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Louie

I am here for Friends

About Me

Crystal Voyager - Echoes Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j89IF1PufPU

My Interests

homegrown, music (making/listening), guitar, banjo, harmonica, surfing, running, the environment, friends, family, camping, tomatoes (i love tomatoes), khali herb, dominoes, cribbage, pot lucks, singing, dancing, ocean, math stuff

I'd like to meet:

Crystal Voyager - Echoes Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_lpx3tNq7k

Music:

Zappa, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, David Lindley, Neil Young, Albert King, Foo Fighters, Walken, Spontaneous Underground, Krissy-Lyn, Primus, Janes Addiction, the be good tanyas, Hank Williams I, II, and III, van the man, Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stones, Brothers Past, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Van Halen (pre Hagar), Bon Jovi, Johnny cash, Willie Nelson, Captain Beefheart, Project object, Heiroglyphics, the gladiators, Pato Banton, Old crow medicine show, Woody Guthrie, ........so much more. i love music, as Frank Zappa says: "Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the BEST..."

Movies:

Easy Rider, Imagine:Surfing as Sadhanna, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Rundown (i know it is cheesy), The innermost limits of pure fun, Help, The good the bad the ugly, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, the Three Amigos

Books:

Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey), Even Cowgirls get the Blues (Tom Robbins), Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), Dove (Robin Lee Graham), Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut), Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Thomas Wolfe), The Drifters (James Michener), Confederate General From Big Sur (Richard Brautigan), Secrets of the Heart (Kahlil Gibran), Survive the Savage Sea (Dougal Robertson), Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey), Chesapeake (Michener), The Sot-weed Factor (John Barth), Dreaming of Babylon (Brautigan), Skinny legs and all (Robbins)

Heroes:

Frank Zappa, Billy Mills, Rosa Parks, Dave Wells, Tim Miller

My Blog

'I was trying to describe you to someone' by Richard Brautigan

Another great short story by Mr. Brautigan, from the book 'Revenge of the Lawn''I was trying to describe you to someone''I was trying to describe you to someone a few days ago. You don't look like any...
Posted by Louie on Tue, 08 May 2007 10:36:00 PST

'Lint' by Richard Brautigan

'Lint' by Richard Brautigan, found in the book ' Revenge of the Lawn' - you gotta read this collection of short stories you'll love it.'LintI'm haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no v...
Posted by Louie on Sat, 05 May 2007 02:42:00 PST

Wall on the USA-Mexico border: tear it down!!

Speaking for the people of the United States of America and Mexico, we do not want a wall on our shared border.  USA and Mexico need eachother to survive in our crazy world in which we live today...
Posted by Louie on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:08:00 PST

farm aid 2006

Farm aid was last saturday (9/30/06) in Camden, NJ, which is just across the river from Philadelphia.  I went with my friend m. cosimano (who's name was cusumano until his grandfather emigrated h...
Posted by Louie on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:14:00 PST

The Sot-Weed Factor

An exerpt from John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor:     "Heigh-ho!" sighed Dick at a lull in their talk. "'Twere a world one could live in did wealth follow wit, for gold's the best bait t...
Posted by Louie on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:23:00 PST

Neil Young Living With War

Neil Young's new album, "Living With War", is an incredible album everyone should hear. It is streaming live on the website: neilyoung.truemajority.org it is so good, and so right on. neil calls it ...
Posted by Louie on Tue, 02 May 2006 05:22:00 PST

Important news: China and the Falun Dafa/Gong

Hello everyone,  posted below is a bulletin that my friend lisa wrote about terrible actions against practicers of Falun Dafa/Falun Gong in China. Please read below.  Louie Hi Friends, Sor...
Posted by Louie on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:36:00 PST

a howard zinn article...

I just finished reading this article by Howard Zinn.  It has a very interesting perspective: the one from the working class citizen.  Howard Zinn is the author of "A people's history of the ...
Posted by Louie on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:54:00 PST

San Antonio MLK march

I have just come across a news article that I wanted to share.  It is about a controversial 'military fly over' at a Martin Luther King march in San Antonio, Texas.  Government and city offi...
Posted by Louie on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:37:00 PST

back in Delaware

Well, now the holidays are over and here I am back in good ol' delaware!  Hope everyone has had a nice winter so far.  I was in California for almost three weeks and did more than I thought ...
Posted by Louie on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:30:00 PST