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About Me


I am just like anyone else in this movie or dream. I just happen to adhere to nature, art, reading, writing, conversing intelectually, listening to, writing and playing music. Don't know where I'm going in this movie or dream, but come along and provide me some company...
My Political Profile
Overall: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
I'm Best Described By...
From the Lake, No. 1by Georgia O'Keeffe

On July 9, 2005 two No More Deaths volunteers, Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, were arrested by the United States Border Patrol while medically evacuating 3 people in distress from the desert near Arivaca, Arizona. Shanti and Daniel go on trial December 20, and are facing charges that could land them in prison for fifteen years.

Join with border activists, humanitarians, faith-based groups, and others who are supporting Shanti and Daniel in saying Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime by posting this message on your Web site, journal, or blog.

Get a copy of this message here.

Now some of my favorite quotes: "Earth: Serving 6 billion + [while supplies last...]" | "Man must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind" -JFK | "I know not with what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones." -Einstein | “In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.” -Baba Dioum | “Applaud friends, the comedy is over [last words]” -Beethoven | "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" | " Who I'd like to meet: I'd like to meet a girl whose name does not end with .jpg" | "I find myself torn between two beliefs: the belief that life should be better than it is and that belief that when it appears better it really worse." -Graham Greene, Journey Without Maps

My Interests

Listening to, playing and writing music; going into nature, photographing it and do my part to try and save it; herpetology (look it up); intellectual menagetoi; being with friends; cooking for and eating with friends; drinking good wine and beer (not at the same time).

I'd like to meet:

Many people...

Music:

Johann Sebastian Bach; The Beatles; Ludwig van Beethoven; Leonard Bernstein; Johannes Brahms; Frederic Chopin; Emamuel Chabrier; Aaron Copland; Antonin Dvorak; Gabriel Faure; Cesar Frank; George Gershwin; Jascha Heifetz; Alan Hovanness; Scott Joplin; Ivan Khandoshkin; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Yehudi Menuhin; Nathan Milstein; Nicolo Paganini; Itzhak Perlman; Dimitri Shostakovich; Igor Stravinsky; Pytor Iylich Tchaikovsky; Joaquin Turina; Pablo de Sarasate; Lukas Foss; Silvestre Revueltas; Carlos Chavez; Kronos Quartet; Turtle Island String Quartet; Beux Arts Trio; Archangelo Corelli; George Frederic Handel; Giuseppe Tartini; George Philip Telemann; Luigi Boccherini; Buxtehude; Micheal Tilson Thomas with the San Fransisco Symphony; Essa Pekka Salonen with the LA Philharmonic; Joshua Bell; Alexander Borodin; Bela Bartok; Bohuslav Martinu; Maurice Ravel; Claude Debussy; Sergei Rachmaninov; Giuseppe Verdi; Smetena; Leos Janacek; Richard Strauss; Johann Strauss; Johann Strauss, Jr.; Richard Wagner; Bruckner; Dave Brubeck; Miles Davis; Ella Fitzgerald; Sarah Vaughn; Henryk Weiniawski; Middle Eastern Music; Asian Music (Chinese and Japanese); Eugene Ysaye; Jaques Ibert; Issac Albeniz; Hector Villa-lobos; Felix Mendelssohn; Regina Carter; Stephane Grapelli; Maxim Vengerov; Vadim Repin; Igor Oistrakh, Micheal Rabin; Mischa Elman; Arnold Schoenberg; Heinrich-Wilhelm Ernst; Issac Stern; Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert; John Corigliano; Steve Reich; Terry Riley; Camille Saint Saens; Ernest Bloch; Henri Vieutempx; Don Carlo Gesualdo; Henryk Szeryng; Aarond Rosand; Sergei Prokofiev; Javier Navarrete; Samuel Barber; Max Bruch; Ella Fitzgerald; Dave Brubeck; Kronos Quartet; Brentano String Quartet; John Adams; Gioacchino Rossini; Giuseppe Verdi; Franz Waxman; Georges Bizet; Paul Hindemith; Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg; Matts Lidstrom; Pinchas Zuckerman; Andrew Manze; Fritz Kriesler; Franz Joseph Haydn; Paul Amiel; Ecce Hobo; Fish Magic; John Federov; Issac Albeniz; The Traveling Willberries; The Amp Fiddler; Thomas Baltzar; Jean-Marie LeClair; Don Carlo Gesualdo; Gustav Mahler; Darius Milhaud (Le Boef Sur Le Toit); Willie Nelson; The Section Quartet...

Movies:

Good ones. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in one... Pan's Labrinyth; Amores Perros; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Children of Men; Waking Life; Jurassic Park; Kinsey; The Red Violin; I Am Sam; What The #%$! Do We Know?; Babel; Thankyou for Smoking; Perfume; Como Agua Para Chocolate; In America; Salvador; Little Otik; Kundun; The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; Joe Gould's Secret; The Shawshank Redemption; Fried Green Tomatoes; Black Snake Moan; more as I think of them...

Television:

PBS; NPR; BBC; IFC; Sundance; HBO...planet earth, mythbusters, dirty jobs, family guy, the office

Books:

Charles Bowden; Gary Paul Nabhan; Howard Scott Gentry; Paul S. Martin; Harry W. Greene; John Steinbeck; J. Frank Dobie; Jon Campell; Julian C. Lee; Jaime Villa; Julio A. Lemos-Espinal; Hobart Smith; Laurence Klauber; Howark K. Gloyd; Charles H. Lowe; Dick Felger; southwestern literature; natural history (field guides, etc.); human biology; nature writing; Mesoamerican poetry, philosophy, culture and nutrition/medicine ...

Heroes:

Many...

My Blog

When I was Turkish

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Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:26:00 PST

Where the Desert Meets the Sea...

From my trip to a beach in Mexico... A panoramic of our little beach...          Sunrise from my tent door... Neat plants: Organpipe Cactus (Sternocereus thurberi) Ca...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:04:00 PST

5:20am wakes me

from a distressing juxtaposition of amassed memory. And from the dark silence of the room, I realize what it is about her. She's like a summer rain: an obvious and yet subtle beauty. My attention w...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:23:00 PST

To Mixcóatl

Disclaimer Please don't take this blog as me being depressed or suicidal.  I just happen to love the philosophy and symbolism used by the Aztecs.  Especially on such pertinent issues of huma...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:38:00 PST

Like a meteorite

from out of nowhere.It just happened:this newoverwhelming captivatingtitillatingexhilaratinginspiring force.Maybe like wildfire across grassland?Or...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:57:00 PST

Huachuca Mountains - 14 August 2007

Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake Agaves Sycamores Some flowers If you look closely, you can see two minute insects flying to the flower.  I didn't notice them until I opened up m...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:27:00 PST

Published!

I'm published in an international scientific peer reviewed journal for the first time (the second issue of the 50th anniversary year no less): Villa, R. A., P. T. Condon, T. A. Hare, S. Avila-Villega...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:58:00 PST

Many-headed dogs and tigers on a little night drive in the Rincons...

Our loveley Arizona Black Rattlesnake is named for the many-headed dog of Hades: *Cerberus. Carlolus Linneaus (Latinized from Carl von Linné when he began writing in Latin for his famous taxonomic sys...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:03:00 PST

US but not American Independence

To say that today is America's birthday is a gross ignorance.  Today, the country that we live in turns 231 years old since her autonomy from a country of equal world dominance and arrogance.&nbs...
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:54:00 PST

Why do I watch depressing movies

and then become depressed myself?  This can't be good.
Posted by Where the Desert Meets the Sea... on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:01:00 PST