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a river aware

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About Me

Some quotes I really like: “Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.” ---- Herman Melville (American Novelist 1819-1891) ************* “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” ---- Neil Gaiman (English born American Novelist) ************* “Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead” ----- Bertrand Russell (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970 *************** THE NON-CONFORMIST'S OATH (by Steve Martin) Steve: And now, let's recite the Non-conformist's Oath! I promise to be different.Audience: I promise to be different!Steve: I promise to be unique.Audience: I promise to be unique!!Steve: I promise not to repeat things other people say.Audience: (..........murmurs..........)Steve: Good!!! #

My Interests

Art. (look! there's some over there!!) I met someone at an art museum who claimed that photography isn't and can't be art. I try to prove this idea wrong. I collect books. I don't collect first editions.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, writers, musicians, etc. People to take pictures with, not pictures of.

Music:

Live music is best. I see and hear a lot of local bands and musicians. I'm updating my list of local bands. Some of them have changed names or stopped being a band. (I really miss the Art Garage!)

Movies:

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and The Shop on Main Street (1965). I think the best movie ever made was "The Day The Earth Stood Still". (1951) It was a 'message movie' about the people of earth being unable to live in peace.

Television:

I like tv shows about current events and world affairs. I like documentaries. I mostly watch TV from Japan and countries outside the USA.

Books:

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Heroes:

Refugees...Surviving on earth is still noble.

My Blog

let me sell you some art

A few weeks ago I took a picture of a vending machine that looks like it is selling artwork. I didn't try to buy anything from the machine. Now I've found a website about artists who sell art from old...
Posted by a river aware on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:27:00 PST

My MySpace is hacked.

There are some changes made to my MySpace without me knowing about it. Let me know if you got any spam that appears to have been sent from my account.
Posted by a river aware on Fri, 09 May 2008 11:10:00 PST

I added new pictures

I added a new album called Pictures April 2008. There are a few more new ones in other albums.
Posted by a river aware on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:52:00 PST

weekdays are like this

I was sitting at a sidewalk table with a friend. A man walked up and appeared to have been drinking a lot of alcohol. He asked us to give him a ride to McDonalds. He said he was staying at a alcohol t...
Posted by a river aware on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:03:00 PST

weekends are like this

Saturday I went to a record store. I wanted to buy some CD's. The store had some bands playing music. The day was called National Record Store day. A day created so people would buy music in a store I...
Posted by a river aware on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:18:00 PST

drugs in america

I went to see a movie called American Drug War.It’s a documentary about illegal drugs and what the U.S. government does to fight the problem. While I didn’t like the way some of the facts ...
Posted by a river aware on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:16:00 PST

bread sticks

I was in a grocery store and I saw a new snack. It was a box of thin bread sticks made from wheat with a pizza flavor. I though I had seen these in Japan. In Japan they were called 'Pretz'. Only the o...
Posted by a river aware on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

I’m updating my MySpace page

So, why do I feel the need to blog about it? I made a few changes already. Now I need to think about the colors and borders.
Posted by a river aware on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:45:00 PST

Across The Universe

In the USA the space agency NASA is going to send the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" out into space. Here are the lyrics: (written by Lennon/McCartney)Words are flowing out like endless rain into...
Posted by a river aware on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:34:00 PST

to the zoo

Friday I went to the zoo. While I was there a little kid asked me "Are you the zookeeper?" I said no. But it would be a great job. I'll put some pictures in a MySpace album soon. I'm watching the tent...
Posted by a river aware on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:06:00 PST