living life
as though it
was art.
to create
a rational
exurbarant
masterpiece filled
with beauty, compassion,
purpose, love. to have
it not littered with
too much madness
of my own
or others, to have
it only sprinkled
with the great decay
of the backwash of
Modern Man's
forgetfullness and
distracted corrupt
selfishness without noble
purpose, or even a
glimpse of
beauty.
erotica
& fetishes
I can believe in....
even breathe
within and
evoke
pleasure from
beyond the reality
of our day to day......
to feel
feel feel the
connection of
myself with another,
have it expressed
thru feeling my flesh
with their's........to create and to believe
in creating and to hold
meaning in that creation......
and not in destruction.....what is life but
something
one is
to live,
so live...
I believe we are all just looking for, longing for.... in this age... some sort of real connection to others, so we don't feel as truly alone.I'm looking for people I can feel. People who are willing to fight for and believe in Love. Slaves to purpose of beauty in any and all its forms from art to creating poetry to being a good lover to being a good mother to challenging political social problems....
WHO I'D LIKE TO HANG OUT WITH:
...if time and death and
their fame and my lackthereof where not a factor:
I'll be adding more to this as more come to mind... but Ram Dass
(his book BE HERE NOW was a big influence on me in high school)
Allen Ginsberg
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
(Cat's Cradle is one of my favorite books of all time)
Marcel Duchamp
(this guy's art is still changing the future of art)
Jasper Johns
Andy WarholRobert Rauschenberg
Jackson Pollok
Judy Chicago
Bruce Nauman
Yoko Ono
(she did art? actually she WAS ALREADY
a VERY POPULAR fluxus artist before she met John Lennon)Maya Ying Lin
(she designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC at age 21!)
"We all want something beautiful"
-Adam Duritz ( Counting Crows )
Sigur Ros,
death cab for cutie,
Mahavishnu Orchestra,
the pixies,
cloud cult,
THE CURE,
mum,
brand new day,
my american heart,
avett brothers
Prince,
black tape for a blue girl,
Dead Can Dance,
denali,
niyaz,
leather strip
engine down,
Sonic Youth,
dresdon dolls,
a perfect circle,
fear of god,
RADIOHEAD,
cranes,
Fugazi,
blur,
the immortal lee county killers 3,
Sex Pistols,
ramones
dead kennedys,
flying saucer attack...
the Doors,
Leonard Cohen
beastie boys
(always on vacation)
Stevie Wonder, NIN,
elbow, geezer lake,
the beatles,
the mars volta, coldplay,
slayer, amber asylum,
des ark,
margot and the nuclear so and so's
love spirals downward,
DJ Shadow, the faint,
possible playground,
dashboard confessional,
thursday, AFI, taking back sunday,
funeral for a friend, modest mouse,
senses fail, thursday, vast,
elliot smith, led zepplin, notwist
bjork, voltaire, Hank Williams,
Hank III, thrice,
my bloody valentine,
black sabbath, hotel motel,
tori amos, ani difranco,
GUNS N' ROSES,
portishead, Interpol,
Jeff Buckley, Ours, Lush,
Muse, NIRVANA, the flaming lips,
poe, Skinny Puppy,
Depeche Mode, Madonna,
velvet underground, The Postal Service
GODSPEED! you black emperor...
jimi hendrix, john lennon,
otis redding, ray charles,
marvin gaye, marilyn manson,
Alice In Chains,
SMASHING PUMPKINS,
maroon 5, red hot chilli peppers,
incubus, audioslave, TOOL,
Fontomas
pink floyd, led zeppelin,
the rolling stones, pantera,
anthrax, ozzy osbourne,
metallica,
deftones
AC/DC
testament, megadeth
sepultera, sevendust,
joy division,
jane's addiction,
white zombie,
morbid angel
the hives, the killers,
the strokes, the vines,
the white stripes,
the misfits
kmfdm,
type o negative,
duran duran,
the smiths,
lamb, massive attack,
fiona apple,
norah jones, sade,
aphex twin
the clash, no doubt,
311, weezer, dinasour jr,
green day
jack off jil, frou frou
run dmc,
the chemical brothers,
rage against the machine,
circle jerks, dropkick murphys,
london after midnight, bauhaus,
the arcade fire,
sarah mclaughlin,
sisters of mercy,
operation ivy, rancid,
beck, cake, primus, Ed Harcourt,
jump little children, warrior soul,
Kraftwerk....
Juno, The Motorcycle Diaries, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, the 5th Element, The Nightmare Before Christmas, True Romance, Eternal Sunshine on the sPotless Mind, Friday, the modern adaptations of Hamlet... Romeo & Juliet, the Godfather I-III, A Clockwork Orange, PULP FICTION!, Spiderman, Spiderman II, Batman (the 1st, by Tim Burton), Batman Begins (the new one), X-Men, X-Men 2... the Devil's Rejects... Anchorman.... Zoolander, Office Space.... Dogma, Clerks... SLC Punk, Basquit, Amelia!
KILL YOUR TELEVISION. IT'S LYING TO YOU.
I tend to find biographies of artists, poets or physicists all to be rather interesting.... memoirs from presidents...
what else?
BE HERE NOW by Ram Dass
Generally I love books on art history, the impossibility of reality, the analyzation of spiritual yearnings, transcendentialists' texts, collections of poetry (many I find worthy of fire), books on permaculture, gardening... books on tribal cultures, books on religions past and present, most anything from Charles Bukowski
Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha.... No shit, I'm not kidding. Not too many measure up, including myself. But I do believe we should all attempt to evolve to the best self we can be given our place in time and our birth and out range of changes and chances.