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Pavel Sfera

Man! Ya gotta just love every day

About Me

Ciao,Welcome to my small little page of organized ramble.Been a man of faith and fault for awhile and seeing the journey of recognizing the differences between the twain. Home spun and loving life....I've broken it down.Involved a bit in music and arts world and digging it. Hanging on the comical, spiritual side of my waking hours..........that and a bag of Cheetos! All just magical and remedial in its small deeper sense of happinessInto exploring and seeing the world. Traveled a bit and speak a few other languages. Turkey and Agean Sea rocked. Man, one doesn't know didly about world history till you go somewhere and people older than Moses walked on the same beaches.I spend an inordinate amount of time in a couple of rooms in my house....but I am one who knows his way around the kitchen.........and not afraid to throw in a couple of extra spices. Wanna see what comes out.Always cool to meet interesting people with great perspectives.A bit of a news junkie...Gots to know what's happening all over the world..not just in my neighbor's backyard. Haha. Feel free to drop me a line and say hello... Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

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My Interests

Exploration and a great meal! I travel a bit and have very little fear of seeing and trying lots.I like classic cars, ethnic foods...and definitely eating up. Cool friends and hang out as often as possible. I cook well and have friends over all the time...sometimes is just a couple of musician or poet buds..just digging deeper into the human condition, fixing world hunger and arguing of Merlot and Sideways. I'm defending Merlot. Staunchly so.Collect art and have about 110 paintings on my walls. Various periods and styles.Totally get into the smaller space of granduer. I'll drive across the country every now and then just to see things and hang out with the locals....and hear magnificent stories with simple people with fantastic spirits. Just way too cool.Great poetry. Well thought out of stuff...unless you're a genius, then just the instantaneous work.The sincere embrace.

I'd like to meet:

Just like me! ....how funny is that?Musical, aritistic...and otherwise creative spirits need apply. The world is too small not to say hello. Suppose the poet spirits of the world and those of faith and without. Anyone with a great opinion...especially one's that compel me to be a better man. I'm a bit of a traveler and love the spirit often folks bring in my path. Some face to face, others in a small passing by kind of way. Wishing a deeper plain speak folk....fact based opinionated commentators...those comfortable in their own skin. The artist within and expressed out. The gardner in perpetual blossom. The child ready to play.I'm up for coffee of so with anyone interesting. Poets a plus. Always willing and ready to learn...as I'm reminded daily of how much life is ready to teach.

Music:

For beginners, I do front U2 tribute bands occassionally. Used to be my main gig..now I'm an impersonator for the Man himself(great man). But otherwise my choices in music varies upon my moods. Sometimes some great Rock and Roll..contempory and classic....other times is symphonic Classical...and other periods Ella Fitzgerald hits it right.But these days....since fronting a couple of U2 tribute bands....listening to all the millions of songs U2 has written.....man..like 400 or so. What's up with that?Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, Ella, Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Coltrane, Chopin...ma fav.....lots of international stuff.Flamenco, Paco De Lucia, Paco Pena, Mexican Rancheras, Gypsy Kings...and other gypsy styles.Some older Dylan and his epic songs, Damien Rice, Frank Drennen, Snowpatrol, Jimmy Eat World, the Pogues, The Eels, Oasis, old Elvis, Sweet Honey In The Rock...and other negro gospel.Beethoven .. 9 and Mozart's Requim, Chopin's No 1 Concerto adagio.

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption...my all time fav, Tso Tsi, The Sixth Sense, Austin Powers, Nepoleon Dynamite, In America, The Commitments, anything from Ron Howard, The Lion King..."I just can't wait to be king". Then there's Silence of the Lambs.....yeah, what a great love story. "It rubs the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again." I'm a cinema lover...so the list could take 5 or 6 pages.

Television:

Simpsons and 60 Minutes..that's it--if it happens. TV is usually covered with a cloth of sorts. Don't want the brain sterilization to take effect.

Books:

The classics and some great poetry...especially Pablo Neruda(have almost all his works in 1st Ed). On The Road, Angela's Ashes, the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, anything from Neiborh, Leaves of Grass, Poe's collection, The Closing of the American Mind, anything Dave Barry....Steinbeck, Tom Robbins, Camille Paglia, Marina Tsevtayeva--and other Russian novelists.

Heroes:

All the peacemakers and great contributors of this world...of all walks.....in big and small elements. Jesus Christ, Straduvairius, Pablo Neruda, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Gershwin, Chopin, Leonard Cohen, my old man....the apostle Paul and John, Abe Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Nicola Tesla, Bono, Anton Susmyer, Grandma Moses. That's just on Mondays....and of course, my father Vasa Willy Sfera(God bless his soul)

My Blog

Who would have thunk?

It's been a while since I've written a blog.  I really have no excuses. There are daily spiritual awakenings and I succumb to their hypnotic callings.  Go forth is often the voice of jo...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:13:00 PST

marc mez and fingers crossed photo exhibit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcG2xgqVg2Q Pavel Sfera as "Bono" for a Marc Mez photography exhibition....
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

$9.06

$9.06 I needed new clothes.  Bono Inc. was slowing down so much as my impersonator industry is considered a bit of a luxury item.  And in these times of economic downturn...this bird i...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:57:00 PST

vacation and a boat.

Took a cruise in the Caribbean.  Never took a cruise before&let alone a real vacation in long time.  This was a Rock & Roll cruise with a bunch of bands scheduled to play:  Vince Ne...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:06:00 PST

Freedom from within

Freedom of what I know&in its history.  Had some deep patriotic feelings coming to Philadelphia.  But even with another day there was other flight&and another flight delayed.  This is a...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:03:00 PST

Maze walls and cheese

When there's quiet, the voices come out.  The voices of my parents, family, loved ones, the writers and poets that bring me comfort and imagination----and sometimes voices of those that perceive me of...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:46:00 PST

My flag......your flag

I didn't want to hear words tonight. I've haven't written in a while...and troubling so. One has to find their niche and open up to it&mine has been the written word for a while and tonight I openThe ...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:58:00 PST

art must speak to you.

Numbered are my days here in Venice and eternally grateful to Kathy ---she one of my top friends on myspace...please say hi to her....---my dear friend who opened her doors and brought in a wound bird...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:35:00 PST

gray November morning in Venice

Gray November morning Halloween is over and 2007 is coming upon an awaking to its own closing.  The holidays approach and I stare out my window and see a gray sky.  It's quiet outside like e...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:17:00 PST

Bono for a day

Kind of a cool week. Got a call from Vogue magazine and they wanted me to do a photodouble appearance for Bono himself in NYC.  I thought, cool, heck yeah and rightio!  But was professional...
Posted by Pavel Sfera on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:23:00 PST