Art, Graphics, Illustration, Pen & Ink, Printing, block prints, etching, oil painting, watercolor, painting, sketching, graphic arts, computer graphics, photoshop, illustrator, charcoal, charcoal drawing, ganga, travel, Japan, Japanese, French, France, Europe, Africa, Asia, Taiwain, Korea, China, Seattle, Washington, International Business, Inernational Relations, Art, things Artistic, Key word searches, Friends, Sex, Music, Reggae, Coffee, Cameras, digital cameras, photoshop cs, canon, rock-n-roll, sake, japanese food, girls, fun, body painting and George Bush Bashing.
I'd like to meet:
Other artists, photographers, illustrators, etc, or people interested in art, or people interested in my art. After all, I'm all about art. I'm interested in networking with serious artists, the eclectic, the right end of the bell curve. I especially like artists who are better than I am; I have a lot to learn, and you can only learn from people who have superior skills. Have I mentioned art yet?
Oh, and beautiful women - after all I'm a guy. :-P.
Who I won't add: No bands please, I'm not here to advertise for bands. No artists that constantly use their comments and bulletins to SELL art. I really do network with some cool people, and constant advertising gets in the way. If you're religious, that's great, but I delete people that post constant religious bulletins. I don't like being proselytized to.
Lastly, I feel compelled to say how much I think Bush is an idiot, and a traitor. I know that's not about art, but it is my civic duty to resist fascism and denounce war. Have we found those WMDs yet? No? Remember the war wasn't about Freedom for the Iraqi people, it was about WMDs, which Bush knew Hussein didn't have. Not only that, however creepy Hussein was, we also now know that he was at odds with Al Qaeda, and didn't like Osama Bin Laden. Good soldiers, like good Samurai, are highly honorable and deserve a better cause to die for. There, I said it.
Music:
Reggae, Rock, Jazz, Classical, Grunge, I like it all, Adrien Belew, Al Jarreau, Al Di Meola, Alanis Morissette, Alice Cooper, Ali Bawa, Alpha Blondy, Aretha Franklin, The Art of Noise, Bamada Habib Koite, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Big Mountain, Billy Idol, Bjork, Black Uhuru, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Carlos Santana, The Clash, The Crystal Method, Creed, Cure, David Bowie, Dennis Brown, Diana King, Dido, Dire Straights, Elvis Costello, Enigma, Enya, Faith Hope & Clancy, Flying Pickets, Francis Cabrel, Francis Lalanne, Frank Zappa, Georges Brassens, Gipsy Kings, Grateful Dead, Herbie Mann, Incyoable Jungle Beat, Hot Tuna, Jacques Higelin, Israel Vibration, James Taylor, Janis Joplin, Jean-Patrick Capdevielle, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jean-Jackques Goldman, Jethro Tull, Jill Scott, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Julien Clerc, Kali, Kahara Tomomi, Kiroro, King Tubby, King Sunny Ade, Koffi Olomide, Kobukuro, Kitaro, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Laura Fygi,Lazy Boy, Led Zepplin, Les Dudek, Little Feat, Los Lobos, Mariah Carey, Marcia Griffiths, Macy Gray, Matchbox 20, Matt Thorpe, MC Hammer, Michael Fortunati, Men at Work, Michel Fugain, Miki Imai, Miriam Makeba, Morcheeba, Monique Seka, Nirvana, No Doubt, No Mas, Ohio Players, Paskaal Japhet, Pat Benatar, Pearl Jam, Peter Tosh, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, The Police, Pretenders, Prince, Quincy Jones, R.E.M., Ramones, Ray Charles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reggaeton Ceibeno, Robert Plant, Ry Cooder, The Rolling Stones, Sade, Rush, Sardou, Serge Gainsbourg, Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Senead O'Conner, Spearhead, Spin Doctors, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Steel Pulse, Steely Dan, Stephan Eicher, Steve Windwood, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sting, String Cheese Incident, Suzanne Vega, Tearano, Talking Heads, THC, Temple of the Dog, Technotronic Y Kid K, Thomas Dolby, Third World, The The, Tina Turner, Tirike, TLC, Toots & The Maytals, Toure Kunda, U2, Warren Zevon, Wes (Welenga), Gregorian Chants
Movies:
Officespace ,
Matrix ,
Highlander , Deerhunter ,
Dinner with Andre ,
Shrek ,
Harry Potter ,
Reservour Dogs ,
Le Declin de l'Empire Américain ,
Spirited Away ,
Tootsy,
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest ,
Lost in Translation ,
Pirates of the Caribbean ,The Legend of Zorro ,
Fahrenheit 911
Television:
I generally don't watch TV; it rots the mind, and dulls the senses. But once in a while I'll watch CNN - 'the news you can't trust' for an overview of the world as seen from Atlanta, Georgia.
PBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Biography Channel, The Daily Show with John Stewert (I love this guy), David Letterman, and Stephen Cobair.
If I want to know what most Americans are thinking, I'll watch Fox news for about two hours straight. And although I can endure two hours of Fox news for the sake of anthropological study, I've yet to sit through an entire reality show, like survivor. It's too much for me to watch that nonsense. I'd rather die slowly being beaten to death with a spoon.
If you want to try an interesting excercise, sit down with a pen and paper, and write down everything the commercials are trying to sell you in a one hour show. Google the product and find the price, and tally it up at the end of an hour. Try that for a week.
Books:
Madame Bovary, Anything by Emile Zola (Nana was my favorite), Camus, Sartre,Guns Germs and Steel, anything by Noam Chomsky,The Art of War by Sun Tzu,The Prize, the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, by Daniel Yergin ,America by John Stewert ,Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, by Jimmy Carter ,U.S. - Japan Relations in a Changing World,The Clash: A History of U.S. - Japan Relations, Unfair Trade: The Complete Report on Unfair Trade Policies by Japan's Major Trading Partners, Troubled Times: U.S. - Japan Trade Relations in the 1990's, Shogun, Legacy: Selected Drawings & Paintings by Frank Frazetta, The Magic of M.C. Escher, Rembrandt's Eyes, Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, The Da Vinci Code, Creating Textures In Pen & Ink With Watercolor, Pen & Ink Sketching, Oil, Power, & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda,Cryptonomicon , Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War , The Anarchist's Cookbook, National Geographic ,World Press Review ,The New York Times ,Letters From the Earth, by Mark Twain, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Heroes:
Anyone who has the guts to do what they believe in, follow their dreams, and stand up for what they believe in - the mavericks of the world, and anyone who openly opposes the puppet president, George Bush, and all the evil he represents. Dream of a better world.
George Washington, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Cezar Chavez, Hugo Chavez, Captain Jack Sparrow, Noam Chomsky, The Road Runner, Thomas Paine, Joan d'Arc, Mary of Magdalen, A prostitute who's name I don't remember, Benjamin Franklin, Chief Crazy Horse, The 47 Ronin, Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, M.C. Escher, all the Political prisoners of the world, Freedom fighters & Rebels.
