"just tryin' to live and let live"...as told to MichaelGabriel.
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive.It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful be realistic remember the limitations of being human.It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes."It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments...................................yeah forget all that...he's gotta be tall- over 6 feet, with dark curly hair, blue eyes(and I am being general, not being specific-unless Kevin is reading this, then yeah! let's make it you!/him...wait, I've already met you/him...)and nice hands, plays guitar in a rock band, and *&$%&#!
Better Than Ezra, Ryan Adams, Kings of Convenience, Echo and the Bunnymen,The Damnwells, My Bloody Valentine, Misfits, Nouvelle Vague, Wolfmother, My Morning Jacket, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Stereolab, Stereophonics(Maybe Tomorrow-MY FAVE!), Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Modest Mouse, Air, The ER Physicians, Franz Ferdinand, Jay Alejandro, Audioslave, Eight Track, Sonic Youth, GetReal!, Ray Lamontagne, EDawg, Pixies, The Flowers, PJ Harvey, BJ and The Bear, GirlRock!, Sigur Ros, Snow Patrol, He eats dog food, Interpol, Blonde Redhead, X, Gang of Four, Brunettes have more fun, Sex Pistols, Sexisgreat!Radiohead, Used boots, The Velvet Underground, I knew him in 5thgrade, Lou Reed, Elliot Smith, 80's soundtrack music...General Public, Ethan Jay, Turin Brakes, BFGoodrich, The Reverend Horton Heat, Jet, The Lemonheads, Gruyere, Broken Social Scene, Paris in the Summer, Dinosaur jr., Waylon Jennings, Shooter Jennings, Benjy Davis Project, Tulane Law, Mazzy Star, Marshal Tucker Band, Regina Spektor, Feist, She Wants Revenge, RL Burnside, Gnarls Barkley, Cat Power, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra(his big band stuff), Juanes, Shakira(her Spanish stuff ONLY!), YeahYeahYeahs, SureSureSure, The Shins, The Postal Service, Stellastar*, The Black Keys, Honey Thief, Theivery Corp., Sondre Lerch, Stone Temple Pilots, Iron and Wine, Josh Rouse, XiuXiu, The Killers, oh and the anticipated web premiere of Hot Action...and don't go and ask me about discography on any of these bands, because I will delete you, unless you want to talk about Kevin Griffin, or Madonna, I got that sh*t undercontrol. ;P
200 Cigarettes, Beautiful Girls, Reality Bites, Royal Tenenbaums, Jaws 1-2-3, Sixteen Candles, Star Wars Tri., Indiana Jones Trilogy(my chicken soup), Some kind of Wonderful, How to Draw a Bunny, Goodbye Lenin!, American Splendor, Hysterical Blindness, Splendor in the Grass, Scooby Doo cartoons, Pillow Talk(anything Rock Hudson and Doris Day), Charlie Chan Mysteries, Jerry Lewis and Dean martin Movies, Hi Fidelity, Gosford Park, I heart Huckabees, Surviving Picasso, Sideways, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Basqiat, Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gummo, GhostBusters, Rounders
Intervention, I need ideas...:)
A Gun For Hire by Helmut Newton...Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Thoreau, Emerson, and Villasenor...All Time Fave, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
MÃ Madre.