Geeky things... like cleaning my glasses, adding and subtracting on my pocket calculator, thinking, reading books with big words, optimizing my hard drive, and refining my fine motor skills so I can do more geeky things. Cooking elaborate, exotic meals. Making sweets. Beading. Painting psychedelic trashpicked furniture. Making the world a more beautiful place. Writing poetry on paper towels in saunas. Going to the botanic gardens with my daughter. Wishing I were a DJ and could organize my thoughts by artist, genre and BPM. Obsessing. Analyzing. Flying in my dreams. Conducting drug-free experiments in ecstasy. Seesawing between the sacred and profane.
I've already met Lord Narasimhadeva in Mayapur Dham... but we will meet again some day. To be sure. In this world or the next. Jeni and I are Narasimhadeva-bhaktins...
I'm not allowed into the Lord Jagannatha temple at Puri because I'm not Indian. But I went to the Mayapur one. And I will be back.
I don't believe we are children of a single Parent.
Just shut up and dance.
You're already in heaven if you just open your eyes.
All religions are rivers going to the same ocean.
I have jumped ship and am swimming naked.
My soul sister and one of my spirit guides.
Juliano... the raw vegan food guru. He is also my fashion guru. Look... he made a fashion statement out of yellow fishing overalls and a rope headband!! Sassé. Very plebian-chic.
The boy I wish I grew up with so we could blow things up together in vacant lots... Richard D. James. Maybe next lifetime.
Lots of famous and not-famous writers, poets, artists, rock stars, techno geeks, healers, subway artists, street prophets, obscure shamans, spiritual folks and assorted interesting people I will blog about occasionally.
Lady Miss Kier.
Cocteau Twins, Aphex Twin, Fela Kuti, Jill Scott, Tori Amos, Charlotte Gainsbourg, the entire Ghost in the Shell soundtrack, Bjork, Love Spirals Downward, Goldie, Salif Keita, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Marc McBarron Kessler, NIN, Lush, Blondie, The Cramps, A Singer Must Die, Heart, Kate Bush, Pete Namlook, Serge Gainsbourg, Kip Hanrahan, Robert Fripp, Jillian Doty, Shocking Blue, Jeff. Airplane, Beck, Loop Guru, Simple Minds, Maysa Leak, Tearwave, Pretenders, Velvet Underground, U2, Oumou Sangare, Incubus, Ramones, Black Flag, Augustus Pablo, The Police, Lee Perry, Toots and the Maytalls, Miles Davis, Rufus Wainwright, Clash, the English Beat, Beatles, Nick Cave, Orbital, Diana Ross, Madonna, Club D'Elf, ABC, Tom Tom Club, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Visnujana Swami, Dead Can Dance, Roy Ayers, Deee-Lite, all that obscure 90's house/rave music you can't find anymore, old techno-era Moby, Super Rail Band, Morrissey, Bill Laswell, Talvin Singh, Lush, Erik Satie, Chopin, Badenya Les Freres Coulibaly, Ari, Adam Ant, Human League, Kip Hanrahan, Duran Duran, Sade, cheesy 70's ad jingles, the sound of rain on streets while I sleep, Traffic (the band and the actual ambient noise), Brian Eno, Neil Young, Pet Shop Boys, KRS-ONE, Chet Baker, Simple Minds, kd lang, Smiths, Buzzcocks, Farafina, RH Chili Peppers, Kraftwerk, Coldplay, Charlie Parker, Devo, Ravel, Rokia Traore, Burning Spear, wild loud kirtans, Violent Femmes...
The BEST music video EVER MADE... marc almond rules
Soft Cell, Tainted Love
lush: superblast. amazing band. like the police, the ramones and the cocteau twins all got together to have an acid-dropping party inside the paris catacombs. with courtney love serving cocktails. I'll be their designated driver!
Simple Minds... Hypnotized. This is one of the most awesome, lush, completely politically incorrect videos ever made.
The Professional, Map of the Human Heart, Ghost in the Shell, Spirited Away, Boys Don't Cry, Fanny and Alexander, Eraserhead, The Hunger, Angel Heart, Aliens, all the Brat Pack movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Last Wave, Mädchen in Uniform, Harold and Maude, Tommy, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Diva, Pecker, Art School Confidential, The Shining, Phantasm, The Omen (most cheesy 70's horror movies), Monsoon Wedding, anything Bollywood, Untamed Heart, the Airplane series, anything Adam Sandler (shhh)
I want to dance like ann-margret here.
Off, unless a friend invites me over to watch Nick at Nite, Brady Bunch reruns or Prison Break. And I have a thing for Greg Wiggle.
Mostly I'd rather watch clouds.
(influences...) Carson McCullers, Sappho and all the Greek Lyrics, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O'Connor, Anais Nin, Dorothy Parker, Myla Goldberg, TS Eliot, Alan Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Sharon Olds, Tom Robbins, Marilyn Hacker, Marguerite Duras, Gide, Rimbaud, Eluard, Rilke, Carolyn Cooke, Randall Babtkis, Charlotte Gordon, Kiran Desai, Mark Svenvold, Sue Monk Kidd, Banana Yoshimoto, Gunther Grass, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Bruce Chatwin... and all that new agey spiritual stuff... the Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhakti-Rasamrta Sindhu, Teachings of Queen Kunti, Rumi, St. Therese of Liseux, stories and teachings of the Baal Shem Tov... and of course Dr. Seuss.
AMAZING BOOK!!
My own novel Neon Eden... is it OK to be in love with my own characters?
Gentle geeks. Charmers. Candy apple heartaches. Selfless social activists. Aesthetic co-creators. Lactivists. Cool straightedge kids. Tree-huggers. Rock stars. Spiritual warriors. Kindly ascetics. Children of the morning and heroes in the seaweed.
My little girl.
The Baal Shem Tov
Srila Prabhupada AC Bhaktivedanta Swami... an enormous soul.
My creative muse, friend and fellow visionary: Marc McBarron Kessler.
Check out his music and writing on his site too (see my friends list).
Women who love themselves and own their power.
And anyone who has a life outside of myspace.