New things and people. Humor. Simon and Stanley. The ridiculous. The Red Pill (can't go back, so learn to enjoy it). Live music; playing, watching. Calm. Motorcycles. Transformation. Kindness. Cruelty in the right places. Fark. The perfect groove. Alternative health theory. Freedom. Travelling. Big huge cities and little tiny podunk towns. Forgiveness. Intensity. Breaking down doors. Rumi. Stand up bass. Surrender. The Universe. Cooking. I am a badass cook. The 5 rites. Sushi. Metal objects. Finding out I'm not the smartest person in the room. Soapstone. Fetish. High mountains. Breath control. Opening. Latex. Yoga. Running, lake or tidal water. London. Power exchange. Mysticism. Girls on motorcycles. Tattoos. The strange. Learning. Secrets. Sweating. Alleys. Carving new neural paths. Art. Old Guitars. My guitars. Avatars. Science. My Chapman Stick. Subspace. San Francisco. Kayaking. Explosions. Climbing. Metal Sculpture. Courage. Cars, new, old, fast, interesting. Piercings. Moments of enlightenment. Suspension, both of disbelief and of the body. Tuscany, especially Florence. Source. Gadgets and tools. New stringed instruments I don't yet know how to play. Teaching. Nawa Shibari. Cycling. NYC. A conscious lack of cynicism. Knives. Leather. Machine guns. Machines in general, while we're at it. Making art. Pens. Fishing for trout, salmon, and tuna. Scuba diving. Mythology. Starting new relationships. Clubbing even though I don't dance a lot. Rope against my skin. The desert. Shoes. Jackets. Sunglasses. Ghosts. Robots. Satellites. Particle and quantum physics.
There's something new every day. Now that's interesting.
I'd like to meet:
Fellow active geeks and adventurers. People who jump in with both feet without looking first. People who are unafraid of love. People who recognize life as the most exciting experience in the universe, not a never ending set of problems and burdens. Other musicians. Those who are awake, or in the process of awakening. Those who look inwards to solve their problems, not outward to place blame.
There is nothing better in the world than true friendship. And sex. Oh, and beer. I am really getting into motorcycles right now as well. Rollercoasters are pretty def too, when you think about it. And some other things. But friendship is right up there, I swear.
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Music:
1)Daniel Lanois
2) Me!
And now in random order:
Mogwai, Catherine Wheel, Longwave, Peter Murphy, The The, Rich Kazanjian, Tool, Elbow, King Crimson, The Helio Sequence, old bluegrass, Pink Floyd, Tabla Beat Science, Swervedriver, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, The Smiths, Whiskeytown, BauHaus, thanks to my ex-girlfriend I am listening to punk rock again(!), De La Soul, Emmylou Harris, Deftones, Secret Machines, U2, Ent, Nick Drake, Talk Talk, Curve, PJ Harvey, Erase Errata, Leonard Cohen, Mendelsson, Steve Tibbetts, Edgar Meyer, South, Willie Nelson, Peter Gabriel, Stanley Clarke, A3, Springsteen (solo albums only), Faith No More, Steve Rhetta, Bad Religion, Michael Hedges, A Perfect Circle, Siouxie & Banshees, Chemical Brothers, Bob Dylan, Tom Russell, Kasabian, Rob Dickinson, Queens of the Stone Age, Daniel Laskowski, Jerry Douglas, Drums & Tuba, Beethoven, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, John Scofield, Brian Eno, Love and Rockets, The Edge, Jesus and Mary Chain, Single Gun Theory, Josephine,Lo Fidelity Allstars, Doves, Le Tigre, The Who, Roland Orzabal, Indio, Olatungi, Mr Bungle, Butthole Surfers, The Cure, Son Volt, Robert Fripp, Spike Jones, kd Lang, West Memphis 3, Elvis Costello, Youssou N'dour, Dead Can Dance, Stellastar*, Elgar, My Morning Jacket, Slayer, Papa's Culture, Shubert, Talking Heads, Ride, Weezer (reluctantly), Chris Whitley, Zappa, Dwight Yokum, Soundgarden, Patty Griffin, Asian dub, Adrian Belew, Public Enemy, Robot Trouble, My Bloody Valentine, Stewart Copeland, Allison Krause, Cocteau Twins, Spanking Machine, New Order, Jane's Addiction, Gillian Welsh, Tony Levin, Sundays, Anything Johnny Marr has ever even breathed on, Johnny Cash, Jesus and Mary Chain, Nickle Creek, Interpol, Toad the Wet Sproket, Kate Bush, Vinx, Ride, Paul Simon, Tears For Fears, David Torn.
So many others it is hard to remember......more to come.
Movies:
Jacob's Ladder, Last Temptation of Christ, Saving Private Ryan, The Crow, True Stories, All Cohen brothers, LOTR, Muppets in Space, The Year of Living Dangerously, Matrix, Airplane!, Blues Brothers, A Touch of Evil, Ghandi, City of Lost Children, Delicatesen, All Alien, 1st 3 Star Wars, Akira, All exploitation, All trash horror, most M. Night Shayamalan, lots of anime, all David Lynch, B.O.B., all Scorsese, All Kubrick (don't tell my ex-wife, but I named my ..2 son after him: Stanley! Well, him and Stanley Clarke), All Luc Besson, some porn, all Jim Jarmusch, Most Peter Weir, Road Warrior, most Woody Allen, most Spielberg, all good scifi and most crappy scifi.Same goes for fantasy. I have seen thousands in the past and have loads of other faves, but don't get out much to grown-up movies these days.
Television:
No cable/dish. Have been buying shows on DVD (Lost, Heroes, Firefly). I guess watching movies on TV doesn't really count.
Books:
Foucault's Pendulum, Cryptonomicon, Imagica, any Rumi translation, The Story of O, all Ray Bradbury, Lovecraft, all China Mieville, Coleman Barks, All Kurt Vonnegut, Asimov, old scifi, lots of spiritual self-help type stuff lately, any Clive Barker, Coming to Power, any Peter Straub, any Steinbeck, Pat Califia, some Stephen King, any Steve Ericson,all Hunter S. Thompson, most John Crowley, the OED, any Pat Conroy, A lot of cyberpunk, Different Loving, A Course in Miracles, any Larry McMurtry, Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series and the Vampire Chronicles, any James Harriot, Salman Rushdie, Harry Potter books, all EB White, all Dr Suess, Where the Wild Things Are (What? I got kids, ok?). Lots more.
Heroes:
Me, my Dad, my sons, those who are brave enough to recognize their strength and beauty and really LIVE THIS LIFE. Everyone is a teacher, everyone is a student.
