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I am content to wander dusty plains of this desert planet. Seeking stillness in the haunted moans of a windstorm, I practice as a padawan, learning the ways of the Living Force from my master through Ghost Chat. On Fridays, I drink blue milk during the binary sunset. I have been able to fashion a crystal-based radio receiver from spare lightsaber parts, and have been learning about different cultures. Transmissions from far in the future, from a distant galaxy...Things I enjoy: Air, food, water, sleep, writing, meditation, reading, music, movies, art, vortex, reiki.

My Interests

Arts, Music, Movies, Electronics, Computers, Gardening at Night, Writing

I'd like to meet:

People. Or people with candy, or ice cream. Philosphers, investors, visual artists, musicians, belly dancers, dogs, cats, bears.

Darth HelloKitty

NY City Breakers

Alternative Vader Dialogue

Pretty Fly for a Jedi

Dinner with Kevin Smith & Friends


Inland Empire cut scene "room to dream"

Vader's Blues

Sketchbook

Music:

These forms of music I have been able to pick up from the Mos Eisley feed:
Rock/Post-whatever: The Velvet Underground, Meat Puppets, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, anything on Homestead or SST Records, Beck, *-hole Surfers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Live Skull, Thalia Zedek, Talking Heads, The Smiths, R.E.M., Bad Brains, Nirvana, X, , Camper Van Beethoven, The Cramps, Devo, Carny
Rap: Beastie Boys, MC Paul Barman, Boogie Down Productions, "Nation of Millions", Kool Keith, Audio Two "Top Billin", Ultramagnetic MCs, Jungle Brothers "Straigh Out the Jungle", Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Mac Dre, NWA, Geto Boys, Cypress Hill, The DOC "One Can Do It Better", Eminem, EPMD, Ill Bill, Kool Keith, Lil Flip,
Blues: Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton, B.B. King, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi John Hurt, Albert King, Little Milton, Barbeque Bob, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Clifton Chenier, Freddie King, Bessie Smith, Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Witherspoon, Tommy Johnson
Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Bix Beiderbecke, Ornette Coleman, Paul Desmond, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Coleman Hawkins, Earl Hines, Billie Holliday, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughn, Fats Waller, and "The Immortal" Charlie Parker
Reggae: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear, Toots and The Maytalls, Sly & Robbie, Black Uhuru, Eek-A-Mouse Cool Stuff: Hemi Sync MetaMusic, Gamelan, The Specials, JAMES BROWN, King Sunny Ade "Synchro System", Maceo Parker, The Soul Stirrers, Sam Cooke, Funkadelic,
Concerts:
*The I-rails @ The Red Barn
*Dr. Know @ The Red Barn
*Toad the Wet Sprocket
*Bruce Springsteen - LA Collesium 1986
*Camper Van Beethovem - Whole Hippie Cantina
*Butthole Surfers - Mos Eisley Spaceport (plenty loud)
*The Replacements - back-to-back shows with Mr. T Experience
*Firehose - (snuck in and watched warmup set from balcony),
*Mr. T Experience - Sluggo's Pizza
*NWA/Too Short/Slick Rick/LL Cool J/De La Soul -O-town
*Red Hot Chili Peppers - (Flea signed my lightsaber, he 'pretend this bass is your dick')
*Public Enemy/Too Short - Flavor dissed me for not paying for his chicken
*Meat Puppets - Was I the only one moshing?
*McCoy Tyner - Kuumbwa (so sweet)
I play: Guitar, Bass, and I rock the Dr. Rhythm. I can wikki-wikki on the turntable and cut a loop together. With some encouragement, I have been known to sing and rap.
In The Hopper: LPs, Eps, Singles
Hairy Man (1993, unreleased)
Son of Frankenstein (1992, unreleased)
Chicken Scratch Blues (2000, single)

Movies:

A New Hope (OK I'm biased)

Crouching Tiger (Li Mu Bai = Jedi)

Closer (stunning performances)

I so loved this as a kid.

And this one too!

Our poor Alex...

Just wrong. And funny. And wrong.

Wow!

Compulsion exposed!

Wonderful!

Television:

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 ("liver-face Paper Chase Guy"), Da Ali G Show, The Daily Show/Colbert Report, Survivor (Top 20 Fantasy League team 2005), The Young Ones, SNL, Millenium (boy it got bad), Voyager, Clone Wars, Sanford & Son, Brisco County, What's Happening, Dr. Shrinker, Land of the Lost, Crank Yankers ("Cough Syrup...sleepy koolaid..."), Futurama, Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville - great tale of obsession
The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham - value investing classic
Emptiness Dancing by Adyashanti - what cannot be said, yet with compassion

Heroes:

Master Yoda, Master Qui-Gon, Ben Franklin, Charlie Munger, Dale Carnegie

My Blog

A trip down VHS lane from a former video clerk

Michel Gondry (director of the top-notch Science of Sleep) was recently screening the trailer for his new film Be Kind Rewind, but there were some technical difficulties.  Here is the trailer he ...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:34:00 PST

" I like turtles"

Every once in a great while, I come across something in the media that cuts a deep channel through all the rubbish wasteland of electronic media.  A few words uttered that set the whole media con...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:17:00 PST

Etiquette at the Movies

I've been planning on writing a short piece on why seeing movies at the theatre has become such a drag.  But each time I start, frustration and grief over the death of social mores around public ...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:48:00 PST

Advice from Ben

    Not from me, but my hero, Ben Franklin, in his timeless classic Way to Wealth, paraphrased recently at PickYourBrain.Industry (1-39) - Energetic devotion to a task or an endeavor;...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:01:00 PST

Summer Fun

Have you ever wanted to know what spending the summer with a celebrity would feel like?  Jack Nicholson is willing to show you....Summer Splash with Jack...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:34:00 PST

The Tai Chi Master

Last weekend an unexpected gem spit out of the netflex queue-- The Tai Chi Master, a martial arts epic directed by Yuen Po Wing, best known for the martial arts coreography in the Matrix movies. ...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:54:00 PST

Dear Adya

Here's a wonderul, loving letter written to Adyashanti, which he read at last November's silent retreat at Mount Madonna.  I got a good laugh from it:   "Dear Adya, let's be honest, you're...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:09:00 PST

Welcome to the Work Week

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Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:20:00 PST

Books on Healing

Hands of Light, by Barbara Brennan. Excellent description of human energy fields, chakras, energy bodiesLight Emerging, by Barbara Brennan. A natural extension to Hands of Light, this books explores...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:35:00 PST

Star Wars Lines Improved by Substituting the Word Pants

I find your lack of pants disturbing.You are unwise to lower your pants.The Force is strong in my pants.Chewie and me got into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.Your pants, you will not ne...
Posted by Old Ben Kenobi" on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:08:00 PST