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Mark

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable

About Me

Musician, Dreamer, Thinker, Philosopher, Outdoorsman, Poet, and Sailor. I'm a mudbone hustler from way back. Don't need much and always seemed to get by in style. These days I'm getting a bit soft around the edges and don't spend as many nights sleeping on couches, unless they're my own. I am currently working on a degree in ACC's RTF program. My wife and I hope to make documentaries about some of the amazing things we've been able to experience so far, and also some that we haven't. I also play bass, steel pans, harmonica, and hand drums. I was in a great band called Mangrove for a while, I miss those days. Now I am playing in a great new funk reggae band called Mudbone Hustler I am really excited about this new project and can't wait to get it rolling. But, this is really only just the beginning.

My Interests

MUSIC. Listening to so many brilliant minds express the inexpressible in music throughout the world is the treat of living. I play bass guitar mainly, and always reach for the heights illuminated by others. I don't reach the pinacles of greatness, but in striving for them expand my love and respect even more. Some current folks high on my list: ReggaeAugustus Pablo, Revolutionaries, Upsetters, Dennis Brown, Jackie Mittoo, Agrovators, Bunny Wailer, Heptones, Chantells, Gaylads, Jacob Miller, and of course Peter Tosh. Funk Meters, Greyboy, Jimmy McGriff, Soulive, Poets of Rhythm, Greyhounds, Hot Buttered Rhythm, Funkadelic, Daktaris, Bar Kays, Stanton Moore, etc. Jazz Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Bird Parker, Grant Green, Ivan Jones, Larry Coryell, Wes Montgomery, Ron Carter, Mingus, Miles, Gil Scott-Heron, MMW, etc. World Cheikh Lo, Samite, Ali Farke Toure, Chief Osita Osadebe, Orlando Puntilla Rios, Bebel Gilberto, Vivendo de Pao, Mongo Santamaria, and too many others to list Rock too many to list, all the greats and then some from post punk/industrial to classic rock. From heavy metal to folk-rock. Hip-Hop Freestyle Fellowship, Blackalicious, Tribe, Latyrx, Lyrics Born, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Aceyalone, People Under the Stairs, Afrika Bambaata & Soulsonic, Digable Planets, Living Legends crew, Quannum crew, etc. Punk DRI, Helios Creed, Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Man or Astroman?, Bad Brains, Butthole Surfers, etc. this is a novel, should I even list my blues, electronica, soul, and country favorites? Needless to say, I have ecletic taste in music. MOVIES. I want to make movies about some of music and people I just listed. I have a lot of ideas I don't want to give away here, but I've got a bunch. Maybe more on this later.
SAILING I love sailing and the water. I could do it for the rest of my life. New people in new ports, new lifestyles, new locals, new cultures, life abundance. I like the economy of sailboats. The economy of space and movement and energy and winds. I am also a bit frightened of sailing, because the wind has so much power and the water is beautiful but deadly. Maybe this is another reason I love it, because it is untamed. As soon as you leave land in a vessel the laws have changed. There are no roads, no paths, only your own knowledge of the waters. The laws of the land seem no longer apply. Only the movement of the atmosphere and the fish, the items of the day, the rhythms of the waves against the hull.
Humanity's noise stops and the Elements arrange themselves and become the entirety of your world. Sailing is striving to capture the most beautiful moment, and always just grasping it. The wind, the water, the sky, the air, the music, the people, and of course the boat, these are the things of sailing.
MISC. I love drinking and having a good time with good friends. Bicycling, canoeing, swimming, video games, anthropology, ancient history, Native America, wilderness, ocean life, festivals and customs, humans as caretakers and gardeners of the Earth. I don't know, I feel like I could go on forever, but you didn't even read this far! Haha!

I'd like to meet:

People who are exploding to live like roman candles as well as people who are willing to slow the pace and mesh with the sounds of Earth. People who want to create and express themselves. Those with the beat of Eros, of Saturn, of Bacchus and Pan, those with the ocean in their veins and the mountains in their visions. I want to meet music makers, artists, people who are in movement, all action. I want to meet people who are unafraid. I would also like to find a mentor who can help to guide me on the red road, somebody who will help me do what I can.

Music:

See Interests! Favorite Bass Players: George Porter Jr., Chuck Rainey, Billy Cox, Ron Carter, Aston Barrett, Robbie Shakespeare, John Paul Jones, Flea, the list goes on and on and on.... GENERAL: The World is a vibrant colorful mish mash explosion of music and rhythm.All people bursting at the seams trying to pull themselves out of Samsara and mortality with festivity and expressing the experience of life through sounds and dance. Emotion is a powerful muse, beauty crowns the birth canal of sadness just as often as it comes kicking and squirming into wet being from joy.Music is the ultimate communication. Words are lost in sound and timing. With music we share each others circadian rhythms and the pulse of our hearts. The beat is as determined as we to live.

Books:

In no particular order: Jorge Borges, Herman Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Carlos Castaneda, John Steinbeck, CS Lewis, David Eddings, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter Thompson, George RR Martin, Tom Wolfe, Walt Whittman, Ralph Emerson, Stephen Ambrose, Pablo Neruda, Jim Morrison, Joshua Slocum, Ernest Shackleton, Phillip K Dick, Ken Kesey, Terry Southern, Tom Robbins, JRR Tolkien, Charles Bukowski. There are many more, but these are probably the most influential on me. I've recently read some stuff by Stephen Crane and really liked some of Zora Neale Hurston's stuff. Maybe if I have time I'll list the books by these authors and how they've effected my life.

Heroes:

I'm kind of a dharma bum. The corporal realm is a vessel which contains the meat and blood through which we push and squirm to be born. Don't get me wrong, I love this place. I console my earthy body with hedonism and minor extravagances. I hope I haven't derailed (too much) my karmic soul from its journey towards enlightenment. If this incarnation is all I've got, then so be it, I will be satisfied. I want joyful experiences and celebration of living to be the song of foreverness. I'll add my voice to the chorus.I've fed my head with strange delights and common scenes, both equally intriguing. My work is just beginning, I hope to capture firefly moments and share them with the Child. One day I would like to meet the Parent.My heroes are (in no particular order) Jesus Christ, Siddhartha, Gotama, Ghandi, MLK Jr., John Muir, Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, Jimi Hendrix, Bird Parker, My Father, Black Elk, Chief Joseph, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman.I like prophets, poets, carers for the Earth, and musicians.

My Blog

Gettin older, apparently

There is plenty going on.  Lots.Barton Creek is flowing consistently higher than it has in 10 years.  The last time the creek was flowing this well, we were in it every week.  A call wa...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 19 May 2007 01:18:00 PST

Are You Walking? (Jalan, Jalan)

This an unfinished idea I had for a song.  I am rewriting this, taking into account the four sacred colors of the four directions. Here's what I have so far.  Are you Walking?Are you walking...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:16:00 PST

S.V. Mariah

I became vaguely awareof stars being born   above a heavy pressured darknessand hushed roaring amniotic silenceheartbeat murmering BirthFrom the depths, far abovedim flickering sheets of li...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 08 May 2006 02:21:00 PST

Mitakuye Owasin!

Magnitude, Vastness, Blue SkyBuddha MindOm Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padme Siddhi HumRed Mountain       in a granite range       snow vieled white shawlSolit...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:37:00 PST