Spirituality, non-duality, obe's, 420, music, 80's euro synth pop, music culture, mythology, sexuality, dance,..poetry, blogs, Commodore 64!
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ps2, raves, electronica, futurism, world peace, no boundaries, open mind, kpfk, some anime, Totoro!, the Divine in you and me, Peet's Coffee and Tea, beauty.
I enjoy collating the data of this spectrum of existence. Watching layers of humanity and history interact. From the inner-city streets to the towers of finance, to the Dalai Lama. It's all connected, and any viewpoint has infinite viewpoints branching from it.
I went down the rabbit hole. It's right here.
I think we hold the pieces to the puzzle of a world that just might work:
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SPECIAL NOTE!If you want to be added to my friends list PLEASE send me an email. I am getting so much spam that when people ask to be friends I almost always just click 'deny'-- there are bots posing as people without photos, then I click on it and they're offering a free ipod, or something. So just write me first, then I'll know you're real.
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SPECIAL SPECIAL NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have taken the liberty of arranging my closest 'top 8' friends in the order that I have known them:
Too many too list. Even if I don't generally like a particular genre (say, Country) if I hear it while I'm with a friend it gives me an opportunity to look into that particular world. If the world or it's premises seem too boring from the outset, I will modify my perspective, maybe view it historically, culturally. And there are a million views, even there, and every view has a branch, millions of branches, and leaves, touching the air, and air, touching the earth and space, and space, touching stars, and stars touching infinity and so on, a macro model of tiny models, everything turning inside and out.
This is Coolio's version of Gangster's Paradise: I used to trip out on this, stoned. After this, watch the Weird Al version, below.
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Here is Weird Al's Version:
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The reference, "Or else I might have to get medieval on your heighny (sp)" is to that part in the movie Pulp Fiction where the assailed man says, "I WILL GET MEDIEVAL ON YO ASS!"
Radiohead: Exit Music (for a film)..I like the 80's music by people like Cyndi Lauper. This video is probably terrible (I've never seen it) but I love the synthy music, and I love the message, which is, literally, about a woman masturbating:The Blood of Eden, by Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'ConnorThis is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. It's about women, and the earth, and eden, and our connection to all of them. It's earthy, honest, and true. I never saw the video before posting it here. Sinead's tunings are truly strange, because her voice has a lot of non-typical harmonics. So the tuning here cannot be replicated with a regular piano, or an instrument with western tuning. A song hard to re-produce, a story that is timeless.The Smiths' There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. A beautiful song of angst and emotion, with a feel of English literature, so Wordsworth and Yeats and Shelley...
This is one of my favorite videos, ever. It's these girls singing this song and acting it out, all real. I later realized, after a few viewings, that someone edited this. I don't know if they did the filming and editing themselves, or if there was a third party.
A couple of my friends have been into the Pixies, a band I never understood. But after watching this video, I get them a lot more, just like how I had to learn Jane's Addiction from friends, I would have never understood them, on my own.
I'd heard of this Ben Folds character. Didn't know he was actually good! Love his voice, with piano-- message looks pretty cool, too:
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My Neighbor Totoro, (this is a video culled from clips of the movie, with the theme song (in the original Japanese)):
.. width="425" height="350"Spirited Away, Quest for the Grail, Monty Python's Flying Circus... can't really remember movies too well... they're so intense I usually only rewatch anime or comedy.
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So many. Anything by Alan Watts or Ken Wilber on philosophy. Joseph Chilton Pearce (Magical Child, Biology of Transcendence, others), Robert Monroe's books detailing out of body experience, William Gibson, Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections", Tolkien, Neale Donald Walsch, the Alchemist by Noehlo Paulo, too many to list.Lately I read mostly non-fiction on philosophy having to do with reality being way more than we assume. www.deoxy.org is great for this.
Alan Watts, Terence McKenna
..Neal Donald Walsch, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Ken Wilbur:
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Rob Hubbard (Commodore 64 music)
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Kazunori Yamauchi (created GT4 for the PS2-- video games)
Yamazaki (Japanese director of My Neighbor Totoro, others)
Martin Luther King, Bob Marley, Noam Chomsky, Nina Simone, Amy Goodman. The list is too long. I have many heros.
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