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claude e. sloan, jr.

.....as vital as the air we breathe..... is the love we take in and gift upon its exhale........

About Me

...like to think of myself as a romantic bohemian determined to live, love and percolate in the wellspring of creative waters....as an incurable nomad, i'm presently setting up camp in marina del rey, cali after having lived in the netherlands for the last few years....but, always, nyc will be the home-blood that colors my senses....doing the proverbial bartholomew thing, i'm working with my dear friend, Rochelle, in helping to run her mortgage company and her film company (she gives new meaning to the word multi-tasking), associate producing a documentary on major shifting in global consciousness, attending to several artistic irons-in-the-fire with my roomies/creative co-horts, Michael Raye and Kris(Soulraye) and writing, writing, writing... for the stage, for the song...for my soul...most passionately, i'm continuing a long, profoundly blessed journey with my friend/my muse...my mystical,marvel, M , and our guruguide, Zod (aka James P. Nichols) creating otherworld musical/magical/mayhem for the eyes and ears of the world ( keep your telescopes sighted... coming into your orbit real soon)... at the core, i'm simply thankful for my tribe, my family, my Sis/Karen (the love that keeps my feet somewhere near the ground) my nephew/Jarrett, Sky Sierra, Daniel ....thankful for the exciting, surprising, perplexing but always enriching gifts that each new day and experience brings to my unfolding...................to known ones and strangers alike........welcome to my caravan................MySpace URL: http://www.myspace.com/marcofh.. width="425" height="350" ..

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

...folk who, in small ways or large, are honing and gifting their talents to help bring more beauty, compassion and loving justice into the world.....change agents....my destined one... u....http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.indiv idual &VideoID=19802563.. width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .. .. width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" ..http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vidsindividua l&VideoID=19802563

Music:

M / skin / rachelle ferrell/ soulraye/ la nouba/ miche braden/ gene-o/ sandra st. victor/ the family stand/ joyce "baby jean" kennedy/ mother's finest/chaka/ ashling cole/ dionne farris/ grace jones/ kevin anthony/ sdoun/ heather headley/ lillias white/ bessye scott/ jenny burton/ annie lennox/ tool/ aria/ portised/bemshi/ nona hendryx/ traffic/ betty davis/ diamonda galas/ laurie anderson/ kathleen battle/ nina simone/ cheryl pepsi riley/ ella fitzgerald/ nat king cole/ martha redbone/ martha washington/ DEZibelle/ maxaynne/ bjork/ cree summers/ melba moore/ P-Funk/ mary,mary/ prince/ anastacia/ julia fordham/ sophia ramos/ kylie minogue/ evanescence/ abby dobson/ kraftwork/ stolen babies/ toni smith/ stephanie mcKay/ patti/ labelle/ raul midion/ edible red/ charisse/ rashaan patterson/ toshi reagon/ sarah vaughn/ orlando marin/ heavy merge/ billy eckstine/ billy cobham/ herbie hancock/ sheila e./ the soundtrack to "cowboy be-bop"/ dinah washington/ arthur prysock/ tuck & patti/ aw, shit...who else?....anything/one that vibes thru my ears and moves my soul...

Movies:

the lion in winter (original)...happiness...memento...down in the delta....liquid sky (though after subsequent viewings, i think it was the lsd )....the hunger... mixed blood...requiem for a dream (ellen burstyn was robbed)... altered states.... coffy...warning sign... bullets over broadway...sophie's choice...last house on the left.... whatever happened to baby jane... keeper of the flame....promises...sometimes in april...hotel rwanda

Television:

law & order: svu...cnn...fox ( to be informed by and about the other)...mad tv...house...project runway...

Books:

"left to tell" by immaculee illibagiza... anywhere that words flow from the mind-pen of n'tozake shange....my journal...

Heroes:

my parents....determined mothers around the world....nurturing fathers... folks who think outside the box...folks who never even knew there was a box... gandhi....malcolm/john/martin/bobby ... nelson... mother theresa ( shouldn't she be on everyone's list?)... n'tozake shange.... dna (somebody passed u the torch, my brother!)...all those who use their talents to shape a more sustainable, compassionate world.........

My Blog

new day dawnin' ?

o.k. 'merica.... you 'wake yet? ....new day done dawned.....the ousted chirren took back the playground....but is it an old/new/back-again-y'all! guard with same 'ol corporo-thing jus' gussied up in h...
Posted by claude e. sloan, jr. on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:54:00 PST