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King Rio

the 'sanity' is gone from my eyes...

About Me

i am in wonder, awe, and amazement at everything that happens in every moment of every day...i look at the world through big, cartoon eyes..i believe in God, angels, ghosts, extra-terrestrials, and i believe in you and me....aside from that i do some singing & songwriting, here's some stuff from a few years ago: listen

My Interests

music, movies, pop culture, flavor flav, trash tv, recording, '70's, '80's, the present, the future, quantum physics, immortality, angels, God, Universal Law, astrology, metaphysics, road trippin'...

I'd like to meet:

(if you're going to send me a friend request--send a message of some sort first..otherwise, i won't add you. sorry to have to put that out there, but if you don't have time to make that effort, i don't have time to look at your profile...and now, back to 'Who I'd Like to Meet:')people who are known only by their last name...people whose first names begin with the letter 'J'...impulsive people, passionate people, free thinkers, free spirits, individuals who know their own mind, feeling people, dreamers, freaks, hippies, punks, angels, immortals, poets, accountants, springer guests, rock stars, people who still say 'please' and 'thank you', people who are not enslaved by the opinions of others...somebody who is crazy enough to meet me in vegas on a whim...somebody who'd like to give me a lot of money for no reason..people who can levitate...

Music:

prince, bowie, chocolate genius, talib kweli, mos def, elvis, dale watson, bob dylan, joni mitchell, dwight yoakam, outkast, willie nelson, amy winehouse, the honey brothers, the avett brothers, ray price, tony bennet, stevie wonder, the twin, cee-lo, citizen cope, chet baker, zero 7, common, the roots, billie holliday, george clinton, macy gray, basehead, hank III, el vez, hendrix, t-rex, ken tucker and backporch pilgrims... i listen to all types of music..seriously.

Movies:

a whole lot of movies.....documentaries, horror films, 'art' films, comedies....john waters, gregg araki, edward d. wood, jr., tim burton, andy warhol, troma, crispin hellion glover, james dean, river phoenix, elvis, mae west..

Television:

strangers with candy, comedy central, adult swim, tv land, always sunny in philadelphia, vh1 'celebreality' b.s., leave it to beaver, the sarah silverman program, the boondocks, pee-wee's playhouse, sanford and son...

Books:

anything intended to raise conciousness...or questions.

Heroes:

people who's courage i've relied on when i had none of my own..mom and dad, Jesus, prince, lawanda page, david bowie, tony dow, aaron mcgruder, larry norman, reba rambo-mcguire, dr. martin luther king, jr., mavis staples, dale watson, michael ian black, david wain, michael showalter, patty hearst, leigh bowery, flavor flav, andy warhol, ken tucker, bob dylan, edward d. wood, jr., wesley willis, vernon howard, linda goodman, e.e. cummings, charles nelson reilly, brett somers, scoey 'barefoot in the park' mitchell, dale watson, crispin hellion glover, jerry and esther hicks, wayne dyer, doreen virtue, willie nelson, john waters, joni mitchell..and U.

My Blog

observations pt. 96.

thanks to bluetooth technology, you can't really tell the people who are talking on the phone from the people who are just..um...nuts. there was a time when you walked the streets of downtown dallas, ...
Posted by King Rio on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:24:00 PST

a thought for today...

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."  Whitney Young
Posted by King Rio on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:31:00 PST

a thought for today...

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.      -- Alan Cohen
Posted by King Rio on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:56:00 PST

a thought for today...

&we are not (as patronizingly told), loved by Heaven 'despite our sins', but even more, precisely because of them.   -sananda maitreya    ...
Posted by King Rio on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:57:00 PST

question?

white people..   why do we purse our lips..or stick our lips out..when we dance?     does it somehow help us stay on the beat?     (before you get mad, i'm sure i do it to...t...
Posted by King Rio on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:36:00 PST

wow!

'Our standards in our profession are now so low, we get urgently excited by a blond girl simply riffing a recycled Aretha sample, with a production so kitsch and pastiche, it arrived sounding already ...
Posted by King Rio on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:09:00 PST

10 second movie review.

'mr. lonely' is fantastic. possibly harmony korine's best movie so far...   you should see it....
Posted by King Rio on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:40:00 PST

rest peacefully, dottie rambo...

you are possibly the greatest gospel songwriter of all time, an amazing singer, and just a genuinely sweet, sincere soul... your gift will never be forgotten and will no doubt continue to impact this ...
Posted by King Rio on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:12:00 PST

a thought (or two) for today...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.      -- Abraham Maslow   T...
Posted by King Rio on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:57:00 PST

my new tattoo!!!

i’ve always loved pirates..the look, the idea..etc. so yesterday i finally did it. i got an eyepatch tattoo.yes.it’s on my eye/eyelid...yes..there is a ’band’ on it that goes a...
Posted by King Rio on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:23:00 PST