really, this could take a while.
high-points:
my precious children, learning from you, climbing,
rugby, live music, art, sailing,
conversation, meditation, movies,
Greek food, Thai food, other food.
Caden and Emily
I'd like to meet:
In the past two years, I've seen small successes, major failures, a divorce, the loss of: home, family, children, wheels, love, sense of purpose, and a few more trivial things.
But I'm on my way back up. Newly inspired, feeling a general resurgence of will.
The past has finally become the past.
1 - Thanks to those who have remained true friends.
2 - Good Riddance to those who have betrayed my trust.
3 - To the very few who have hurt me (those whom I've loved enough to make it possible): I have learned to honor your role in my life, and I'm glad for what we had. I could never become the man I'm becoming without the pain you taught me.
People I want to Meet:
more of the True Friends;
I'd also love to meet an honest woman, a unicorn, a hobbit, and any other mythical creatures.
Things I want to do:
Spend more time with my children;
Rekindle my love of photography...
find the perfect job for me.
Travel. and I mean everywhere.
continue growing, spiritually.
Make music. share the songs in my heart with all of you
enjoy the simple things a little more
Produce something. a film, a book, a house, anything.
Publish my grandfather's poetry
find a home. somewhere.
find a good woman who loves me.
meditate on the mysteries of the universe
study diverse religions and cultures
finally complete the Artists' Way program
Ways that I have made a living:
mad goat productions (Dallas)
booking, managing, promoting indie artists
Position: pauper
Lone Star International Film Festival (Fort Worth, 2007)
Position: Managing Director
24hr Fitness (Carrollton, TX, 2007)
Position: fitness guru
Stout and Whisky Bar (2006, lower Greenville, Dallas)
unit: ETOH provisionary brigade
position: spirit-slinger extraordinaire
GNET Telecommunications (various, US 2002-2003)
Position: field service engineer, team manager
United States Marine Corps (1996-2001)
Unit: Radio Recon (Bravo Co.)
Unit: MEWSS(Alpha Co)
Rank: Sergeant (CA, HI, etc. US)
Texas Highway Patrol (2003-2006)
Position: State Trooper
the Mad Goat (canton, tx)
music venue/coffeehouse
owner
Free State Festival of the Arts (east tx)
3-day art and music festival
founder, director
..
Music:
You would be very cool if you check out:
Roald Dahl
www.roalddahl.com
Sarah Green Art
www.sarahgreenart.com
Freezin Beggar Films
www.myspace.com/freezinbeggar
West And Clear -- best blog in Fort Worth
www.westandclear.com
The DaFoWo Show
www.star-telegram.com/dafowo
sustainable living technologies
www.freewillpower.org
music sites:
cnet music http://music.download.com
hype machine http://hypem.com
pandora www.pandora.com
the Best Page in the Universe
http://maddox.xmission.com/
I'll add more as soon as I find the time
Movies:
Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, anything else by Welles,
The Devil and Daniel Johnston,
Hitchcock,
Fritz Lang (Metropolis),
The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen(or Brazil, Time Bandits, The Fisher King... anything Terry Gilliam has touched),
the Coen Brothers,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,
Wes Anderson,
anything starring Bruce Campbell (most notably the Evil Dead Trilogy and Bubba Ho-Tep),
...and the greatest B-movie ever made: They Live (starring Rowdy Roddy Piper, directed by Carpenter)
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." -John Nada, 'They Live'
Television:
Adult Swim comedies.
And, speaking of Bruce Campbell, 'The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.' was the greatest tv show ever aired for only 1 season.
'Jack of All Trades' runs a close second.
History Channel. Discovery Channel.
'Curb Your Enthusiasm' with Larry David.
'Assume the Position' with Robert Wuhl.
'Flight of the Conchords'.
and you've gotta love
coach mcguirk:
watch this video
'on losing...' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXv13WdLiMA&feature=rela
ted)
Books:
Chomsky (not really, but it makes me look smart),
anything Poe,
Chuck Palahniuk,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimac (though I actually got bored reading Walden),
Lewis Carroll,
Charles Bukowski-especially his voice readings,
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Irvine Welsh,
C.S. Lewis,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
Richard Bach,
Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila),
Tom Stoppard,
Itamar Moses,
all of Maurice Sendak's work,
Douglas Adams,
Roald Dahl,
Leaves of Grass (whitman),
the rest would be assorted poetry and non-fiction.
