I love love. The one and the many, the poison and the tonic. The pain and the struggle and eradication of these from my experience. The knowledge that the pain leads to healing and the struggle leads to elevation, levitation to higher planes. Radial existence. The fire, the one fire, the effulgent spark that luminates each body each being of light and sound. I learn to play more. The ancient from which we came. Ancestors and those that remain to be seen. Feeling the circulation of my blood and breath and sweat. Feeling my bare feet and hands against the dark soil of the earth. Feeling the flame on my tongue and fingertips. Feeling everything and anything that my particular experience calls me to FEEL! Breath and feel breath and feel breath and feel, breath through whatever it is that you feel, that's all you have to do. I love to heal and be healed. To dance and be danced to write and be written to dream and be dreamt. To love and be loved.
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Natacha Atlas, Saul Williams, Bjork, M.I.A., Tom Waits, Beck, Balkan Beat Box, Zap Mama, Badi Assad, the Blues (Lightinin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Son House, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thornton, Ma' Rainey, John Lee Hooker, etc), MeShell Ngodicello, Atmosphere, Missy Eliot, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Beastie Boys, Betty LaVyette, Bill Withers, Rage Against the Machine, Blackalicious, Cee-Lo Green, Goodie Mob, Wu-Tang, Cibbo Matto, De La Soul, Digable Planets, Toots and the Maytals, Elysian Fields, Fairuz, Um Kulthoum, Le Trio Joubran, Hossein Alizedah, The Goats, Gorillaz, Hip to the Hop, Buena Vista Social Club, IsWhat?!, Jimi Hendrix, Kings of Leon, Morphine, NegativeLand, Outkast, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Residents, Seu Jorge, Tool, Erykah Badu, Andre3000, Zen Kiss, Arabic Groove, Anything that makes me want to shake my hips and put fire in my mouth, the drum the drum the drum the heart beat rhythem of the drum circle, Perfect Circle, The Cure, because music has the power to cure and heal and move and make you want to pray and meditate and dance, sacred movement, within me within you, and on and on and on and on and on........
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Some recent favorites include: Divine Intervention, Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Black Sabbath, The Bride with White Hair, Dreams (Akira Kurusawa)!!!!!!!!!! Bamboozled, Do the Right Thing, Paradise Now, Rockers. Documentaries, anything weird and experiemental, anything fiction that tells the truth. One flew over the Cuckoos Nest (and of course the book!), The Neverending Story (and the book the book the book goes on and on).
Reruns of the Revolution.......................Ok I do like Cartoons, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama and perhaps a couple of other things here and there.
Books by Tom Robbins, Paulo Coelho, Joyce Carole Oats, Osho, Chuck Paluhniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, David Ickes, Rumi, Arundhati Roy, Saul Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Suheir Hammad...as well as The Neverending Story, Women who Run with the Wolves, Skinny Legs and All, Fairy Tales, anything that wreaks mystical havoc on the world and whatever else random thing I come across.
"The angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." Alan Watts. Rachel Corrie and Hanthala (Naji Al-Ali)! Malcolm X, MLKJ, a Palestinian child who has the courage to play in the face of guns and tanks, anyone that speaks their truth even if their voice shakes, even if it means death or excommunication, Cynthia McKinney, Monsour Al-Halaj (I am the absolute Truth I am God), and anyone willing to live their life and follow their path in whatever way works for them despite the status quo and the misunderstandings of the masses. And KMH-"Anything that is worth doing is doing to be difficult" Assata Shakur: www.assatashaku.org/ Leila Khaled