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Kevin

If this was a world of peace, music would be the international language. -Thoreau

About Me

Try to be honest and easy-going with a healthy dose of intellectual curiosity and a fierce love of peace.

My Interests

Life, music, culture, art, Literature, good movies, friends

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interesting.

Music:

Here is some of the stuff I have been listening to lately but in no paticular order: French Kicks, Without Gravity, Kalli, American Analog Set, Evan Voytas, Lykke Li, Flobots, Frightened Rabbit, M83, Voyager One, Ian Brown, Alex Cortiz, Jay Electronica, the J. Davis Trio, Cursive, Brand new, Bell X1, Tracey Thorn, Yusef D'Adour, Siavosh Ghomayashi, Great Lake Swimmers, Mercan Dede, Nightmares on Wax, Gorillaz, Matisyahu, Bob Marley, DJ Shadow, RadioHead, Air, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, 311, Beethoveen, De La Soul, The Sundays, Honarary Title, DJ Krush, Cibo Mato, The Police, Pink Floyd, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, BB King, Marvin Gaye, Cassandra Wilson, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, George Shearing, Nightmares on Wax, Sarah Vaughn, Nora Jones, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Beck, Danielle Howelle (she is from Columbia Check her out), ColdPlay, My Morning Jacket, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Santana, Los Lobos, Kid Frost, DJ Icey, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Bravery, Sundays, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, YEah Yeah YEahs, Ravi Shankar, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Busta Rhymes, Chuck D & Public Enemy, Medeski Martin and Wood, John Coltrane, Led Zepplin, The Who, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, DJ mark Farina, Seal, Gnarls Barkley, Matt Pond PA, Farid, Theivery Corporation, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Chris Coco, Led Zepplin, Steely Dan, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Buffett, Paul Van Dyke, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Dido, Nora Jones, Sarah Mclaughlin, Janis Joplin, Ben Harper, Erik B and Rakim, Arcade Fire, Slow Runner, Everything but the girl, The Cure, Dj Dan, Controlling the Famous, Yellowman, We are Scientist, George Clinton/P-funk/Parliment, James Brown, Bloc Party, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Grand Master Flash/ Furious Five, Run DMC, Old School Hip-Hop, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King, Myles Davis, Charlie Byrd Parker, Portishead, Bjork, Mazzy Star, Tori Amos, Fort Minor, Styles of Beyond, Nada Surf, Phoenix, The Strokes, Gabin, Angelique Kidjo, Miriam Makewbe(sp?), CCR, Jimmy Buffett, Kaskade, DangerDoom, C-Lo, The Roots, The Peas (check out their Myspace page, it will be worth it if you like the Dead or other Jam bands), Booker T and the MGs, James Brown, Bobby Blue Bland, Adham Shaikh, Cut Chemist, A-Trak, Weekend Players, Moon-Eyes, Thelonious Monk, Mute Math, Hotel Lights, Dangerdoom, I Nine, Everybody Loves Irene, My Morning Jacket,Imogen Heap, Modest Mouse, Omid, Kaskade, Small Sins, Ludacris, Porter, The Roots, Tupac, Delierium, Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers, Robert Randolph and the family band, the Doves, Tower of Power, the submarines, Bruce Hornsby, Arcade Fire, The Peas, Robert Miles, Chris Coco, Siavash Ghomayshi, DJ Krush, Cee-Lo, Silk-E, Nujabees, Rakim, The Roots, The ISles, Jason Ricci and the New Blood, The Soul of John Black, The Baldwin Brothers, Grand National, The French Kicks, Tommy Guerrero, Madlib, Baumer, The Inner Banks, Michael Powers, The Close, Bill Leslie, Brightblack Morning Ligh, Wycleaf Jean, Stefon Harris and the Blackout, Viktor Krauss, Holmes, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, Somebody still loves you Boris Yeltsin, Robin Thicke, Martinez & Guthrie, Guitar Shorty, BB King, Keni Burke, California Guitar Trio, Darrius Ricker, Band of Horses, Bend, Spoon, Poco, Dirty on Purpose, Sebadoh, Breaking Laces, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Cella Dwellas

Movies:

Good Documentaries, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Crash, Full Metal Jacket, Godfather 1 and 2,Goodfellas, Kurisawa films, Stanley Kubrick movies, Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail, Naked Gun 1, 2,3 Being John Malckovich, Apocolypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Dr Strangelove, Ghost Dog.Below is a short movie (4 mins) about Iran, I suggest that everyone please watch it:

Television:

Simpsons, Boondocks, Hardball, Countdown With Keith Olberman, American Dad, Monty Python, Jim Lehrer News Hour, Now, Washington Week, Bill Mahrer, Family Guy, Steven Colbert, ATHF, Democracy Now, Link TV,

Books:

Anything By Hemingway, Tom Robbins, Pynchon, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Anything by Bob Woodward, Kurt Vonnegut, Camus, The Alchemist (Coelho) (If you like American politics read Whats the matter with Kansas by Thomas Franks), Borges, Gabriel Marquez, Mahfouz, Some historical, cultural and sociological subjects.

Heroes:

Anyone who has cancer or any cancer survivor.

My Blog

Don’t make war in Iran, get US troops out of Iraq, WCC executive committee says

World Council of Churches:The US and its allies must "settle the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme through negotiations and not through the use of military force," stated the World Council of Chur...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:39:00 PST

Atlanta Presbyterians Visit Iran (Pres. News Service)

July 8, 2008 Atlanta Presbyterians visit Iran Group finds a faithful and energetic church by Elizabeth Sanders former PC(U...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:29:00 PST

Muslim student group Sponser’s Wounded Iraqi Girl’s Talk at USC - Columbia Free Times

Article from the Columbia Free Times  www.free-times.com Article link : http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992912064025693& ;ShowArticle_ID=11461809070822267Columbia Free Times is a local...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:05:00 PST

Imagine - Tasavor Kon - By Siavosh Ghomayshi - Song For Peace

This is a reprint of something I worked on with a friend that we did a few months ago.  I hope everyone can read it and take it to heart. Remember human beings are human beings no matter where th...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:32:00 PST

Stregnosis, Politics and the Definition of the word "religious"

Sometimes arguments and major disagreements can start over the ambiguity of the meaning of a word. This can even cause people to become really angry and personally attack one another, even over a sil...
Posted by Kevin on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:53:00 PST

Independent Musicians - 3/23/07

Well I have not been on myspace much so I have not been able to find as many good bands as quickly as I had before, but I think I have a few diamonds in the rough this time for sure.  If you like...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:24:00 PST

On Oasis of Indie Music in the Pop Desert

So I finally broke down and decided to write a blog. Since very few people would want to read how my life is going, or what I think about the war or the coming election, I decided to write about ...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:56:00 PST

Imagine - Tasavor Kon Please Read!

These are the English lyrics to a Persian (Iranian) song entitled Tasavor Kon (Imagine) written by Siavosh Ghoymayshi. The original Farci lyrics are below  You can download and lis...
Posted by Kevin on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:49:00 PST