yoga. burlesque. music. photography, videography, live music. discovering new music. stand up comedy. movement and dance. songwriters. singers and singing. drums and drumming. computers and technology. vibrations and resonance. animals and animal rights. nanobots. chakra meditation. quantum mechanics and physics. vegan/vegetarianism. non-linear processes. the realization of all possibilities.
Photographers. Videographers. Burlesque lovers and performers. Models. Make up artists. Musicians, especially drummers. Stand Up Comedians. Circus performers and the like. Bookers. Singers & Songwriters. Free thinkers. Deep thinkers. Gypsies. Bohemians. Anarchists. Writers. Vegetarians and Vegans. Animal lovers, activists and rescuers. Ordinary fucking cool people.
My videos are at http://www.veoh.com/users/harkstone1
They are on Youtube as well
http://www.youtube.com/harkstone1
The image quality on veoh.com is MUCH better. You be the judge. Also Youtube limits videos time-wise (10 minutes) so some of mine (ours) won't fit there and can only be seen on veoh.
Photos are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/harkstone
Gravity Plays Favorites opening for The Dresden Dolls at The Pageant in St. Louis. Intro by Amanda Palmer © John Reimers
Full circle.. Gravity Plays Favorites performing with the Dresden Dolls playing "Gravity" as the encore to their amazing show in St. Louis. © John Reimers
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In loving memory of my Sister...
The Dresden Dolls, HUMANWINE, Nick Cave, Tool, Puscifer, Jill Tracy, Mastodon, Johnette Napolitano, Auradrone, Anyone, Firebug, Rosin Coven, Jane Siberry, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Frank Zappa, Zappa Plays Zappa, A Perfect Circle, Deftones, Sxip Shirey, Gogol Bordello, Rage Against The Machine, Deftones, Leonard Cohen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Helium Tapes, Diet Audio, Zoe Keating, Morphine, Concrete Blonde, Regina Spektor, Queens of the Stone Age, Rasputina, Clownvis, Hannah Wolff (the only person I know who plays guitar, sings and chews gum at the same time, and is an excellent songwriter as well), Strawfoot, Paper Dolls, VOLTO! Devotchka, 7 Shot Screamers, Cypress Hill, Radiohead, Otep, Tom Waits, Audioslave, Sophe Lux, Twinemen, Sigur Ros, Shpongle, fluttreffect, PJ Harvey, The Gits, Iron and Wine, Vermillion Lies, The Red Paintings, Mz Ann Thropik, Trent Reznor, The Hellblinki Sextet, Mila, ALLYPTIC, ThaMuseMeant, Yesterday's Whore, The Legendary Shack Shakers, The Sex Pistols, Jason Webley, Elbow, Devil Doll, Switchblade Symphony, Jane's Addiction, Exit Ophelia, Catherine Ann Davies, Bjork, Nirvana, Pinback, Coldplay, Lacuna Coil, Massive Attack, Blonde Redhead, Julie Schurr, Luminescent Orchestrii, Indica Trichome Project, Bassnectar, Estrum, Daphna Rose, The Innocence Mission, Sass Jordan, John Coltrane, Broadzilla, Cat Stevens, Catya Maré, Jennifer Renee, Samantha Rose, Anvil Chorus, Charles Mingus, Laura Cheadle, Alessandra Celletti, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Madahoochi, Ute Lemper, Leila Florentino, Rilo Kiley, Portishead, Gary Jules, Mark Abis, Alice in Chains, Ben Harper, Talking Heads, Annette Peacock, Trent Reznor, Tori Amos, Carla Bozulich, Linda Perry, Vickie Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Peter Gabriel, Laura Nyro, Stanley Clarke, Lachi, Primus, Naomi & the Courteous Rudeboys, Modern Red, Roy Harper, Welkin Ring, The Velvet Underground, King Crimson, Lotte Lenya, Willie Nelson, Thelonius Monk, Allan Holdsworth, John Ziegler, Jocelyn Celaya, Ali Handal, Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, Tony Levin, Buddy Rich, Bernard Galane, Brian Viglione, Bill Bruford, Dennis Chambers, Danny Carey, Terry Bozzio, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Weckl, Chad Wackerman, Elvin Jones. Rock, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Tribal, Punk, Funk, Steampunk, Reggae, Klezmer, Spanish Guitar and Flamenco, Cabaret, Psychedelic, Eastern European, Vaudeville. Rockabilly, Psychobilly. I love a great groove.Good musicianship, good songwriting and not sounding like anybody else are always appreciated. I used to work in the music business in LA in the 80's/90's. Attended UCLA's School of Recording Arts & Sciences. Interned at Mogul Entertainment Group (Personal Management) with Arthur Spivak & George Ghiz. Worked with Tori Amos, Paul Reiser, Kevin Pollak, Pat Mastelotto, The Rembrandts and others on a daily basis. I Managed a couple of bands myself. Including what is now Anyone and which at one point included Ty Dennis - currently the drummer for Firebug, a band I dig the hell out of. I've worked in Publicity and A&R for Atlantic Records. The bands that I dug the most were artistic and not so much about producing hits which is what it was all about for the most part. I never liked corporate attitude (like when music is referred to as "product").I love the DIY/Indie thing. There is so much great music out there (and a lot of starving artists so support the music you love or it will die). CD's sound much better than mp3's. Consider them an investment in musical satisfaction, your ears will be rewarded. It is always a treat to find a new sound that I really dig.
Waking Life, Office Space, An Inconvenient Truth, Meet Your Meat, Innerspace, Amadeus, The Caine Mutiny, Lawrence of Arabia, A Clockwork Orange, King Of Hearts, Easy Rider, The Godfather I and II, Wargames, Phenomenon, The Princess Bride, Creator, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Shawshank Redemption, Repo Man, Comedian, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Goodfellas, The Elephant Man, On The Waterfront, Bogart, Cagney, Clint Eastwood (the baddest bad ass ever and a fellow vegan), Gene Hackman, Orson Welles, Peter O'Toole, Johnny Depp, anything by Kubrick or Kurosawa. The Abyss, Taxi Driver, This Is Spinal Tap, Sunset Boulevard, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Tuskegee Airmen, Cool Hand Luke, Dog Day Afternoon, Resurrection, Curse of The Demon, Pay It Forward, Thief Of Hearts, hell there's a million of 'em. I like a lot of old Black and White classics.
MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews. Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert. The Sopranos. I rarely actually watch tv, rather I tend to have it on in the background. Except for The Sopranos. It is good for watching DVD's, editing video and it gives my laptop a gorgeous 32" Hi-Def screen. I like that.
I have been a voracious reader most of my life but really anymore I hardly have time for reading much beyond magazines and reference books. I am currently reading "Yoga - The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness" by Erich Schiffman. Writers I like.. Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, e.e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, W.B Yeats, Lord Byron, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Emily Bronte, James Joyce, Tennyson, Keats, Longfellow, Wilfred Owen ..all are longtime favorites.
Don't really have any "heroes" as such. There are people that I admire or who inspire me (or both). Albert Einstein (if I could choose one day to spend with any figure in history it would be him), Nikola Tesla, the Tuskegee Airmen, Leonardo Da Vinci (top contender to Einstein), Terence McKenna. Christina Friese.
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