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Ishmael

While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take.

About Me



My Interests

Medicine, BRAZIL, microbiology, bioelectromagnetics, genetics, mental illness, reading, imagining, dreaming, biking, Ayurveda, animals, languages, watercolors, meditation/Zikhr, microbiology, balancing on one foot, giving directions, teaching, elegies, the Renaissance, Venice, Bawa, the Prophets, Wisdom, Mysticism, Sufism, Arabic, devices that make obnoxious sounds, the word 'obnoxious', Chai, Chi Kung, Tai Chi, maintaining equilibrium, candles, the moon, yoga, holding my breath, electronic instruments, space wars, crop circles, human behaviour, synchronicities, kaleidoscopes, plants, drums, photography, ancient civilizations, oldschool hip-hop, poetry, fairy tales, abusing intercoms, children, Hari Krishnas, holograms, conspiracies, mimes, llamas, words, swimming, whispering, Ultimate Frisbee, Fictionary, puppetry, claymation, travelling, nature, hiking, Cosmology, Native Americans, Mayans, Incas, waterfalls, mythology

I'd like to meet:



An affectionate llama.

Music:

Asura
Autovon
Bach
Bardo Pond
Bauhaus
Beethoven
Bikini Kill
Blackmail
Bulgarian Women's Choir
Carbon-Based Lifeforms
Children of Nar
Covenant
Curve
David Bowie
Dead Can Dance
Depeche Mode
Digitata
DJ Shadow
Elliot Smith
Erik Satie
Front 242
Hammock
In Flames
John Lennon
Led Zeppelin
Lil Versace
Massive Attack
Melotron
mind.in.a.box
Mozart
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Neuroticfish
Nine Inch Nails
Niyaz
Placebo
Ride
Schiller
Simon & Garfunkel
Sisters of Mercy
Slowdive
Sonic Youth
Stina Nordenstam
The Beatles
The Cocteau Twins
The Cure
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Pixies
The Smiths
Thievery Corporation
This Mortal Coil
Thom Brennan
UNKLE
Wolfsheim
Zbigniew Preisner

Movies:

My favorite directors are Krzysztof Kieslowski and Emir Kusturica.
Ayurveda
WildStyle
Diva
Videodrome
Betty Blue
Julien Donkey-Boy
The Double Life of Veronika
The Decalogue
The Celebration
Eyes Wide Shut
Tokyo-ga
The Red and the White
Alice by Svankmajer
Nausicaa
My Dinner With Andre
Tetsuo the Iron Man
City of God
Pixote
Time of the Gypsies
Arizona Dream
The Conformist
Koyaanisqatsi
Metropolis
A Clockwork Orange
The Battle of Algiers
Last Year at Marienbad
Yojimbo
Delicatessen
Labyrinth
Pi
Dead Man

Television:

hardly watch any.
Seinfeld, Simpsons, Gumby, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, The State, In Living Color, Monty Python, The Young Ones, Invader Zim

Books:

Arabian Nights, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Come to the Secret Garden, My Love you My Children, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Gollum, The Bell Jar, Siddhartha, Brave New World, 1984, Trainspotting, Enough for a Million Years, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Tao of Pooh, Neuromancer, JTHM, Squee, Winnie the Pooh, Snow Crash, C.S. Lewis, Delacorta, Rumi, Hafiz, Shakespeare, Daniel Moore, Sylvia Plath, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson

Heroes:



My Blog

COLLECTIVE ENERGY

THE COLLECTIVE ENERGY GENERATED FROM THE FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, AND ATTITUDES OF THE ALMOST SIX BILLION PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET CREATES AN ATMOSPHERE, OR "CONSCIOUSNESS CLIMATE". WHEN EVENTS SUCH AS "TERRO...
Posted by Ishmael on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:11:00 PST

LLAMA pictures!!!

OHMYGODITWASSOOMUCHFUNIWANNAGOBACKNOW!!!! me, lauren, and the llamas. http://photobucket.com/albums/v391/isher/LLAMADAY/ lla·ma n. 1. A domesticated South American ruminant mammal (Lama ...
Posted by Ishmael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I like things and I don't like things

YAY: Talking about interesting things with interesting people Sunny days New people Walks on dirt and not concrete green things and not grey things Not being in a relationship after the last o...
Posted by Ishmael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Maps of Reality

Maps of Reality by Assemblage 23 I suppose in your mind you believe you were right That the matter doesn't rest heavy on your shoulders But be careful of the ones you wish to indict Blame is ...
Posted by Ishmael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

JABBERWOCKY

JABBERWOCKY by Lewis Carroll Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Beware the Jabberwock, my son! ...
Posted by Ishmael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A list.

GRRR: mosquito bites acne traffic 8 hour/day flourescent lighting loud phones cops on my tail patriotism allergies corporate domination polluted air mini-skirts SUVs Aspartame MSG dig...
Posted by Ishmael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

An interesting morning tradition.

My newfounded tradition as of late has been, on my way to work, pointing at and then proceeding to give a very noticable Thumbs Down to the old guy on the side of the road by West Chester Pike with a ...
Posted by Ishmael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Trauma Last Night

So after I come home from my new job, Crash!, I slip on my rugged stairs, fall on my left arm, hitting the nerve, causing severe pain, as my full glass of water splashes all over me. MY arm was prett...
Posted by Ishmael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST