_art:_
- Dempa - Hallucin: http://www.lycaeum.org/graphics/art/dempa/hallucin.jpg
- Daniel B. Holeman - Angel Heart: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/25/7a/8f/257a8f993e907166685721589c4f98b2.jpg
- Daniel B. Holeman - Earth Aura: http://www.awakenvisions.com/gallery1/H007EarthAura-5x7.jpg
- Daniel B. Holeman - One Earth - One Heart: http://www.awakenvisions.com/gallery1/OneEarthOneHeart.jpg
- Thomas Kinkade - Gazebo of Prayer: https://thomaskinkade.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gazpra.jpg
- Thomas Kinkade - Lamplight Manor: http://images.forwallpaper.com/files/thumbs/preview/42/421205__lamplight-manor-dream-in-hd_p.jpg
- Thomas Kinkade - Christmas: http://yoyowallpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Christmas-Paintings-Wallpapers-5-download-yoyo.jpg
- Thomas Kinkade - Christmas: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CYgePuPbDxI/VnvM_wohT2I/AAAAAAAADKs/yB1IdxWp8wo/s1600/12.jpg
- redinhawaii - Goddess of Wind: http://img14.deviantart.net/e671/i/2006/010/f/0/goddess_of_wind_by_redinhawaii.jpg
_photography:_
- Raja Ampat Islands: http://www.lagaligoliveaboard.com/images/conversion/conservation_biodiversity%20_007.jpg
_Music: (this list is way too long and there's already a bunch I left out that I wanted to put in)_
- Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_UYLPSn6U
- Lamb - Gorecki - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNYQwnl34w
- Dusty Springfield - The Windmills of Your Mind - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFJ38Coli8
- Yanni - Keys to Imagination - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqE56_Bab68
- Yanni - Nostalgia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWUe-iwyB2M
- Cyndi Lauper - All Through the Night - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkUY7LebDY
- Joe Satriani - The Extremist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP7OYW8rA20
- Beethoven - Fur Elise (this is the best (normal) rendition ever) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCN9QKWjt-0
- Beethoven - Fur Elise (guitar rendition) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkSTReVaFf0
- Blank & Jones - Mind of the Wonderful (Short Cut) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5jbweJORTw
- Linda Brava - Flame - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2k45UQbL14
- Wumpscut - Thorns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OF3JBX4xyc
- Gary Jules - Mad World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
- ATB - Twilight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3Lmjw62-c
- Scirocco - Hyperdrive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPLog_KFMg
- Suzanne Vega - Penitent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9jPDq8jarY
- Bing Crosby - Do You Hear What I Hear - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjzTAkWLBM
- Perry Como - Do You Hear What I Hear - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0RcHJ7p8K8
- Deva Premal - Gayatri Mantra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpA6qotiwg
- Avril Lavigne - Alice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI4m-l2yRZA
- Marina and the Diamonds - Forget - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17UL5ks9amY
- Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xl0Qry-hA
- The Extreme - Matter of Time (Chillout Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtjyv5xNktU
- Loreena McKennitt - Greensleeves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rvcZMY37I
- The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpmj059JFA
- Enya - Only If: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C68nicab4s
- Enya - The Celts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGwUpsyDJTk
- Enya - Orinoco Flow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw
- Enya - Anywhere Is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ98IJ0usoE
- Enya - Book of Days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiBwr4U59EI
- Enya - Caribbean Blue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yRgiXh2fP4
- Enya - China Roses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8XXcDUrdVk
- Enya - Only Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
- Enya - Paint the Sky with Stars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enefF0XfkgM
- Lana Del Rey - Once Upon a Dream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8waJ7W3QcJc
- Liz Callaway - Once Upon a December - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bsdu57SFZc
- Dave Masters & Robert Nickson feat. Justine Suissa - Out There (5th Dimension) (Christian Rusch's Chillout Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ej7Zi_lw8g
- Gloria Trevi - Todos Me Miran - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP7Kh2gWL8g
- Liz Kay - True Faith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1aIw3PaRAY
- Celine Dion - Ave Maria - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiQqPy6qPA0
- U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsrPEUt2Dg
- U2 - With Or Without You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSdTa9kai
- U2 - I Still Can't Find What I'm Looking For - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmxOUIddBm0
- Astral Projection - Ambient Galaxy (Disco Valley Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFvB1oNOC0
- The Crystal Method - Vegas (full album) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWSLhMLVas4
- The Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea (full album) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVqPx5mUj0g
- The Glitch Mob - Love Death Immortality (full album) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBZ-3Ugj1AQ
- Robert Miles - Dreamland (full album) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3OpUiN98fY
- Fran�oise Hardy - Le temps de l�amour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFxwN7Y6gU
- Magnus - WaterWave MaGnUs MiX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1BrOjrR-pI
- RD Project - Ai-Ai Bopem (Cj RcM Chillout Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMsbXT19MAs
- Music Instructor - Rock Your Body (Brainbug remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87L5rOQISlI
- Giilg�mesh - The Epic Of Ramayana Nitzho (Sita Records) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRebnVNIMIE
- Astral Projection - Nilaya - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acmF_G1iubQ
- The Doors - Riders On the Storm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DED812HKWyM
- Sylver - Turn the Tide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KbGJcxenDc
- Pachelbel - Canon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkSp8wc8lKw
- Mark Anthony - You Sang To Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY4YJxn-9Og
- Natacha Atlas - I Put a Spell On You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPaZ0V5f-8
- Duran Duran - Come Undone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnlyNUt_0o
- Haddaway - Wind of Change - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SBV2ht4L5A
- Jump Little Children - Cathedrals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVxTFN32DIk
- Schiller - Un Solo Minuto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25bwimXTKs
- Filo and Peri with Eric Lumiere - Soul and the Sun (Eric Lumiere�s Radio Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKAK1nCyFS4
- Vanessa Mae - Contradanza - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZ2NXtD-AU
- Two Girls - Musical Passion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRgm9SSUN7w
- Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock (Addams Family mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYxXYAOm8gU
- Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-26hsZqwveA
- Novus - Revealing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYiP0REsqbs
- Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVi3-PrQ0pY
- Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_mzw2MdIFY
- Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63zSjR_nhNI
- Lady Gaga - Bad Romance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I
- Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw
- Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (Sports Chant Stadium Remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJP93wQ7lM
- Hanson - MMMbop (Hex Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_sOOpM1_E
- Fun - We Are Young - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6dMFF_yts
- Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema (English version) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvP43cbp068
- DJ Hixxy & Styles - The Theme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjobmknrTec
[edit: should've added Salem - Redlights]
More of my favorite music at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwbh4C0zA3pScrcSqSVpr1rNF48R3XbK1
_Writing (mainly poems):_
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Arrow and the Song:
- I shot an arrow into the air,
- It fell to earth, I knew not where;
- For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
- Could not follow it in its flight.
- I breathed a song into the air,
- It fell to earth, I knew not where;
- For who has sight so keen and strong,
- That it can follow the flight of song?
- Long, long afterward, in an oak
- I found the arrow, still unbroke;
- And the song, from beginning to end,
- I found again in the heart of a friend.
--
(unknown author) - (unknown title)
- I heard a story of a man
- Who split himself in two
- One half never changed
- The other half grew and grew
- One half was always true
- The other was always new
- And then i wondered
- Which half was me, which half was you?
--
(some German guy) - Contradiction of Souls
- I was the black haze
- That obscured your every thought
- While you scourged my inner self
- With the radiance you brought
- Two pieces of a puzzle of pain
- A dance
- Entangled heat
- Ourselves we beat
- In ignorant trance
- Contradiction of souls spoken again
- You are the phoenix
- Trapping me and soaring through the sky
- You're ripping me apart and burning my flesh
- But if I free myself...
- I'll surely die
- Over 2 mensen die elkaar nodig hebben en tegelijkertijd elkaar verscheuren.
--
(same German guy) - Flower
- She drowns herself in an acid pool
- To wash off the other pain
- Grown to be her own hurt's tool
- She holds out her hands to the freezing rain
- Her broken soul desperately cries for help
- In a language unheard before
- While I try to understand, to rescue her from this dark land
- She continues to destroy herself even more
- I stumble through bright white landscapes
- Where knowledge lies behind blinded vision, buried beneath the ice
- Armed only with my mind's searching eye
- Deeply hoping that it will suffise
- I long...
- To save this flower
- From her slow descent
- To restore her power
- So that it can't evermore be bent
- To make her wounds cower
- And fade like a forgotten memory, carried away by time's tide
- To destroy the mist that clouds her
- So she'll discover her soul's brighter side
- This flower is not yet lost
- I refuse to let her slip into the abyss
- I long to save this flower
- At any cost
- For as long as my hope remains
- She is not lost
- Over iemand die in een vicieuze cirkel van pijn terecht is gekomen.
--
Mihail Eminescu - Hyperion (a very long poem, this is just the last stanza. also, the poem wasn't originally written in English. this is a translation.)
- "You live accompanied by weal
- In your all-narrow fold,
- Whilst in my boundless world I feel
- Both deathless and death cold"
--
This is just the best limerick I've ever read:
- There was a young fellow from Kent
- Whose dick was so long that it bent.
- To save her some trouble,
- He folded it double,
- And instead of coming, he went.
--
This isn't actually a poem, it's a dream someone who went by "realiTay" described in IRC many years ago. Due to limitations of the medium, some of the text was lost (after the lone "g"), and I don't know how much.
- "i've had two philisophically significant dreams that i've never forgotten"
- "i stood at the foot of a mountain pass. a knight fought a dragion, the knight was good and the dragon was evil. they fought for eons up the pass. the knight was so determined to slay evil he forswore all else, not even noticing the destruction he caused about him. by the top of the mountain he had become evil, seeking only to slay his foe and uncaring of anything else. the dragon sought to defeat his foe at forst because his foe was g"
- "in the end he only sought to preserve his own life as the knight had destroyed all other living things in his zeal to defeat what he saw as the greatest evil, thus, being the last vestige of life and the purity of simply preserving life, even his own, yet not harming, even though unable, other lfie, he was good."
- "then they both were back at the foot of the pass and it started over, the knight now the dragon and the dragon now the knight"
--
Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman - The Windmills of Your Mind (lyrics)
- Round
- Like a circle in a spiral
- Like a wheel within a wheel
- Never ending or beginning
- On an ever-spinning reel
- Like a snowball down a mountain
- Or a carnival balloon
- Like a carousel that�s turning
- Running rings around the moon
- Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
- Past the minutes of its face
- And the world is like an apple
- Whirling silently in space
- Like the circles that you find
- In the windmills of your mind
- Like a tunnel that you follow
- To a tunnel of its own
- Down a hollow to a cavern
- Where the sun has never shone
- Like a door that keeps revolving
- In a half-forgotten dream
- Or the ripples from a pebble
- Someone tosses in a stream
- Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
- Past the minutes of its face
- And the world is like an apple
- Whirling silently in space
- Like the circles that you find
- In the windmills of your mind
- Keys that jingle in your pocket
- Words that jangle in your head
- Why did summer go so quickly?
- Was it something that you said?
- Lovers walk along a shore
- And leave their footprints in the sand
- Is the sound of distant drumming
- Just the fingers of your hand?
- Pictures hanging in a hallway
- And the fragment of a song
- Half-remembered names and faces
- But to whom do they belong?
- When you knew that it was over
- You were suddenly aware
- That the autumn leaves were turning
- To the colour of her hair
- Like a circle in a spiral
- Like a wheel within a wheel
- Never ending or beginning
- On an ever-spinning reel
- As the images unwind
- Like the circles that you find
- In the windmills of your mind
--
And this is a poem by my old friend Jay (known online as Sui Generis or prosui)
- If I were bodiless...
- I would stretch to the size of the universe, and watch it expand.
- I would inflate to the size of an atom and reorganize the universe by hand.
- If I were bodiless...
- I would bounce light and redirect sounds.
- I would entrance its color and turn it around.
- If I were bodiless...
- I would enlighten my orb into a resplendant spectrum ray.
- And mimic the stars a billion light years away.
- I would float above skylines, soar through city streets and watch people go by.
- Dance to the constellations glistening through my eye.
- If I were bodiless...
- I would engender worlds by thought alone
- Where long lost souls lay to rest at their new found home.
- If I were bodiless...
- I could soar anywhere I wish and never be found.
- Not a trace, footprint or sound.
- The physics of eternity crystalized within my minds eye.
- Soaring through planes, tasting light and seeing soundwaves echoing high.
- Blazing it by faster than the speed of light.
- A thousand journeys in a single astral flight.
- If I were bodiless...
- I would stretch the limits of physics and fiddle with time.
- If I were bodiless...
- Every one of my thoughts would have its own conscious mind.
- If I were bodiless...
- I would be everywhere you would find.
- If I were bodiless...
- ...The universe would be mine.
- THE END
-prosui
--
(unknown author) - *UNFINISHED*
- You have followed your tears along the river,
- As they flowed down the darkened way,
- You left the sun that lit each moment,
- As the luminescent light began to softly fade,
- Weak and feeble, you kept walking,
- Though the darkness gave you a fright,
- With each step, your heart fell harder,
- Too scared to find the will to fight,
- The glow behind you caused your tears to fall,
- And wet your melancholy cheeks,
- You tried to scream to let them find you,
- But your numb lips could not open to speak,
- You heard their words cry out to you,
- And echo through the tunnels walls,
- Your tears weighed you down to nothing,
- As your frail legs caused you to fall,
- You crawled along, facing the ground,
- Too scared to see what lies ahead,
- Your old smiles and happiness flashing before you,
- Everything your loved ones said,
- My last view of you quickly fades,
- Into the midnight sky,
- I fall onto the frozen ground,
- As the Lord hears my saddened cries,
- "Go to your friend, my distraught child,
- For your strength is what they need,
- Don?t hold back because you are scared,
- Don?t allow yourself to grieve,"
- I wipe the tears out of my eyes,
- And stand up tall on my shaky feet,
- "Your strength in your heart is all you have left,
- So go to them as they lie weak,"
- A few steps in to the hollowed tunnel,
- I scream and pray you hear,
- Your cries echo back to me in pain,
- As I hear the drops of your million tears,
- The blackness sends my eyes back to the light,
- Not knowing what I should do,
- "Heart, please give me the courage to go on,"
- I pray as I think of you,
- The faster I run, the less frightened I'll be,
- And the sooner I can hold you in my arms,
- I dash to you, as your cries get louder,
- Ive got to get you out of harm,
- I hold your weakened body tightly,
- As you look into my eyes,
- "Im sorry," you say, as you wipe my own tears,
- "Please don't say that this is goodbye,"
- "My friend, you've got to find your own strength,
- But for now, you may take mine,
- Just forget your weakness, and find my courage,
- And you'll make it through in time,"
- "I'm too weak," you reply, closing your eyes,
- "I can no longer go on,"
- "Dear friend, if it were your time now,
- Than God wouldn't have sent me here to bring the sun,"
- As the light shines down the darkened tunnel,
- From the candlelight of your solemn friends,
- "I called, and they came!" you cried,
- "That's because it's not the end"
- You must keep on walking down this tunnel,
- Until the light brings to you the day,
- And there, God will take you in His arms,
- And blow away your haze,
- Your lifes path is long ahead of you,
- And our love will help your pain to diminish,
- For you must live for those you've loved and lost,
- Cuz your journey has been left unfinished.