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A-Train

I can see my house from here!

About Me

Aspiring Synchronicity Surfer... Mystical Witness... Slack Generator... Fire Builder and Tender... Aroused by the Cosmic Strip-Tease, Uh Huhhh mmm hmmm... Sitting on a big rock, dappled in leafy shade next to cascading waters, smoking from a thick glass pipe... Verbose... Equipped with an over-all panda shape and texture---must be my Yeti ancestry... Porno-name: Duke Chamberlain.

My Interests


.. ....De-Programming...Self-Programming...Collecting audio and mixing it into a synchronistic blend called A-Train's Psychedelic Sidetracks... Identifying and Eating indigenous plants...Un-Licensed Radio Broadcasting...Drumming in Ecstasy...11:11...Cultivating a better relationship with the holographic multi-verse... Celestial Events. Meteor showers...Lunar eclipses...Sun Dogs...Moon Dogs...Moon Bows---The Divine Cosmic Dance can be glimpsed at Cumberland Falls in Kentucky during the full moon. I shit you not. (grin)_____________________________________________________

I'd like to meet:

His Crazy Horse...Robert Anton Wilson... Emma Goldman... Jehane Noujaim... Ayaan Hirsi Ali... Amira Baraka... Grant Morrison... Alex Grey... Terrence McKenna... Orson Wells... John Trudell... Bill Hicks... Peace Pilgrim... Maya Deren... Charles Fort... Jacques Vallee... Carl Jung... Wolfgang Pauli... David Bohm... Comte Saint-Germain.... Noam Chomsky... Allen Ginsberg... William S. Burroughs... Dave Chappelle... Edgar Cayce... Timothy Leary... Wavy Gravy... Woody Harrelson... Fred Alan Wolf... Daryl Hannah... Christopher Walken... a shaman with a pouch-full of ethnobotanicals ( and I do mean FULL)... ANYONE WIPING THE SLEEP FROM THEIR EYES. Those conscious beings that already have.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~http ://www.pimpmyarea.com

Music:

Just about any 'cept polka, new country and really dark stuff. I Just Need Content. Seriously. Been catching Cutthroat Shamrock recently... Goose Creek Symphony... John Hartford... Floyd... Gilmour solo...Waters solo...Robbie Robertson......John Trudell...PUSA...Taj Mahal...Peter Tosh...Cary Swinney...Hank Williams...Hank III live kicks mutherfuckin' ass...Phish---Big Cypress was a HIGH LIGHT...Jimi...Jim Morrisson...Johnny Cash... Waylon Jennings... Captain Beefheart...Colonel Bruce...Wesley Fuckin' Willis... Sam Bush... Ween... Tracey Chapman... Leonard Cohen... Tim O'Brien... The Bad Livers... Danny Barnes... Dave O'Dell...Futureman and all his kin... Bessie Smith...Zappa...Beck...Ani Difranco...Todd Snider...Bruce Hayes...King's X...Willie...George Harrisson...The Red Elvises.

Movies:

No Country for Old Men... 3:10 to Yuma... Grindhouse... Mindwalk... Domino... Waking Life... Where the Buffalo Roam... The Holy Grail (all Python,actually)... Twelve Monkeys... True Romance... Dead Man... Snatch... Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels... Pulp Fiction... Cool Hand Luke... Yellowbeard... The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly... True Stories... Love and a 45... Aliens... From Dusk 'Til Dawn... Repo Man ... The Big Lebowski... Overlords of the UFO... Memento... Shaun of the Dead... Labyrinth... Pee Wee's Big Adventure... Slacker... Donnie Darko... Ghost Dog... Into the Mouth of Madness... Kill Billz... Fight Club... Highlander...V for Vendetta... Green Mile... 2001: A Space Odyssey... 1984... The Jungle Book---the only musical I can handle... Nice Dreams.

Television:

Squidbillies...Heroes...Various Sciencey Thangs...anything I can snag some weird audio from.

Books:

The Illuminatus Trilogy... 2012 by Daniel Pynchbeck... Valis by Philip K. Dick...Dimensions by Vallee...The Golden Ratio by Livio...Peterson's Field Guides to Edible Plants and Medicinal Herbs...The Holographic Universe by Talbot...Esoteric Psychology by Alice Bailey...Hitch-Hiker's trilogy (all 4)...12th Planet by Stichin...Chaos by Gleick...The Golden Bough...The Star Thrower by Loren Eisely...Cohen's The Beyond Within...The Emerald Tablet by Hauk...Roots of Coinicidence by Koestler...Tao of Physics...Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown(took me 4 years before I could get through it)...Meadow's Earth Medicine...Ishmael and The Story of B...Anything by Robert Anton Wilson... ditto Terrence McKenna... The Crack in the Cosmic Egg ...Stuff from the Disinfo folks...Book of the Subgenius...The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny...Charles Fort's Book of the Damned...Black Elk Speaks...David Icke stuff heh heh heh...Jim Marrs' Rule by Secrecy...Animal Speak by Andrews...Bryson's Brief History of Everything...The Jamais Vu Papers...Angels and Aliens...Old dictionaries like " The Library of Universal Knowledge" 1947...Still trying to get through Ullyses

Heroes:

Hero is a loaded word--- Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek... Robert Anton Wilson... His Crazy Horse... Peace Pilgrim... Buckminster Fuller... Nikola Tesla... Every man, woman and child that questions authority as well as their own preconceptions. Helpers of the helpless.

My Blog

"My Audio Collages" or "When is a Mix-tape not a Mix-tape?"

I started recording stuff from the tv when I got my first taperecorder for Christmas of '73. Nothing too profound; just stuff. Jumping ahead about 15 years, I'm more "experienced", as Jimi might say, ...
Posted by A-Train on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:18:00 PST

Ally

Dead leaves with curled and jagged edges, brown, gold and red, chase each other in a slow-motion spiral curve within a most casual whirlwind that follows me as I walk alone up this hilly and narrow gr...
Posted by A-Train on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:44:00 PST

Counterstrike

prelude I'm watching "them" through the blinds of my bedroom window as "they" walk patrols through the neighborhood, leading the monstrosities on some kind of leash. The creatures, which look lik...
Posted by A-Train on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:16:00 PST

Hearing Her Whisper

 Pillows and cushions and blankets deeply piled... soft and warm.  Icy-silver rain splattering against mossy boulders ... adding to the rising current of the foamy creek. Flashing light and ...
Posted by A-Train on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:14:00 PST

Wet Panties

Drivin' down the road with wet pantiesI'm a drivin' down the road with wet pantiesOh, there's a damp brassiere and some boxers over hereI'm drivin' down the road with wet panties...
Posted by A-Train on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:18:00 PST

I Thought of You

 I thought of you often today, as I always do. I remembered how your piercing and its dangles felt against my palm when I caressed your flat stomach. I could almost smell the oils you'd bring to ...
Posted by A-Train on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:03:00 PST

Travels

A shallow, brackish sea recedes, leaving vast flats of layered skeletons and flood-born sand. As relentless pressures force upward and great weights push downward, the countless dead and silty sands ...
Posted by A-Train on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:35:00 PST

Recently and Not So Recently

~~~  The room is dark. She hangs restrained within a metal frame partially illuminated by flickering candles impaled upon that frame.  Silvery mirrors, held aloft by hinged metal arms, ...
Posted by A-Train on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:09:00 PST

In Beauty it is finished

House made of Dawn,House made of Dusk,Dark Cloud,Male Rain, Female Rain,I am Praying to You.Restore my feet for me.Restore my legs for me.Restore my arms for me.Restore my hands for me.Restore my body...
Posted by A-Train on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:21:00 PST

Road Trip...

PreludeA falling star left a shining trail through the wide, south Texas night. Jason watched its descent through the windshield and cleared his throat."I have a powerful feeling that my life is being...
Posted by A-Train on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:46:00 PST