ACTIVE ONES: Dancing, singing, whistling, poetry, collage, conversation, stories. PASSIVE ONE: Reading(which i try to keep active in its own way). Political diatribe: We need a complete tax overhaul. We need to take back our government by involving ourselves. True change starts with oneself – change oneself and change the world. Seth, for the most part, is right: We create our own reality. And Dennis was right too: Energy comes from energy.
Anyone with a renaissance sensibility, and folks that like to tell me stories or read me poetry."Come, let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness."______"A Squeeze of the Hand" from Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851).If your mySpace page is set to "private," please do not ask to be my "friend." This is a public forum and putting yourself on "private" makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Bauhaus, Times New Viking, Konono No1, WIRE, davidBOWIE, TOMwaits, BobDylan, DavidByrne, Eagles of Death Metal, Natacha Atlas, MIA, Gossip, Spoon, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Le Tigre, Akon, Beck, and Kyle Riabko. OtherTop favorites of all time: Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Brian Eno, Skip James, Joni Mitchell, and Billie Holliday. Assorted other favorites from all genre: Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Iggy Pop, Beethoven, Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, the Gyutu Monks of Tibet, XTC, Patti Smith, Cui Jian, Bettye Lavette, Stan Getz, Dinah Washington, and Morrissey. Some other late 70s and 80s favorites: the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, the Cocteau Twins, THE THE, the Residents, Nina Hagen, Princess Tiny Meat, Flipper, Public Image Limited (PIL), Chris and Cozy, Blondie, the B52s, the Cure, Tones On Tail, Wall of Voodoo, Skinny Puppy, Killing Joke, Joy Division, and Souxie.
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean), Brazil (Gilliam), Dr Strangelove (Kubrick), Arabian Nights (Pasolini), Black Orpheus (Camus), Erendira (Guerra), Next Stop Greenwich Village (Mazursky), The Passenger (Antonioni), The Sheltering Sky (Bertolucci), Blue Velvet (Lynch), Pulp Fiction (Tarantino), All About Eve (Mankiewicz), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Nichols), Heat (Morrissey), Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger), and Amarcord (Fellini).
Thought-control apparatus (refer to Orwell's _1984_ and Ray Bradbury's _Fahrenheit 451_ for details), or read Don DeLillo's _Underworld_: "'You can never underestimate the willingness of the state to act out its own massive fantasies.'" PBS if I'm too tired to read or do collage. As a child: "The Man from UNCLE", "Mission: Impossible", "Get Smart", "I Spy", "Combat", "The Untouchables", "The Twilight Zone", and "Secret Agent".
Recent faves: White Noise (DeLillo); Snow Crash (Stephenson); The Savage Detectives (Bolano); Altered Carbon (Morgan); The Looming Tower(Wright); Glamorama(Ellis); Shadow of the Wind (Zafon). Long-time favorites and books I can enjoy over and over again: The Swimming Pool Library (Hollinghurst); China Mountain Zhang (McHugh); The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner); The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Fowles); The Once and Future King (White); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera); Tremor of Intent (Burgess); Davy (Pangborn); Lolita (Nabokov); Another Roadside Attraction (Robbins); One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez); Flow My Tears the Policeman Said (Dick); Little Big (Crowley).
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Basho, Crazy Horse, Thunder Coming Up Over the Land from the Water (Chief Joseph), Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull), Slow Turtle, Red Cloud, Kate Bighead, Emily Dickinson, Lady Daibu, TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, Bob Dylan, Michael Faraday, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and my father (who has passed away) and flesh of my flesh as they have been who have given themselves up but are still alive in my memory