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Neil

Luminous beams of light are we

About Me

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn: That there is no end in nature, but that every end is a beginning, And under every deep a lower deep opens.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Interests


You Are 5: The Investigator
You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker.

You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does.

Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations.

You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it. What Number Are You?"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~Nelson Mandela

I'd like to meet:

Just some good people

Music:

"...honesty - that's artist's responsibility. It's to relate to people. But you don't relate to them by bringing them what you think they want. If you bring them what you think they want, or what they're asking for, they gonna see through that and they gonna move on to the artist they think is talented."~Talib KweliBJORK, Radiohead, Tom Yorke, Jeff Buckley, JAY-Z, The Mars Volta, 311, Incubus, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Gruvis Malt, Glassjaw, BJORK, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Damien Rice, Explosions in the Sky, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Matt Pond PA, Sigur Ros, Primus, Vince Jones, Victor Wooten, oh and did I mention Bjork, D'angelo, Jaco Pastorious, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Christian McBride, The Roots, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Roy Hargrove, The Deftones, Squarepusher, Matthew Garrison, Astarius, Carlos Nakai & Pete Kater, Scott Petito, Bethoven, Mozart, Jurassic 5, Meta Music.

Movies:

Baraka, What the Bleep do we know, Waking Life, Life of David Gale, The Big Lebowski.

Television:

LOST, 24, Seinfeld, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Bill Maher.

Books:

The Celestine Prophecy, Being Peace, Going Home; Jesus and Buddha as brothers, The Miracle of Mindfulness.

Heroes:

Thay (Thich Nhat Hanh), Family, Victor Wooten, Thom Yorke, Bjork.

My Blog

Coltrane and Breakfast

You know what goes great with your morning coffee.  John Coltrane.  You can't be driving or anything.  It's one of those combos.  You need to be sitting and just slowly enjoying th...
Posted by Neil on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:19:00 PST