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About Me

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We expand to accept everything, care for all things, consider all things part of ourself. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls". Compassion--the attachment to all things, love.We shrink to become composed of nothing, attached to nothing, realize that no thing is truly essential for our beingness. We need nothing, we desire nothing, we persist in our essentiality without condition. Nirvana--the attachment to no thing. Freedom. Peace.When we have compassion but not nonattachment, we suffer, and thus, cannot maintain our connection. The greater our love, the greater our attachment, and the more we involve ourselves in the affairs of others. It becomes hard to tell who we are really trying to take care of--the other or ourself. But this is in a bad way...we tend to try to make others as we wish them to be, and blame them for trying to go their own way. Danger.THe solution is to overcome the illusion of self, find the inner emptiness and formlessness. Then we can love without being controlling, be attached without suffering.When we have nonattachment without compassion, we become a perverted hinayanist. With no attachment to self, and no attachment to other, nothing moves us. We simply become a passive nonentity. Suffering and pain of others matters not to us. We become inhuman, and cease to live. We squander our precious existence on nothingness. In many ways, one could say someone in this position still has an ego they are protecting, by not becoming engaged in helping others.The solution is to ferment compassion, and an attachment to the inherent entity of all beings and things. By recognizing the inherent sameness of all, perfect compassion becomes possible, and with it, a life full of perfect meaning.So the next time someone speaks of shrinking to an infinitesimal point and expanding to the size of the universe at the same time, you have an idea what it might mean ^_^
Shinanigans.

My Interests

literature, music and everything invloving music, but not what's happening to it lately, soap, batman, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Dave Eggers, mushrooms, trees -- especially piney and tall ones, new pens and paper (handmade is the best), making things and it's best when it involves sewing, Egon Schiele, British Virgin Islands, cows, being the 'consumate hipster', Amsterdam(!!), the chemical composition of things, Discworld, 'and I want two balls of glueee to be my friends and a chair made of cheeeeese..', coffee-cigarette-and mineral water, pants, water, barbecue, counter-culture, The Left(tm), 'commies', hippies and gangsta's, anyone but George W Bush, graphic design and everything about it, DanceDance, video production and editing, documentaries (that don't blow my ass), England (sometimes), painting, psych rock, hair, and kumquats, though I've never eaten one.

I'd like to meet:

your mom.

Music:

Smashing Pumpkins, Royksopp, Anticon, Themselves, LCD Soundsystem, Nine Inch Nails, Badly Drawn Boy, Uriah Heep, Mars Volta (!!!), Marilyn Manson, Depeche Mode, Rufus Wainwright, The Clash, Cake, Stereolab, Melissa Etheridge, Joni Mitchell, Frou Frou, Death Cab for Cutie, Kings of Convenience, Iron Maiden, Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Madonna, (old) No Doubt, Nirvana, HIM, Pixies, Ramones, Bad Religion, The Notwist, Ani DiFranco, Apocalyptica, My Chemical Romance, A Year to Forget, Junior and Alison Ranger (RIP), Jeff Buckley, Flogging Molly, Sigur Ros, Jon Brion, Modest Mouse, My Bloody Valentine, The Magic Numbers, Leonard Cohen, Frank Sinatra (!!), Bush, Queen, Elton John, Breaking Pangaea (sob), System of a Down, Radiohead, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band (or in any possible combination), Portishead, Grateful Dead (!!!!), Emery (!!!!), Norma Jean, Explosions in the Sky, Yes (yes, I said Yes), Pearls Before Swine, Olivia Tremor Control, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd (OMG you have no idea), Infected Mushroom, K's Choice, everything from the Hedwig soundtrack (!), Belle and Sebastian, B'Gosh, Lamb, Nathaniel Merriweather, most things with Dan the Automator, Taking Back Sunday (sue me), Cocteau Twins, Atreyu, Siouxie and the Banshees, Aphex Twin, Rosenstoltz, David Bowie (!!!), Devo, Culture Club, Kate Bush, Dead Can Dance, Opeth, Farmer Boys, Rasputina, Goran Bregovic, Bijelo Dugme, the Unicorns, Minus the Bear, Coheed and Cambria, Johnny Cash, Thrice, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Elfman (don't even play), The New Amsterdams, the Cure (!!!!!), Mates of State, Kavorkian Death Cycle, oh my god, I don't know... Seriously.

Books:

Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, Kant and the Platypus (Essays on Language and Cognition), Travels in Hyperreality, and so on..Jack Kareoac's On The Road and most othersKurt Vonnegut's Galapagos and Sirens of TitanDave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusSiddartha, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, 1984, Notes From the Underground, The Stranger, Waiting for Godot(play), some shakespeare (mainly Hamlet), and the other usuals...

My Blog

What.

Life is a waste. Perfection is impossible and there is no one to say it to, other than screaming it louder and louder down, deeper and deadlier down my own throat -- through vocal chords that never s...
Posted by Ina of Magdala on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:26:00 PST

Rain.

The trajectory traced through invented rhythms toggles my avatar to the surface of what you can comprehend. There is a wet ripeness in the air, dark with redundant, heavy time, weighed down by a pass...
Posted by Ina of Magdala on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:52:00 PST

Nobel Prize, bitches.

Today was a day on which the sun burned just shy of the horison. Before sinking away, with the heavy heat tugging it under. The ending of the bluest day, smooth like milk and icy, wet fire. The pag...
Posted by Ina of Magdala on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST