*CULTURE SHOCK should be embraced as a way of Life. mostly, i'm about looking out for the people i Care about & adding people to that List. i try to keep on track, it doesn't always work. but, i PERSIST......
MAHAVATAR BABAJI in COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS! Pacifists. anyone trying to be of value to the world. people bordering on blunt & sensitive. people who SPEAK (& TRY TO LIVE)HONESTLY., folks with BIG HEARTS, i can laugh with. people working on LOVING ALL EQUALLY, & seeing the world as their Family......
everything.lately, konono, james white and the blacks, santogold & mission of burma, & tv on the radio. anything that makes me think about this Life. (grind core. rare groove. old school freestyle. the classics. odd finds. dancehall. dub. bad80s music to makes me laugh. indigenous music.) (fugazi. annie anxiety. assuck. the liars. erik b & rakim. brian eno) different Kinds of house. disonance. i could *namedrop* forever, Trust! anything Nice. if you want to know- look in my (non-top40) friend's list, it has what bands i like. dj's etcetera. be warned, some of it is just hillarious, ("tongue-in-cheek") i think so, anyway.
Masterpieces, i enJoy: 8 1/2! (BRILLIANT) HAPPY TOGETHER! faces. baraka. barbarella. starr booty. rocky horror. color of pomegranates. shogun assassin. musculin/feminin[sic]. the golden child. big lebowski. little shop o' horrors. best in show. mystery train (or anything by jim jarmusch (!).) gone with the wind (what? it's amazing, if you watch it with the right frame of mind: it's a lurid melodrama) (miss the"big house" days).) blue velvet. notebook on clothes & cities. a delicate balance. cremaster cycle. manhattan. squid & the whale. royal tenenbaums. the Life aquatic. flashdance. road house (or anything w/ patrick swayze, stop smoking STOP SMOKING! & feel better soon! duh). marie antoinette. amelie. spaceballs. earth girls are easy. farenheit 911, (& just about anything by michael moore). pulp fiction. midnight cowboy. young frankenstein. HOLY MOUNTAIN(!). persona. conversation for a dollar. plan 9 from outer space. my beautiful laundrette. cool as ice. zentropa. paris is burning. dr. strangeLove (or how i learned to stop worrying Love the bomb) 2001. full metal jacket. to be & to have. lady in the water. the list goes on (feelfree to swap recomendations, if you think i should check out something you Like, but don't see here)..
the television was like a babysitter to me, now i don't use it except to look at a movie. my least favorite shows on tv are forensic & u.s. soap operas. (that's the worst: forensic soap operas!) (no, i do watch bravo network, & political shows) & "ellen", her show is Good, 'cos she always cracks me up; she has Heart. &, it's important to laugh out loud, EVERY DAY!
Autobiography of a Yogi, by my Alltime *Favorite, Paramahansa Yogananda...... Hafiz. Rumi. The 2nd Coming (Resurrection of Chist in YOU) anything that INSPIRES ME. now, i'm reading "Path To Love" check the "reading" blog, for an elaborated explanation, if you want. The Holy Qu'ran. (i plan on reading "The Kaballah" when i turn 40). Dahamapada. (feel free to drop suggestions of books imporant to you that i should look into)
renunciants. YOGIS. people who are kind toward complete strangers. MOM. kids. folks who don't react to any "shade thrown at them". people who never stop working for the Well-Being of ¨others¨. protesters, who pierce the facade...... Relentless Optimists, people who "wear their Hearts on their Sleeves". Brother Dharmanandaji [R.I.P.] tim russert. gene wilder. don knotts. ellen. dr. king. al gore for raising awareness about human impact on the planet, for sounding the urgent message of "climate change", .. GLOBAL WARMING! my aunt, her sense of humor AMAZES ME! philanthropists, & fundraisers. oprah. my friend, japeth. Freedom-fighters. folks who let their freak flags fly & pull it with class. innovators. teachers (Good Ones). comedians. anti-fascists. Patient People. keith olberman, for doing a fine job of caling out the establishment (& with such "nicety*" thanks, Drew!......) Iceland-for being at the top of the list of countries with the Best record in human rights'. Hope to visit one day. Barack Obama (Godspeed, you black emperor) Rachel Maddow (air amerika)