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Mr. Nick Jones

Man is the crystalized potentiality of existence.' - Martin Buber

About Me

I thrive when I create. I usually have more than one project going my ongoing war against the nothing. Of course that nothing is the nihilistic nothing and not the shunyata nothing. I welcome the fertile void in order to fill it again. I love learning new things. Currently I'm the piano/synth player for Room 101. .. make
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My Interests

Music, Theatre, Art, Creating, Writing, Zen Koans, Laughter, Absurdity, Surdity, High Brow smashing into Low Brow, Madness that keeps insanity in check, Blake, Ginsberg, Rilke, Dancing, epiphanies and eurekas...Life itself.

I'd like to meet:

People who can hold a good conversation, people who enjoy being who they are despite their foibles. People who are genuine. People who are funny and can appreciate a prat fall as well as wordplay.

People who know how to have a great time and let themselves go. People who strive to balance the horses of reason and passion that drive their inner chariot and don't kill or maim either horse.

Music:

Beethoven, TOOL, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, Firewater, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Tori Amos, Berlioz, Mozart, Mr. Bungle, Nick Cave, Muse, Daniel Knox, Portishead, Enigma, Gogol Bordello, Bl00d, Faith No More, Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, Army of Darkness, The Crow, Strange Days, The Matrix, From Dusk Till Dawn, Amelie, Braveheart, Lost in Translation, Ghostbusters, Naked Gun, Hudson Hawk, Fight Club, Scent of a Woman, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Iron Monkey, A Clockwork Orange and many many more

Television:

Family Guy, Seinfeld, Coupling (BBC version), Simpsons

Books:

The Brother's Karamazov, Skinny Legs and All, Les Miserables, Crime and Punishment, Narcissus and Goldmund, Faith of a Heretic, Steppenwolf, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, The World as Will and Representation, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Alchemist, The Prophet, Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Seagull, I and Thou, Tao te Ching, Shutterbabe, Mist and many more

Heroes:

Bruce Campbell, Dostoyevsky, Miguel de Unamuno, Socrates, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Hesse

My Blog

Will & Faith

In order for any creative act to occur there must be a meeting of Will & Faith.  Not faith as in faith in a god or gods, but faith in the project or work being created.  Faith that a vi...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:10:00 PST

Room 101's First Show

I'm excited!  Room 101, the band I've been working with as keyboard player for about a year now, is performing this Saturday in West Lafayette, Indiana.  It has been a lot of hard work that ...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:45:00 PST

Origin of Agnosticism

First a quote.  This is from T.H Huxley, the man who coined the term agnosticism.  "When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist or a pan...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:51:00 PST

A Koan interpretation

A monk told Joshu, "I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me." Joshu asked, "Have you eaten your rice porridge? The monk replied, "I have eaten." Joshu said, "Then you had better wash your b...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:05:00 PST

Good feeling

I actually woke up and wanted to face the day this morning.  It could be that I finally have begun the process of transforming the sun room that I have in my apartment into a space more conducive...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:49:00 PST

More Beethoven's 9th Ecstatic Outpourings

My God. MY GOD! MY GOD! This is bliss beyond words. The bliss that sings out of my brain... He was deaf...yet felt compelled to celebrate joy, but a joy that was aware of suffering. "Be embraced ye mi...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:06:00 PST

Insight for the day

Use reason to create a conduit for your passion and, of course build it passionately.    ...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:24:00 PST

A Brief Reflection on Creativity

There's nothing mystical about it.  Well, other than the idea of sacred geometry or something.  The story I'm writing is coming alive.  It's almost like an algorithm of concepts and cha...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:55:00 PST

2 quotes

"My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live." -Miguel de Unamuno "Live the questions" -Rainer Maria Rilke  ...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:37:00 PST

One of my favorite Cartoon Duels

The magic phrase duel Count Blood Count reveals himself to be a vampire ("I am a vampire!"). Bugs Bunny says "abracadabra" and becomes an umpire (Oh yeah? Well, abracadabra. I'm an umpire!"). The C...
Posted by Nick Jones the First on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:35:00 PST