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About Me

"When the real music comes to me-"the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding"-that has nothing to do with me, 'cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...Those moments are what I live for. -John Lennon

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn......." -Jack Kerouac

My Blog

A perfect summer morning.

    I decided to take my motorcycle on a 210 mile loop around Mount Hood today. Left at 4:30 a.m. speeding into the sunrise on 84 East. Cruising through Hood River along the Gorge at sunrise was simpl...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:33:00 GMT

Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster" on Letterman 6/10 (TheAudioPerv.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGJ6oWN_nrQ
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:34:00 GMT

Jack Kerouac’s 30 essentials

Jack Kerouac was one of those writers who reinvented literature. He climbed in James Joyce's stream of consciousness car then careened down the streets of Beat poetry and the alleyways of Bebop jazz, ...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:41:00 GMT

Thursday August 14th, 2008. A page from my motorcycle diary riding to Big Sky, Montana

   I remember riding my motorcycle north on Route 191 from the town of West Yellowstone towards Big Sky, Montana. It was one of the most barren and beautiful stretches of highway on the whol...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:29:00 GMT

Go all the f*cking way...Thanks Bukowski.

if you're going to try, go all the way.otherwise, don't even start.if you're going to try, go all theway.this could mean losing girlfriends,wives, relatives, jobs andmaybe your mind.go all the way.it ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Attitude

Charles Swindoll: attitude "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education,...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:43:00 GMT

What is enlightenment?

"Milarepa had searched everywhere for enlightenment, but could find no answer - until one day, he saw an old man walking slowly down a mountain path, carrying a heavy sack. Immediately, Milarepa sense...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:03:00 GMT

Leonardo da Vinci quotes

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. Leona...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:57:00 GMT

Redhead 1 to be in show at University of Oregon.

My painting Redhead 1 has been selected for a juried exhibition at The University of Oregon. It's their Pacific Northwest Art Annual, winner is purchased by the university for their permanent collecti...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:58:00 GMT

Top 25 Painters of all time

1. Vincent Van Gogh 2. Willem De Kooning 3. Anselm Kiefer 4. Pablo Picasso 5. Henri Mattisse 6. Daniel Johnston (marker paintings) 7. Corey Smith ( I am the proud owner of his (un)ironic G's Up Ho's D...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:47:00 GMT