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Rob Jones

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

A seeker with a diverse background.A wayward golden child,teenage neighborhood oddball,adolescent punk rocker,martial artist,soldier,dock worker,part-time thug,full-time prison guard,avant-garde musician,philosopher,husband,certified personal trainer, stripper,poet,actor,father,bouncer,minister,inmate,traveler, model,advocate of psychedelics,activist,grandfather,bodyguard,NYC street musician,performance artist,avid reader,book collector,Special tactics team member,casanova,time bomb,fitness junkie,vegetarian,hiker,cross-country VW hippie bus wanderer,college student,in need of a break...

My Interests

Music,exercise,books,travel,superheros,conspiracy theories,anthropology, Sadhus,Shamans,Kettlebells,Indigenous cultures,Peace and quiet.

I'd like to meet:

Those who are blazing their own trails,or chasing their own tails. Others with alter-egos.

Music:

The Beatles,Led Zeppelin,Mahavishnu Orchestra,Jimi Hendrix,The Mars Volta,Gino Vannelli,Son House,Issa Bagayogo,Caetano Veloso,Pino Daniele,Bill Laswell,The Derek Trucks Band,Cinematic Orchestra,Fela Kuti,Bad Brains,Alice Cooper,Howlin' Wolf, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,Cream,Curtis Mayfield,Jean-Luc Ponty,Frank Zappa,Gong,The Doors,Kiss,Weather Report,Soft Machine,EmersonLake&Palmer,Sarah McLachlan, Funkadelic,Robert Johnson,Tony Williams Lifetime,Bjork,David Bowie,Ravi Shankar, Kishore Kumar,Radiohead,King Crimson,Elmore James,Marvin Gaye,Tabla Beat Science,Freddie King,Albert King,B.B.King,Luscious Jackson,Yes,Jethro Tull,Kansas,Foghat,Yardbirds,Jeff Buckley,Siouxie and the Banshees, Focus,Jan Garbarek Group,Jeff Beck,Isley Brothers,Sigur Ros,Muddy Waters,Deep Purple,Return To Forever,Kate Bush,Brand X,D'Angelo,Portishead,Miles Davis,The Smiths,Queen,Thin Lizzy,T-Bone Walker,Traffic,Tool,Maxwell,Stylistics,Buddy Guy,Ornette Coleman,The Ramones,Iggy Pop,Black Flag,Nicolo Paganini,Bad Brains, Tori Amos,James Brown,Elvis Presley,Roger Troutman,Les Paul,Robin Trower, Ohio Players,Prince,Gnarls Barkley,Rolling Stones,Black Sabbath,Shpongle,DJ Logic Santana,The Allman Brothers Band,The Chi-Lites,New Birth,The Stranglers, Steely Dan,Grand Funk Railroad,Sex Pistols,Joni Mitchell,The Tony Rice Unit, Dixie Dregs,Willie Nelson,Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush,Antonio Vivaldi.

Movies:

Soylent Green,Taxi Driver,Enter the Dragon,The Mack,Siddhartha, The Matrix,Short Cut to Nirvana,Little Buddha,The Warriors,Orfeu, The Song Remains the Same,Planet of the Apes,Rocky,Hustle & Flow, Crash,A Beautiful Mind,Finding Forrester,Good Will Hunting,The Crow, Waking Life,Pulp Fiction,Black Belt Jones,Apocalypse Now,The Fountainhead,Monterey Pop,Fresh,Rust Never Sleeps,A Patch of Blue,Jeremiah Johnson,Jupiter's Wife,Penitentiary,Which Way is Up?,The Godfather,An Imitation of Life,Five Deadly Venoms,The Seven Samurai,The Buddy Holly Story,Black Orpheus,Spartacus,Sweet Sweetback's Baddaasss Song,Repo Man,Horror of Dracula, Vampire Circus,Return of the Dragon,The Nutty Professor w/Jerry Lewis,Baraka.

Television:

Don't have one,don't want one. But when I'm around one I'm completely transfixed. Let the brainwashing begin!

Books:

Anything about guitars,hinduism,buddhism,shamanism,mythology,nutrition and physical fitness. Some philosophy,physics,politics,and science fiction. 1970's Marvel Comics,Beat Generation,Martial Arts.

Heroes:

Bruce Lee,Jimi Hendrix,Alan Watts,Muhammad Ali,Freddie Mercury,Ani Tenzin Palmo,Frederick Douglass,Joseph Campbell,Terance McKenna,Ernie Chambers,Lucia Rijker,Jeff Beck,Bodhidharma,Spiderman,Choying Drolma,Milarepa,Ken Wilber,Alex Grey,Alexandra David-Neel,Bhagavan Das,Rickson Gracie,Pavel Tsatsouline,Hazrat Inayat Khan,Jiddu Krishnamurti,The 14th Dalai Lama,Henry Rollins,Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg,Ramakrishna,Ramana Maharshi,Shankaracharya,Melvin Van Peebles, Sri Aurobindo,Neem Karoli Baba,Jack Kerouac,Hubert Selby Jr. and Jeanette Collins.

My Blog

a work of fiction...

The last blog was not about you, anyone that you know, or even know of.It was purely a work of fiction. A new introduction to a Mas Bagua songcalled "Golden Fields" , the original intro was about a m...
Posted by Rob Jones on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:35:00 PST

a brief moment...

I thought we'd have it alla love that would never fallI promised you the stars, you promised me the moonascending to the heavens we fell too soon to know...we fell too soon to know...Drifting along, r...
Posted by Rob Jones on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST

feeling pretty good

I'm feeling pretty good today.Usually, there is a melancholy cloud hoveringjust above my head, that no one can see.And the Reaper's breath is brushing my neck.But, today is a day of freedom. A repriev...
Posted by Rob Jones on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:35:00 PST

Middle Aged Black College Student Convict Guitarist

yeah, that's me...long story.Desperately Seeking Peace and Quiet.If you see them out there anywhere, please tell where to find me.I'll greet them with open arms.If they want to come by in the morning....
Posted by Rob Jones on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:47:00 PST

Fearlessly Fretless

Oh,the joy! Now don't get me wrong,I love the guitar.It has been there for me like nothing else.It has fed,clothed,and sheltered me at various times in my life.It has broken theice with many people in...
Posted by Rob Jones on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:30:00 PST

What's going on?

Man...What is going on with these messages and friend requests from real peoplewho aren't real people?This is tripping me out! But what's really got to be a trip...all the people who get wrapped up in...
Posted by Rob Jones on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:56:00 PST

All I have to say is...

that most of the time I don't want to say anything.
Posted by Rob Jones on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:51:00 PST

2007 came in with a bang

January 2nd,my first day off,beginning of a new year.Just turned on the coffee pot.Still relishing a great showat the Rumba Cafe with Jamnesia.During my solo Iwent straight "Peter Frampton" on 'em.My ...
Posted by Rob Jones on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:55:00 PST

Use masks only as needed

Archetypal patterns carrying lanterns Blazing through old trails Reawakening Rekindling Revealing true nature Empowering the self by liberating the self Slip through the grid by not grasping Revive yo...
Posted by Rob Jones on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:43:00 PST

I am shadow

I am shadow... A shade darker than myself. Slipping silently through spaces. Unaware of dimensional limitations or imitations of form... I am outside and in I am inside out Everywhere yet nowhere The ...
Posted by Rob Jones on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:33:00 PST