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Tathagata

Though our bones they may break and our souls seperate, why the long face?

About Me


I like frogs, hate seeing 'em squished on the road. Teabags and fresh veg, I don't touch that meat shit. Beats in the basement is a worthwhile day spent, make sounds with Ableton Live and my voice, record music under the name Sunna . I preach to the Jehovah's witnesses and try to wake them up, correct them on misquoted passages of the bible, you know send 'em off thinking. Joey's my boy, we cook eggs and stub our toes. Skate sometimes, BMX to get around, act a gentleman to the bookbuying public, curse under my breath.
In a loose collective of sound freaks (Drone bad boys, him and him and him and him and I.) and just starting up a record label (hungry ghost records), hoping to get a little podcast and website done soon.
Into wailing freeform noise, old folk, interesting electronica, far too much music to list really. Recently i've been listening to MF Doom, Converge, Stephan Micus, Elaine Radigue, The Stooges and this heat. Oh Tangerine Dream too. Read a lot, mostly art books, music books and some buddhist stuff. Take mushrooms and space out to hawkwind and tangerine dream once a week for a year then see where you are three years down the line, we'll have some common ground.
Peace is a fire.
Anyway, be my friend if you want and we can leave silly little comments and recommend bands to each other.
Some paintings:

My Interests

painting my face,
furniture from skips,
running red lights,
friends in parks,
banchu tea,
sitting up straight,
really loud oceanic guitar
car boots,
being loose,
the beat poets,
coloured patterns,
alone in parks,
zen and mahayana buddhism,
Teghead
plants and gardening,
eating my greens,
singing,
candid photos of friends,
winnie the pooh,
wistful vistas,
imagining the lives of cavemen,
goats,
fairy tales,
totem poles,
the folk/diy ethic,
permaculture,
patchwork quilts,
sensible soccer,
eric zann,
crude drawings,
yurts,
point and clickk
medium format,
volcanic tongue,
oblivion, peace, paper sailboats and all that jazz...

I'd like to meet:

Nobody right now, It's real late.

Music:

bass heaving like the ocean
shamans incanting
lost voices swarming
the streams, wind and ancient forests tapping out a complex little beat
strings jangling the timeless campfire human tribulations
women howling like animals
synths soaring like birds
stuff that sounds like that really...

Grouper,
Islaja,
Lau Nau.

Movies:

Napoleon Dynamite!

101 rekjavik
Three colours trilogy,
Last life in the universe,
Station agent,
City of god,
Amelie...

You and me and everyone we know rocked it hard. I liked spring, summer autumn, winter and spring, story of the weeping camel, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and the station agent. I don't really sit around for a film very often but I saw half of instrument by Fugazi the other day and it was incredible.

Television:

?

Oh yeah definitely, I love them! 'Marquee moon' rules!
"E-le-va-tion, don't go to my head!"

Books:

Ginsberg: A life, Barry Miles
Dharma bums, Jack Kerouac
Tao te ching, Lao Tzu
Ghost of Chance, William Burroughs
Speed/Kentucky ham, William Burroughs Jr
The Old man and the sea, Ernest Hemingway
Doors of perception, Aldous Huxley
A Million little pieces, James Frey
Food of the gods, Terence McKenna
Zen mind, beginners mind, Shunryu Suzuki
The little prince, Antoinne De Saint-Exupery

Heroes:


Henry Miller

Allen Ginsberg

Henry Rollins

James Frey

Charlotte Joko Beck

... and other women and men who live humbly and honestly, and who value others more than self.

And of course...
brenbread
craig fraser
tim dawber
joe jach
allen ginsberg
iggy pop
terence mckenna
george orwell

most of my friends and relatives constantly inspire me, there's something perfect in everyone.

My Blog

PRIMARK

I was in Cheltenham's town centre today and I couldn't help but notice that the watchword was 'Primark'.The clothes store chain has just opened a branch here, and I overheard at least five conversatio...
Posted by Tristan on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:16:00 PST

These are the lyrics that do it, what a song.

Man the Ramones rule, the song's cheesy but it gets you every time. Under the arc of a weather stain boards, Ancient goblins, and warlords, Come out of the ground, not making a sound, The smell o...
Posted by Tristan on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:52:00 PST