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Jonathan Arthur

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About Me

Optimist. Gentleman. Naturalist. Philosopher. Best Friend. Dork. Lover.

To listen to some music I made CLICK IT HERE!!!

OR HERE!!!

And yes, even here.

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My Interests

subtleties, life, the universe, and everything.

My current interests include trees, tranquility, harmony, biogeography, teas, my cat Ichi, pickling, wild mushroom hunting, giving people peace signs, my white bicycle, eating pumpkin foods, apples, giving Alfred Russel Wallace some fucking credit around here, Belgian beer, wearing the same thing everyday, yerba mate, self-awareness, harmonious and purposeful living, entropy, Mauritius, skipping showers, singing, dancing, laughs, dumpster diving, fantasy baseball, cyborgs, Paul McCartney is dead, green chili, green chemistry/engineering/politics, harnessing the power of the sun, being a ludite, camping, gaia, Tom Rapp's lisp, evolution, giant anteaters, the Olympic Rainforest, optimism, nuclear chemistry, Ryan's homemade science experiments, farmer's markets, my loving family, Sami people, good vibrations, sustainability, diesel engines & biodiesel, population biology, compost, past, present, futurism, sandalwood, wave mechanics, Scandinavian pop music, pickleball, puns, insect societies, cooking homemade soups, yeast, kombucha, making new sounds, and trying to unravel the hidden identities of Sweden's Philemon Arthur and the Dung .

I'd like to meet:

People with a natural curiosity for life, the universe, and everything.

And these guys.

Music:

The Beach Boys, Harry Nilsson, Spacemen 3, Blessed Light, George Harrison, David Byrne, Little Wings, Steve Tilston, The Swingle Singers, Lake, The Amorphous Androgynous, Mt Eerie, The Byrds, the Zombies, the beta band, Van Morrison, Bobby Birdman, The Microphones, Little Wings, Bobby Vinton, The A-Teens, Bob Dylan, Billy Nicholls, Roy Orbison, Syd Barrett, Fugu, Galaxie 500, Kool Kieth, Brian Eno, Comus, Donald Byrd, Jonathan Richman, Nick Drake, Beachwood Sparks, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Miles Davis, Komeda, Kevin Ayers, Mouse on Mars, Gary Usher, Halfjapanese, The Soft Machine, The Cyrkle, Robert Wyatt, Dion and the Bellmonts, Mozart, Aphex Twin, Billie Holiday, Dennis Brown, Graham Coxon, Bogdan Rackzynski, Television, Dan the Automator, the make-up, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Donovan, Van Dyke Parks, Tchkung!, Caetano Veloso, Beethoven, Monorchid, Graham Parsons, Alice Coltrane, The Hollies, Stevie Wonder, The Ramones, Tom Ze, Delta Haymax, The Millenium, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Phil Spector, Three Mile Pilot, Country Joe and the Fish, The Pretty Things, A Passing Fancy, Cecil Taylor, Lync, Rocketship, Smog, David Bowie, Alexander "Skip" Spence, The Superheroes, Bonzo Dog Band, The Who, Tommy James and the Shondells, Jimmy Cliff, Harpers Bizarre, La Dusseldorf, Blonde Redhead, Glenn Gould, Cornershop, The Curious Digit, Bob Marley, Pavement, Silver Apples, Mercury Rev, Mayo Thompson, Steve Harley, Tchaikovsky, The Beta Band, Sparklehorse, The Feelies, France Gall, the Cardigans, Supertramp, Charles Mingus, R.E.M., Angel Pavement, Bob Hund, The Fugees, Bobby Conn, Comus, Sun Ra, Sandy Salisbury, T-Rex, Velvet Underground, Dinosaur JR, Pulp, the Future Sound of London, Daniel Johnston, Randy Newman, The Sea and Cake, Zoo Bombs, the Honeys, Wire, kraut rock, sunshine pop, Motown

My Soulseek ID is: Mother Upduff

Movies:

Little Dog Big Trouble, Withnail and I, The Ruling Class, Endless Summer, The Magic Christian, Shaolin Soccer, The Graduate, Dr Strangelove, St Ives, The Party, The Point, A Hard Day's Night, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

Television:

I no longer have one.... Louis theroux's weird weekends, Arthur, Mr show, The State, Home Movies, Father Ted, Black Adder, Nova, Man VS Wild, Black Books, Conan O'Brien

Books:

John Fante, Shel Silverstein, Richard Brautigan, Knut Hamsun, Douglas Adams, Peer Gynt, Edward O. Wilson

Heroes:

Jonathan Richman, Alfred Russel Wallace, David Attenborough, Brian Wilson, Carl Jones, Kevin Warwick, Rene Descartes, Robert MacArthur, Douglas Adams, Lao Tsu, Glenn Gould, my family, and...

My Blog

The Coca Cola Challenge!!!

I dare somebody to make this real true recipe I found on cooks.com and and then eat it......>COCA COLA SALAD ..>..COCA COLA SALAD-->1 can Queen Anne cherries, pitted1 can crushed pineapple8 oz. c...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:09:00 PST

Sea Guls See Love or Wrestlemania XXX

I suppose life has changed a fair amount since sometime...good things... school... job in an ecology lab... jessica moving to Seattle... little things... sweet things... tasty things... the perhaps in...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:39:00 PST

Stats and graphs

As of right now I have exactly 10,000 profile views. Just thought I'd share that... and perhaps this...   ...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:10:00 PST

FIRST SILENT HOUSE TALENT SHOW

The kids and I in my house are going to be hosting a talent show/freak show/film fest/music show/pot luck.We're shooting for the 8th of September.We are looking for jugglers, magicians, comics, play ...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:32:00 PST

Comcast Housemates!

Today we recieved some junk mail from Comcast.This is the picture on the ad...(since there are 5 guys who live in my house we decided to write our names on the ones closest resembling ourselves--the l...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:27:00 PST

The All Night Sunshine Band

Here is the flyer for our next show. This was made by Almaden, this freak folk guy from SF, he contacted us a few weeks back to ask us to play with him. His music is pretty good. CHECK IT OUT HERE....
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:30:00 PST

sleep

I got home yesterday from four nights of camping around Anacortes. I decided to take a nap around 7pm last night. I just woke up from that nap. That equals a grand total of 15 hours worth of sleep. It...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:02:00 PST

"I've buzzed around for miles you know..."

So I was reading about bumble bees and I stumbled across something I thought was interesting...Schmidt Sting Pain Index From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Schmidt Sting Pain Index or ...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:25:00 PST

Green Things: A show and tell of sorts

These are the plants in my life.I water and tend to their needs and they grow and feed my curiosity.We make each other happy.Let me introduce you to them...I've had this ficus the longest (almost four...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:17:00 PST

A Loving Spoonful

Ah yes summer.Generally a time to spread out your wings and do something.So uh here's an update...This morning I woke up to find my window fan in the neighbor's yard.hmm that pretty much sums up my su...
Posted by Jonathan Arthur on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:04:00 PST