All the colors of the palette of life......music, performing arts, cinema, the great outdoors.......tantric adventures behind closed doors;).......Running, even when no one is chasing me, endorphin rush of a good workout, travel, inner journeys, vision quests, enlightenment and roads less traveled......vodka. Live bands, a cold one at a cozy club and a hot time with a cool lady. How "Rat Pack", beer commercial and cheesy does that sound?.... I truly like discovering interesting new people, places, things.....and myself. People with their heads up their own ass or anyone else's.....not so interested.
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Ladies who love to laugh, who connect with their spirit thru all human endeavors, tantric not manic, nurturing not needy, knows the dark, but has seen the light:).....A Woman who can vogue like Madonna, respects herself like Aretha, laughs at life like Lucy, shimmys like Beyonce', shakes like Shakira, shimmers like Stefani,..... and has a heart like Mother Theresa........now is that too much to ask;)....Also looking to network with freethinkers, truth seekers, natural born world shakers, soothsayers, prophets, peace activists, world care warriors, indigo offspring, indigenous folk, native americans, healers, natural goods dealers, cheerleaders, tantric goddesses, enlightened enchantresses, fortune tellers, rocket scientists, alternative lifestylers, the mending, the broken, the outspoken, the afflicted, the addicted, the conflicted, pro and con artists and non-conformists,....songwriters, word slingers, humdingers, balladeers, poets, real rhyming sistas and brothas and all folks in the broadcast media, visual arts, music and film industry.....Somebody surprise me and throw me for a freakin' loop:P!!!....Love for all kinds, peace for all time..... Get Your Own Voice Player Manage
Americana, blues, roots, garage, alt-rock, brit-punk, yankee punk, cowpunk, power pop, 70's, 80's New Wave, a bit of 'ye olde New Age, golden oldies, classic rock, outlaw country, black metal, prog rock, grunge, honky tonk, rockabilly, shockabilly, any music with "billy" on the end of it:D...gospel, urban, hip and sometimes hop, world, r'n'b.. Motown, Sun, Chess, Stax..It's all "SOUL" music anyway isn't it?.....The King, young Elvis, before his Vegas crucifixion, will always rule...The Fab Four and The Stones are yin/yang disciples...... Audioslave, before Chris Cornell split, was/is still my favorite ROCK band at the moment. TOOL are always the master machine, thank you Maynard and co. Ryan Adams,(NOT Bryan), formerly of cowpunkers Whiskeytown, is a prolific, nowpunky, neo-rocker, balladeer song writer that seems to write a cool song everyfuckinday', Steve Earle is my soundtrack for the revolution, a survivor, artist and a personal patriot....I learned to walk the line from Johnny Cash...John Lennon taught me to imagine...Keith Richards taught me to stick with the clear liquors and don't stop rockin' til you drop...........Kasey Chambers is one fine, frisky, honky tonk pop songwriting Aussie lass....Who remembers Bobbi Jo Gentry, Dusty Springfield? Shelby Lynne that's who!......Alicia Keyes is a musical, spiritual princess....The Blind Boys of Alabama get my soul stirring....Al Green and Marvin Gaye have taught me about love and happiness and sexual healing......Outkast rule Hotlanta, shake it like a polaroid picture baby!.... Sugar Hill Gang, GrandMaster Flash, Public Enemy, George Clinton, P-Funk, LL Cool J, IceT, Run DMC are old school, middle school innovators..that influence it all today.....Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Chili Peppers, Mother Love Bone, Mudhoney, Soundgarden are some yummy, damn good, west coast/Seattle/PCH grungy gumbo!...I worked for Cheap Trick a couple years ago, they still power pop the fuck out of everybody else, Robin Zander hits all the fuckin' notes....Aerosmith are still getting it done as well....My all time favorite rock goddess is bass slinging, soulful, vocalist Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, Pretty and Twisted and Catfish Scar ...I'm still available baby!!!!!.......I dig any and all music that is honest and from the heart.
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Ingmar Bergman has ascended as the filmmaking diety that he is, leaving many disciples. Anything by Tarantino or Scorcese, Hitchcock and Coppola, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, and all the imitators;)....Werner Herzog films always impress me. Historic and post modern westerns from John Ford, Walter Hill, Henry Hathaway anything with the Duke, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Brando, Steve McQueen..."The Proposition" a dirty dark magic Aussie western kicks ass...Actor turned director Peter Berg of "Friday Night Lights" fame seems to get it. Speaking of Billy Bob, yeah he's seen the dark and knows the light. James Mangold as well...... I dig any and all independent films and directors with attitude...flicks you can't find at Blockbuster sometimes, engaging documentaries, ambitous short films, b-films, c-films from the 60's and 70's, sci-fi classics, trash-plotation classics.....The genius of Fellini. Fantastical feasts from Romero, Ridley Scott, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento.... cheesy and/or classic zombie and vampire flicks. Tony Scott's "The Hunger", Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve making out, nuff said baby;)......British comedy and Asian horror gems....70's blaxplotation and 70's white trash action flicks.....A personal all time favorite and classic is "To Kill a MockingBird" it stands the test of time...."Cool Hand Luke" is a good ole chain-gang Jesus analogy and Paul Newman's best!..."Bullitt" for McQueen cool and the classic car chase..."Kill Bill" for Uma kicking ass...oh Uma baby!!...Coen Brothers, everything they do. "O Brother Where Art Thou" is priceless. 70's Clint Eastwood, the road story caper flick, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" was pulp fiction before Pulp Fiction. A little southern modern classic shot in Louisiana in the early 90's, first role for a young Reese Witherspoon, "The Man in the Moon", try watching it without crying:)...."The Sons of Katie Elder", a western with John Wayne and Dean Martin and "The Cowboys", the first movie John Wayne died in, shot in the back by cowardly, cowboy hippie Bruce Dern. These are the last movies I remember seeing with my Dad before he passed away, he loved the Westerns and I love him eternally.....Just saw "What the Bleep Do We Know" and was blown away, a great and timely evolutionary documentary...buy it or rent it today and expand your conciousness!!!
It can be a window to the world or a mindnumbing blackhole. TV does not brainwash people, people brainwash people. Discovery, National Geographic, Travel Channel, Bravo, TLC, Food Network, A&E, HBO original series, Sundance Channel can be informative and sexy cool entertainment. The only episodic show I TIVO is "LOST"......the coolest, surreal drama on TV currently. I must admit also, the white trash karma comedy "My Name is Earl" cracks me up! Both of these shows deal with redemption, something I'm very familiar with.
"THE DISAPPERANCE OF THE UNIVERSE" by Gary Renard, a metaphysical eye opener that has me remembering and rethinking alot of things about love and forgiveness...on that same note, "The Course in Miracles", borrow it...buy it and study it, if so inclined! Miracles are just a change in thinking you know......"Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsh, makes more sense than anything in the Bible, as much soul psychology as spirituality....Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra are enlightening teachers for me.... For good crime thriller fiction, I love award winning author James Lee Burke and his Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux series, set mostly in south Louisiana,...I am a sci-fi/horror and fantasy geek as well.....Tolkien, Robert Howard, Heinlien, Bradbury and Koontz are great and you can't beat Stephen King for the pulpy, fun, spooky stuff,... his latest "CELL" hits a nerve.....Everything by Hunter S. Thompson....R.I.P. sweet prince.
My dearly departed Dad, William Travis Akin or as everyone who really knew him called him, 'Trav'...his life here was cut way too short. My dad's little brother, Uncle Tommy Ray Akin aka TRA, a true hawg riding road rebel who was more like a big brother to me. He taught me that to score with the ladies I needed to be a man, not a punk. That dude could get laid at a lesbian convention. He's riding a Harley now, howlin' on a hallowed highway with a bodacious babe on the back:)...Grandpa Harris R.I.P. who taught an 11 year old me to drive in the parking lot of Schwegemanns supermarket in New Orleans. Charles Allen Thorn, Eagle Scout, lead singer of the former kick ass rock band Max and my best friend and brother....Scotti G aka G. Scott Griffin, my brotha' from anotha' motha'...By instinct, I pick up the phone daily to call you. How you doing bro'? We are all family forever.....Jesus, the REAL, liberal, non-denominational, non-political, love everybody Jesus,...Mother Teresa..Rosa Parks..MLK..JFK...Johnny Cash...John Lennon....I believe we should all be heroes to someone....even if it is just to ourselves:-)