Phil

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Absolute Favorite:Steve Roach,his ethno-ambient tribal space music sends chills up my spine and is the music that I hear in my head when the beta endorphins are flowing, also: Thomas Dolby, Patti Smith, The Beatles, The Byrds, Wall of Voodoo, J.S.Bach, Michael Brecker, Steely Dan, Miles Davis, Motown and Soul of the 60's and 70's, gamelan music, Film Noir jazz, Sade, Prince, SwanDive, the BeachBoys, Eno, Dylan, Reggae,Blues, Ziggy Marley, Bunny Wailer, Michael McDonald, Robert Rich, Kami Lyle(!), Alfred Johnson, Rikki Lee Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, John Cage, Lucciano Berio, Wendy Carlos, Lynne Drennan, Olivier Messian, Jon Hassell, 30 Seconds to Mars, Charlie Parker, Todd Rundgren, Ravi Shankar, vidna Obmana, also Ma Ja Le, and ambient electro acoustic spacemusic of every flavor and texture

Movies:

Crash, 3 Women, Memento, Stigmata, The Order, Performance ,Adaptation, The Messenger, Spirits of the Dead(the Fellini part), Kiki's Delivery Service, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, Exorcist II(The Heretic), The Big Blue, Chinatown, Hearts in Atlantis, Fried Green Tomatoes, Harry and Tonto, Ring 1&2, The Tenant, Rosemary's Baby, Hour of the Wolf, Enter the Dragon, Spirited Away, Tiger Claw, The Maltese Falcon, The Believer, Requiem for a Dream, PI,The Conversation, Chelsea Girls(Warhol), Casablanca, The Sixth Sense, Summer Lovers, Sons of the Desert, City of Angels, Cat People, The Fisher King, Brazil, Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Kill Bill (1&2), and many more... truth is, I can find something of value in even the worst of movies...a good edit, a nice bit of dialogue, good color saturation on a shot, a different POV, whatever... I'm convinced that film is our highest art form...

Television:

I never used to watch TV, but now there are whole seasons of good stuff available to watch at whatever time you choose,free from commercial interuption ...here are some of my favorites: X-Files(!) Millenium, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, E.R., Nature, The Honeymooners, Friends, Mad About You, Seinfeld, and The Food Channel (especially Emeril, Rachael Ray, and Giada Dilaurentiis)

Books:

The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order,The Kyballion,The Sepher Yetzirah, The Work of the Kabbalist(Halevi),Cold Mountain Poems(HanShan-translated by Gary Snyder) Howl(Ginsburg)...Kerouac: On the Road, Dharma Bums, Big Sur, Dr.Sax,Visions of Gerard,Desolation Angels are just a few, Foucault's Pendulum,The DaVinci Code,Psychology and Alchemy(C.G.Jung), The Tower of Alchemy(Goddard),The Stand, The Vampire Lestat,The Diamond Sutra(tr.Wong Mou-Lam),The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, The Straight Life(Art Pepper),and many,many more,too numerous to mention...

Heroes:

Paul Foster Case,Zen Master Seung Sahn,Roshi Philip Kapleau,Suzuki Roshi,Cheng Man Ching, Dr.Mikao Usui, H.Spencer Lewis, Dion Fortune, The DalaiLama, Jimmy Carter, John Lennon, Jack Kerouac, the mad mountain recluse monk poets-Han Shan and Shi Teh, Vincent VanGogh, Allen Ginsburg, Laurel and Hardy, Mother Teresa, Jeanne D'Arc, Pythagoras, Jackie Gleason, Charlie Parker, Theresa of Avilla, Ezekiel, Pharaoh Akhnaton, my French uncle Jean Nivard, Bodhidharma, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Tai Chi Master John Catchings, Brian Wilson, Donald Duck, Guy Noir, Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi, Moses De Leon, Isaac Luria, Mantak Chia, Willhelm Reich, Moses, Patti Smith, Sissy Spacek, C.G.Jung, Jimi Hendrix, the Lamed-Vovnicks and all the Bodhisattvas,Tzaddiks,Angels,Shamans,WiseOnes,and ordinary men and women that show up every day to work for Peace, Justice,Light and Love.