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blake

sidereal8

About Me

at times: lopsided. other times: helium balloon wrist-tied kite-side. not many alibis but extremely honest. mostly keep to what is promised which certainly ain't tomorrow. borrow from here and there. anti-hollow as long as i got some prayer. can count my best friends on my fingers and thankful for each digit. as for many acquaintances they all keep me uplifted and when not in contact, i miss that, for each is gifted. always on the prowl for a new howl or hymn. hungry for holy when the lanterns dim. self-diagnosed vata-pitta. 88% vegan. sometimes rhyme and sometimes schism but mostly in it for the rhythm - the daily discovery of eternity that is(and other splinters of bliss). polyphonous. octopus. definitely curious.

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My Interests

speaking in tongues, breath, angles of light, shadows, long walks through unfamiliar surroundings, mythological psychology, film, birds, cumulus, music, the anatomy of the day, getting lost and being found, dancing, reverb, echoes, rocks, botanical organisms, color, recycled objects, prayer, originality, eccentricity, cosmology, the various layers of consciousness, love, sex, languages, landscapes, miracles, redemption, connecting, catalysts, travels, illusions, paradigms, ghosts, tattoos, journals, synchronicity, fractals, dreams, meteorological events, string theory, internal alchemy, communication, teachers, books, travelling, challenges, fears, invisibility, creatures, storytelling, humility, honesty ..

I'd like to meet:

anyone who flips the script and redirects the perspective...musicians, painters, singers, writers, sculptors, pilots, enzymes, flux capacitators, inventors, bards, story tellers, fire breathers, hermits, mentors, shadow boxers, pilgrims, pen pals, physicists, acrobats, hobos, theorists, theologists, healers, psychics, divers, carpenters, mothers, fathers, born agains, dancers, mixologists, investigators, investors, farmers, producers, shamans, monks, climbers, beekeepers, scientists,ninjas, superheroes, monsters, nomads, architects, illusionists, escape artists, alchemists, scribes, linguists, translators, weldors, protagonists, believers, skeptics, hunters, counsellors, gardeners, sailors, luminaries, diplomats, matadors, tailors, cheerleaders, prototypes, locksmiths, tricksters, geologists, navigators, engineers, pioneers, scouts, trackers, survivalists, ringleaders, guests, scholars, avatars, chameleons, discoverers, mechanics, breatharians, elders, designers...

Music:

Le Loup, Jose Gonzalez, M.I.A., Tony Allen, The Books, J Dilla, Dimlite, Jamie Lidell, DJ Vadim, Dudley Perkins, Fat Freddy's Drop, I'm Not A Gun, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Spektrum, Modeselektor, JRK, Lusine, LCD Soundsystem, My My, Planningtorock, Shawn Lee, Booka Shade, Bonobo, Radio Citizen, Tipper, Colleen, Marsen Jules, Amel Larrieux, Amon Tobin, Apparat, Marie Sioux, Brightblack Morninglight, Deru, Bjork, Edan, One Self, Blackalicious, John Vanderslice, Prefuse 73, Spacek, Midlake, Telefon Tel Aviv, Lifesavas, Stevie Wonder, Out Hud, Bent, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Nobody, TV On The Radio, De La Soul, MF Doom, Four Tet, Sufjan Stevens, John Tejada, Brian Eno, Count Bass D, J-Live, Roots Manuva, Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, The Strange Fruit Project, Asheru and Blue Black of the Unspoken Heard, Autolux, Beck, Caribou, Daedelus, Sister Nancy, Ammon Contact, RJD2, Mos Def, Aloe Blacc, Nino Moschella... various mixes made by me or friends...more more more!

Movies:

Cabeza De Vaca, Nijinski, Touch The Sound,Off The Map, The New World, The Run Up, Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus, The Squid And The Whale, Junebug, Sucker Free City, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Fresh, Legend of 1900, Delicatessen, Amelie, Run Lola Run, I Heart Huckabees, The Life Aquatic, Three Kings, Freestyle, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Short Cuts, Girl On A Bridge, Riding Giants, The Corporation, Chi-Wae-Son(Painted Fire), Donnie Darko, Farinelli, High Heels, Live Flesh, The Motorcycle Diaries, City Of God, Fist Of Legend, Baraka, The Five Obstructions, Pootietang, Hate, Rivers and Tides, Ghost In The Shell 2, Shapes Of The Invisible, Winged Migration, Air Guitar Nation

Television:

epic mythological series like Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, and HBO series tend to redeem the power of this otherwise vacuous beast...and Discovery's Planet Earth should be required viewing.

Books:

Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions, A Language Older Than Words, The Shell Collecter by Anthony Doerr, The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosely, Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, Einstein's Dreams, Annie Dillard, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age(or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer) by Neal Stephenson, Herman Hesse, Carl Jung, David Whyte, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, The Botany of Desire, The Secret Life of Plants...Poets: Rilke, Neruda, Charles Wright, Galway Kinnell, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Hafiz, Oliver Grimball, D.H. Lawrence, Dante, Saul Williams, Whitman, Antonio Machado

Heroes:

anyone courageous enough to be themselves

My Blog

Napkins At The Summer Wisdom Saloon

1.Trouble nurse says tall glassslipped through fingers, seethis tired wristwith a twist of infinityrecovering,uncovering.At last enough sleepfor a trespassed dream:broken satellite love song,invasive ...
Posted by blake on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:54:00 PST

under the influenza

thank god for those momentsthat ambush with a scalpeland spill your gold gut all overtotal lunar eclipse blood in the vein of skywashing the pales and silvers with slivers of giving overarmy of white ...
Posted by blake on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:25:00 PST

i want to ride my icicle

1/12 transcript:i see i see i seeicy are the roads that i seeto be some form of infinitythe slipping slide inside of mei see i seei see in intimacy eternallyoh beat beats in divinityicy in the winter ...
Posted by blake on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:12:00 PST

Approaching Winter

11/27mypoetryisthe new languagefacing moments with an undone heart, a broken heart, a joyful heart, always an open heartthe door opening into the big dark roomecho, reverberation, resuscitat...
Posted by blake on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:50:00 PST

Leaf Pylons

ace of garden spadetears through the air bloomed parachutefantabulous peepholelittered with tobacco ash and hackberry bundlesorchestral strategy filled with hallelujahssalvation of dirt under fingerna...
Posted by blake on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:00:00 PST

Sun-dappled Dopplegangbangers

11/23bright swallowed beacon belly achehiccups and flirting with sad mistakessnorting out the loud longing in dream aroused weeping songssweeping the floor of my heartcobweb dust debrisrearrange the v...
Posted by blake on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:03:00 PST

Wholed Up In The Tink Thank

nightwalkerscraping hymns from the bottom of the big worldwhere kites and bones have drifted downall tattered breath of story on lover lipall script old in folds of coral anemoneslong brush of spiral ...
Posted by blake on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:34:00 PST

Ongoing exorcises in survival...

...kept me from going insane, reminded me i'm not alone, helped me to maintain, brought me back to home, which really is just here, untangled from all fear...sweeping the back porch, rearranging pots ...
Posted by blake on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:21:00 PST

Living Between Two Houses

The other day,cockroach in the sinkswimming in a cupcrushed(charging quarters for the soundtrack later).A blue gnat on my forearm.Microcosmos in primary concepts.Placing little black birds.A red, a bl...
Posted by blake on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:40:00 PST

Autumnal Tunneling

Who will hold Death's hand,under what blanket of crows,which mine shaft thrown with diamonds in the dark?(same stones curled inside this body)dusk cleaning each day closer,sweeping such silent territo...
Posted by blake on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:01:00 PST