Carl

I'd like to meet:

Good natured, creative, fun people, and integral thinkers. Spiritual beings having a human experience.

Anyone who knows how to get down in the dance of life.

If this is supposed to be a list of names, I would like to get to know Ken Wilber, Bill Laswell, Stevie Wonder, Ray Kurzweil, Alex Grey, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Russell Simmons, William Gibson, Rick Rubin, Fred Kofman, and Peter Gabriel.

You can also connect with me at my myspace music page , Zaadz , Facebook or Linked in

Music:

I like all forms of music as long as it is played with soul and conviction.

I actually just got a Zune, and have been going crazy with its all you can eat access to music, so it's hard to answer this.

Here are a few of my current favorites: Glen Hansard, Angelique Kidjo, Carmen Rizzo, Telefon Tel Aviv, Sharkey & C-Rayz Walz are Monster Maker, Saul Williams/Trent Reznor - The Inevitible Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, Radiohead - In Rainbows, What It Is!, Soundtrack to the Fountain, Federico Aubele, Gaudi/Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Ceu, Mark Ronson, Meshuggah, Imogen Heap, Beck, Michael Franti, and my own music .

Movies:

Movies that I recently have enjoyed: Once, Stranger Than Fiction, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Annie Hall, I know I'm Not Alone, Red, No Maps for These Territories, Network, Howl's Moving Castle, American History X, Frida, Good Night and Good Luck, Thank You for Smoking, Angels in America, I Heart Huckabees, MindWalk

Anything by Charlie Kaufman: Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine...

Anything by Hayao Miyazaki

The Matrix Trillogy & V for Vendetta

Almost Anything by the Coen Brothers: The Big Lebowski, Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou, Barton Fink...

One Giant Leap; Koyaanisqatsi

For international selections I dig Kurosawa, Felini, and Ingmar Bergman

Television:

"If television is not allowed to do investigation as well as entertainment, then television will distract, delude and entertain, insulating us from the realities of the world we live in."

--Edward R. Murrow

Books:

My favorite authors in no particluar order are: Ayn Rand, Robert Pirsig, Douglas Hoffstader, Hermann Hesse, Viktor Frankl, Umberto Eco, Ken Wilber, David Foster Wallace, Shakespeare, I also enjoy reading philosophic and spiritual works.

Currently reading: Renzo & Royler Gracie Brazillian Jiu Jitsu - Theory & Technique, and Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Heroes:

My Wife Cheryl

Siddartha Gautama

John Coltrane

Martin Luther King

Mahatma Ghandi

That guy who stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen square.