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dave

Sleepy-head

About Me


My socks read "no nonsense."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." ~ Baha'u'llah

"Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you ... For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end." ~ Erwin Schrödinger

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein

My Interests



I firmly believe there is an ultimately grand, bizarre and creative force constantly at work in and around all we know.

I spend an inordinate amount of time playing guitar, piano, and experimenting with different musical forms.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

a brief excursion:rachmaninoff, the roots, squarepusher, of montreal, stereolab, phish, the beatles, talking heads, mahavishnu orchestra, mmw, grateful dead, jgb, jacob fred jazz odyssey, the duo, the flaming lips, mr. bungle, sun ra, fela kuti, dave brubeck, the allman bros, pink floyd, john scofield, bill frisell, stravinsky, velvet underground, django, varese, king crimson, chopin, bach, the olivia tremor control, zepp, kraftwerk, coltrane, miles davis, radiohead, tony rice, bb king, muddy waters, chick corea, zappa, thelonius monk, charles mingus, charlie "bird" parker, dizzy, jj cale, brian eno



Movies:

dig::

braveheart
almost famous (there is still time for you to become a person of substance, russell..)
shawshank redemption
finding nemo (righteous! righteous!)
forrest gump
pulp fiction
an inconvenient truth
sicko
easy rider
amelie
the wall
rounders
fight club
the godfather parts I and II
spaceballs
big
pink floyd: live in pompeii
fearless freaks

intelligent, honest, witty, humorous, deep, bittersweet

Television:

Cultural anaethesia.

Books:

dig:::

basic readings of nietzsche
confessions of an economic hitman
a man without a country
godel, escher, bach
lord of the rings
1984
the kite runner
the doors of perception
darwin's black box
on the road
chaos
go ask alice
animal farm
the elegant universe
relativity
what is life?
tuesdays with morrie
the four agreements
searching for the sound
zappa
the fractal geometry of nature
garcia
the selfish gene
catch-22
the electric kool-aid acid test
the phish book
a confederacy of dunces

I'm sure there are plenty I'm forgetting.

Also,

Heroes:

Free thinkers

My Blog

RIP

A friend asks me, "what is infinity?" and I reply:We constantly delude ourselves in thinking there are boundaries. How can there be any 'boundary' to the universe when there is no frame of reference? ...
Posted by dave on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:41:00 PST

In response to Donovan's blog entry...

You articulate from inebriation that which I cannot express even on my most lucid day.The trends are scary, and the fact that so many people appear blithely oblivious to the Truth is alarming to say t...
Posted by dave on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:57:00 PST