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POP-CULTURE. SUB-CULTURE. DHARMA.

About Me

Welcome to the MySpace page for theworsthorse.net -- a webzine that looks at how pop-culture, subculture and Buddhism (and/or meditation) do or don't mix.
This can mean many things. Like, say, Buddhism and ____________:
(choose one) art / photography / sex / advertising / punk rock / heavy metal / hip-hop / surfing / skateboarding / movies / tv / comedy / and on and on.
As our site's "About" page says:
...The meditation teacher Larry Rosenberg says, "We can't all be celibate monks!" So what are we to be?
We're to be what we are: younger people, getting older; city-dwellers; misfits; hip-hop heads; punkers; computer-agers; mountain-climbers; artists; horror-movie buffs; whatever we actually are. Only, working on it, too.
Buddhism emphasizes that there's only NOW. For most of us, our Now, our reality, takes place in a world informed by media, pop-culture, sexuality, and on and on. That's the world where our practice has to happen, if it's gonna. It's do-able.

theworsthorse.net is loaded with constantly updated news and links, plus original content and a dedicated message-board.
Come check us out. Thanks!
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My Interests

(this is better-covered in the 'Blurbs' section, but, basically:) Buddhism. Meditation. Art and design. Photography. Advertising. Punk rock. Doom and death-metal. Hip-hop. Skateboarding. Writing. Comedy. Blah blah blah.

I'd like to meet:

(See 'Heroes.')

Music:

Punk, metal, death-metal, hip-hop, rock, experimental music, ambient music, reggae; Jah Wobble, Shambhala (the hip-hop group), Wu-Tang Clan, Pelican, Weezer, Only Crime, Black Sabbath, Boards of Canada, Samhain, Gary Numan, David Axelrod, Public Enemy, Ruin, RZA, Mastodon, The Hidden Hand, Beastie Boys, Can, Tosca, Maxi Jazz, Faithless, Kunga 219, Anticon, Roy Orbison, Prince, Oaxerai, Odd Nosdam, Isis, The Firstborn, Craig Armstrong, Max Romeo, Jay-Z, David Sylvian, Isan, Squarepusher, Black Flag, Beach Boys, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Lou Reed, System of a Down, Desendents / ALL, DJ Krush, Thelonious Monk, Earth Wind and Fire, Mogwai, Saint Vitus, Dennis Bovell, Kasuf and the Mazz Movement, Prince Paul, John Coltrane, Bad Brains, Roky Erickson, Husker Du, Cat Stevens, Richie Hawtin, Pere Ubu, Tool, Public Image Ltd (PiL), Shades Apart, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, David Darling, Wretch Like Me, DJ Shadow, Painkiller, Polecat, Alice Cooper, Sugar, Cramps, Probot, Nina Hagen, The Obsessed, Blind Idiot God, Helmet, Wings, Beck, Philip Glass, Buried at Sea, Metallica, Pete Rock, Sade, Cave In, Johnny Cash, Pole, Unit, The Album Leaf, Brian Eno, Isaac Hayes, Sixtoo, Lemons, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ornette Coleman, Lovage, Breakbeat Era, Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, Fantomas, Tim Hecker, Glenn Branca, Missy Elliot, Terry Riley, King Tubby, Madonna, Bobby Conn, T. Rex, Talvin Singh, Ginger Baker, Muggs, Massive Attack, Portishead, Laurie Anderson, Jimmy Scott, Madlib, Mandrill, Ravi Shankar, Napalm Death, Roni Size, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Radiohead, Witchman, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Zappa, Electric Prunes, Akbar, Hieroglyphics, Nellie McKay, Chuck D., Sofa Surfers, MF Doom, Karminsky, Biggie, GZA/Genius, Jurassic 5, Deltron 3030, Earl Shilton, etc etc.

Movies:

Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, Star Wars, Ghost Dog, Groundhog Day, Yeah Right!, George A. Romero's zombie movies, Dogtown and Z-Boys; um, um... lots more. Can't think of them right now.

Television:

My Name is Earl, South Park, The Soup, 60 Minutes, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Lost, Chappelle's Show, Sealab, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Da Ali G Show. That's about it.

Books:

Mindfulness in Plain English; The Answer is Never; The Fermata; One Dharma; Our Band Could Be Your Life; Almost Home; Hardcore Zen; Living in the Light of Death; Pure Heart Enlightened Mind; Skateboarding, Space and the City; Pure and Simple; Fingerprints of the Gods; Manifesto; Damn Everything but the Circus; Franny and Zooey; Broken Summers; Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction; A Dirty Job; Hungry Ghost; The Wu-Tang Manual; Pure Drivel; Novice to Master; Hunger; The Air-Conditioned Nightmare; Inconspicuous Consumption; Taking the Path of Zen; Maakies; The Ambient Century; Choosing Death; David Gates; John Fante; Spalding Gray. Plus, these magazines: Buddhadharma, Shambhala Sun, Elemental, Chow, Radar, Tricycle, Punk Planet, Giant Robot, beautiful/Decay, Insight, Bark, Adweek, Wax Poetics.

Heroes:

Maura O'Halloran, William M. Gaines, David Ogilvy, Jah Wobble, Soko Morinaga, Sinead O'Connor, Graham Hancock, Lin Jensen, Barbara Kruger, Trey Parker, Hiroshi Sugimoto, George Carlin, Eric Gill, David Cross, Cindy Sherman, Robert Aitken, George Lois, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Spalding Gray, Toni Packer, Scott Weinrich, Yoko Ono, Andy Kaufman, Woody Allen, Nicholson Baker, James Ishmael Ford, Larry Rosenberg, Damien Echols. This feels silly.

My Blog

NEW! Ethan Nichtern’s "Happy Arbitrary New Year" message

Hey everyone, Happy Arbitrary New Year! Ring it in with Interdependence Project founder Ethan Nichtern in his first piece for The Worst Horse, just posted.Just go to the Horse's homepage: TheWorstHors...
Posted by the worst horse on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:29:00 PST

WU-TANG!; more on the David Lynch/Dharma connection; more

LOTS of new stuff at our blog, The Dharma-Burger Drive-Thru, for you:* David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE: more on the Lynch/Dharma connection* What has Garry Shandling learned?* WU-TANG! The Clan rock a Hea...
Posted by the worst horse on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:03:00 PST

"Twin Peaks" Dharma?

Yep. Check out "The Owls Are Not What They Seem: The Dharma of Twin Peaks' Dale Cooper."It's the new feature article on The Worst Horse.Just go here:TheWorstHorse.net: Home of the Dharma-BurgerAnd as ...
Posted by the worst horse on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:42:00 PST

Crazy pop-/sub-/Dharma link update for you!

New on The Worst Horse's homepage:* The "gold plated Buddhist cell phone for monks"* What happens when you cross the Buddha with the Michelin man?* The mighty band Mission of Burma to play Boston-area...
Posted by the worst horse on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:03:00 PST

Update: Dharma-music interview and mp3s for ya!

New on The Worst Horse: an interview with Dharma-musician Ravenna Michalsen, who's just self-released her 2nd CD. The interview includes two mp3s, which you can download, or just click and listen to t...
Posted by the worst horse on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:36:00 PST

LOTS of pop-sub-Dharma updates for you!

Just posted a whole bunch of new links for y'all:* Ethan Nichtern: "The Dharma is Always Political." (IS it?)* Brad Warner & Genpo Roshi: Warner takes off the gloves. (And what does it mean when D...
Posted by the worst horse on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:10:00 PST

"Separated at Re-birth?" 2!!!

New on the Horse: our second stupid (but well-intentioned) collection of Buddhist figures and their lookalikes.Just go here:TheWorstHorse.net: Home of the Dharma-Burger"Pop-and sub-culture for Dharma ...
Posted by the worst horse on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:26:00 PST

Links! Dharma-tattoos! Buddhist comics! Hacker koans! (And lots more)

The Horse has got plenty of new links for you: > Body vows: NPR on Thailand's Dharma-tattoo tradition > Comics fans will want to check out our links about "The Green Lama," including a reproduction of...
Posted by the worst horse on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:23:00 PST

Who said "Buddha, I cannot wait to put this chain on you?"

Visit us and find out. And we've added a whole bunch of other new stuff for you:> The Wall Street Journal: "Meditation Rewires the Brain" and an exclusive piece about Buddhist boomers by Clark Strand>...
Posted by the worst horse on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:23:00 PST

Two new "Separated at Re-birth"s

Yep. And they're funny.Plus:> Can you trust a guru with a Lexus and a place in the Hamptons?> Ian Astbury of rock band The Cult meets Dalai Lama;"connects dots between Buddhism and rock" on new CD> an...
Posted by the worst horse on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:54:00 PST