I'm curious as to the mysteries of our past and uncertain of our future, but as they say, curiousity killed the cat...
Conflict should always be so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace... Alexander Pope
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us...Charles Bukowski.
The Pact
Music, Art, Drawing, Snowboarding, Photography, Graphic design, 'Zines, Tattoos, playing music, laughing, playing pool, going to concerts, spelunking, good beer, red wine, sleeping in, snuggling, reading, sushi, cheese cake, strawberries, chocolate, cooking, organic food, steak, martial arts, lock picking, nunchaku, throwing knives and hatchets, excercising, basketball, camping, friends, philosophizing, hanging out, mythology, fossil hunting, travelling, road tripping, the snow, building snow forts, snowball fights, wandering in the heart of the city at night, being lazy, oddities, the strange and unusual, being a complete dork, people watching, graveyards, crossword puzzles, cooking, movies, working on cars, muscle cars, motorcycles, cheesy coffee dives and dive bars..
A new project
creativity is my coping mechanism...
A Photoshop piece I created
Our existence is as transient as autumn clouds. Our lifetime is a flash of lightning in the dark sky, rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain....
I'd like to meet:
Myself... in a dark alley of sorts. I want to see myself from another perspective than the one I have for the past 37 years. Musicians, artists, dreamers, philosphers, eccentrics, free thinkers, freaks, the musically inclined, odd sorts, geniuses.....idiot savants or other 'interesting' sorts...
If you want to add me as a friend.... message me first and say something
Music:
Yes I like music a lot... Way too much to list, Rock, Funk, Avant Garde Jazz, Heavy Metal, Alternative, Blues, Americana, Hip-Hop, Old School Rap, love Chopin, Liszt, Beck, Ween, Primus, Herbie Hancock, much much more.......
Oingo Boingo... the dashing and creative Danny Elfman
More Photoshopping...
"Everyone says we've come such a long, long way. We're civilized, isn't that nice? We've gotten so smart, we know how to blow the whole world apart. But when it comes to the simple things, like living together?... Ha!" Danny Elfman...
Silly rabbit. Trix are for kids.
Movies:
Yes I love movies... well good ones that is. Which ones are good? The ones I like... at least from my perspective anyway, for example... Freeway, Dead Man, Down By Law, Ghost Dog, Sin City, Mystery Train, Coffee and Cigarettes, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Kalifornia, Dog Fight, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, the Outsiders, The Fisher King, Natural Born Killers, Benny and Joon, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, Kingpin, the 9th Configuration, Pootie Tang, Austin Powers, Big Fish, Stand by Me, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, The Gangs of New York, The Departed, City of Lost Children, Boondock Saints, Office Space, High Fidelity, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Walk the Line, the Royal Tenembaums, Kill Bills, Back to the Future, the Goonies, Blue Velvet, Mullholland Drive, Pulp Fiction, Soylent Green, Jackie Brown, Resovoir Dogs, Taxi, Deer Hunter, Serpico, Buffalo 66, Lost Highway, Beetljuice, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, the Corpse Bride, Planet of the Apes, Bruce Lee movies, the Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Indiana Jones, The Mosquito Coast, Star Wars, 12 Monkeys, Big, Cast Away, The 5th Element, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, True Romance, Donnie Brasco, Chocolat, Ed Wood, Platoon, Apocolypse Now, the Godfather, Scarface, Casino, Goodfellas, Carlitos Way, Dog Day Afternoon, Amelie, Amores Perros, Harold and Maude, Camille Claudel, Jean de Florette, Le Retour de Martin Geurre, etc... A great combo is Tim Burton, Danny Elfman and Johnny Depp.... fuck yeah! Oh, and I just started getting into Twin Peaks... it is not a movie, but it is no longer on tv....
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.
Television:
Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Prison Break, M.A.S.H., Nature shows, war and crime documentaries, NOVA, Discovery, PBS, BBC, Archaeology Channel, History Channel......
Books:
Book genres I enjoy are... Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Taoism, Philosophy, Mythology, Poetry, Fiction, non-fiction ... Mystery, love Anne Rice, Edgar Allen Poe, Terry Pratchett, Tolkien, Dr. Suess, Anne McCaffrey, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Bukowski, Thornton Wilder, Wallace, H.G Wells, Victor Frankl, Buckminister Fuller, Robert Anton Wilson, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, Richard Bach, Ernest Hemingway, Lao Tzu, Terry Dobson and Victor Miller....etc
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance†Bruce Lee
A very recent creation of mine.....
Heroes:
My grandpa, Special Agent Dale Cooper, people that take responsibility for their actions, and anyone that can pick themselves back up after they fall down, dust themselves off, and keep going.
My Grandpa, coolest guy I ever met....
My grandpa was an astonomer, thinker, dowser, artist, photographer, writer, rock hound, gold panner, bird watcher, philosopher, nature lover among other things.... he wrote a lot and here is one of his poems that I think was his favorite...
ECOLOGY
I am a part of ecology
More than I give is returned to me
Compost to soil, joined in the rain
Flowery trees strong in the breeze
Busier bees, eager to please
Birds flying by, pausing to see
Down from the sky, join in the spree
Singing their song of prosperity
All are a part of ecology
Aurle B. Martindale
A painting my grandpa did
