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About Me

My first name's almost always first in an alphabetical list.We live in a sick culture. Sick, but not yet dying. What some of us now know as a fear-inducing, paranoia-struck, aderall-fueled kamikaze of information and noise is strongly in need of a supporting gesture, a soothing kiss, or a liberating embrace.I am working towards a better life, attempting to escape the confines of a culture slowly withering into its own vacuous ignorance. By freeing myself from these constraints, I can approach the world with open arms and open heart, my emotional core filled with life in all of its liberated vibrancy.I feel life.

My Interests

The mysteries of life, art, culture, music (listening/playing/writing), performance (acting/music/life). film, philosophy, creative writing/thinking, meditation (vipassana, shamatha-vipashayna, lojong), puppydogs and kittykats, food and beverage (watermelon), watermelon-seed-spitting-contests, consciousness/awareness, honesty, virtue, spearmint chewing gum, impulsiveness

I'd like to meet:

My own gentle confidence.

Music:

Miles Davis, Queen, William Patrick Corgan, Live, Oasis, Radiohead, My BLoody Valentine, Depeche Mode, Mansun, Modest Mouse, Portishead..., Pumpkins/Zwan eras, Travis, NIN, Spiritualized, Porcupine Tree, Juno Reactor, Blur, Queens of the Stone Age, Beatles, The, Seal, William Orbit, Mozart (composer), Philip Glass, Green Day, the act of creating...

Movies:

The Fountain, Waking Life, The Matrix Trilogy, Neon Genesis Evangelion Series, Brazil, Monty Python, Stanley Kubrick, The Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam, pt anderson, Scorsese...

Television:

Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Daily Show, Colbert Repor(t), BBC, NPT

Books:

Ken Wilber (Assorted), Chogyam Trungpa (Path of Warrior, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism), Visuddhimagga (Path of Purification), assorted Textbooks (BIO, CHEM, PSYCH, STAT), Plotinus (Various Treatises), Jung (Man and His Symbols), Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth), D.T. Suzuki (Zen), Mark Epstein (various works), Pema Chodron, Bodhicharyavatara (Shantideva)

Heroes:

The Dead

My Blog

Friendship

In reflecting on the coming year, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who have touched my life. It is through your various sprits that I am who I am. All of you have been very...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:35:00 PST

Socratic throwback

An ideal society should be strongly rooted in a humanistic embrace of the universal Socratic notions of the good, the true, and the beautiful. This embrace should utilize a strict adherence to these n...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:27:00 PST

To Witness

The duality of my existence as human's is a dynamic, but somehow comedic, unfolding of two identities competing for control over my consciousness. No, I am not not implying that I a...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:48:00 PST

New Song @ The Change

"Free." This song was essentially channeled. The vocals came and went in one take with nothing really written down. The whole song came together quickly, easily, and efficiently. Le...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:56:00 PST

My "band"

For those who are not keen to such things, I now have a "band" and "our" website is as follows:www.myspace.com/thechangemusicLet me know any thoughts, conundrums, quandries, critici...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:57:00 PST

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Don't you just love being evil? It's almost better than volunteering at a homeless shelter.
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:25:00 PST

You may say I'm a dreamer....

The haunting nature of the past seems to have an awkward ebb and flow. One minute all of the regrets and demons appear purged, then next thing you know, there they are, creeping into your thoughts, dr...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:27:00 PST

Them crazy postmodernists are at it again

This time its christmas. In their efforts to acheive pluralistic relativism applied to the whims of all of the varying cultures, the postmodern, postconventional faction of our culture is obsessed wit...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:34:00 PST

Rantageous Examination

In delving into the "truths" of this dimensional slice of the pie we find ourselves in, challenges are bound to arise. A certain magnetic/energetic pull from one direction might contradict an emotiona...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:14:00 PST

Evolution

Evolution seems to be the new battleground, an area for the merging of conventional and postconventional, scientific and spritual, physical and metaphysical. The scientists argue in their naturalistic...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:42:00 PST