season]
• Rich Pellegrino
• Duttonart
• Wife in the North

The Latest Brain Waves

* I like marketplaces. Busy, crowded, claustrophobic marketplaces, with tides of humanity and so much to find...

The Fight for Humanity:
Worthwhile Diversions

• Make Poverty History
• Amnesty International: [ main ] [ USA ]
• Fair Trade
• Human Rights Watch
• TreeHugger
• International Fund for Animal Welfare
• Animal Rescue
• Breast Cancer
• Child Health
• Greenpeace
• End Hunger
• Literacy
• The ONE Campaign
• Rainforest
• World Wildlife Fund
• Sustainable Harvest
• Stop Global Warming: Virtual March on Washington

Art Stuff

• My deviantART
• Silkenthread.net Photography
• Alana's Folio [deviantART]
• FILE Galleries
• Scott Gordon Photography
• wil.d.esign
• Run to the Ocean: Art & Wallpapers
• Photo.net: Mind-blowing professional shots
• Ansel Adams, Photographer
• Gow Langsford Gallery
• Gerrit Dou, Artist
• Tirage Fine Art Gallery
• Blog: Eyes Wide Apart
• Lynne Glazer Photography
• Cloud Appreciation Society
• Stock.xchng
• Speak Up: Design Dialog
• Blog: Pop Stalin: Web Design with Standards
• Another Girl at Play
• Justin Sweet

Books of the Moment
past entries here

* It is Bliss Here: Letters Home, 1939-1945
- Myles Hildyard
1. How to Achieve True Greatness
- Baldesar Castiglione
Wonderful! Vibrantly intelligent, eloquent and with a distinct sense of prestige (as it would, having been written in Renaissance Italy). It reminded me of the highest dreams of mankind, with all the fervour and idealism that phrase implies.
2. The Grand Design - John Marco
Book II of the Tyrants and Kings series, this is just as harsh, compelling and readable as the first.

Oddities

All-Time Top 5's

Music for a calm heart: Top 6
Restless - Gordon Lightfoot
I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Cowboyography - Ian Tyson
The Best - James Reyne
Fields of Gold - Sting
Like the Rain - Clint Black

Things to do on a Sunday morning:
- Sleep
- Learn something!
- Make pancakes or a yummy berry smoothie
- Lie in the sun and read
- Write / dream about all the awesome places I'm gonna go when I win the lottery

Movies to make me cry:
[ check out at allmovie or wikipedia ]
Saving Private Ryan
Hotel Rwanda
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
City of Angels
Life Is Beautiful

Songs I like, but really shouldn't:
- Hot Legs - Rod Stewart
- Time, Love and Tenderness - Michael Bolton
- Wichita Lineman - ?
- Mysterious Girl - Peter Andre
- Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin

Sources of inspiration:
Hymns to the Night by Novalis
My parents
My Grandad
Nightingale - Yanni
"You are a beautiful person."

Memorable quotes: Top 6
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
- Winston Churchill
"All art is quite useless."
- Oscar Wilde *shakes head*
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
- Charlotte Bronte
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
- Novalis
"This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
- William Shakespeare
"What are you looking for?" / "A sense of the miraculous in everyday life."
- The Mask of Zorro

Links

• My Paper Drawer*
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Classic Literature Online
• Furry Paws
• MP3 Hive - Sharing the Sharing
• Listen @ Radio Paradise
• BBC
• Iffy Translations>;-)
• Peachie.nu - Tools for Webmasters
• 67 Special
• Gorgeous Flash Games
• Russia's Alexander Palace
• Allmusic.com

Blogs & Journals

• Neil Gaiman: Comic Author and Writer
• Eric Margolis: Foreign Correspondent
• Jason Mraz
• Daniel Tashian, Musician

Songs for the Jukebox
Past entries see here

Top Sites

Previous Posts

• Update
• Paradox appreciation
• Thoughts on human nature
• Photo blow-out
• Clearance
• Dali's 'St Jacques Le Grand'
• Classics
• Website plan
• A weekend of silence
• Was that my English exam?

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