Following my bliss...
Exploring my potentials...
Taming monsters...
Standing up to tyranny...
Helping our planet and global family...
Deciphering nature's clues to the mysteries of the universe...
Adrenaline jollies...
Full moon adventures...
Theme parties...
Smack talking...
Laughing my ass off with with crazy friends ...
and playing with ninja weapons set on fire.
Comedic characters. Spontaneous playmates
Those who choose the road less traveled or, even better, chart their own path...
People who create or channel beauty. Wise souls.
Laughter
This Cheech and Chong gem:
Classic British Ska:
Bad Manners, The Beat, The Specials, Madness,
Santa Cruz live music scene:
Dub Congress, Epicure, Morning Theory, Nothing Left, Ribsy's Nickel, The Expendables...
Eva Cassidy was amazing...
Thievery Corp., Enigma, Dido, Dee-Lite, U2, Sting, Vaux, Dire Straits, Sade, Rage Against the Machine.
Alternative, Blues, Rock, Reggae, Motown.
Anything with passion and soul.
Jeez... reality is surreal enough these days...
To get clued-in please watch America: From Freedom to Fascism on Google Video and Loose Change - perhaps the most important documentaries of our time - see my 9/11 blog.
These movies are great too:
V for Vendetta, Enemy of the State, Braveheart, Legends of the Fall, A Few Good Men, The Joy Luck Club, The Matrix ("Take the red pill"), Crash, Cinderella Man, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Princess Bride, Big Fish, Dumb and Dumber, Joe Dirt, Point Break, Bridget Jones' Diary, Waking Life, What the Bleep, Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels,
and Sir, No Sir! ...amazing trus story about the rebellion within the military that helped stop the Vietnam war.
Check out the trailer (DVD available at www.ivaw.org):
Rarely watch it.
Have you noticed? It's mostly being used to:
* Dumb down America
* Feed propaganda
* Distract us from shameful US foreign policy
* Peddle Rx drugs
An occasional dose of Jon Stewart gets me lauging at the insanity of our time.
Check out this priceless clip on bogus Bush admin. "terror alerts" (censored from Youtube so watch it here):
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-Miami-Seven.mov
This beautifullly sums up my feelings about TV:
Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys (hilarious!)...
anything by Richard Bach or Caroline Myss...
The Wandering Taoist trilogy...
Sacred Contracts...
Way of the Peaceful Warrior
The Journeys of Socrates
Kahlil Gibran...
Rumi...
books about quantum mechanics and mysticism
Tao te Ching
lots more.
Deep respect to all who have stood up to tyranny throughout the ages...
All those working for peace
- Iraq Vets Against the War, active duty resisters, and AWOLs for taking a stand against BusHitlers's illegal wars of aggression.
Lt. Ehren Watada (below) the first military officer to refuse to lead his men into the Iraq war on the grounds that it's illegal and immoral. Then he out-smarted the biased judge and miliary prosecutor at his court martial! This is a snip of his ballsy public stand that's unnerving the military and government:
"Today, I speak with you about a radical idea:
That to stop an illegal and unjust war,
soldiers can CHOOSE to stop fighting it!
If soldiers realized this war is contrary to the Constitution -- if they stood up and threw their weapons down --
NO president could EVER initiate a War of Choice again.
When we say, '...Against ALL enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC,'
what if elected leaders became the enemy?
Whose orders do we follow?
Enlisting in the military does not relinquish one's right to seek the truth, neither does it excuse one from rational thought,
nor the ability to decide between right and wrong.
'I was only following orders' is never an excuse."
Here's Watada, flanked by Iraq Vets at the Veterans for Peace Convention in Seattle...
"In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell, "1984".
These brave war resisters need our support: www.couragetoresist.org
Steven Colbert - brilliant, hilarious show of dissent:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879
WeAreChange.org for confronting the 9/11 traitors in the Bush administration
Rosa Parks.
Martin Luther King.
The Dali Lama.
Mother Teresa.
Peace Pilgrim.
SaveBioGems.org.
Moveon.org.
Caroline Myss for her brilliant teachings (www.myss.com)
Jackie Chan
Laird Hamilton
Jason Naples, Jay Moriarity and Alex Gong, early graduates from Earth School (RIP) and modern warriors in the highest sense.