~Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, beer in one hand, joint in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO what a ride!~Sunrises and Sunsets which shoot what appear to be zillions of colors across the sky always take my breath away and make me wish I could paint a picture or anything just to capture that moment being at a show and getting LOST getting back to ME (once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right) trying to convince everyone that black yoga pants and puma sneakers are perfectly acceptable work clothes always up for a good adventure attempting to talk about a book I just read and mixing together the plots of a couple different books because I think it sounds much more interesting tying in song lyrics or quotes with an event in my life Alex Grey's art talking about my beach house where I go to write my novel which has a big porch and the only furniture inside is a big bed, tons of books, pillows and candles remembering my entire dream barefoot in the grass the smell after it rains giving gifts that make people smile...or just making someone GENUINELY smile...
the smell of the beach, the sound of the surf, the salt that makes your hair all wavy and crunchy Nights that are so cold and the stars seem so close and the only noise you can hear is the sound of your breath fogging in the pitchblack air stormy cold mornings in the summertime when I actually dont have to get up for work dank meals with good company expanding my spirituality, meditation, actually making my body do something I didnt think was possible because I ignored the little voices in my head telling me it couldn't be done...I love to do backbends!!!
I'd like to meet:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." ~Kerouac~
Hippies, Radicals, Peaceful Warriors, Bliss Junkies, Potheads, Musiclovers, Lifelovers, those who wish to change the world for the better...come all...
So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody else besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.
~Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine~ Bob Dylanelephants mate for life... how wonder-full is that???
Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
Music:
" --If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. --
albert einstein" Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead (and other incarnations), Sublime, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Allman Bros, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, JayZ, Ben Harper, Biggie, Neil Young, Otis Redding, Cypress Hill, Counting Crowes, Ryan Adams...the list goes on and on
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
You Are
Tangerine
You are a beautiful person, in a wistful kind of way. If you could, you would spend all your time daydreaming and writing poetry. You are a tragic beauty.
You are sensitive and caring, and you don't take insults well. You don't smile much, but when you do, you really mean it.
People like to be around you because you are a calming influence. You have an appreciation for all things beautiful, and you probably have some potted plants. You love to read.
You like Sundays and coffee. You will spend your entire life yearning for quiet beauty, which is a rarity in this world, so you read a lot.
Everyone you know thinks you're "nice."
Take the Which Led Zeppelin Song Are You? Quiz
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor.
It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it.
It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had.
Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~
Movies:
Almost Famous, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine, V for Vendetta, Big Fish, American Beauty, the Big Lebowski, Princess Bride, Coming to America, Lord of the Rings 1-3, Indiana Jones movies, bOONdock SaiNTS, the Kill Bills, the doors, What Dreams May Come, lots of movies...
Television:
Tell me a vision instead...
~The modern picture of The Artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn’t see, to be high, live low, stay young forever~ in short, to be the bohemian~
*Tom Wolfe*
I'm Such a Bliss Junkie...
Books:
Cats Cradle-Vonnegut; Brave New World-Huxley; Siddhartha-Hesse; Dharma Bums-Kerouac; Tao of Pooh; The Prophet-Gibran; Francesca Lia Block books; Mythologies-Barthes; Labrynths-Borges; The Ground Beneath Her Feet-Rushdie; Be Here Now- Dass; Ishamel- Quinn; Anthem-Rand; Young Goodman Brown-Hawthorne; House of Leaves-Danielewski; The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior and The Journey of Socrates-Millman; Electric Koolaide Acid Test; Rumi-especially when Im feeling lost; The Alchemist-Coelho; Jane Eyre-Bronte; The Power of Now-Tolle; Life After God-Coupland; One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestIf you want to catch beasts you dont see everyday, You have to go out-of-the-way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold, and you have to get wet, too. ~Dr. Seuss~
Heroes:
Eric Cartman, Bono, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Jack Herer, Ken Kesey
