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basshouser

basshouser

About Me

music, metaphysics (little difference, after a while) water, love(as an operative force,not just romance) cats.....some dogs old toyota trux, clean, cheap power(will we ever......? of course) Coltrane.....Miles.....Art Pepper..........Martin committee 1954.... .......fine Parisian bass clarinets ....Mingus......Eric Dolphy....Radiohead....Portishead(wayback!) Seattle....AUSTIN! .... Blanco ......jazz in indigo....Jaco,Jamerson,Jones,McCartney,Edgar Meyer.....Ben Webster,Lester Young,Billie Holliday, Stan Getz..........Soul Eyes, as performed by Coltrane.........Kind of Blue ( if you had only 1 jazz record,IMHO)......texas hill country breakfast tacos....thai food(those who don' like thai food need therapy) Beatles...Adolphe Sax (fascinating story on the inventor of our beloved gift/burden, google him up) " Stop and Go", as performed and written by Craig Marshall....Brazilian Girls(check out 'Don't Stop', Sexy Music,that) Me'Shell Ndegeocello.......(!)...Elvin Jones (!!!!!!!)...did i mention Miles and Coltrane? yes, i don' drink booze no mo'....and i don't miss it at all......alcohol is So last century..........when will we collectively choose a substance to party with that makes us grow & wake up, instead of one that turns us into......morons (and smelly ones,at that ) ok, i'm an idealist............Bill Hicks.......Abraham-Hicks..(no relation,at least blood-wise)....Bill Wilson!(one of the great Metaphysicians of the past 2000 yrs).........breathing connected and full.......texas hill country in general (even the rednecks seem to be a little more chill) ......did i mention saxophone? sittin under the stars (yes,really)....... sacred sex (anything less is just sport-f#cking....in other words boring) check out my blogs about breathing, i am now sharing this, it's time
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My Interests

metaphysics......and then some...........bicycling, good food, Love, austin,water,the rivers, films with good writing.........reading a good story........jazz........the ever closing gap between quantum physics and metaphysics........... your body........conversation, you don't need to 'keep it light' around me

I'd like to meet:

you gotta be shittin' me..........here' a little joke for you "how do you make God laugh?............tell him/her your plans".....

Music:

brazilian girls, old dead jazz guys (and a few live ones), miles,coltrane,mingus,gerry mulligan,george russell, BILL EVANS, bill frisell,me'shell ndegeocello, led zep (of course), mr. pastorius, motown (mr jamerson)......african music,gnawa music,african bass playing in general (crackers take note) old country, johnny cash, hank, junior brown, mars volta, nirvana (kurt!),the heath bros.(saw in nyc july......brilliant!),sonic youth, austin........

Movies:

the truman show,i heart huckabees, what the bleep,crash,shortcuts,jackass( johnny k is a zen master in clown's clothng......normal people would't live thru that shit), the making of the matrix (forget the movie, the behind the scenes disc is where it's at), elevator to the gallows (louis malle 1958, great score by miles davis, see this film!) office space, fight club, slacker, waking life, clerks, too many others to name............

Television:

not much.......the good stuff that's been on hbo is pretty happening.............shows with good writing, the rest of it feels like bile, garbage, and horseshit being dumped into my frontal lobe........turn it off, go outside, talk to a friend, pet your cat...............

Books:

the making of 'kind of blue' ......ascension-john coltrane & his quest, both by eric nisenson beneath the underdog-charles mingus.........ask and it is given-e&j hicks, american scream-the bill hicks story by cynthia true...........angels & demons, da vinci code-dan brown............the amber room,the third secret-steve berry

Heroes:

bill hicks, bill wilson,jesse custer,many who do the right thing every day.....and are not on the evening news.......those who have stood up and said BULLSHIT! to the rest of the herd, john coltrane, miles davis, charles mingus, george russell (these men endured & overcame major adversity in the service of their Art)

My Blog

the dead are not dead

lately there has been a lot of death in my life....... 3 folks within the last year ........ well, they are not "dead". in the particular case of my father, who passed on aug 12, we have definitely b...
Posted by basshouser on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:50:00 PST

biology & alcoholism- some hope

in an attempt to shed light/help relieve suffering here is some information in the old days alcoholism was not understood to be a biological condition, but thought of as a moral or behavioural one......
Posted by basshouser on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:06:00 PST

open letter to all rhythm sections

and note to self............(especially me) as some of you may know, i have been a bass player for a long-ass time.........(too long, considering how many clams & extraneous bs i'm still blowing.......
Posted by basshouser on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:50:00 PST

breathing III

helpful hints........ when extreme discomfort manifests during a breathing cycle, and acceptance doesn't seem to be working, LOVE the feeling,thank it for being there,.........i'm not kidding,i know ...
Posted by basshouser on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:26:00 PST

breathing II

the technique known as rebirthing has for some years been lumped into the 'new age' movement (more of a bowel movement a lot of the time). what i have noticed is that seemingly every attempt to organi...
Posted by basshouser on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:05:00 PST

breathing

a few of you who have known me for a while undoubtedly have heard me talk about breathing.....here goes..... what i'm referring to was originally known as rebirthing.........this was re-discovered in...
Posted by basshouser on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:12:00 PST