The cohesion of body, mind, and soul through differing life experiences: striving so hard for the next karate belt that you throw up from physical exertion but keep going anyways and laugh about the accomplishment afterwards, travelling to the far reaches of the earth and experiencing what others have only seen in photographs, feeling so alive after biking 11 miles to the top of Arches National Park and overlooking an enlessly vast expanse filled with varying hues of desert reds and purples, camping on the beach in the Keys and kite boarding in a foot and a half of water for 8 hours, sitting by a fire contemplating the origin of life and the purposes we live for over a nice bottle of '97 Georges de Latour Private Reserve, shopping at Marshall's when I have no more money to spend, dropping a 40 foot cliff into six feet of powder while feeling like nothing in the world could ever slow me down, living, loving, yearning, never resting, always desiring more...
I'd like to meet:
God (or whoever created this crazy, volatile existence of ours), if I ever get the chance. I've got a lot of questions...
Of course, I would also like to meet Leon Phelps and learn from some of his most prodigious exploits...
"Um...can I ask you a question? Was your daddy a meat burglar? Because this is why I ask...it looks like he stole two fine hams and shoved them down the back of your dress." --Tim Meadows, The Ladies Man--
Music:
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
Buddha Bar, Buddha Lounge, Hotel Costes, Cafe del Mar, Ministry of Sound Chillout Sessions, Talvin Singh, Nirvana Lounge, Dead Can Dance, MC Solaar, James Blunt, Coldplay, Cirque Du Soleil, David Gray, Bob Marley, DJ Tiesto, Hans Zimmer, J.S. Bach, John Mayer, Karsh Kale, Claude Challe, Morcheeba, Al di Meola, Paco de Lucia, Gypsy Kings, Armik, Govinda, Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Rusted Root, Thievery Corporation, Sting, and so on and henceforth... enough???
Movies:
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." - Will Rogers
I watch a lot of movies. Not sure if that's good or bad... Favorites are Braveheart, Gladiator, True Romance, Old School, The Ladies Man, Last Samurai, Pulp Fiction, Last of the Mohicans, Wedding Crashers, Eurotrip, National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Vanilla Sky, Team America: World Police, The Illusionist, The Departed, Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, etc...
Television:
"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book."
- Groucho Marx
Little to none. Can't stand commercials. But I do get hooked on TV series!! My favorites are Nip/Tuck, Rome, Grey's Anatomy, House M.D., Smith, Lost, and the best one out there in my opinion right now, HEROES!!!
Books:
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
- Oscar Wilde
There are 5 books which have impacted my life greatly... The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Shibumi by Trevennian, The Magus by John Fowles, Songs of Earth and Power by Greg Bear, and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. The most recent excellent and impacting book that I have read is The Traveller, by John Twelve Hawks, which contains very succinct and apropriate political undertones for the time and age we live in nowadays and brings forth resonating questions of free will versus governmental control over the masses.
Heroes:
"Every hero becomes a bore at last."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
