Musically:
mandolin, bass, guitar, violin, oud, writing weird songs, jamming every chance I get, and learning from my friends:
Personally:
An eagle in life, a phoenix in love, a nymph in bed. basic bassist/mean mandolinist/soul surfer...captain charity bonney...shortcake...skedaddler...coal miner's granddaughter. interdimensional space traveler, philosopher, poet, and muse. slightly psychic. terribly tenacious. enigmatic and often misunderstood. calls it like it is. frequently found conversing with wild animals. sharpest tool in the shed: handle with care.
Philosophically:
embrace enigma. live and love...intensely. create beauty. find light in shadow. see God in the leaf of a tree. hear angels on the wind. listen for the music in everything. see, hear and speak no evil. put yourself in others' shoes. hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. pursue dreams with relentless passion. sublime sorrow. spread joy. pray with song and dance. seize the moment. laugh every day. love with abandon...
explore the world:
(my travel photos from around the world)
Creatively:
kosher vegetarian cooking, electronics nerd, crochet, photography, travel, travel, travel, spending time doin' cool things with my friends.
Athletically:
inline speedskating, ice dancing and figure skating, swimming, golf, backpacking, rock climbing, kayaking, wild dancing, learning to surf.
Vouyeristically:
hockey, rugby [especially the SFV Rugby Football Club's Killer Beez], basketball, football.
I'd like to meet:
those who bring out the best in me: awesome outdoorsmen, troubled troubadours, vivacious vegetarians, incurable romantics, emotionally available adventurers, subtly serious soul seducers.
Music:
Music in General:
love, listen, feel, play, dance, sing. Blues, bluegrass, world, reggaeton, shoegaze, slam grass, death folk, jam.
what robert johnson song are you?
You are "From Four Until Late"
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If I were stuck in hell with only one album [or song] to listen to for eternity, I could probably live with any of the following:
Alternative/Rock:
CAKE, U2, The Verve, Citizen Cope, The Stone Roses, Luna, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, , Ride, The Pogues, The Sundays, Talking Heads, Tindersticks, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Cream.
Ambient/Space:
Sigur Ros, Single Gun Theory, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, The Orb
Study Music:
Munir Bashir, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven's 9th, Sigur Ros.
Jazz:
Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, live trad jazz & hanging out at Charlie O's.
Rock en Espanol:
Soda Stereo, Santa Sabina, Manu Chao, Lucybell, La Ley, Reggaeton & Daddy Yankee.
Israeli:
Idan Raichel's Project, Ofra Haza, Nurit Galron, Shlomo Artzi, Tipex, Coco HaZamar.
World:
Ozomatli, Bob Marley, Altai Hangai, Munir Bashir, Jah Wobble.
Fave Songwriters:
Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, Jim Morrison, Sting, David Bowie, Anton Barbeau, John McCrea.
Fave Guitarists:
Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Robin Trower, Joe Walsh, The Edge, Robert Randolph.
Movies:
please don't make me pay money to see crap.
Beauty:
LOTR, The Legend of Suryothai, Koyaanisqatsi, March of the Penguins, Metropolis.
Action:
Kill Bill, Road Warrior, Blade Runner, Terminator I, Return of the Dragon, anything with Angelina Jolie packin' heat.
Comedy:
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Buckaroo Banzai, Sleeper, Mars Turki, High Anxiety.
Musical:
Oh Lucky Man, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Singin' in the Rain, Tommy, Phantom of the Opera, Rocky Horror
Noir:
A Boy and His Dog, Pi, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Brazil, Akira, Harold & Maude, Pulp Fiction, Amores Perros, Memento, Blue Velvet, Forbidden Zone.
Most favorite that fits in all the above categories:
Yojimbo
Television:
Kill your television.
What Classic Pin-Up Are You?
You're Bettie Page!
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Books:
Currently reading:
Sound and Recording, An Introduction, by Francis Rumsey
Bathroom reading:
The O.E.D.
While I keep every book I've read, if I had to reduce my library to bare essentials:
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Invisible Cities , Italo Calvino
Women of Sand and Myrrh , Hanan al-Shaykh
Delta of Venus , Anais Nin
The Tale of Gengi , Murasaki Shikibu
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , James Joyce
A Pale View of Hills , Kazuo Ishiguro
Beloved , Toni Morrison
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God , Etgar Keret
The Tao of Pooh , Benjamin Hoff
Pooh and the Philosophers , John Tyerman Williams
Schrodinger's Cat & Illuminatus Trilogies, Robert Anton Wilson
Out of My Later Years , Albert Einstein
Godel, Escher, Bach , Douglas Hofstadter
The Secret Teachings of All Ages , Manley P. Hall
A History of Far Eastern Art , Sherman E. Lee
Any poetry by Rumi.
Heroes:
Erik Kleven
1950-2006
"Hey, the lows aren't so bad if the highs still sing."
“The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where others saw oblivion. He has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.
Life and love go on, let the music play.â€
