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About Me

i am over it.


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My Interests

chen taijiquan, qigong, capoeira, avian observation, politics, sociology, social theory, political theory, hip hop, jazz, education, permaculture, radically and permanently transforming industrial civilization, ecosystemic intelligence, the spoken word, music, dancing, loving, sorting out my shit over here so it doesn't leak out over on you.

I'd like to meet:

hannah arendt, chen fa ke, woody guthrie.

Music:

I love music. leadbelly, son house, mississippi john hurt, woodie guthrie, arlo guthrie, pete seeger, utah phillips, johnny cash, the unnamed thousands, gillian welch and david rawlings, the be good tanyas, the devil makes three, cannonball, hank jones, thelonius, bill evans, herbie hancock, eric dolphy, the duke, pops, bird, diz, nina, billie, ella, mingus, lester young, oliver nelson, sonny rollins, yusef lateef, roland kirk, joao gilberto, astrud gilberto, stan getz, a.c. jobim, caetano veloso, cesaria evora, bebo valdez, diego 'el chigala', randy newman, the band, dylan, neil young, van morrison, creedence, hendrix, pink floyd, g 'n' r, rhcp, tom waits, radiohead, ry cooder, jimi, buddy guy, the roots, common, the rza, method man, k. priest, aesop, mos def, talib qweli, public enemy, digital underground, run dmc, digable planets, tribe called quest, bobby bland, etta james, the books, laurie andersen, bright eyes, modest mouse, clap your hands say yeah, tipper, edIT, prefuse 73, RJD2, and obscure avant-garde classical stuff that i have to ask jon about.

Movies:

The Hustler with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog, Dead Man, Mystery Train, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Coffee and Cigarettes), The Cohen Brothers (O Brother, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men), Akira Kurusawa (Dreams, 7 Samurai, Yojimbo, Rashomon,), Tarantino, David Lynch (esp. Mulhulland Dr. and Eraserhead and Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet, and that hard to come by collection of his short works which, shana, you must see)... I also like Kung Fu movies. Twin Warriors, Buddhist Fist, Hero, Fist of Legend, shaw bros....etc other movies of late: 2046, Oldboy, Code 46, Layer Cake, the Machinist, the Tenant...lots more

Television:

Spaced, the Simpsons, The Price is Right, Family Feud, Golden Girls, Lavern & Shirley, In Living Color, The State, Liquid Television, South Park, The Sopranos, Comedy Centr- uh.. i mean Fox News, DemocracyNow!, Free Speech TV, Looney Toons.

Books:

I ching. Nietzsche. Hannah Arendt. Foucault. Norman O. Brown. Arturo Escobar. Dipesh Chakrabarty. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Rabindranath Tagore. Wendell Berry. Emerson. Derrick Jensen. Ursula K. LeGuin.

Heroes:

Anyone and everyone who stands up for others, speaks from the heart, expresses their creativity, won't give up after the first try, takes good care, and/or is real serious about having a real good time. and Chen Fa Ke. and this guy: www.kitundu.com

links


Worldwatch Institute

The Oakland Institute

Derrick Jensen

Global Studies Programme

Master Chen Zhonghua Chen Taijiquan

Pull Up A Chair: Chen Taijiquan Stories to Enlighten and Instruct

Courtney Blackburn Chen Taijiquan

Noznisiance

911 False Flag

My Blog

knots and such

shoveled into daylight bearing ropes heavy as chains, gazed upon by predatory birds, song birds, and lizards, grazed upon by vultures, we learn to tie. it begins with the knots of the shoes, except fo...
Posted by nathan on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:23:00 PST

community and responsibility

is it possible to be responsible in modern civilization? It seems that the division between practice and belief, which posits that one can do one thing and believe another is a deeply problematic fall...
Posted by nathan on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:14:00 PST

Chen Taijiquan: History and The Globalization of Presence in Internal Chinese Boxing

The best martial art could be said to be one with no name, no style, no form; only content, power, energy, skill. The artist is missing. The subject is absent, or behaves only like water. The fighter ...
Posted by nathan on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:54:00 PST

Globalization and the New Economics of War

A bullet is the harbinger of modernity. Precise, machined, engraved with text. A bullet in use is the end of communication. In use, a bullet ends; it relates finally to its most common target, the hum...
Posted by nathan on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:46:00 PST