eh. what isn't interesting when you really begin to learn about it? besides accounting. Accounting must be mind-numbingly dull (nothing against accountants...) ummm...philosophy (philosophically speaking, of course...) amazaing poems, post-modern thinkers and other atrocious reading, religious and occult studies, Really, anything that one can discuss in a pub over a Guiness.
Other interests? okay- my guilty pleasure is cross stitching (embroidery) and making jewelry or stone pieces, when I have time. I have a lifelong facination with religions and world views of every sort and am horribly curious what it is that connects- or separates us- from the profound. Also- I continue to engage in lifelong examination of freewill and its impact. Any debate or thoughts on that are welcome here folks! (I'm very pro-free will, I warn you...but I know its a complicated topic-what, with conditioning and all. I still think Skinner was a soul-less man.)
but mainly-I like to grow things. Plants, kids, ideas, people- anything that can be beautiful, anything with potential...
I'd like to meet:
God. I'd sure like to pick his- uh, brain? cosmos? dark matter? or at least share a beer...Other than that, artists, poets that WOW me, people who share my interest in religious or occult studies, or people who can teach me something I want to learn ...and there are a lot of things I want to learn...
Music:
right now: System of a Down, Tool, Tori Amos, Blind Melon, Pink Floyd, The Alan Parsons Project, The Chili Peppers: Also: The Sisters of Mercy, Nirvana, Sara McLaughlin, Susan Vega, Grateful Dead,
Movies:
All-timers: Python's Holy Grail, 'I (heart) Huckabees' was pretty good. Grandma's Boy was surprisingly funny! 'Mindwalk' was facinating...I don't watch a lot of movies, admittedly.
Television:
television is HIGHLY overrated. John Stewart is GOD (and that's a very sorry statement indeed). South Park doesn't suck. Otherwise, turn off the box and do something worthwhile, will ya?
Books:
Lifetime Favorites:(prose):
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevski), Watership Down (Richard Adams), Resurrection (Tolstoy),
(Poetry): W.B.Yeats is the unqualified master of all; also- ee cummings, TS Elliot, Frank O'Hara, Gregory Corso, Anne Sexton, Marty Esworthy, archy, Oscar Wilde, E.A. Poe (when he's 'on'...) Khalil Gibran, Adrienne Rich, Lynn Hejinian
Recommended Reads:
Philosophy in the Flesh (Lakoff and Johnson), Anything by Carl Sagan (especially Dragons of Eden) Social Contract and Territorial Imperative (Robert Ardrey),H. Hesse, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Neitzche), Finite and Infinite Games, (James Carse- Excellent Read!!!) Anything by Michelle Foucault or Soren Kierkeggard, The Lucifer Principle Howard Bloom- Anything by Joseph Campbell, Man's Search for Meaning (Victor Frankl), Anything by A. Crowley (except his poetry...sorry A.), The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus), If This is a Man (Primo Levy), Fobidden Knowledge (Roger Shattuck) Anything by Joseph Campbell, and CJ Jung.
Heroes:
I don't really believe in 'heroes', but there are those I deeply respect and learn from: Siddharta Guatama, Ghandhi, Victor Frankl, Mother Theresa, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the Dalai Lama and Joseph Campbell, St. Francis of Assisi., Aleister Crowley, Irvin Yalom, C. J. Jung, and not neccesarily in that order...
