Acoustic guitars and playing them on stage, bass guitars, electric guitars, working in independent film projects, art, martial arts, movies with heart, abstract and offbeat brain-teasing comedy, tigers, toes, darts, skateboards, snowboards, Faith, science, Chi or Ki, Zen & nunchaku. X-box 360 once in a while, but not enough. Studied wing chun kung fu and started pentjak silat and chi kung and would like to begin the study of aikido and reiki sometime down the road. Summary: a lot of hand, mind, body and spirit stuff.
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I'd like to meet:
Interesting and complex humans, Music players and admirers, creative-types, smarty-pantses, hot female nerds, yoga enthusiasts, intellectual dry wit humorists, the gal in the University of Phoenix ad that sometimes shows up when i sign out of MySpace, Louis Armstrong, female MySpace t-shirt ad models, Yip Man- and Christi Yamaguchi.
Music:
Hendrix, Michael Hedges, Jeff Buckley, Victor Wooten, Preston Reed, Prince, Chaka Khan, Michael MacDonald, In The Arms of Sleep, The Professors, Golden Guy, Nicky Kay and His Fabulous KayTones, Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws, Brodie Porterfield, K.C. and Rev Dave, Freakbass, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, M.J., Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Richard Cheese, Keller Williams, Michael Kelsey, P.E., Sheila E., Danny Elfman, E.C., John Williams, Dinosaur Jr, Ludwig Van Beethoven, De La Soul, Digable Planets, Tribe Called Quest, Trey Parker, Jurassic 5, Ani DiFranco, Chicago (both the city and the band), Eric B. & Rakim, Stanley Jordan, Norah Jones, Phil Collins, Doobie Brothers, James Brown, Commodores, Earth, Wind & Fire, Paul Simon, old school Mowtown with James Jamerson and the Funk Brothers, Coltrane, Parker, Gillespie, Armstrong, Holliday, Ellington, Fugazi, fIREHOSE (not house), Tori Amos, Blue Man Group, Gnanoo Gruv, Magnolia Bolthead, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Beastie Boys, Imogen Heap, Carole King, Kaki King, Frankenixon, Wayne Hancock, Miles Davis, Edie Brickell, Bjork, early Rage against the Machine, Radiohead, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Ludacris, Run DMC, Peter Gabriel, Jane's Addiction, Neil Young, Tuck Andress, Rory Block, Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, BB. King, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Morris Day & The Time, Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughn, EPMD, UTFO, INXS, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Lou Rawls, Rick James, Billy Joel, Cameo, Primus, Whoodini, Lisa Stansfield, Special Ed, The Spinners, The Whispers, The Who, The Knack, The Jackson 5, The Clash, The Cure, Dee Lite, The Police, Bob Marley and the Wailers (BMW), The Bangles, Oran "Juice" Jones", Anita Baker, Aretha, Will Cope, Outkast, U2, Coldplay, They Might Be Giants, Roadblock, Myke Rock, Tenacious D, Quiver of Jasper, Jim Volk, Steven Gregory, Eric Loy, Jayne Sachs, Emily Strand, Wild Bill Stockwell, Azphalt Dazy, Ryan Judy, Southern Ohio Boys, Rob Heiliger and the Corndaddys, Spinal Tap, The Folksmen, Mazzy Star, early Smashing Pumpkins, Venus Hum, Tracy Bonham, Frank Zappa, Flight of the Conchords, Fela Kuti, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Mark Knophler, Matisyahu, The Funk of Forty Thousand Years, Zorba the Buddhah
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Zorba the Buddhah on MySpace
Movies:
This list shall grow as I have time to fill it:Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Dancer In The Dark, Raising Arizona (all Cohen Bros' films), Star Wars trilogies, Indiana Jones series, James Bond Series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ong Bak: Thai Warrior, The Protector (International version), Sin City, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Club Dread, Super Troopers, Enter The Dragon, Kentucky Fried Movie, Gladiator, The Abyss, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Team America, Johnny Dangerously, Purple Rain, Under The Cherry Moon, Motorcycle Diaries, Ray, Wedding Crashers, Cannibal: The Musical, Leon: The Professional, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, Fear of a Black Hat, We Were Soldiers, E.T., Gandhi, Glengarry, Glen Ross, A Fish Called Wanda, Immortal Beloved, Powder, Kung Pow!, M*A*S*H*, Made, The Score, Office Space, Bad Boys, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Big Lebowski, Restoration, Pootie Tang, Memoirs of a Geisha, Shaolin Soccer, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tannenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Princess Mononoke, Road To Perdition, Pulp Fiction, Run Ronnie Run!, Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Scratch, Six Degrees of Separation, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Swingers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Domino, American Movie, Clerks (all Kevin Smith's films), Swingers, Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, The Chumscrubber, Jet Li's Fearless, Jet Li's Unleashed, Transporter 1&2, just to name a few...Screw it, I'll just post my entire DVD collection up in here when I get the time.
Television:
I be Pro-Documentary, yet Anti- reality TV; Old shows on DVD: ALIAS is good; HBO's Rome; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Big Love; L Word; Weeds; Aqua Teen Hunger Force; Scrubs; Malcolm in the Middle; Rob & Big; C.S.I. Miami [when I get the chance]; Seinfeld; Family Guy; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Simpsons; Letterman; Conan; Daily Show; Colbert Report; ..aries, history and the like. SNL, PBS, History Channel, Biography, Discovery, Science and Learning Channels. Then there's the Old School TV. Anyone remember 'Yan Can Cook'?... At the office, sometimes I have MSNBC tuned in the background. Though TV can be a vice if unchecked, though it is my bread and butter.
Books:
'Zen Guitar' by Philip Toshio Sudo, 'The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons From an American Sensei' by George Leonard, 'The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge' and 'The Art of Dreaming' by Carlos Castenada, 'Wing Chun Kung Fu' by J. Yimm Lee, 'Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Bible (NT finished, now working on OT), 'Communion: A True Story' by Whitley Streiber, 'Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream' by Hunter S. Thompson, 'Women' by Charles Bukowski, 'Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight' by John McDermott and Eddie Kramer (Jimi's studio engineer), 'Charlotte's Web'by E.B. White, Garth Williams (Ill.) [LONG, long ago], 'The Physics of Star Trek' by Laurence M. Krauss, 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand, 'How to Stop Acting' by Harold Guskin, (intro by Kevin Kline)...there's more- this's just off the top of my head, y'all
Heroes:
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Buzz Aldren and whoever invented peanut butter whether or not it be intentionally.
