Family, music, dancing, singing, art, nature gazing, arm-chair quantum physics and cosmology, critical thinkers, sparring with my shadow, debating against my own solidity, falling apart and reassembling, satire, cheesy humor, the humanities, mythology, reading, learning, gardening, jnana yoga, hatha yoga, dreaming, poetry, photography, genealogy, chocolate chai, cold chinese food, hot baths, pendulum swinging, crossing the boundaries of perceived "reality" and busting paradigms apart, conscious evolution, kindness, finding something to appreciate in everyone, sincerity, integrity, freedom of information/freedom of inquiry
Namaste.
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I'd like to meet:
I don't care if you're super-educated, artsy, glamorous, sassy, progressive, uber-hip, fabulous, or any combination and variant of these or none. I just hope you're doing your best to get by in this life with some sort of open awareness...
I like people who communicate in a direct manner. I especially like straight-talkers who know how to be truthful without being hurtful (it is possible, ya know). I don't like hint-droppers. If I suspect you're playing the hint game with me, chances are I won't bite until you come straight out and say whatever it is. Don't make me guess or assume what's on your mind. Ick.
Music:
If the universe is made of vibrations, then music is my religion: TOOL, Jane's Addiction, The Mars Volta, The Melvins, Porno for Pyros, NIN, APC, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, FNM, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dog Fashion Disco, Soulfly, Danny Elfman, Primus, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Tricky, Peter Murphy, Siouxie, Love and Rockets, Slayer, Meshuggah, OTEP, Queens of the Stone Age, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Sepultura, Isis, Dead Can Dance, Vas, Machines of Loving Grace, Cibo Matto, Collide, Switchblade Symphony, PJ Harvey, Lovage, Cardiacs, Elysian Fields, Cranes, Air, Beastie Boys, Fear Factory, Prong, Ministry, Slipknot (yes, even the new stuff - it's good if you ignore their schtick), Pantera, Screaming Trees, Stravinsky, Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven.... and so many more. I'm drawing a blank. It's like when I walk into a music store and immediately forget every cd I'm interested in potentially purchasing.
Movies:
Tim Burton films, Alfred Hitchcock films, Shakespeare in Love, Spitfire Grill, Groundhog Day, The Man Who Knew Too Little, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the first Matrix, 12 Monkeys, Baraka, The Royal Tennenbaums, Bottlerocket, Flirting With Disaster, Zoolander, Lost in Translation, A Verticle Ray of the Sun, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, South Park, Ghost in the Shell, Quills, I Love You to Death, almost anything with Cary Grant...
Television:
South Park, Deadwood, Lost, The Daily Show and Colbert Report (if I can stay awake), some History Channel stuff (if it's not sensationalized bullshit), Travels in Europe with Rick Steves, Lonely Planet/Globe Trekker (Justine and Ian rule)
Books:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, The Gospel of Mary Magdaline, The Gnostic Bible (an anthology), All Amy Tan, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Pronoia by Rob Brezsny, The Televisionary Oracle by Rob Brezsny, The Bible (the book of Genesis, in particular), The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilber, The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Bhagavad Gita, The Tao Te Ching, Imajica by Clive Barker, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, A River Sutra by Gita Mehta, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, The Power of Compassion by The Dalai Lama, I Am That by Swami Muktananda, The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (saved my life), Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien, Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss... good lord, too many more to list!
Heroes:
My mom and my auntie M... also anyone (whether mythical or "real") with the courage to challenge the status quo and push for evolution of the World Mind ~~~ Buddha, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Ken Wilber, Emma Goldman, Dr. MLK Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, The Dalai Lama, Leonardo da Vinci, Eliot Rosewater...
