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Johnny D

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About Me


5 favorite albums in no particular order: Pink Floyd - Animals; Phish - Rift; Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport; Postal Service - Give Up; Tool - Lateralus

My Interests

Guitars, music (playing, recording, listening), computers, beers, movies, the west coast, writing, warm nights in the desert, writing, poetry, clove kreteks, my dog abe, video games (playing them, fixing them and hopefully programming them in the future), laughing, sunny days, thunderstorms, making ridiculous facial expressions, learning, reading, being sarcastic

I'd like to meet:

my angel
Thich Nhat Hanh
Maynard James Keenan

Music:

Tool, Sublime, Pink Floyd, Phish, moe., Reggie, The Postal Service, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Dead, Bob Marley, Paul Van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, The Faint, Beatles, Allman Brothers, Andres Segovia, Bela Fleck/Flecktones, Clapton, Hendrix, Modest Mouse, and the list goes on.

Movies:

Snatch, Kill Bill, Donnie Darko, Anchorman, Fight Club, Zoolander, Gladiator, SLC Punk, Hackers, most anything with Jet Li, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, A Clockwork Orange, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Boondock Saints.

Books:

Some scifi and fantasy, asian culture, ridiculous technical writings about chemistry, physics (quantum physics), consciousness, buddhism and other eastern religions, abnormal psychology; most of which is over my head.Currently reading: Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)

Heroes:

Siddhartha Gautama, Maynard James Keenan, Thich Nhat Hanh, Alexander Shulgin. M.C. Escher, my Mom

My Blog

Because I donĀ“t wanna feel this overwhelming hostility

Lies, deceit, misdirection, fickleness, disappointment, cycles, change, forgiving.These things all come to mind when I consider the last few years of my life. I'm ready to turn the page, to conclude t...
Posted by Johnny D on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:29:00 PST

i was pretty angry

i hate you. no seriously, i do.i wrote this in a fit of anger and its not too bad.infinitely tormentedi watch and i play the partthe jailer - i lost the keyi clutch the shackles - i beg to be freei cl...
Posted by Johnny D on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:40:00 PST

impatiently calm

i haven't been this stressed out in quite some time. yet i'm amazingly calm about it. i suppose i've come to realize that its going to work out (or at worst it wont?) and really there isn't a real rea...
Posted by Johnny D on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:13:00 PST

captured thoughts

flying, lying, crying on the floor blinding, brightly it shines in my eyes binding is time, racing for the door lost as thoughts sped by, i can't ignore speeding, wheeling, longing for the skies tryin...
Posted by Johnny D on Wed, 03 May 2006 08:44:00 PST

home

I'm going home... back to the desert. Its fucking hot and sunny there and i couldn't love that more. My best friend lives out there and i'm sure we'll be back to the same old shit. Delano is coming ba...
Posted by Johnny D on Tue, 02 May 2006 06:57:00 PST

i brood

restless in endless void of being left in question of seemingly pointless existence faced with searing light to blind i fear i've lost my mind for now its what i have or what i cant remember never beg...
Posted by Johnny D on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:19:00 PST