Drawing, painting, writing poetry, martial arts, competitive distance running, cycling, swimming, tennis, chess, cinema, playing and listening to music, concert going, creative writing, bowling, baseball / softball, travel, spiritual study, mind expansion in general
I'd like to meet:
I'm working on launching a new artists co-operative specifically for self taught / self trained artists. The mission of Neophyte Arts LLC will be to help such artists (who are often excluded from the artistic mainstream for not having trained in a conventional or institutional structure, and who might also not be particularly well connected or networked) to promote and market themselves via various arts ventures designed to exploit their innate artistic gifts. So, if you are a "self taught," "self trained," or otherwise naturally talented visual artist that is looking for new & effective ways of exposing and promoting your work, I WANT TO MEET YOU!!!Neophyte Arts LLC, and its proprietary web site will be launching in 2008, watch for it!I always welcome the chance to meet any like minded "near" rebels that "Dream As If You'll Live Forever, Live As If You'll Die Tomorrow...".. --BEGIN AdlandPro BANNER CODE --
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Music:
Way too many to mention, I enjoy ALL genres, but here are a few key favorites: AD/DC, UFO, Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush, Triumph, The Tragically Hip, John Lennon, 10cc, Seal, Heart, Roxy Music, REO Speedwagon, Eurythmics, Heaven 17, The Fixx, Simple Minds, Hendrix, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Renaissance, Tears for Fears, Sade, Level 42, Tom Waits, Dwight Yoakam, Johnny Cash, Tony Bennett, Stan Getz, Grover Washinton Jr., Sergio Mendes, Hiroshima, Patsy Cline, Philip Glass, Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Soul II Soul, Brand New Heavies, Swingout Sister, Everything But The Girl, Jean Michele Jarre, Parliament, Sly Stone, Erasure, Son Seals, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dido, Zero 7, Air, Shakira, Gypsy Kings, Gorillaz, Staind, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters
Movies:
OLD SCHOOL:
Pygmalion, The Wizard of Oz, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Rebecca, The Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Song of Bernadette, Stairway to Heaven, White Heat, A Christmas Carol (1951 version with Alastair Sim), Miracle on 34th Street (the otiginal 1947 version with Natalie Wood & Edmund Gwenn), Out of the Past, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing, Them, The 42nd Parallel, Suspicion, Notorious, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Roaring Twenties, The Emperor Jones, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Scarface, All the films of Lon Chaney Sr., Of Mice and Men (with Lon Chaney Jr.), American in Paris, West Side Story, any of Brando's films during the 50s (if you really want to know why he is considered to have revolutionized American acting), James Dean's films, The Ten Commandments, The Buccaneer, Zulu, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the Godfather trilogy, The Big Country, almost anything starring Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Yul Brynner, Leslie Howard, Roddy McDowall, James Mason, Ann Margaret, Pam Grier, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Gila Golan, Bruce Lee or Eli Wallach....................................................N
EW SCHOOL:
Casino, Heat, The Last of the Mohicans, Goodfellas, Alien & Aliens, Excalibur, Dragonslayer, Star Trek II & IV, Starman, Back to School, Let It Ride, New Jack City, Deep Cover, Gang Related, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix trilogy, Wargames, House of Cards, Spartan, Heist, Kill Shorty, Reservoir Dogs, Extreme Prejudice, The Dead Zone, Rainman, Blood Simple, True Romance, Hero (Jet Li), House of Flying Daggers, any of Ang Lee's Hong Kong action films with Chow Yun Fat, especially HARD BOILED, The Ring/Ringu, The Grudge, Seven, Full Metal Jacket, Silence of the Lambs, V for Vendetta, Open Range, the X Men series, the Spider Man series, the Harry Potter series, the Pirates of the Carribean series, The Departed, Kama Sutra, almost anything featuring Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Clarence Williams III, Sam Elliott, Joan Chen, John Lone, Ed Harris or James Woods
Television:
Twilight Zone (original), Outer Limits (original), Star Trek (original), X Files, Dr. Who (mostly the Tom Baker years), The Prisoner, The Avengers (mostly the Diana Rigg years), Cathouse, Simpsons, Carnivale, Boston Legal, Lost, Rome, Pro Wrestling, Nightline, CNN & MSNBC, religious documentaries (i.e. Mysteries of the Bible) on the History Channel & Discovery Channel, Nova, A Haunting, Real Sports.
Books:
"The Mechanism of Mind" by Edward de Bono.
The Bible.
The collective works of Edgar Allen Poe.
"Balance Your Brain, Balance Your Life" by Dr. Jay Lombard & Dr. Christian Renna.
Compilations of the work by Frazetta, Rockwell, Vellejo & Elvgren.
"Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill
"I'm OK, You're OK" by Thomas Harris
"The Prophet" by Gibran
"The Art of War" by Tsu
Heroes:
"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you GIVE." Winston ChurchillMy mom (any good mother should be labeled a hero for obvious reasons) & my older brother, GAMETHEORIST, who on his own over the past 30 years, has raised his IQ over 70 points (not kidding) through a spartan like study discipline (that began with reading Webster's entire dictionary cover to cover), that has resulted in his being a genuine expert on logic, psychology and game theory (check out WWW.GAMETHEORIST.COM)- I don't know ANYONE ANYWHERE that has done that. That said, I would lionize anyone that improves themselves and/or their life & the lives of those around them by sheer desire & discipline without intent to harm, undermine or marginalize others.And a special recognition to our military men & women, who prepare diligently, serve willingly and represent faithfully.
