being the fool that i am. surprising myself. love. manufacturing marbles from molecules. creating songs. painting designs with energy, emotion and colors. performing arts: dance, film, weird or good theater, and music. perfomer of butoh, ballet, bhangra and art-meets-fashion shows. martial arts & capoeira: breakdancing and the tango combined. astrologer. traveler across dimensions. once-upon-a-time cab driver. translator and interpreter. writer. speak chinese, french, swedish, spanish, danish, bulgarian and german. like to pretend-sing chinese opera or emulate lata mangeshkar ("the voice of India"). student and maestro. children. people. light and contrasts.
fools
limited and not limited to this realm. otherwise, to taste: international and domestic 60's and 70's tv and film music, middle eastern, indian, chinese opera, european opera, serge gainsbourg, Kim Larsen (from Denmark), lady krishna's peppermint lounge, joshua burgett, Nick Drake, Bob Marley, The Smiths, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, kexp and kbcs, mature music, lata mangeshkar, various int'l hiphop esp french/arab style, bbking, patsy cline, meatloaf, mariachi music, any music which mezmerizes on the wonder level, the heart level, the soul level, the physical level, aesthetic level.. music with humor and style. sultry musicians like the house band at the now defunct Bar Rostock in Varna, Bulgaria -- music that'll make you sick with fever. old school 1970's russian guitar songs. gleeful insanity music. ecstatic happiness music. plebian music as it manifests in the right moments...
Sex and Zen, Teorema, Arabian Nights, the Merchant of Four Seasons, Chinese Ghost Story, Tokyo Decadence, The Spirit of the Beehive, Erendira, Bye Bye Brazil, La Collectionneuse, Ran, The Long Twilight, The Idiots, The Music Room, The Stranger, Devi, La maman et la putain, Journal d'un cure de campagne, Belle de jour, Hiroshima mon amour, Ordet, Repulsion, Through a Glass Darkly, My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud, Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East?, Murmur of the Heart, Il Bagno Turco [Hamam], Satyricon, Tri Orisky Pro Popelku (Three Nuts for Cinderella), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, O Lucky Man, If..., Calcutta Inde Fantome, Dr. Zhivago, Return of the Valley of the Dolls, John Waters films, Xica ...
my dreams are my favorite regular television show. though whenever i watch the normal tv, it seems very foreign and exotic, and i watch it with skepticism and/or anthropological interest. though primarily i find tv psychically aggravating. as a kid i loved watching 1970's kung fu movies
stories of the taoist immortals, Dreams of the Red Chamber, Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death, W.S. Burroughs, Holderlin, Eichendorff, Goethe, G. Buchner's Lenz, Journey to the West, various by Mishima, Dazai, Rilke, Baudelaire, Boris Vian, Rabindranath Tagore, nonfiction books on spiritual technologies, cosmologies, herbology, arcane healing sciences, philosophy and cookery...
Mircea Eliade, Pier Paolo Passolini, Satyajit Ray, Gandhi, Darci Dille, Joshua Burgett and myself (shouldn't one try to be one's own hero?) I have great respect and admiration for my friends. I love my family members.