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.:Lumi:.

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About Me

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." -Kerouac

"To shut yourself up is the hugest crime of them all." -Bjork

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Earth Walk ° Air Fly ° Fire Burn ° Water Swim ° Ether Be

My Interests

( Painting by Lori Earley )
Passions Love, music, )'( Burningman )'( , creative expression, electronic music events, meditation and spirituality through dance, poetry and spoken word, the art of conversation, adventures, healthy living, nature, space, quality films, designing and creating clothes, photography, drawing, painting on skin, being painted on, blacklight art, geodesics, iridescent clouds, bass waves moving through my body, glowey things, fractals and visual math, laughter, absorbing new knowledge, eccentric people, intricacy, simplicity, evolutionary oddities, sacred geometry, playa dust, exotic fruit, bioluminescent jellyfish, sensuality, sexuality, being alone in elevators, lolcats, chai tea, swinging, mountain air, trampolines, hot tubs in the snow, deserts, puns, staying up till sunrise talking, staring at the sun with my eyes closed, logarithmic spirals, people-watching, lucid dreaming, ancient civilizations, hallucinating, spinning, watching meteor showers, eating sushi and mangoes, singing into strong wind, flowing water, still water, rooftop sunrises, breathing deep and loving life :)

I'd like to meet:

Poets, writers, ravers, lifers, vibers, burners, artists, and appreciators of the eccentric...

Put Your Words Here. I like words. Leave some for me.

(Tree paintings by Eyvind Earle)

The Only People for Me Are the Mad Ones

Man

Bill Brasky

Pie Tribe

Merck-a-tron RIP

Twisted Woodz

Shpongle

Autechre

BassNectar

GlitchMob

Portishead

..like fabulous yellow roman candles..

Music:

Is Life
I am forever striving to broaden my horizons and let go of the notion that certain genres hold more merit than others. Great music can take many forms, and I'm down for just about any flavor as long as it's got soul, originality, and/or sick beats.

Some of the genres I gravitate toward:
IDM, Psybient, Glitch Hop, Trip Hop, House (funky, techy, deep, disco), Downtempo, Whomp, Dubstep, Mnml, Breakbeats, Techno, DnB, Hip hop, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Acid Jazz, Pop, Lo-Fi, Ambient, Folk, Indie Rock, Blues, Classic Rock

Artists:
Björk, Shpongle, Autechre, Bassnectar, Massive Attack, Portishead, Daft Punk, Bola, ediT, The Glitch Mob, Jamie Lidell, Regina Spektor, Ani DiFranco, Ochre, Lamb, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, Telefon Tel Aviv, Depeche Mode, Air, The Beatles, The Chemical Brothers, Amon Tobin, Tipper, Ana Sia, The Postal Service, Fiona Apple, Nina Simone, James Zabiela, Underworld, Equulei, Matthew Dear, Cacheflowe, Jantsen, Prefuse 73, Lusine, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Wauvenfold, BT, Sigur Ros, Atmosphere, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Thievery Corporation, Mark Farina, Röyksopp, FreQ Nasty, Modeselektor, Pink Floyd, Saul Williams, Apparat, Amy Winehouse, Benga, MIA, CocoRosie, Four Tet, Beck, Brother Ali, Federico Aubele, The Mars Volta, Psapp, The Flaming Lips
..and .so. much more..

Film

..Recently Viewed ++'s..
Drawing Restraint 9
Be Kind Rewind
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
God Grew Tired of Us
Last King of Scotland
The Lives of Others
Darjeeling Limited
I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay
The Host
A Tale of Two Sisters
Art School Confidential
Who Killed the Electric Car?
A State of Mind

..All Time Favorites..
Baraka, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Triplets of Belleville, Waking Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brazil, The Fountain, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Pan's Labyrinth, Tideland, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, OldBoy, Lady Vengeance, 3-Iron, Ichi the Killer, 3 Extremes, Wavetwisters, Human Traffic, Save the Green Planet!, Brick, Tron, Wizard People, Dear Readers, Donnie Darko (director's cut), City of God, Dark City, Science of Sleep, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries, Chunking Express, Fifth Element, I Heart Huckabees, Trainspotting, Memento, 12 Monkeys, Sin City, Fight Club, ATHF: Colon, A Movie Film for Theaters, Dune, Dancer in the Dark, Run Lola Run, Mirror Mask, Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Return to Oz, Nowhere, V for Vendetta, Children of Men, Maria Full of Grace, A Scanner Darkly, Snatch, UHF, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Batman Begins, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Grindhouse, Gladiator, American Beauty, Morvern Collar, Lord of the Rings, Everything is Illuminated, Mulholland Drive, Conspirators of Pleasure, Sunshine

..Anime..
Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Paprika, Serial Experiments: Lain, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, Samurai Champloo, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Ninja Scroll, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue, Memories, Tekkonkinkreet

..Creators..
Darren Aronofsky, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Kaufman, Terry Gilliam, Christohper Nolan, Takashi Miike, Park Chan Wook, Miyazaki, Kim Ki-Duk, Juenet and Caro, Christopher Doyle, Wong Kar-Wai, Pedro Almodovar

..On the horizon..
~ 2008? - Samsara (Ron Fricke's sequel to Baraka)

Words
..Poets I Love and Respect..
Jack Kerouac, Pablo Neruda, Jalaludin Rumi
Saul Williams, Andrea Gibson, Mike McGee,
Anis Mojgani, Ken Arkind, Kay Crown
Rob C, Ian Dougherty, Andy O'Blivion, Jen Rinaldi
Anyone who has ever written an honest poem!

..Magnificent Constructions..
Frederick by Leo Lionni
Dharma Bums by Jack Keroauc
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Neuromancer by William Gibson
1984 by George Orwell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Hitchhikers Guide by Douglas Adams
Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Any and all writings of original, odd, eccentric, passionate, or poetic nature that stimulate the mind or optical sensory organs O.O

Feed your brain.

Kill Your TV.

When I do indulge:
Sifl and Olly!
Aeon Flux
Battlestar Galactica
Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama
Adult Swim
Wondershowzen
Nova, Globetrekkers
IFC, Sundance, Discovery Science

My Blog

Xara Learning Villages

I found this on the Colorado Burn list and found it immensely inspriring! Had to share it with you all..this gives me so much hope for the future :)---------------------------------------------------...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Tue, 06 May 2008 06:45:00 PST

Autechre - Quaristice + US Tour!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!

Oh, Lawdy! My brain is melting in anticipation!3 years in the making. I wants!Available now for download and preorder HERENorth American Tour Dates:April 4th: Los Angeles, CA - EchoplexApril 5th: Sa...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:32:00 PST

Incredible Hyperreallist Scultor

View the Original Blog HereRon Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:03:00 PST

200000007

What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?I powered a spinning monkey-mobile underneath a full moon.I got a real job and for the first time ever became financially independent.I made huge l...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:16:00 PST

Pearls Before Breakfast

This is a very beautifully written and inspiring article I ran across some time ago and wanted to share with you all. It's kind of long, but well worth the read!Pearls Before BreakfastCan one of the ...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:13:00 PST

Alabaster

i am a tiny turtleinside a terra cotta cooking pot.thick warm cream floods gradually in from above,trickles down the walls, and i wait.tranquilly,uncertain, yet sleepily careless of my future,feeling ...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:02:00 PST

The Invitation

I posted a bulletin of this a while back, but it deserves a more permanent posting.Originally entitled "The Invitation"by Oriah Mountain Dreamer (A Native American Elder)"It doesn't interest me what y...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:17:00 PST

Black Rock Postal Service!

It's that time again, Gabe and I leave for BURNINGMANtomorrow night!We will be out of contact during that time EXCEPT BYMAIL :DBlack Rock City has it's own Postal Service so we canrecieve mail at our ...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:13:00 PST

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THIS FILM:ZEITGEISThttp://www.zeitgeistmovie.com...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:10:00 PST

Holy Fucking Kinetic Mindsplosion O.O

This is amazing. I almost cried watching it just now. Holy fucking wowowowowoww.I wish this guy would bring something to Burningman so I could see it firsthand. Here's to hoping. ...
Posted by .:Lumi:. on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:04:00 PST