there are so many talented amazing people in this world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzDqURVjpcM

David: Yes. Do you think pain or anguish is a necessary component of the creative process?

Meg Hutchinson: No, I don't, and this is something that I think about a lot, actually, because we have this very glamorous vision - sadly, glamorous vision - of the tortured artist, and how artists must have to kind of be self-destructive in order to get something that's really vivid and really striking in their art. And I totally disagree. I know a lot of working artists who are doing really well emotionally, and they don't have the same demons and they're still very creative and very successful.
I think what you need to do is be honest in your writing. I don't think you need to create more darkness than you have, and I don't think you have to - if you do have bipolar or depression, I don't think you have to fuel it in order to be a better writer. But I think you have to be honest in your work, and that's what I've tried to do, is not ignore where it comes from and not ignore that somehow bipolar's given me more emotional colors than I might have had otherwise. I like to think of it as a painter; that I have more colors on my palette because of these extreme highs and lows that I can now draw on as a writer. But I wouldn't necessarily ask for that if I had the choice, you know.

BELL HOOKS IS A LIBRA.

I'm laughing, I'm laughing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtoanes_L_g&playnext=1&list=PLdv-g6DiXGjpuXy7Tzh8SiAfdTYA1aCCN&feature=results_main

comments are interesting too.

James Franco:

yummm. i'm torturing myself by putting this picture up. Smart, talented, and extremely attractive. What's not to like? On the Colbert Report, he said he locked himself up for a while to indulge himself in learning. He was anti-social for a while because of that. I find that incredibly hot. Lol.