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s r turner

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm an artsy guy. I've been around the Orient. I play Sitar, Guitar, Piano, and French Horn. I am a vegetarian who maybe eats a steak once a month, which I guess means I'm not strict. I drink Pepsi but not booze. My Dad was Sauk and Cheyenne, my Mom was Hanofer German. I've never been married though I asked a couple of gals. They had the good sense to say no. I'm straight. I'm a Northern Buddhist, as is the Dalai Lama, Lama Gyatso, Kundun, Chenrazi, and try to live within the Kalachakra Tantra, Unattara, but enjoy the beliefs of my Fathers' people, the Cheyenne, Dzitsta, Wo He Hiv, Children of the Morning Star, Na Hek Itsta, and try to keep handsome for the time Heomiwhihhio, calls me to the Happy Hunting Grounds, by the Hanging Roads. I enjoy writing and have kept a journal since I was twelve. They said my Great Grandfather was at the Battle of the Little Bighorn that they call the Battle of the Greasy Grass, but didn't remember it, or slept throughi it as he was six months old. I learned Dr. Luther from the German side by a white haired Saxon tree climber that a saiboat would want, but found that like him I would finally see that Christos is the Greek to me. I have written a lot of music and had a regional hit single, "Elvis In Paraguay", recorded by an Iowa group called The Blue Band. Sticking with a Color Oriented-name, I have a band called 'Purple Gadget' to be found among my friends. I could go on but that is the general slant of me.

My Interests

People and no people

I'd like to meet:

All the great friends I've made on MySpace.

Music:

Ravi Shankar, Jai Uttal, the Cure, Joy Division, Edith Piaf, John McLaughlin, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Don McLean, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Yo Yo Ma, Shubert, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Chopin, Aretha, Grieg, Liszt, Ludvig Van, Joe Pass, Scotty Moore, Astor Piazzola, Keith Jarrett's 'Koln Concert', Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Steveland Morris, Jeff Beck, and lately, Angelo DeBarre and Stochelo Rosenberg. In a class by himself, the Great Django Reinhardt.

Movies:

The Magnificent Seven, Black Cat, White Cat and anything by Emir Kusturice, Dr Strangelove and anything by Stanley Kubrick, anything by the Cohen Brothers, To Have and To Have Not, Smoke Signals, Anything with Johnny Depp (a true chameleon) Anything by FeFe Federico Fellini.

Television:

no but at one time with burnt wine

Books:

All of them, but especially the Bardo Thodol. After that, the Dictionary. All the other books are in there.

Heroes:

Kundun, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dali, Mirot, Gaudi, Mario Maccaferri, Steven Biko, Kenneth Patchen, H. Bogart, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoi, Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witka), Vincent, and Leonard Peltier.

My Blog

Kenneth Patchen

In Patchen's 'the Journal of Albion Moonlight', there is a hooker in Iowa City, standing under a street light, with the strains of 'the Rose of Tralee' in the air.  One winter night, while living...
Posted by s r turner on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:45:00 PST