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phil

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

About Me

"Under neath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is an another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware of the unknown self--if you become aware of it--the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function of this total galaxy, Bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies. You are the vast thing you see far, far off with great telescopes. You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say,"Why, thats me!" And in knowing that, you know that you never die. You are the eternal thing that comes and goes that appears--now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown--and so it goes, forever and ever and ever." -Alan Watts

My Interests

Good Records, Space and time, dreams, life after death, the weirdness of life.

I'd like to meet:

Mother Nature

Music:

Inflowential, David Bryne, Common, Digable Planets, Calexico, Iron and Wine, Ray Lamontagne, Miles Davis, Coltrane, BILLIE HOLIDAY!!!, Slum Village, Wilco, Buena Vista Social Club, Betty Lavette, Tom Petty, Yo La tengo, Black Uhuru, Muddy Waters, Talking Heads, The Clash, Nina Simone, My Morning Jacket, The Grateful Dead, Blackstar, Van Morrison, Tortoise, Terry Reid, Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry, Gregory Isaacs, Woody Guthrie, Median, Little Brother, Ernest Ranglin, Hieroglyphics "yeah", A Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, The Roots, Gangstarr, Spoon, Fruit Bats, The Flaming Lips, The Great Lake swimmers, Norfolk & Western, Five Deez, Krs One, "the list goes on and on let me tell ya."

Movies:

The Motorcycle Diaries, The Truman Show, Alice's Restaurant, and Top Gun (cant help it).

Television:

Don't have or watch television. Read Shel Silverstein's poem "Channels."

Books:

"This is It" by Alan Watts. "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley, "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac,"The Rum Diaries" by Hunter S. Thompson, "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald, "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" by Ken kesey, and "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe.

Heroes:

Silver Surfer, Randle Patrick McMurphey. Ignatius J. Reilly