My Interests in random order:
video art,..
image compositing,..
poetry,..
music,..
astronomy,..
anthropology,..
political/social activism,..
history,..
philosophy,..
literature,..
theology,..
art,..
lazy afternoons,..
playing guitar,..
theater,..
the movies,..
nice dinners,..
and bottles of wine...
I'd like to meet:
Hepcat Love
based on 'Ruskrat Love' by America
two young hepcats in candlelight
doin' the town and doin' it right
in the evenin'
it's pretty pleasin'
hepcat lady and hepcat man
doin' jazz an' poetry out in hepcat land
and they shimmy
he's so fat - she's so skinny
their hearts moved
as the band grooved
out a tangoe
jammin' and jingin' like jango
climbin' moonbeams to cloudsville above
it looks like hepcat love
sippin' on wine, nibblin' on cheese
he says to her, "baby, would you please be my misses?"
she says yes
with her kisses
and now he's ticklin' her fancy
rubbin' her toes
nuzzle to nuzzle, now anything goes
as they wriggle, she starts to giggle
Who do I Want to Meet?
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to experience, desirous of everything, the ones who are never commonplace, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
lying down beside you
by josh?
lying
down beside you,
i feel like i'm on a
trail i've traveled before - i can re-
member
it all
the pefect woman
can do that to you
she always seems familiar:
long lost,
like the face
of a long-dead relative;
like an old dream; like a piece of
forgotten
song drifting
across the water;
most of all, like golden
eternities of past childhood
or past
manhood
and all the living
and the dying and the heartbreak
that went on a million years ago -
and the
clouds as
they pass overhead
seem to testify (by their
own lonesome familiarity)
to this
feeling
ecstacy,
accompanies
the flashes of sudden
remembrance, and feeling sweaty
and drowsy
i feel like
sleeping and
dreaming in
your arms.
Music:
Music is my religion. I love many types of music - though I believe any form of music that has an artificial electronic pulse instead of a real drum beat is blasphemy. I wanna hear beats made from real drums and not from machines. I wanna hear sticks hitting skins - not a program downloaded from a CD-Rom.
Mostly my musical interests include:
Rock - ..
the Beatles; ..
the Doors; ..
Pink Floyd; ..
Bob Dylan;..
Ray Charles;..
Led Zeppelin;..
Stevie Wonder;..
Sly and the Family Stone..
and many others too numerous to mention and includes oldies rock 'n' roll, classic rock, soul, and funk.
Jazz -..
Miles Davis;..
Charley Parker;..
Louis Armstrong;..
Frank Sinatra;..
Ella Fitzgerald;..
Chet Baker;..
Billy Holiday.....
and much much more from all the different types of jazz...
Classical -..
Mozart;..
Beethoven;..
Bach;..
Vavaldi;..
and many more.
But for the record I also like Blues.., Folk.., Blue Grass.., traditional church hymns.., Irish Folk.., Indian Ragas.., and many other types. My musical opinion is probably best described by Louis Armstrong.., "There are only two types of music.., good music.. and bad music..." It really doesn't matter to me which genre the publishing.. companies.. wish to market their products as, to me it's all just music.
Movies:
I love all types of movies. Romance, horror/thriller, comedies, documentaries, action/adventure, science fiction/fantasy, foreign or domestic. But to list some of the movies that I loved:
the God Father I & II; ..
Star Wars.. (Episodes III, IV, V, VI);
Lord of the Rings ..(all of them were great);
When Harry Met Sally;..
The Gods Must Be Crazy;..
My Life As a Dog;..
the World According to Garp;..
Hannah and Her Sisters;..
200l;..
Star Trek II - the Wrath of Kon; ..
Casablanca;..
Easy Rider;..
the Graduate;..
Midnight Cowboy;..
Pulp Fiction;..
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind;..
Kundun;..
Tape;..
Europa Europa;..
Schindler's List;..
Jaws;..
Minority Report;..
the Sixth Sense;
the Others;
Scream (the first one);
Living In Oblivion;
Romeo and Juliet (the 1969 version);
Hamlet...
and again there are far too many to mention.
Though perhaps my favorite movies of all time would be:
"Public Enemy" with James Cagney;
and "The Bicycle Thief" - an Italian film made just after World War II.
Television:
My television dislikes are far more numerous than my likes. So listing my likes won't be too difficult. I like:
Seinfeld;
All In the Family;
the Honeymooners;
Cheers;
the Dick Van Dyke Show;
the Simpsons;
That 70's Show;
Star Trek (all of them except Enterprise);
Babylon 5;
and The Sopranos.
However, most of my time watching TV is usually spent watching something interesting on either PBS, the History Channel, Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel. I'm a big fan of shows like NOVA and Nature.
Books:
My favorite books include but are not limited to:
Catcher in the Rye;
Sir Gawyan and the Green Knight;
the Golden Ass;
On the Road;
Walden;
Great Gatzby;
Young Goodman Brown;
the Tell Tale Heart;
the Tao of Pooh;
The Journey of Man;
the Elegant Universe;
One Jesus Many Christs;
the Power of Myth;
the Nag Hammadi Library;
the Fall of America;
Go Ahead - Steal This Book;
The Lord of the Rings;
Dune;
The Art of War;
and the Tao Te Ching.
Heroes:
Siddartha Gautama (the Buddha);
Jesus of Nazareth;
Gandhi;
Martin Luther King;
Malcom X;
Einstein;
the Dalai Lama;
Mother Teresa;
John Lennon;
George Harrison;
and most especially the unknown and nameless souls belonging to the group known as the Diggers who dedicated, and some cases gave their lives, in the pursuit of justice, knowledge, beauty, and the unity of all people.
In 1649
To St George's Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Came to show the people' s will
They defied the landlords
They defied the laws
They were the dispossessed
Reclaiming what was theirs
We come in peace, they said
To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common
And to make the waste land grow
This earth divided
We will make whole
So it can be
A common treasury for all
The sin of property
We do disdain
No one has any right to buy and sell
The earth for private gain
By theft and murder
They took the land
Now everywhere the walls
Rise up at their command
They make the laws
To chain us well
The clergy dazzle us with heaven
Or they damn us into hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
The God of greed who feeds the rich
While poor men starve
We work, we eat together
We need no swords
We will not bow to masters
Or pay rent to the lords
We are free men
Though we are poor
You Diggers all stand up for glory
Stand up now
From the men of property
The orders came
They sent the hired men and troopers
To wipe out the Diggers' claim
Tear down their cottages
Destroy their corn
They were dispersed -
Only the vision lingers on
You poor take courage
You rich take care
The earth was made a common treasury
For everyone to share
All things in common
All people one
We come in peace
The order came to cut them down
