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Azure

The world may be round, but I've found a place to fall off the edge

About Me

!Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?"
The Roshi replied, "I don't know."
Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!"
"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
I live in a 1957 Greyhound bus named Serenity with my cat and dog, traveling the country in search of beautiful people and places, and enough work to keep the wheels turning.
Peace

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman.

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My Interests



Music , Photography , Meditation, Burning, Interesting people with good souls traveling on their own quests to discover true joy and peace.

I'd like to meet:

Dreamers, teachers, brave philosophers, crazy cosmologists, a good shrink, burners, bunnys and bikers. Someone to walk with, who can nudge me in the right direction so subtly that I never realize it ('cause as soon as I feel a push I'll be headed in the opposite direction, even if it's off a cliff). Nice people who like people and care about the earth and her children. Freaks of every ilk with stories to tell of lives well lived, mistakes honestly made and lessons finally learned.

Music:

Highlights of a very long list...

- Antonio Vivaldi
- Ariel
- Art Blakey
- Avitars of Dub
- Baaba Maal
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Banco de Gaia
- Bandulu
- Beastie Boys
- Beatles
- Belly
- Benny Benassi
- Blues Traveler
- Boards of Canada
- The Bravery
- Brightblack Morning Light
- Buddy Guy
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Cannonball Adderley
- The Cars
- Cat Power
- Cat Stevens
- Cheb Mami
- Chemical Brothers (recent reversal of thought on these guys, thanks Sean)
- The Chieftains
- The Clash
- Coldplay
- Crystal Method
- The Cure
- Dada
- Daft Punk
- Dave Brubeck
- Dave Matthews
- David Bowie
- Dead Can Dance
- Dean Martin
- Delerium
- Depeche Mode
- Devo
- Diesel Boy
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Drivin-n-Cryin
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- Electric Skychurch
- Elvis
- Elvis Costello
- Enigma
- Erasure
- Eric Clapton
- The Faint
- Faithless
- Fine Young Cannibals
- Fischerspooner
- Flaming Lips
- Fluke
- Flying Scorpions
- Front 242
- Frou Frou
- Future Sounds of London
- Fuzzion
- George Frideric Handel
- The Good Life
- Gorillaz
- Guster
- Hallucinogen
- Harry Connick Jr.
- Howard Jones
- I Am Jen
- Imogen Heap
- Infected Mushroom
- INXS
- Iron & Wine
- Jack Johnson
- Jem
- Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
- Joe Cocker
- Joe Jackson
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- John Delafose
- John Mayer
- José Carreras
- José Perez
- Junkie XL
- Juno Reactor
- K.D. Lang
- Kate Bush
- Kate Havenvik
- Kinder Atom
- Kings of Convenience
- Ladytron
- Led Zeppelin
- Lemonheads
- Linkin Park
- Live
- Living Color
- Liz Phair
- Lords of Acid
- Loreena McKennitt
- Lou Reed
- Love and Rockets
- Madness
- Marilyn Manson
- Massiv in Mensch
- Masive Attack
- Moby
- Modest Mouse
- Moloko
- Moody Blues
- Morphine
- Morrissey
- Muse
- My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
- Nat King Cole
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- New Order
- Nick Cave
- Niyaz
- Nouvelle Vague
- Obo
- The Orb
- Orbital
- OTT
- Paul Oakenfold
- Paul Van Dyk
- Peter Murphy
- Phil Collins
- Phutureprimitive
- Pink Floyd
- Pixies
- PJ Harvey
- Plácido Domingo
- Plastikman
- The Police
- Portishead
- The Pretenders
- Queen
- R.E.M
- Rabbit in the Moon
- Radiohead
- RJD2
- Ry Cooder
- Sade
- Santana
- Sasha
- Seal
- The Shins
- Shpongle
- Simon & Garfunkel
- Sinéad O'Connor
- Smithereens
- The Smiths
- Spin Doctors
- Squeeze
- Stan Getz
- Steely Dan
- Stereolab
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Sting
- STP
- Sublime
- Sufjan Stevens
- The Sundays
- Supreme Beings of Leasure
- Suzanne Vega
- Talking Heads
- Thievery Corp.
- Transglobal Underground
- Trentemøller
- Tripswitch
- U2
- Underworld
- Unkle
- The Verve
- Vnv Nation
- Wofgang Amadeus Motzart
- Yaz
- Zoë Keating

I'll fill in glaring omissions as I see them...

Movies:

Dreams & Ran by Akira Kurosawa

The Secretary, The Princess Bride, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Amelie, Clerks & Dogma, El Mariachi, The Lord of the Rings Triolgy, The Professional, Raise the Red Lantern, Solaris, Jaws, Casablanca (Ok, most Bogart films too), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Benny & Joon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, White, Blue, Sex Lies and Videotape, Black Rain, Heathers, Pulp Fiction, Quiet Earth, The Pillow Book, Momento, Cinema Paradiso, Donnie Darko, Swingers, still more.....

Film Makers -
Akira Kurosawa (see above, Seven Samurai)

Hitchcock

Hal Hartley (The Unbelievable Truth, No Such Thing,etc.)

Pedro Almodóvar (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, etc.)

Television:

Now used just for movies

Books:

Current reading list

Selected works of Carl Jung -I dig his mix of science and spirituality with a dash of mysticism thrown in

Barrel Fever - Stories and essays by David Sedaris -one funny motherfucker

The wheel of time series -Best full on fantasy series since Tolkien

Mags - Road and Track, National Geographic, Metropolis, Fine Homebuilding, Dwell, Spin, Mix, W

Creative Loafing and the AJC a couple of times a week

Heroes:

Frank Lloyd Wright - Jacques Cousteau - Leonardo Da vinci - The Dalai Lama - John Lennon - Enrico Fermi - Petra Nemcova - more

My Blog

Be enraged

I clipped this from today's NY Times Op-Ed page and couldn't have said things better. Please read and become enraged......then DO something! Talk to people, become politically active, and for God...
Posted by Azure on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:59:00 PST

why I don’t have time to write

It's been below freezing since getting Serenity back two weeks ago. (Blessings and so many thanks to Marty, Kat & Bruce, Pete, Chw, and all our guardian angels! I can't say enough about the help a...
Posted by Azure on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:42:00 PST

Still kickin’

I've been both chastised and lovingly prodded this week to get some communication out, so here goes&A very dear friend, whom I haven't talked to either, just posted a blog themed around the release of...
Posted by Azure on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:26:00 PST

Recovery in the works

I've been forced to stay in bed for more than a week due to a wicked intestinal dysfunction that lead to an involuntary cleansing lasting several days. Sequoiah was my patron Goddess throughout and I'...
Posted by Azure on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:25:00 PST

recent adventures

A summer rain is gently falling through the leaves of a forest outside the open door that invites a breeze, smelling of moss and wood, caressing me with a moist coolness and stirring tendrils of incen...
Posted by Azure on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:04:00 PST

Two Homes

Things have taken a dramatic turn for the better this week. Sean bought the house I found through working with a realtor recommended by a friend of Sequoiah's, and he's allowed us to park here for the...
Posted by Azure on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:23:00 PST

Downtime once again....

More than six months after my last 9 to 5 workday, this day, marks two months in Minneapolis. Changes that began two and a half years ago with Laura's departure, have brought me to the parking lot of ...
Posted by Azure on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:52:00 PST

Thanks Mom

My mom took me to a doc-in-a-box today and I finally got my elbow looked at by a pro. X-rays showed what they think is an old break, older than 2 months anyway, so I'm wearing a brace and taking anti-...
Posted by Azure on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:07:00 PST

Shot from a gun

Just a quick post to let everyone know I've finally left the nest. I'm just out side Chattanooga, Tn., having left late in the day and getting caught by nightfall. I'm taking I75 up to I24 and then 72...
Posted by Azure on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:20:00 PST

Daedalus or Icarus?

Golden sunlight glints from ragged wings of gathered dreams,     illusions of power and grace.Compulsively woven with threads of the past,    and held by wax of an altar'...
Posted by Azure on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:09:00 PST