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chromosome cowboy

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About Me

Surely this is a great part of our dignity...that we can know, and that through us matter can know itself; that beginning with protons and electrons, out of the womb of time and the vastness of space, we can begin to understand; that organized as in us, the hydrogen, the carbon, the nitrogen, the oxygen, those 16 to 21 elements, the water, the sunlight-all, having become us, can begin to understand what they are, and how they came to be...

My Interests

Permaculture, Writing, Good films, Discussing good films, Natural building, Entheogens, Quantum Entanglement, Art, Night driving down rural roads, Indigeneous cultures, S-matrix theory, Cob, Eastern Philosophy, Consciousness, Mycellium, 70's horror cinema, Theramins, Moments of audio/visual synchronized bliss.

I'd like to meet:

The Void

Music:

The Beatles, The Flaming Lips, Beck, The Walkmen, The Pixies, The Breeders, Radiohead, Andrew Bird, Tchaikovsky, Of Montreal, The Shins, Bach, Deerhoof, Caribou, Janis Joplin, George Harrison, Mozart, The White Stripes, Bob Marley, Roots Manuva, Jurassic 5, Blackalicious, GFE, The Fugees, RJ-D2, Aesop Rock, Portishead, Incubus, Modest Mouse, The Guess Who, Pink Floyd, Steve Miller Band, Old Crow Medicine Show

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Waking Life, The Science of Sleep, Across the Universe, Sunshine, Children of Men, Babel, Magnolia, Kill Bill (volumes 1 and 2), Happiness, Storytelling, Southland Tales, Natural Born Killers, No Country for Old Men, Palindromes, Into the Wild, Grizzly Man, V for Vendetta.

Television:

Carnivale, Dexter, Weeds, Dead Like Me, Tales From the Crypt and Lost.

Books:

1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Lottery, The Permaculture Way, The Joyous cosmology, The Book (Alan Watts), The Tao of physics, The Undivided Universe, The Turning Point, God and the Astronomers, An Experiment with Time, Food of the Gods, Breaking open the head, Requiem for a Dream, The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, The Politics of Experience, The self-aware universe, The Bhagavad-Gita

Heroes:

The greatest guru is the self.

My Blog

Hey. Look here. Look at what I am doing!

I hope to elude the deafening distractions of I, Me, Mine. If I strain out the specifics and boil down to context, that is all I am left with. I can sit at a drunken party or other such social occasio...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST

When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay

When coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah ! whither strays the immortal mind ? It cannot die, it cannot stay, But leaves its darkened dust behind. Then, unembodied, doth it trace By steps each plane...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:30:00 PST

The Stars are Forth.

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops of the snow-shining-mountains--Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night hath been to me a more familiar face than that of man; And in her starry ...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:02:00 PST

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in it’s roar; I love not Man less, but Nature...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:42:00 PST

Day number 7,665

Yesterday I turned 21, and on the 7,665th day here on Earth I had a memorable evening! It was a strange feeling, finally being recognized as an adult after reaching some obscure hour. Upon approa...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:33:00 PST

A dream I had

I awoke in my dream in a crib. Granted I was slightly disoriented as I realized that not only was I in a crib, but I was also in the middle of a road, and not only in the middle of the road, but in th...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:42:00 PST

I’m gonna go it alone.

I've listened, I've digested. I've heard the discontent in the longings of my friends. I've shared identical aspirations of starting a life elsewhere. There is one difference though, I've DONE it. I a...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:22:00 PST

Away from Now

It is during these moments of the mundane, of last nights follies casting shadows over now's absurdities, that I live solely in my head. I've noticed that my relationship with my best friend has begun...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:06:00 PST

Recognition of the pattern (Apathy and complacency)

It has troubled me before to no end. Today marks a turning point and the end of that which troubles me. I am absolutely through with fostering a paradigm of apathy and discontent. Actually doing somet...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:38:00 PST

They all look like ants from up here.

I have arrived at a point of stagnation, a momentary plateau on my way towards progress. I find this gives me ample time to secure my footing and admire the view, although I probably should not have p...
Posted by chromosome cowboy on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:52:00 PST