LIFE - DEATH and everything inbetween. Native American wisdom for the journey around the wheel "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." Mickey Newbury's thoughts on writing "If you're going to fuck them, fuck them in the heart" ... and "Write what you are or you'll become what you write"
A woman who enjoys herself, life in general and others. Someone who is creative and curious; child-like but not childish. Someone who can hang with an adventurer, enjoys horny old goats and can climb a few mts and wade a muddy stream. Must like to play in the dark. I'm nocturnal by nature. Non-judgemental, but discriminating. I guess I'm lookin' for a wise woman, A witch who spells (it's W, not B). And - if she's really wise - she'll find me...
I like it - (except for Commercial Crap - and I think I should define what I consider "Commercial Crap" ie: shallow, insincere songs that are really "jingles" that are written primarily to make money or sell a product - usually cheap imitations of great songs that have had tremendous commericial success - I'm not against songs that sell - I just don't like bad re-writes of great songs, phony posturing and hype - and way too much of what I hear at "writer's nites" here in "Music City" fall into the later category -) There're times I just love the sound of silence and times I just have to scream. I like to play 12 bar blues when I'm jammin' with other players or rock in a minor key and I really like to create my own songs. Johnathan Long is in my opinion the master of the craft of songwriting and one of my all-time favorite people. Travis Meadows and Diana Jones are my two favorite underground/indy-singer/songwriters. Billy Holiday and Hank Williams Sr. are two of my all-time favorite artists. I like the Texas singer/songwriters and Willie Nelson is someone that I can listen to alot. My music collection is very eclectic though with something for just about any mood (even a little hip-hop -no opera yet...) (Not usually into white noice, like garbage can lids banging while fingernails scratch blackboards - so not much heavy metal or trash rock in my collection) I grew up on Hank, Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Rogers and Jimmy Reed. Spent years playin' in Honky Tonks and Juke Joints - "Rock-A-Billy Rules". The three kings of the blues, Albert, Freddy and B.B. along with the classics like John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, Willie Dixon and Robert Johnson (Delta Blues, Texas Blues, Chicago Blues, Down Home Blues), all influenced me. Tuesday Hawkins, Sara Jade, Lisa Carver, Emmy Lou Harris, Irene Kelley, Iris Dement, Kasey Chambers, Allison Krauss, Tracy Nelson, Rita Coolidge, Jessie Coulter, Lucinda Williams, Nanci Griffifth, Patti Griffin, Kate Wolf, Sandy Denny, Mary Black, Gillian Welch, Mindy Smith, Maire Brennan and Lorenna Mckinett are among my favorites. I also listen to Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, Enigma, Clannad, Robbie Robertson, Dr. John, Dylan, the Band, Neil Young, some Stones, the Cox Family (Southern Gospel is another big influence), Ed Snodderly, Doc Watson, John Lennon, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Woodie Guthrie, Ryan Adams, James McMurtry, Greg Brown, Tom Waits, Mose Allison, Warren Haynes with Gvt Mule, Travis Meadows, Dickie Betts, Ray Sisk, Darrell Loden, Mac Elliot, Mark Steven Jones, Trent Jeffcoat, Grant Boatwright, Chris Thomas King, Chet O'Keefe, Van Morrision, Steve Young, Steve Earl, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Billy Joe Shaffer, Earl Clark, and of course some Johhny Cash, Merle Haggard and George Jones. I was never a "Dead Head" but I admired Jerry Garcia's playing with them and especially with Vassar Clemments and David Grisman. Tony Rice and Jerry Douglas are also a couple of my favorite pickers. My favorite clubs in the U.S. for live music are the Anderson Faire in Houston, TX - the Down Home in Johnson City, TN - Tres Hombres in Woodland Park, CO and the Blackbird (not that Blue Bird) in Nashville - and I love the Lyons, CO folk festival and Doc Watson's MerleFest in Wilksboro, NC - that being said, I have a reserved seat at the old Hall of Fame Lounge on Music Row in Music City and get to hear alot of new singer/songwriters as well as hang with some of the legends. (a somewhat redundant, slightly more more exhaustive list of my musical influences are on http://www.myspace.com/denniseggers)"One will lose no music by not attending the oratorios and operas. The really inspiring melodies are cheap and universal, and are as audible to the poor man's ear as to the rich man's." (Henry David Thoreau)
Crash, Wizard of Oz, animations by Bakshi, most Johnny Depp films, Thunder Heart, Dragon Heart, Brave Heart (take heart) from Dusk to Dawn (most Terratino films) Behind the Green Door, Smoke Signals, 2001 Space Odyssy, Oh Brother Where Art Thou ***** Love You by John Derek, Liquid Sky, King of Hearts (great movie), Rainbow Connection, Dark Crystal and I enjoy music documentaries and Italian love/comedy movies.
Television sucks - Mass media sucks - It's bubblegum for the brain and if you're a tv addict - sucks to be you... (I've had comments that this opinion is not very open-minded. Closed-minded means contempt prior to investigation - upon close investigation I find my contempt to be justified and keep my mind open for more useful info like my own imagination and observations rather than buying into the bs the media trys to foster as reality.
You are the Universe card, sometimes called the
World card. The Universe is the complete,
perfect whole. The spiritual path has come to
an end and enlightenment is reached. Events
have reached completion. The different facets
of your life are well-integrated and
harmoniously balanced. This is an ideal state
in which to rest and feel the true state of
your vibrant physical being. Your creative
potential is maximized and you have achieved
goals that you have set for yourself in the
past. After enjoying the pleasure of this
state, a new cycle can begin with new
challenges and triumphs that will keep you
feeling alive and keep building on the
foundations you have planted thus far. Image
from The Stone Tarot deck.
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I love hangin' out in used bookstores, something about the smell - like the dust of eternity covering occult secrets, alchemical codes and other treasures of antiquity filled with forbidden, ancient wisdom, the mysterious dark, forboding feeling of anticipation in hopes of finding another story like "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury or D.H. Lawrences "Lady Chatterley's Lover". I have devoured information gleened from the journals of mystics, feasted on social commentaries like "On Liberty" by J.S. Mills, "Morals & Dogma" by Albert Pike and for desert, enjoyed erotica like Terry Southern's "Candy". Read alot of early science fiction and classic fantasy. Tolkien, Gibran, Castenada, Umberto Eco, Joeseph Campbell, Richard Bach, they've all had some impact on me. I also like Tom Wolfe, Tom Robbins and Ken Kesey to mention a few more . Robert Anton Wilson is another favorite as well as John Nichols (The New Mexico Trilogy) and Frank Waters (Lizard Woman) Stone Junction and Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge are my two all time favorite books by a contemporary author (I'd love to see "Not Fade Away" made into a movie. (and yes, I've read *note: studied) the bible and read other texts sacred to members of other beautiful world religions. I prefer accounts of personal spirituality in general (back to the mystics). A book that may prove prophetic instead of fiction might well be StarHawks "The Fifth Sacred Thing". Jack London's writing and personal life became a major force in the direction of my life at a very young age, as did Jack Kerouac's. The books that I like and authors that I admire, like the music and artists that have influenced me are just way too many to list. Thoreau's "Duty of Civil Disobedience" is cool if just for the title...
My family and friends, Leonard Peltier, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and anyone else that got wacked standin' up for freedom against the assholes who were sellin' it. In short - My heroes are outlaws... to paraphrase Jim Dodge "an outlaw is someone who only breaks the law when he feels that it is the right thing to do - a criminal is someone who only feels right breaking the law" A line from one of my songs "I'm not for sale, I can't be bought, I'm not afraid that I'll get caught, the laws of man can't hold me down when my blood flows on the sacred ground" The spirit that each of us share is the eternal spirit or as some say the holi or whole - the great spirit - there is no reason to give up your freedom or to blame another when you compromise yourself - fear is an irrational sense that you can be separate from the totality of life - I am life... a spiritual death is to deny your truth and allow someone else to take the blame - if you can't live with you - who are you going to live with? None of the shit here that we sell ourselves for is worth anything compared to what we each are worth... the people who spoke these truths and died for speaking them are my heros, people like Jeshua, whose name is so misused and abused - my number one outlaw who walked with me through the gates of hell... still, I have to face my demons every day...lol (and for now we're dealin' with a real "Son of A Bush") Didn't someone once say "Politics and Religion - the sanctuary of scoundrels"? John Lennon is one of my heroes for his song "Imagine" and Kate Wolf for her honest, soulfull spirit songs.