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In no particular order: 1) SINGING with RESISTOR and ELEPHANT. Just come & find out. 2) Any other MUSIC that has ever existed or awaits creation. 3) Listening to or watching DEREK PLAY GUITAR. He isn't called SUNGOD for nothing, you know. 4) READING. 5) HONEST EMOTIONS. 6) WATER...enjoying copious amounts by observation, immersion and ingestion. 7) Anything that counters Modern American Ennui & Atrophy; in other words, anything representing TRUTH, INTELLIGENCE, REALITY, ACTION, PROGRESS, COMPASSION and EQUALITY - even things that shock or confuse some. PLEASE VISIT WWW.AXISOFJUSTICE.ORG, WWW.DAILYKOS.COM, WWW.ALTERNET.ORG or WWW.AMNESTY.ORG, AND BE ACCURATELY INFORMED. DO NOT RELY ON THE MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA'S FABRICATIONS! 8) Storied HISTORIES with modern resonance. 9) The triumph of SPIRIT OVER DOGMA. ***GET OFF YOUR ASS & DO SOMETHING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR HOMETOWN, YOUR COUNTRY OR THE WORLD!***
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MY ONE TRUE PASSION. You could say I'm married to it, if you know me or anything about the path in life I've followed. Music is the first thing I think of when I wake up every day, and the last thing in my heart and mind when I go to sleep at night. People tell me that I sing to myself constantly...they're probably right, but it's so unconscious that often I have no idea what noises emanate from my mouth ("Did I just say that out loud?"). I DO know that there are songs trapped in my head constantly, 24/7, like an endless soundtrack to the movie of consciousness that my eyes watch. Sometimes I get stuck with a tune I just heard in passing a moment ago, sometimes it's a song someone else mentions, but often the words & melody inexorably come out of me in response to any given situation. I may not be able to talk about "it", but I can sure sing about it.I've been playing music since I was 6 years old. Somewhere along the way I started writing songs, accompanying myself on piano or guitar...I never would have guessed that I'd build my life around that craft, but here I am, twenty-some years later...records, tours, highs & lows and all.I have played all styles & genres of music, always trying to maintain a broad palette and a strong palate. As a result, I've been blessed with success & notoriety...(If you want details, you'll have to ask)...but I feel like I'm just getting started.I am also a BIG CRAZY MUSIC FAN...other than distasteful Modern Country music, there isn't any kind of music that I don't enjoy. I feel GUILTY listing my music prefs because I don't want to leave anyone out, but to be fair, here's what I remember listening to in the last 6 months...ROCK: Jane's Addicition, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden/Rage/Audioslave, U2, Queens of the Stone Age, Mars Volta, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Tool/Perfect Circle, The Cure, The Cult, The Smiths, Siouxie & the Banshees, Guns'N'Roses, Crashdove, Radiohead, Bright Eyes, Neutral Milk Hotel, RXTheory, Duran Duran, The Beatles, Zep, any classic Motown, Wilco, Oriental Love Ring, Spiny Norman, King Crimson, Depeche Mode, Helmet, Rollins, Derek Ho's Girls'R'Evil (the guy is PROLIFIC!)...the list goes on & on, and I acquire new music almost daily.JAZZ: Miles Davis & John Coltrane top the list. Johnny Hartman is the GREATEST VOCALIST THAT EVER LIVED, jazz or otherwise. Dinah Washington, Pharoah Saunders, Sun Ra, Mingus, the DiFrancesco boys, John Zorn, Greg Osby, Harry Connick, Tony Bennett, Ol' Blue Eyes, Ella, Bobby Darin, Avishai Cohen, Steve Smith & Vital Information, any pre-1950s Blues music...just leave the Jazz radio station on all the time & I'll be happy.CLASSICAL: Debussy, Paganini, Sibelius, Schchedrin, Bernstein, Wagner, Pavarotti, Ginastera, "The B's," "The M's"...too fuckin' many composers to name!! I definitely dig the fact that Elvis Costello, Yes, the guys from Radiohead and a handful of other "Rock"-genre artists are currently stretching the reach and boundaries of the western classical form.ATMOSPHERIC/ELECTRONIC: Dead Can Dance (or any other 4AD artist) and David Sylvian top the list - "Gone To Earth" was my teenage soundtrack. George Winston, Adrian Legg, Stereolab, Frou-Frou, DJ Shadow, Portishead, Armand Van Helden, Photek, Angelo Badalamenti, The Passengers (U2-Eno-Pavarotti, who knew? Soundtracks are often better than the movies/images they are meant to illustrate), Peter Gabriel, CAN, His Name Is Alive, Kraftwerk...does this ever END?WORLD MUSIC: Middle-Eastern or Islamic is best (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). Indonesian Grup is groovy too, just leave all of the rules behind! Indo-Asian music is meditative & centering. African music has an addictive "resonant warmth" to it (Angelique Kidjo, Ladysmith, Yussou N'Dour). Buena Vista Social Club and the rest of the Afro-Cuban All Stars are some of the most talented musicians on the planet...Viva Ibrahim "el voce" y Ruben "la pianista"! But that's just where my collection starts.So there you go - I've bored you enough.
The Last Emperor. The Incredible Lightness of Being (although the book was better). HERO. House of Flying Daggers. In The Realm of The Senses. Apocalypse Now. Concert Films are awesome but the best modern music film is Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense. Anything by Kurosawa, David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino. M.Night Shyamalan & the Coen Brothers are doing some great modern work also. Guilty Pleasures - Star Trek/Star Wars movies, My Fair Lady & Love Actually (hey, nothing wrong with some fun flicks, and Audrey Hepburn was the HOTTEST in her time!). Can you tell that I don't watch many movies? They're best watched with others, but lately they've become too much like television...anyone care to change my mind?
I've just had to stop watching altogether. Why do you think so many Americans are obese & uneducated? KILL YOUR TELEVISION BEFORE IT KILLS YOU!! "It satellite-links our United States of Hypocrisy. Apathetic, Therapeutic, and Completely Addictive...The Methadone Metronome, pumping out 150 Channels, 24 Hours A Day. You can see them all, and still, there's nothing worth watching!!" --Michael Franti
I read anything and everything, anywhere, any time. It's a compulsion I picked up at birth. Things written in English will do, but other languages are fun too...what better way to learn. (Tagalog is very similar to the "Romance" lanugages. But what do those beautiful kanji characters mean? And who came up with the idea of "right to left" middle-eastern script, huh?? I WANNA KNOW!!) I will read every volume of an Encyclopedia, cover to cover, and enjoy it just as much as reading a technical manual for a trade I don't work in, or reading the carton of a food that I don't eat. Bus stop magazines, street signs, Chinatown door posters, lunatic pamphlets... BRING 'EM ON. My greatest love in print is Non-Fiction, vastly unappreciated in this age: history, politics, sociology, bios, music, speculative, esoteric...the more radical the better...anything to do with the formation of human society and modern mores. Probably sounds nerdy, but I admit being a serious GEEK - what are you gonna do about it?!? If I do pick up fiction, it usually has to be rooted in something factual or historic. Magazines are good too - again, music & politics. And if I like what you're reading, hope you don't mind if I read over your shoulder??Just a few selections from my Bibliography of all-time faves:CLASS by Paul Fussell; BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by D Brown; SECRET & SUPPRESSED compiled by Jim Keith; THE SIGN & THE SEAL by Graham Hancock; THE BARDO THODOL (Tibetan Book of the Dead); THE FORMATION OF A PERSECUTING SOCIETY by R.I. Moore; THE SECRET LIFE OF SALVADOR DALI, by Salvador Dali; MOLOKA'I by Alan Brennert; HIGH ADVENTURE IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS by Rollins (Henry is intense!); ANYTHING WRITTEN BY GEORGE ORWELL OR ALDOUS HUXLEY; WATCHMEN (graphic novel) by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons; HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL by Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln ("Da Vinci Code" is full of shit!); And I admit, I actually enjoy paging thru... THE BIBLE, APOCRYPHA, GNOSTIC GOSPELS and DEAD SEA SCROLLS (some of the greatest historical documents ever written, containing some of the greatest archetypal stories...who says you have to believe in Jesus or the Semitic God to read these?!??)
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