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Jordan

Om Ah Hung Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hung

About Me

I'm a twenty one year old student living in Montgomery county Maryland and going to school at the local collage. I'm studying printing technology and am on course to graduate soon. I've lived at my present location since June 02, 2004 and have been living a very enjoyable life. My main loves/friends are at work and on the Björk 4UM, which is the main reason I've joined myspace. I'm Tibetan Buddhist and very dedicated to the Dharma and studying under my percious teacher The Venerable Tulku Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche who I love very much. I try to live and go through life with a kind heart and I enjoy making meaningful connections with people. :)

My Interests

Tibetan BuddhaDharma, music, reading, messing around/playing my guitar, good films, watching videos of all sorts of randomness on youtube, the 4UM, messing around with turntables, talk radio, writing reviews, and all the other various and wonderful aspects of life.

I'd like to meet:

Björk along with her husband artist Matthew Barney. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin, His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche (up date! As of Jan 1,2007 I have meet Garchen Rinpoche and he was Amazing!: }), P.J. Harvey, Tori Amos, Emiliana Torrini, All my 4UM friends, The members of the band: incubus, rage against the machine, sigur ròs, smashing pumpkins, múm (update met múm at the concert I went to in DC Nov. 2007 they were wonderful!), sonic youth, and radiohead.

Music:

First and for most all love and praise to Björk. Then in no particular order: Incubus, Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sigur Rós, Portishead, Massive Attack, The Sugarcubes, Pixies, Radiohead, Oasis, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, The Shins, Beck, My Morning Jacket, Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Stereolab, Air, soundpool, 808 State, Tricky, Moby, Múm, Joy Division, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, The Arcade Fire, Galaxie 500, M.I.A., DJ Shadow, Kid Koala, Aphex Twin, Matmos, Zenna Parkins, Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Patti Smith, Meredith Monk, Joni Mitchell, Amiina, Cibo Matto, Mos Def, Nine Inch Nails, Mogwai, Emiliana Torrini, Tori Amos, Cat Power, R.E.M., Antony and the Johnsons, Bob Dyaln, Bob Marley, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Belle and Sebastian, Interpol, AFI, Kukl, Sublime, Bad Religion, Black Sabbath, Tool, Slayer, Outkast, Beastie Boys, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Queens of the Stone Age, Konono N°1, The Beatles, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yann Tiersen, The Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, and the ritual music and chanting of Tibetan Monks.

Movies:

Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mars Attacks, Ghostbusters 1&2, Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, 8 1/2, Heima, Adaptation, The Seventh Seal, American Beauty, The Virgin Suicides, Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion, Little Buddha, Ghost World, Screaming Masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spirited Away, Tekkonkinkreet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cup, Vajra Sky Over Tibet, Wheel of Time, Yogis of Tibet: A Film for Posterity, Element Skate videos, Drawing Restraint 9, Crash, Inside Björk, Björk: Vessel, All Björk Concerts, and The Collected videos of: Björk, Radiohead, Michel Gondry, and Chris Cunningham.

Television:

I'm not one much for television I'll find stuff that interest me but other than that I regard it as quite stupid. My three top shows: The Adventures of Pete and Pete, MTVs Daria, and The Adventures of The Real Ghostbusters.

Books:

Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche, A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva, The Sutras and Tantras of Buddhism, The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones: The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action: A Discourse Virtuous in the Beginning, Middle, and End by Patrul Rinpoche w/ commentary by HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-Fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings by Dharma Lord Gampopa, The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva by Ngolchu Thogme Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Awakened One a Life of the Buddha by Sherab Chödzin Kohn, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, On Writing by Stephen King, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley, Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, The Eletric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Plague by Albert Camus, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire, and E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 by e.e. cummings

Heroes:

My Precious Teacher The Venerable Tulku Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, and any one acts with a kind heart and good intentions.

My Blog

Meditation

Hello it's been way too long since I posted. The Bloggers bluff of every week is a disease I've caught. Any way as the heading says this is going to be on meditation and I guess my thoughts on the be...
Posted by Jordan on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:31:00 PST

A Good Day and a Long way to Go

Hi everyone back again, I've gotten very positive reviews on this blog so keeping up will be hopefully weekly. Any way two very wonderful things are happening to me this week. One the album I'm playin...
Posted by Jordan on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:31:00 PST

Lovecraft Buffy Fantasy & Life

Hello everyone back with weekly blog and hope everyone is doing alright. Any way to set the back ground to this blog I just started work at wonderful new Fair Trade shop called Ten Thousand Villages. ...
Posted by Jordan on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:16:00 PST

Björk Volta and Religion

Hello everyone this is going to be a fun blog and tie in with two of my top things Björk and religion. Any way I was a fan of Medúlla's stance of paganism and basic ancient humanity I thought it was o...
Posted by Jordan on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:57:00 PST

Adrianapolis reviewed

??? out of 5 ?Sorry about the lack of blog. I've been a bit sick and with Traga Rinpoche in town things were a bit crazy. Any way I've had the pleasure of reviewing one of my best friends in the world...
Posted by Jordan on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:10:00 PST

Refelections on Chuck Palahniuk's 'Survivor'

Hello again new blog just liked I promised. Thank you for all who view and leave comments. I just finished my first Chuck Palahniuk, author of the novel Fight Club, novel Survivor. To try and put the...
Posted by Jordan on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:00:00 PST

Contentment

Hello again haven't posted in a while an I'm sorry. I'm going to try to make this a weekly thing from now on. Any way this week so far has been wonderful in a lot of small but meaningful ways. I burne...
Posted by Jordan on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:22:00 PST

impermance/memories

I recently contacted old friends of mine on myspace from my high schools days which had me reflecting on life and its impermant nature. Perhaps one of the best things I read about people having troubl...
Posted by Jordan on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:35:00 PST

2006 Thoughts and Reflections

Well it's the end of another year and its time in blog land to do some reflection on both personal and public matters. I'm more than happy to add my two cents after all according to Time magazine doin...
Posted by Jordan on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:53:00 PST

My first Blog Random Thoughts

    Hello nice to post believe it or not this is my first Blog post and I just want to offer some reflections on my MySpace adventure. So far this has been wonderful I've been able to k...
Posted by Jordan on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:12:00 PST