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...To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all...

About Me

So much by way of excuse for the symbolic title, if indeed an excuse be necessary. May the title be a reminder that we are to depart as little as possible from classic ground; may it, through its brevity and signification, modify the demands of the friends of art whom we hope to interest through the present work, which is to contain observations and reflections concerning Nature and Art by a harmonious circle of friends. ~Goethe

My Interests

LIFE, Photography, Food, Reading, writing, All forms of art, all kinds of music, all creative form of expression. I have very few limits on what interests me. I love to learn and grow.

I'd like to meet:

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~Plato

Music:

Classical, contemporary, opera symphonic, big band, swing, blues, jazz, acid jazz, ambient, metal, oldies, worldly, 20's, 30's, 40's, 70's, 80's, industrial/goth, classic rock, punk rock, rock rock, ska, electronica, trip-hop, hip-hop, folk, bluegrass, cajun....everything....

Movies:

amile, a bugs life, cecil b. demented, dark crystal, doctor caligari, donnie darko, dracula, fight club, The fountain, gumo, Hairy Potter, hedwig, hero, I heart huckabees, kids, legend, lord of the rings, mirror mask, moulin rouge, neverending story, party monster, quills, rocky horror picture show, sleepy hollow, tank girl, labyrinth, They live, waking life

Television:

No thanks...don't watch it.

Books:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ALbert Camus, Plato, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, William Stafford, Lewis Carroll. I like fiction but I am trying to read more non-fiction. My favorite books are books!...Ill read anything and everything.

My Blog

The Allegory of the Cave

Is a resident of the cave (a prisoner, as it were) likely to want to make the ascent to the outer world? Why or why not? What does the sun symbolize in the allegory? And now, I said, let me show in a ...
Posted by - - Ragamuffin- - on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:44:00 PST

May 22nd; Paras

   That the life of man is but a dream, many a man has surmised heretofore; and I, too, am everywhere pursued by this feeling. When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and i...
Posted by - - Ragamuffin- - on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:08:00 PST

Ask Me

Some time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. Othershave come in their slow way intomy thought, and some have tried to helpor to hurt: ask ...
Posted by - - Ragamuffin- - on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:09:00 PST

BLANK

My blog has moved to here.
Posted by - - Ragamuffin- - on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:32:00 PST

Another list

   Row Boat   japanese rock garden   paint balling   fire dancing   belly dancing   stilts   sky diving   pianoX gu...
Posted by - - Ragamuffin- - on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mon Amor

Je ne fais pas confiance à n'importe qui avec mon coeur.
Posted by - - Ragamuffin- - on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST