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Mista John

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About Me

No one here around me understands my potato. I guess I'm only a spud boy, looking for a real tomato.

My Interests

Music, reading, writing, drinking, jumping up and down, breathing, drinking, freaking out, sweating, drinking, laughing (does anyone remember laughter?) watching good bands kick ass, watching dvd's of good bands kicking ass, good movies, cosmology, quantum physics, Theories about the big bang (git yer mind outta of the gutter)...all this and MORE!

I'd like to meet:

THE SUPER HEAVIES-Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Tony Williams...The Miles Davis Quintet simply killed. Thanks to both Central Elements and The Undead Sacredness for posting...These are my Heroes...From: The Invisibles

Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter...
...and Tony Williams: Berlin, 1967

..

Music:

NEVER GIVE UP! (Thanks Alex of Central Elements)I posted this before, it's the best animal footage ever shot, and shows why you should NEVER GIVE UP!

Movies:

Brain Candy, Miracle Mile, just saw VOLVER...P Cruz is so hot, but it was really the story that got me...Almodovar is the Man!

Television:

Atrevete, Caliente, Machete, Adrenalina, Wildboyz, Jackass, Discovery Channel, PBS and surprisingly MYTH BUSTERS & NOVA!Now this: BATTLE STAR GALACTICA (uh, the new one) There are no shows better than that one!

Books:

Okay, I finished Steppenwolf a while back... I just haven't updated my page in a while. Hmmm, Got through Vonnegut's A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY (rocked Galapagos first, then Slaughter House Five...next up will be Breakfast of Champions), Earth Abides, Alpha & Omega, The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe, Sorrows of the Empire (Chalmers knows his shiznit), got my shit together after reading A Joseph Campbell Companion (Reflections on the Art of Living) and am currently meditating on Campbell's THE POWER OF MYTH.

Heroes:

my parents, miles davis, jimmy hendrix, and more to follow

My Blog

Above

There was no real needle to be seen, the instrument panel soothed more than warned. "Everything must be okay."We could be talking about everything, but the fact is that something was taking up a large...
Posted by Mista John on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:33:00 PST

Chasing It

I was operating on only about 3 hours sleep, I was hungry, and my nails were painted dark purple.Bad Blood color, but I was still happy.A long day of brain dead selling. No, I like helping people find...
Posted by Mista John on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:52:00 PST

In Life...

...it is brilliant to know what you want.But it is also no less brilliant to know what you don't want.
Posted by Mista John on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:34:00 PST

THE WALL

The beautiful reflection.The beautiful reflection doesn't nescessarily mean that the image seen by the eye will be particularly beautiful, or even likeable.No, what's beautiful is the truth reflected ...
Posted by Mista John on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:32:00 PST

Possible Call

And so this point comes, and your sitting there understanding.Understanding for the first time the natural swing of things.Understanding that there's a balance between the sides that are on either sid...
Posted by Mista John on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:12:00 PST

Zero Axis

Did I know, or was the vision an enslaver from the past?I liked what my eyes could see, but the price of ownership was a mission to memories and willful giving up of steering my own craft.It's okay to...
Posted by Mista John on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:58:00 PST

To what degree delusional?

To what degree delusional?The battle between my own words drags on and on. Equal parts hope and cynicism win on occassion. Sometimes I can even stand completely in the middle of the road.Recents writt...
Posted by Mista John on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:56:00 PST

Zen and the art of stupidity

The red lights have all fallen asleep.So have the green ones.And across the entire town in my mind, between my ears, roads and intersections are the places of crashes. Crashes of different ideas headi...
Posted by Mista John on Fri, 30 May 2008 01:05:00 PST

Direction

Enticed by the prospects of good, most of us remain unaware that we walk joyfully, square into that trap of "hell on earth."These moments that are filled with temptation, frustration, condemnation, e...
Posted by Mista John on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:12:00 PST

The Evolution Will be Televised

It's hot. Not as hot as it's going to be, but getting there.The windows refuse to operate with consistency, leaving beads of sweat forming on my forehead as I drive our pot-holed freeways. Ultimately,...
Posted by Mista John on Fri, 16 May 2008 11:37:00 PST