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Royal Shades Of Alabaster

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About Me

MUSIC: "That which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Music is indivisible. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects. The most subtle & intangible & the most primitive of all arts . . . the trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music. They should be taught to love it instead. Too many people are trying to justify the precision with which organized musical sound is produced rather than the energy with which it is manipulated. Time is to the musician what space is to the painter. We can look away from pictures, but we can't listen away from sounds. It is not necessary to understand music, it is only necessary to enjoy it. Of all the arts, music is practiced most. The more you love music, the more music you love."
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Georgia Historical Society (www.georgiahistory.com),
Georgia Wildlife Federation (www.gwf.org),
Hillary Clinton for President (www.votehillary.org),
American Red Cross (www.redcross.org),
Georgia Recycling Coalition-GRC (www.georgiarecycles.org).
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”---Soren Kierkegaard. You can view some of my photos @: www.flickr.com or www.photosig.com.
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My Interests

Music...yeh(p) Music!. People watching, chaos outside, neatness at home, eggnog, laughing at the wrong times, getting frightened at the wrong times, laughing at everything, being fascinated by everything, being suspicious of strangers, scratchy records, fireworks, honey-roasted peanuts, aluminum foil, neon lights, coffee, the way raindrops bead up on a windshield, Halloween, the colors: black/red/blue/green/gray/brown, southern food, playing chess, light bulbs, photography, sharks, candy, thunderstorms, root beer, philosophy, grapefruit, NPR, WUTC FM, politics (guilty pleasure), antiques, geology, ghost stories, yoga, the beach at night, watching airplanes, mui tai, mountains, old barns, big cities, dance clubs, bicycles, norse mythology, the south, DJ'ing, italian food, the sound of a baseball game on the radio, reading about any & everything, small towns, writing poetry, watching movies, whiskey, 1920's & 1960's fashion, morocco, machinery parts (i.e. circuit boards & sprinklers) japanese art, railroad tracks, history, austria, moss, traveling, junkyards, shoes, windows, silver, sleeping, Germany, jackets, greenhouses, cemeteries, outer space, tea, sarcasm, bluegrass festivals, maps, flea markets, roller coasters, southern writers, taking walks, laying in the grass, finding weird things that I can't explain, buried treasure under a sidewalk, weird dreams, green tea ice cream, the British isles, the sky, rust, the smell of cut grass, cinnamon, rainy autumn days, tomatoes, bad jokes, found photos, drive-in movie theaters.

I'd like to meet:

Louise Brooks, Oscar Wilde, Anna Sten, A Pirate, The jazz police, the dream police and the brain police. Ahh...Barbara Rubin.
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."---Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”---Jean-Paul Sartre
"Alabaster is a light-colored gypsum-based stone that can be stained or colored and worked into almost any shape and sanded to almost any finish."..

Music:

john fahey, anything buddha records, stevie wonder, etta james, radiohead, US maple, get hustle, amon duul II, trans am, hella, stereolab, steve reich, black dice, wagner, dvorak, bill monroe, can, wolf eyes, tomita, buffy-saint marie, dock boggs, howlin' wolf, rosco holcomb, the stooges, MC5, love, joni mitchell, bascom lamar lunsford, hasil adkins, bud powell, milt jackson, velvet underground, roxy music, gary numan, throbbing gristle, faust, kraftwerk, neu!, nick drake, karlheinz stockhausen, silver apples, this heat, liars, jesus & mary chain, leonard cohen, nuggets (compilation), loretta lynn, suicide, captain beefheart, REM, hank williams, cheap trick, pj harvey, beatles, the smiths, echo & the bunnymen, elmore james, jimmy reed, patsy cline, raincoats, pylon, bar-b-q killers, wire, syd barrett, skip spence, neil diamond, t.rex, big star, sandy shaw, johnny cash, U2, crime, ramones, rough trade (compilation), feelies, pere ubu, david bowie, joy division, modern lovers, neil young, amm, john cage, buzzcocks, desmond dekker, the cure, new order, lee hazelwood/nancy sinatra, little milton, woody guthrie, zombies, ronettes, nirvana, little walter, james brown, EPMD, john coltrane, wes montgomery, otis redding, the animals, augustus pablo, lenny tristano, jane birkin, oscar peterson, whitehouse, astrud gilberto, buddy holly, glass candy, sonic youth, chuck berry, brian eno, rolling stones, bob dylan, the police, damned, smokey robinson, simon & garfunkel, kitty wells, burt bacharach, serge gainsbourg, link wray, gram parsons, willie nelson, lee "scratch" perry, public enemy, anything battle axe records, sightings, the carter family, donovan, black keys, wilco, al green, morrissey, sebadoh, marvin gaye, humble pie, yardbirds, 13th floor elevators, van morrison, new york dolls, tom waits, nico, pixies, red krayola, beach boys, mothers of invention, gang of four, the clean, mission of burma, stax record label, the gories, jimmy martin, ornette coleman, soweto, rain parade, the clientele, fad gadget, orange juice, grieg, neutral milk hotel, chopin, archie bell & the drells, prince, flamin' groovies, asha bhosle, kevin ayers, DJ spooky, white stripes, scott walker, non phixion, selmanaires, all the saints, isaac hayes, APB, slant 6, clinic, dungen, deerhoof, boards of canada, the meters, ike & tina turner, andres segovia, jeff mcleod, gang starr, ESG, television, hildegaard von bingen, family, Dr. lonnie smith, professor longhair, circle, spell, flaming lips, the sundays, ariel pinks, esquerita!, charles wright & the 103rd st. rhythm band, gino washington, of montreal, mazzy star, james gang, france gall, growing, the mountain goats, delta 5, numbers, os mutantes, bob wills, touissant mcCall, baby face willette, hair police, ghost, boston, queen, allman brothers, groundhogs, mia doi todd, smashing pumpkins, hound dog taylor, beth orton, hank williams jr., alabama, dwight yoakam, nat king cole trio.

Movies:

O brother where art thou?, stranger than paradise, lost in translation, miller's crossing, arizona dream, LA confidential, space oddesy 2001, virgin suicides, mulholland drive, motorcycle diaries, dark crystal, stardust memories, quest for fire, breakfast club, fantastic planet, loss of sexual innocence, green tea, bottlerocket, my life as a dog, waiting for guffman, bagdad cafe, scotland PA, matewan, coal miner's daughter, office space, the life aquatic, science of sleep.
"You know, it's funny... you come to someplace new, an'... and everything looks just the same."
"I never thought it could happen, but love hit me like an elephant and I was thrown into a jungle of dreams."

Television:

antiques roadshow, junkin', daily show, seinfeld, david letterman, justin wilson, simpsons, space ghost, MXC, mr. show, PBS, food network, curb your enthusiasm, the office, red dwarf.

Books:

sound of waves (yukio mishima) bend sinister (vladimir nabakov) god's little acre (erskine caldwell) ballad of the sad cafe (carson mcCullers) desolation angels (jack kerouac) essays (ralph waldo emerson), chekov, soren kierkgaard, david hume, friedrich nietzsche, william carlos williams, tin tin comics, phillip K dick, joseph campbell, eudora welty, flannery o'connor, MOJO magazine, silvershotz magazine, view camera magazine.

Heroes:

Benjamin Franklin, Woody Guthrie, Lou Reed, Mr.Rogers, Robert Frank, Vilem Kriz, Christopher Doyle, Ingmar Bergman, Dylan Thomas, Gustav Klimt, Akira Kurosawa, Jean Coctaeu, Howard Finster, Hugo Ball, Jimmy Carter, Bill Monroe, Francis Bacon, Carson McCullers, St.EOM of Pasaquan, John Dieterich, Anton Räderscheidt...