Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player. ******** --Albert Einstein
music, healing, climbing, loving, being...
creative people to learn and play and fall in love with
anything with soul, from uplifting hip-hop to bluegrass or rock/jazz/pop... if it's cooked with love and at least a bit of skill, i'll almost certainly dig it. currently rockin out to The Slip... SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to be a Moe.fan!!!
there's nothing like a good movie. have you seen 'The Last Waltz'? 'City of Lost Children' was crazy eyecandy, and a great story. i love a good story... 'The Departed' was awesome, maybe scorsese's best. have you seen 'Thumbsucker'?
not much. ali-g "i like" -(with lilt) the simpsons rock. the family guy. The Office makes me laugh hard. I recently got turned on to Heroes, and had to watch all of the episodes... pretty intense and fun. There is this show sometimes on the Spike channel that I never see (I don't have TV unless you include streaming internet, and this show is not anywhere on the net!) called MXC: most extreme elimination challenge. that show is piss-yourself funny.
I loved 'The Alchemist,' and 'Jitterbug Perfume'. I recently read 'The Celestine Prophecy' again since the first time i read it over 13 years ago. Despite all that I have learned and grown, I still found it really pertinent, and uplifting. I'm currently studying quite a few different books that apply to the healing work I'm learning. a few of the Osteopathic titles are, 'The Stillness Of Life' and 'Life In Motion', by Rollin Becker, and 'Interface: Mechanism's Of Spirit In Osteopathy' by Paul Lee. They all rock. Read Dr. Robert Fulford's 'Touch Of Life: Aligning Body, Mind and Spirit' for a wonderful and easily read view into the osteopathic mind of one of the true giants. My friend and teacher, Jim (another brilliant Osteopath), recently turned me onto a few works that have been shedding some beautiful light onto things. 'The Anam Cara', 'The Cloud Of Unknowing', and 'Dark Night Of The Soul' are among them. A few other things I'm remembering fondly are, 'Henderson The Rain King' and 'Seize The Day' by Saul Bellow, 'Heart Of Darkness' (Josheph Conrad wow powerful), 'Dharma Bums', 'Desert Solitaire', 'The Monkeywrench Gang', the 'Lord Of The Rings: Trilogy', ...I also dug reading the C.S. Lewis 'Narnia' series last year (mindless entertainment-nice). I love Borges and Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, and i have also loved reading so much Russian literature... Dostoyevsty, Tolstoy, Pushkin. There are also a few classics who have shaped who I am today, not the least of which are Sophocles' 'Oedipus', and 'The Orestia' by Aeschylus. The story of Job speaks the world to me, as does Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' in a similar way. I recently read a Steinbeck novel called, 'Cannery Row', which was awesome. I love the poetry of Robert Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coleridge and Rumi. I memorized 'Kubla Kahn' from front to finish years ago, and reciting it for people emphatically is one of my favorite things to do. I hope I get to recite it to you.
A.T. Still, William Sutherland, Albert Schweitzer, Mohamad Ali, Michael Franti, my family