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About Me

yes.

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My Interests

making music, being outside, reading, wandering aimlessly around new york, playing, tea, good, writing, travelling, tai chi... the usual hippie stuff, i guess

I'd like to meet:

everyone. talk to me.

Music:

the beatles, bob dylan, beethoven, steve earle, medeski martin & wood, ani difranco, billie holiday, al green, ella fitzgerald, led zeppelin,django reinhardt, mozart, chopin, lizst, snoop, jimi hendrix, jeff buckley, harry nilsson, oliver mtukudzi, nina simone, otis redding, pete segger, ali farka toure, ayub ogada, leonard cohen, chet baker, jackson 5, bob marley, toots & the maytals, amel larrieux, tom petty, stevie wonder, radiohead, paul mccartney, bela fleck, tenacious d, neil young, elizabeth & the catapult, walter the orange ocean, gillian welch, miles davis, jurassic 5, manu chao, meg smallidge, oumou sangare... oh lots of stuff. anything with soul in it.

Movies:

the big lebowski, the south park movie, immortal beloved, hard day's night, help!, out of africa, dr. schivago, sean connery james bond movies, annie hall, the hunt for red october, the godfather I and II, stupid girly rom-coms...

Television:

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Books:

j.d. salinger, nicholson baker, tom robbins, harry potter books,"song of solomon" by toni morrison, "the ground beneath her feet" by salman rushdie, "zen flesh zen bones", anything by alan watts, "the perennial philosophy" by aldous huxley, "written on the body" by jeanette winterson, "siddhartha" by herman hesse, "cunt" by inga musico, "portrait of the artist as a young dog" by dylan thomas, "the things they carried" by tim o'brien, "mind science"... the list goes on and on.Currently reading:

Heroes:

none, thanks.

My Blog

dreams and what you wonder

I had such an odd dream last night. Nothing new about that really. But anyway, the main attraction was definitely the part in which I had sex all over a bookstore with a very very handsome italian man...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:53:00 PST

because

i feel like i owe the world a blog. i know you're thinking "who, me??" no. not you. the dude sitting next to you. i don't know. nevermind. let's make this easy on ourselves: 1. I have come to realize...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:15:00 PST

the meaning of life, revealed ... or is it just the tumeric talking?

It's 3 am. I'm listening to Yuka Honda and eating indian food leftovers. why, oh why, does tumeric have this powerful capability of changing everything in its path yellow? it's like, i know everyone n...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:01:00 PST

Chronicles: A Night in the Life. This is Important: No, Just Really Long: But Read It Anyway

I have the feeling this is going to be an epic blog. I can just feel it. But just stick with me, okay? Okay. So here goes. We got a little on-the-scene notes interlaced with some [bracketed] editorial...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:44:00 PST

Blargh!

Damn it all. I wanted to see Sean Lennon at the Bowery Ballroom tonight, but I didn't know I was going to have the night off until... NOW. And it's sold out! Wasn't sold out yesterday, no. But it is n...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:16:00 PST

Chapter 6: Alien Love

Letting Terrence McKenna do the talking... "Self" is as great a mystery as the word "Other." It's just a polarity between two mysteries and then the thin, thin myths that are spun to hold you suspend...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:06:00 PST

demon dancing days

well, i faced a demon tonight. it went well. there is just nothing like facing what makes you very uncomfortable and afraid. it's just the most liberating experience. what i did is i turned a ghost (o...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:32:00 PST

An Open Letter to Paul McCartney

Dear Sir Paul,Can you do me a big favor? Can you produce my first solo album? I am sure you're pretty stressed out right now, what with all the legal proceedings for your messy divorce, but perhaps a ...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:03:00 PST

a highly recommended review

I'm certainly not one for dwelling on the past, but I decided to do this little year-end review survey and was pleasantly surprised by the light shed on this little slice of my life just by answering ...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:47:00 PST

this is a follow up to the previous blog. read that one first.

I feel a little better as I sit, eating whipped cream out of a mug, with this lovely script written by the 10-year-old boy I babysit for... my problems are clearly solved. Enjoy. Jason, I brought yo...
Posted by Bonanza Jellybean on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:09:00 PST