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About Me

My very fine and prodigious friend Catherine Brooks and the proofs of her staggering genius :)..... http://thearborgeistproject. tumblr. com/

This documentary affected me, please please please watch it and spread the news. It doesn't need to load and it actually "starts" after five minutes in. Please watch this.

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." ~Buddha

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My Interests

Drawing toe-toos everyday, listening to music, eating snap peas and loving existence...

I'd like to meet:

lovers of life

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Music:

Tom Waits, Cat Power, Bat for Lashes, Paul Cantelon, Beruit, The Moldy Peaches, Radiohead, Band of Horses, Bob Dylan, U2, Gogol Bordello, His Hero is Gone, T Rex, The Kinks, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Modest Mouse, Tom Petty, Bjork, Tokyo Police Club, Portishead, Johnny Cash, Botch, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pulp, Rachmaninoff, The Clash, Madeleine Peyroux, Mars Volta, Nina Simone,Yann Tiersen, Dimitri Shostakovich, etc.etc.....

Movies:

I'm Not There, Zeitgeist, Powder, Delicatessen, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The 400 Blows, Wings of Desire, The Libertine, The Illusionist, Everything Is Illuminated, Fight Club, American Beauty, Blood Tea and Red String, Interview with a Vampire, Little Miss Sunshine, Koyannisqatsi, Amelie, Baraka, Donny Darko, Apocalypse Now, 8 1/2, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, The Professional, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 monkeys, The Boondock Saints, Memento, The Red Violin, The Brothers Quay,.....etc....

Television:

"Is your television bigger than your vision for an amazing life?"..

Books:

Joseph Campbell, Derrick Brown, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Howard Zinn, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dylan Thomas, Don Miquel Ruiz, Kahlil Gibran, Ernest Holmes, Gore Vidal, Chalmers Johnson,etc,etc. ....

Heroes:

my dog ....

My Blog

then we will have something to talk about

Head palpitates upon a weight of weightlessness,call the winces out from beneathe the house,exhale your regrets into fistfuls of bagged shit on burnt porches,exlaim your perfection from tongues withou...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:19:00 PST

fond quotes

"Eternity is now." ~Joseph Campbell"Beyond ideas there is a field...will you meet me there?" ~Mowlana Jalalludin Rumi"Die to the person you think you are. Everyday, be willing to hand the wave back t...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:01:00 PST

The Hi Beautiful experiment

Everyone is an artist and a genius, they usually just don't know it. If one were to live with authenticity and excellence in the span of each moment, which is a specific way of saying "to be aware", y...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:56:00 PST

music

An old greek definition of perfection is the inclusivity of all things. When artists create with the harmonic inclusivity of all perspectives and ideas equally respected; i.e. nihilism & affirmation,...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:43:00 PST

Chief Seattle's address to the president, 1854

"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of this eart...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:47:00 PST

Dot Dot Dash

Soooooo, it looks as though I'm going to be in a collector's book called Dot Dot Dash. German published by Die Gestalten and largely supported by the proprietor of Strange Co., Jim Crawford. It covers...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:44:00 PST

new works for Roq La Rue (July 7, Seattle)

(These are just a sneak peak)"The Wheeler""Translucent Modes of Being""The Hullabaloo of Jacques and Winnifred""The Baptism"...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:18:00 PST

The Brothers Quay Lecture

Yes I got to see my heroes speak in L.A. last week (for the first time in the U.S. too). They were very accessable, gave intelligent but modest answers, self-aware but not narcissistic and finished ea...
Posted by Amber Bassett on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:33:00 PST