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The Witness

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My Interests

reviving the lost art of conversation, plotting to get european citizenship, eastern healing for my neurotic western mind, undefining myself, mysticism, listening my way through music history, dancing, philosophy, social sciences, evolutionary enlightenment, yoga, french and german cinema, health and nutrition apart from the medical community, vegan cooking, contemporary art, music that takes me out of my head, a good argument, self imposed challenges, developing myself as a writer and creator. ....

I'd like to meet:

The merciful deadly and the wounded divine

Music:

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. The most recent change in my attitude toward sound has been in relation to loud sustained sounds such as car alarms or burglar alarms, which used to annoy me, but which i now accept and even enjoy. I think the transformation came through a statement of Marcel Duchamp who said that sounds which stay in one location and don't change can produce a sonorous sculpture, a sound sculpture that lasts in time. Isn't that beautiful? - John Cage

Movies:

El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, Leolo, Network, La Strada, Fast Cheap and out of Control, Henry and June, Breathless, Brazil, The Celebration, Touch of Evil, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express, Nuit Noir, The Ruling Class, Memento, Last Life in the Universe, Gods and Monsters, Basquiat, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, A Zed and Two Naughts, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Dreamers, A Heart in Winter, The Science of Sleep, Grizzly man, Land of Silence and Darkness, Where the Green Ants Dream, My Best Fiend, Herzog's Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, Annie Hall, Manhatten, Another Woman, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Radio Days, Hannah and her Sisters, Amelie, Exotica, Donnie Darko, Jackie Brown, The Sacrifice, The Stalker, Solaris (original), 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Three Colors Trilogy, Amateur, Henry Fool, Eight and a Half, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Twin Peaks, Damage, The Empire Strikes Back, Slackers, Waking Life, The Assasination of Richard Nixon, Dogville, Lost in Translation, Blood Simple, Quills, Old Boy, Twenty Four Hour Party People, The Labrynth, The Corporation, Manufacturing Consent, The Secretary, Chinatown, Videodrome, Existenz, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, and infinitely more…

Television:

When i scrape the bottom of the barrel i scrape it like so: Real Time with Bill Maher, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Deadwood, Futurama, Seinfeld, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Adventures of Pete and Pete, Fraggle Rock, Arrested Development, Simpsons (middle period after the family moral crap and before it becomes a caricature of itself)

Books:

Books: The ones I'm writing.Authors: Leonard Cohen, Nietzsche, Ken Wilber, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nobokov, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, Bryan Magee, Isaac Asimov, Curtis White, William James, William Barret, David Sedaris, Fichte, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Walter Kaufmann, and on...

Heroes:

Andrew Cohen, Ken Wilber, Mike Adams, Helen Stansfield, and everyone who wants to be free, doesn't settle for available answers, has a sense of moral obligation, and strives for their dreams.

My Blog

Creative Communication

The Art of Enlightened CommunicationWhat would it be like to engage with others in a place far beyond the boundaries of the personal self? What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own ...
Posted by The Witness on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:12:00 PST

what's the worth of selfish intelligence?

I came across this from a friend's blog who supported the following post; it's originally from a blog of john mayer's, and my response is beneath A year ago this month I wrote a song called "Waiting o...
Posted by The Witness on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:52:00 PST

tattoos of change

I had a friend that once said he didn't like people with tattoos because he thought their decision to get one showed they weren't interested in growing. He seemed to be saying that the comfort to make...
Posted by The Witness on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:08:00 PST

making sense of astrology

Astrology has come up frequently over this past week so i was looking up a bunch of people's birthdays and really digging into all the subtle conditions that define a person astrologically, not just t...
Posted by The Witness on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:17:00 PST

On Love with Sati Rose

I am going to be the most cautious person ever getting involved again. I feel bad for the poor girl, whomever she may be, for all the scrutiny i will put her through. But who can you trust these days?...
Posted by The Witness on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:22:00 PST

graceful words

What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with ...
Posted by The Witness on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:06:00 PST

Grizzly Psychology

The movie Grizzly Man hit deeper than its subject ostensibly suggested. I kept passing over it at the video store until I discovered it was a new Werner Herzog film, which opened me up to considering...
Posted by The Witness on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:02:00 PST

Republican's heterosexual crushes

The Christian Right Wing has been known to propagate the idea that homosexuals are socially corruptive due to their apparent goal of converting heterosexuals to their lifestyle. Why can't they respec...
Posted by The Witness on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:13:00 PST