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Raku

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About Me


I started this page as an avenue to share my written-spoken word/speak, until i get my website up. You can find some of my writings in Picture format under MY PICS, and others in MY BLOG. More scribblings to be posted soon.
For my MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY/LINKS to the bands I've been involved with (such as SUPERTHRIVE, SLANG GIRL, A.M.I., etc...)and the spoken word/experimental music of Raku and friends, go to RAKUMUSIC .
ABOUT RAKUSPEAK:
These words and expressions herein are only bits & pieces, pieces & bits of parts of me ; take them for what they are worth. ( I recommend you approach these writings with an open heart, the eyes of a child and a tongue firmly-in-cheek. Sarcasm & Irony will be used liberally, and sometimes with downright abandon ).
All are merely expressions of the creative, meant to no offence and to offend all;(the highest offense being only to the self) I that i am can only express through holes, holes in the tainted filter of my perception;
my perception and yours being unique and equal in true's;
i can only say maters while you say Too-matta or to-matoe.
So in the long-short in-out contrariness of things i say find what bits of wisdom or humor you will or look upon these ignorant, humbled dialogs-with-self as nothing more or less than meaningless triflings (as they are to me), or Meaningful and Purposeful (as they are to me), purposeful with intent to share what Creation has shaped my life, and to Purge myself of word scribbled napkins and remembered selves ( WHO I AM/WAS ) or other such clatter and cludder of expressions dangling around in lil' soul-scrapings at the bottom corners of inner drawers.
Thank you, and i hope you find something,
Somewhere. ~ RAKU
Words Crumple on Yellowed Paper in Deep
a beautiful moment that fills the soul
but to some
it's never, never enough
but not too me
not too me, anymore
(the littlest things are bigger than all and everything in my hearts eye)
and it comes, like a spiritual
like the lifting of voices in songs
of praise to your Creator, or
to that thing you believe in
like no other
whatever that is
whomever that is
that lifting of the heart through the song of the self;
like when you see the look in a child's eyes
that faith in their smile
that's the faith i speak of
that forever and unconditional love
like mother to child
like sky to earth
like sun to life.
~ Raku (2007) just words.
COMING SOON - www.rakuspeak.com

My Interests

the Creative Force that is Life.

I'd like to meet:


You are Hulk Hulk 80% Green Lantern 75% Spider-Man 75% Iron Man 70% Catwoman 60% The Flash 55% Robin 53% Batman 45% Supergirl 43% Superman 35% You are a wanderer with
amazing strength.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Music:

Anything that is good. Always looking for new independent, unsigned performers/bands, in particular.

Movies:

Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Ken Russell, Terry Gilliam & the Pythons, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Peter Bogdonovich, Darren Aronofsky, Cecil B. Demille, Peter Jackson, Gus van Sant, Steven Soderbergh, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarentino, Orson Wells, John Ford, Sam Rami, Richard Linklater, Vincent Minnelli (esp. Lust for Life, Some Came Running), to name a few...

Television:

John From Cincinnati, MAD MEN, The Universe, Heroes, Deadwood, Star Trek, Sopranos, Battlestar Gallactica, Twilight Zone, Northern Exposure, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Kung Fu, Twin Peaks, Anything by: Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt, Chris Carter, Jim Henson; Meet the Press, Frontline, The News Hour, Bill Moyers, The History, Military and Science Channels.

RADIO - NPR (National Public Radio), Michael Savage (AM, 6-9pm EST) & Art Bell/George Noory on Coast to Coast AM.(12-5am EST)

Books:

Anything by NIETZSCHE (translated by Walter Kauffman, Viking Editions), Herman Hesse (All), Colin Wilson (All, esp. The Outsider, Religion and the Rebel, Poetry and Mysticism, Brandy of the Damned....), Dostoevsky (All), Black Elk, E.E. Cummings, Richard Hoagland (Monuments on Mars), Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-reliance, Nature), Carlos Cansteneda (All), Russell Means (Where White Men Fear to Tread), Charles Bukowski (All), Plato (Socrates), Hunter S. Thompson (All), The Nag Hammaddi Texts, The Torah/Bible (Masonic, King James Versions), Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee), The I Ching, Zen Confucianism, The Bahagivad Gita, Forbidden Archeology, Carl Sagan, Henry Miller (All), The Beats, Anias Nin (Diaries), Joseph Campbell (All), Stephen Mitchell (his translations ~ The Illuminated Heart & Mind), Voltaire (Candide), Thoreau, Robert D. Kaplan (Warrior Politics, Imperial Grunts, articles), Marquis de Sade, Jean Paul Sartre, Anne Rice, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, George Sand, Guy de Maupassant, Vincent Van Gogh (Letters to Theo}, Nikos Kazantzakis (Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek), Issiac Asimov, Gandhi, William Blake, Aldous Huxley, Anton Chekhov (fav: THE BET), Arthur Miller, Dante, The Egyptian & Tibetan Books of the Dead, Dhammapada, Alister Crowley, Joseph Campbell, Donald Kagen, Winston Churchill (History of the English Speaking Peoples), Carl Jung, P.D. Opensky, John C. Lilly (Center of the Cyclone, Mind of the Dolphin), Thomas Jefferson (Collected Writings), Shakespeare (All, my favs are HAMLET & the TEMPEST..), Vasari (Life of the Artists), Verlaine, Rimbaud (Season in Hell), Ranier Marie Rilke (Letters to a young Poet).
MAGAZINES I READ RELIGIOUSLY: The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs (Bi-Monthly), Commentary, The Economist.
OTHER MAGS THAT SUCK BUT I STILL READ: Rolling Stone, TIME, Newsweek & the local papers.

Heroes:

Those of you who aren't SHEEPLE, The White Hats, The OVERMEN and WOMEN. (YOu know wHo U are.)

My Blog

A MOMENT

tangled tonight,      on sweet blankets of white cloudsme next to you, how i adore  the touch of your cheek, our breaths as onethe moment surrounds me    like e...
Posted by Raku on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:03:00 PST

I Want To Believe

* * * *  this world doesn't seem beautifulit seems hateful, hurtfuli listen to a Coldplay song, telling mehow beautiful the world is  and there are things i knowand yettonight my friend...
Posted by Raku on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:29:00 PST

I believe in nothing

I believe in nothing    my pain    is omnipresent i    struggle    every minute    against    this unbearable    nothingnes...
Posted by Raku on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:47:00 PST

Interiors

Interiors We are like blind people kissing in the dark               with eyes open.               &...
Posted by Raku on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:33:00 PST

A Cringing John The Baptist

Spiraling in hopelessness floating/falling ona feather's tip like angels fallen      burning descent on leather wings   crying       &nb...
Posted by Raku on Sat, 31 May 2008 08:33:00 PST

Another Moment of the NOW

Beautiful forms  the land of the living  child, men and women it feels like home  this place    thesepeople    my  home is here and there  a...
Posted by Raku on Wed, 21 May 2008 01:22:00 PST

A Hymnal

who i amwhat i wantedhow much i loved in my lifehow much i'vewantedhow i loved youeverythingwho i amall i became andwho i am nowso my years have passed, somany moons against this colourful skyi sing h...
Posted by Raku on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:44:00 PST

Sorry i cant answer the phone, im out sailing.

 * * * * Too many thingspeople thinkthey don’t know, that im sailingaway from this lifea path i’ve been on for yearsive finally acceptedand yes, im the Captain on this voyagethis voy...
Posted by Raku on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:28:00 PST

Nuturing a Hostile Apathy

i have a homebut i feel like a ghostim walking through my lifedetachednothing seems to matteri nurture a hostile apathyand tend knowledge like a garden, likemost people tend the drama of their livesi ...
Posted by Raku on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:11:00 PST

Ten Reflections

ONE * * * ITALL moves in locomotionlike ol' blue eyes from Hoboken (young at heart).   it's a big beautiful blurit's flowers and blossoming galaxieslike edges ona night where stars are every...
Posted by Raku on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:18:00 PST