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Gnastique

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About Me

An Iconoclastic Adventurer seeking kindred spirits.I like Circles, more than Squares.I think outside the box, I'm very tactile, and, I'm a non-linear multitasker.I love all Critters (except fire ants) & I consider Nature to be my Church.I've got a black lab experiment named Zeel.Dogs and children always love me.I'm kind of a geek & a Macintosh Maven.I'm very creative with playtime.I love being outdoors, especially in the water, and I know all of the best swimmin holes.I believe there is more to drumming - than just music!I'm organized and chaotic, simulteaneously.I'm the kind of free radical that is actually good for you!I'm optimistic and tend to make others feel good about themselves. I can be funny, spontaeneous, & often a wee-bit wacky.I always drink alot of water. Fine coffee is my 2nd favourite drug.I'm a very loyal friend - with a sharp & playful tounge.I'm also found @ Yahoo IM: Gnastique

My Interests

Peace, Love, Justice, Freedom, Spiritual Growth, Fresh Air, Pure Water, Community Building, Abraham-Hicks, Black Dogs, Music, Percussion, Drumming, iPods, Apple Inc., Photography, Sexuality, Alternative Architecture, Green Building, Native Texas Plants, Alternative Health, Pyrotechnics, Rocketry, Trebuchets, Big Fires, Washers, Swimming, Kayaking, Snorkeling, Scuba, Skiing (snow & water) Mountain Biking, Trompin', Politics, NFL, Rainbow Gatherings, Burning Man, Cake and many other Assorted Geekeries.mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" src="http://lads.myspace.com/slides/slideshow_random.swf?u=6 574749" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="426" height="320"

I'd like to meet:

Those with excellent and diverse musical sensibilities.Passionate people! Free Souls! All Those who are interested in Liberty & Sovereignty, or Hicks (Bill or Abraham)You might teach me something new, or share some music / art / ideas.You might blow my mind with your imagination.You are sane (mostly) & not too bitter.You love trees and dislike at least one Bush.You practice all 3 of the classic greek loves (i.e. Philia, Agape, and Eros) every once in a while.Possibly a good friend.Maybe even a brilliant, empowered & kind woman?You might be a Modern Primitive. Can you operate comfortably in both worlds? You care about what is happening on our planet, & in your own neighborhood.You enjoy reading, and you may have read Thomas Friedman or Abraham-HicksYou've got something good to share with the world... And you DO IT!

Music:

Duke Ellington once said "there are only TWO kinds of Music - Good Music & bad music"!So here's some of what i think is good...Anything West African, Bill Laswell, Miles, Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Peter Gabriel, Skerik, Atash, Audioslave, Me'shell Nedegeocello, The (Funky) Meters, The Nevilles, Stanton Moore Willie, Ben Harper, Bad Livers, Caetano Veloso, New Bohemians, Babatunde Olatunji, Machito, Tool, Marvin Gaye, Grupo Fantasma, P-Funk-a-Delic, Norah Jones, Lady Day, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Beatles, Ozomatli, Ali Farka Toure, Scratch Acid, the Lotions, Dead Kenny G's, Afro-Deliques, Asylum Street Spankers, Bloque, molotov, Fela Kuti, Patrice Pike, Lucinda Williams, Toni Price, Gabrielle Roth, K & D, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, Trouble Funk, Peter Tosh, Ray Charles, Robert Johnson, Lenny Kravitz, Hairy Apes BMX, Critters Buggin, Polyphonic Spree, Baaba Mal, Material, Curtis Mayfield, Galactic, Gilberto Gil, Joni Mitchell, King Crimson, Earl Harvin, Mike Dillon, BillyGoat, Buddy Holly, Timbalada, Carlinos Brown, Olodum, Marisa Monte, Tony Price, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, James Brown, Al Green, Black Frames, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bloque, Sadhappy, Charlie Parker, Howlin Wolf, The Rolling Stones, Fletcher Henderson, Leon Redbone, Kurt Cobain, Robbie Robertson & Red Road Ensemble, the Latin Playboys, Los Lobos, The Who, Mastica, War, Talvin Singh, Mickey Hart, Nick Drake, Ella Fitzgerald, Medeski Martin & Wood, Dean Martin, Hank Williams I & III (not II), Atash, the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Mamady Kieta, Ladjii Camara, Hard Bop, Afro-Cuban, Bossa Nova, Led Zeppelin, Los Lonely Boys, Garage a'Tois, Charles Mingus, Mongo Santamaria, Django Rheinhardt, Patato Valzez, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Zappa, Art Blakey, Dead Can Dance, Bad Livers, Samba, Batucada, Bloque, DDT, Shake Russell & Dana Cooper, Velvet Revolver, poi dog pondering, Zakir Hussain, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Hamza El Din, Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, David Byrne, Jacob Fred Jazz Oddysey, BrightShadow, & Cottonmouth Texas. Not any band that SPAM's my MYspace account!

Movies:

Goodfellas, Clearcut, Once Upon a Time in America, American Beauty, the new Bill Hicks DVD, Pulp Fiction, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Harder They Come, The Secret, Traffic, Casablanca, the Usual Suspects, American Splendor, Adaptation, American History X, City of God, Unforgiven, Shawshank Redemption, Touch of Evil, Shane, Down by Law, Casino, On the Waterfront, Groundhog Day, Blood Simple, Once upon a time in the west, Quilombo, E tu mama tambien, Cinema Paradisio, the Godfathers I & 2, (not 3!) Magnolia, High Fidelity, Kill Bill v 1 & 2, the Incredibles, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Harold & Maude, Raising Arizona, all chuck Jones animated cartoons (like bugs bunny & the road runner) The Last Record Store.

Television:

6 feet Under, Sopranos, Band of Brothers, Deadwood, Curb your Enthusiasm, St. Elsewhere, Meet the Press, Crossfire, NOW, Frontline, Nova, Austin City Limits, Lost, MythBusters, the Wire, or anything produced by Ken Burns

Books:

The Laws of Attraction, Blink, the Tipping Point, The Shield of Achilles, Collapse, The World Is Flat, Food of the Gods, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Awakening Spirits, the Tracker, The Trend Commandments, Boogie Man, The Four Agreements, Thieves in High Places, Dr. Suess - From Then to Now, Benjamin Franklin, Oxymoronica, Mammal in the Mirror, Prometheus Rising, Comanches, David Sedaris, Groovin High, Cadillac Desert, Lone Star, Guns Germs & Steel, Crazy Horse, Archimedes Bathtub, Grandfather, Backyard Ballistics, A Pattern Language, The Erotic Comedies, Malcontents, Ishmael, A Love Supreme, Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Dude Who stole my country?, Big Book of Knots, and Sneeches!

Heroes:

Dr. Suess, Mark Twain, Buddha, Bill Hicks, Sitting Bull, Leonardo DaVinci, Thelonious Monk, Jesus, Babatunde Olatunji, Max Roach, Sun Tzu, Frank Zappa, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Johnson, Henry Adams, Nicolai Tesla, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Mohammad, Crazy Horse, Milt Hinton, Sam Houston, Amadaeus Mozart, Lord Krishna, Johnny Cash, Theodore Roosevelt, Anais Nin, Miles Davis, Sun Bear, John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln, Brett Farve, John Wesley Powell, Ray Charles, Ghengis Khan, John Coltrane, Tom Landry, Richard Pryor,Oh, d'ya mean Live ones?...Well then:George Carlin, Bill Clinton, Bill Parcells, Tom Brown Jr., Nicholas Negroponte, Russell Means, Jared Diamond, Steve Gadd, Don Miguel Ruiz, Wesley Clark, Susie Bright, Charlie Rose, Christiane Amanpour, Guy Kawasaki, Noam Chomsky, Amory Lovins, Emmitt Smith, Ken Burns, Steve Jobs, Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Anton Wilson, Malcom Gladwell, Thomas Friedman, Bill Maher, Mark Reisner, Anthony Robbins, Al Franken, Ry Cooder, Peter Gabriel, Carlinhos Brown, Caetano Veloso, Richard Branson, Thomas Friedman, Kinky Friedman, my DAD & Zeel the Wunderdog.
Bob Dylan.... You speak about social issues, but it's somewhat
hard to understand you.
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My Blog

Free Tibet? Hell, lets free America first!

I know I know I know - we don't exactly have huge platoons of nasty jackbooted soldiers storming through the streets in riot gear and gas masks and large sticks bashing down on the shiny heads of peac...
Posted by Gnastique on Tue, 06 May 2008 05:43:00 PST

Suzanna Choffel's Band is still my new Favorite!

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Posted by Gnastique on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:23:00 PST

THE ORGASMIC ROOTS OF PRONOIA - Rob Brezny

Any young man who’s serious about becoming a good lover must early in the game confront a demoralizing truth about the difference between the male and female orgasms. If there were no other evid...
Posted by Gnastique on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:28:00 PST

How to hate Barack Obama

Right now, deep in the GOP dungeons, they're planning their racist, disgraceful assault. Whatever will it be?The name thing is just too damn easy. Childish, sophomoric, a given. Of course, this does...
Posted by Gnastique on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:30:00 PST

Musicians Actually getting paid? ~ Read how here:

Way Behind The MusicFor John Legend, Gwen Stefani, and hundreds of other talents, Musictoday is the invisible machine keeping fans pumped and the money rolling in.From: Issue 112 | February 2007 | Pag...
Posted by Gnastique on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:00:00 PST

The woman vs. the black guy

Who's more terrifying to red states, smart Hillary or savvy Barack? It's the question everyone seems to want to address, the imponderable and frightening and slightly insane sociopolitical phenomenon ...
Posted by Gnastique on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:00:00 PST

If you are a musician or you love music - read this article

-snip- What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be ov...
Posted by Gnastique on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:57:00 PST

Black Friday - Americas most obscene shopping day!

Is this why they hate us? Why we hate ourselves? Is this why we seem to have no real idea who the hell we are anymore, or what it means to have a humane and thoughtful national identity, and therefore...
Posted by Gnastique on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:11:00 PST

Black Necked Garter Snake

I love being outside you neve know what your gonna see. Today this snake was hunting. I saw a large somthing being dragged through the grass. as I approached it. I saw the Black Necked Garter Sna...
Posted by Gnastique on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:18:00 PST

RARE LIVE SHOW ALERT! - The Dead Kenny Gs

RARE LIVE SHOW ALERT! - The Dead Kenny G's10.3.7 (next Wed) @ Stubbs in Austin TX! http://www.myspace.com/thedeadkennygsthe Dead Kenny G's is what happens when people are influenced by Art Ensemble of...
Posted by Gnastique on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:25:00 PST