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on the road.

the world’s got me dizzy again; you'd think after 21 years I’d be used to the spin, and it only

About Me

.devlin. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked..." -Allen Ginsberg "I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.""My witness is the empty sky"“What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.””“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” -Jack Kerouac"Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries...""The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.""I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.""I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i came to die, discover that i had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did i wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary."-Henry David Thoreau "Everyman is a quotation from all his ancestors" " I believe man has been wronged; he has wronged himself. He has almost lost the light, that can lead him back to his prerogatives. Men are become of no account. Men in history, men in the world of to-day are bugs, are spawn, and are called ..the mass' and ..the herd.' In a century, in a millennium, one or two men; that is to say, — one or two approximations to the right state of every man. All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being, — ripened; yes, and are content to be less, so that may attain to its full stature. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson"Our culture has conveniently amputated the concept of spirituality from the processes of life, using it to denote a vast range of commodifiable experiences, self-help movements, and decorative ornaments." -Daniel Pinchbeck" To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dreams. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just he big scary unknown." -Chuck Palahniuck "We accept the love we think we deserve." -Stephen Chbosky

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."

Fydor Dostoevsky
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
Leo Tolstoy
"Does my voice not have wings? Yours are the only ears I wanna disco and I say "you are who i'm breathing for"."
"a love that has no past"
"And every breath we drew was Hallelujah"
words fail to encompass thought

Books:

On the Road, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Bear v. Shark, The Songlines, Globalization and its Discontents, The Tree of Yoga, 1776, Dharma bums, Motorcycle Diaries, Siddartha,The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Into the Wild, 1984, Doors of Perception, Brave New World, El Salvador, Hiroshima, Invisible Landscapes, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, High and Wild, The Lorax, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Stranger, A Brief Tour of Human Conciousness, Oh The Thinks you can Think!, Edge of the Earth Corner of the Sky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Eiger Dreams, The Tao of Physics, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, In Patagonia, A Million Little Peices, Dumbing Down our Kids, Song of the Dodo, Into Thin Air, Flight of the Iguana, Dominion of War, The Future of Life, etc.

i own Finnegan's Wake!

Heroes:

there are a few people who greatly intrigueand inspire me that are saddly no longer with us-in no particular order: Tyler Durden, Gandhi, Galen Rowell, Emerson, Thoreau, Jesus, reardon, Siddhartha Gautama,Sokaku Takeda, James Morrison, Marcia Conklin, Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, God, John Lennon, Ishi, Padmasambhava, Albert Einstein, Terrence McKenna, Robert Frost, Poe, etc.

My Blog

in search of an interior landscape

a lot of the time we seek ourselves. some of us look within and think that we'll see something, but that always seemed as usefull as looking into space to do my hair and check for pimples. i'm not say...
Posted by on the road. on Thu, 15 May 2008 02:55:00 PST

What would Jean-Luc Picard do?

new climb at the ranch.... 5.10d/5.11amy blogs have become a lil trivial. lol
Posted by on the road. on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:53:00 PST

i'm out..

.surprise?
Posted by on the road. on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:54:00 PST

lost in home

"You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff tha...
Posted by on the road. on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:37:00 PST

200,000 miles

my car has hit 200,000. thanks to all of those who have taken part in the mileage and heres to another 200,000 (to achieve the impossible we must think the impossible). and im sorry you weren't in th...
Posted by on the road. on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:44:00 PST

pregnant women, whisky, and a suitcase

   its weird, i´ve have seen more pregnant women during 15 minutes of shopping than in a year back in california, no joke, every other women, maybe two thirds are pregnant... such a mas...
Posted by on the road. on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:58:00 PST

beatific

el Chaltén beat    beatific        beatificationi got it, it is it, we´re it, that´s it, here´s it, i saw it, don´t you see it, it che....
Posted by on the road. on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:37:00 PST

T minus one month.

just thought id write sitting in bariloche at the moment, i leave to esquel on friday and fly with the military to calafate on sunday... looking forward to it all. though, today i woke up, and missed...
Posted by on the road. on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:12:00 PST

che

New experience takes the place of vanished dreams which, like water lilies, bloom only on stangnant pools. american culture seeps through the fabric of society, a red wine stain known as progress...
Posted by on the road. on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:10:00 PST

snapshots from a reality check

spontaneous zion cascades Zion power plant monument valley mesa four corners mesa verde ...
Posted by on the road. on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:54:00 PST