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Greg

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

About Me



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"It takes strength to love, simply because it takes strength to stand exposed without armor, open to the needs of others. The ability to stand open to love is a sort of heroism." -Ernest Becker

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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel.

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"Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom." - Raoul Vaneigem .

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Trial "Are These Our Lives?"

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"You wear smartypants and you're charismatic and charming and pretty much just awesome" - Tia Renee

My Interests

healing • connection • desire • passion • courage

between earth and sky • communicating ideas, issues, feelings • throwing and catching things • letting go • being vegan and straight edge and afraid of zombies • http://2b1s.org/ • thai food • ninjas • apple computers • and of course, The Beast

I'd like to meet:


1. Ernest Becker .

2. V . Support the The SHAC 7!

3. Owls , lambs, and/or pandas.

4. Calm. Update: in process and succeeding. Thank you everyone who's helped me. I xo you so much. You know who you are.

5. Otto Rank.

6. Kevin Michael Costello: March 15 1971 - September 20 1996.

7. All of the JJ 's.

8. Nuestra Venganza.

9. Whoever has the rest of this video .

10. Blake Donner.

Music:

Between Earth and Sky • Into Another • TSUGA • Hudson River School • The Smiths • Alkaline Trio • Immortal • Wait in Vain • Dimmu Borgir • Bohren and Der Club of Gore • Die Young • Parallax (RIP) • Catharsis • Trial • Year of the Rabbit • Kingdom • Rise Against • Morrissey • xRepresentx • Nightwish • Gravemaker • but more than anything else: silence.

Movies:

Man on Wire • Forgiveness • Ghosts of Rwanda • Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony • Flight From Death • The Legacy Project • The Philosopher Kings • Why We Fight • The Corporation • Invisible Children • Day of the Dead • The Big Lebowski • The Usual Suspects • Requiem for a Dream • Apocalypse Now • Narc • Who Killed the Electric Car? • Escape From New York • The Power of Nightmares • The Manchurian Candidate (the original) • Dawn of the Dead • Anchorman • V for Vendetta.

Television:

Metalocalypse • Arrested Development • LOST • CSI

Books:

The War of Art • Arthurian legends • Knots by RD Laing • all poetry by Pablo Neruda , The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen, Prison Memoirs of An Anarchist by Alexander Berkman, Axe Handles by Gary Snyder, short stories by Ihimaera, Shakespeare's sonnet 29 , and V For Vendetta by Alan Moore

Heroes:

Jake Conroy and the SHAC7 • Nelson Mandela • Mitch Hedberg • Carrie Dann and all the Western Shoshone traditionalists • Kenyatta • Howard Lyman • the vegan straightedge • MC2BALL • Borat • and all those guided by the heart

My Blog

Trial show confirmed in Chicago: April 2009

Yes...its true. I had a dozen texts today, and facebook and myspace messages about this show asking if it was rumor or real so I thought I might share what I know and then we'll all be on the same pa...
Posted by Greg on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:09:00 PST

Haiti: where nightmares and dreams collide

I just landed from Haiti, having avoided kidnapping, disease, and generally becoming dead. Thank you to everyone who wished me a safe trip. As it turns out, the US State Department memo which I'd re...
Posted by Greg on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:47:00 PST

South Africa: the intersection of violence and hope

Fourteen years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is simmering with racial tension, violence, and an undercurrent of fear. This is concurrent with a deep hope that the wave of xenophobic viole...
Posted by Greg on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:50:00 PST

The Spirit Burial Ground

Acupuncture notes from today, Seattle WA: needles into Kidney Point 24, an area across the chest that the Chinese call 'The Spirit Burial Ground':"When one has been so heavily burdened or traumatized ...
Posted by Greg on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:04:00 PST

Poland / The Legacy Project

More about The Legacy Project will be forthcoming. We'll be talking to people across North America throughout 2007, and then will be going to South Africa and South America to explore suffering and s...
Posted by Greg on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:39:00 PST

The threat of insignificance is reflected in every action...

Another rainy Seattle night. I keep expecting it will stop. Its been well over a decade now. Nature=1, Greg=0.With the recent breakup of Provo Utah's Parallax, and the subsequent demise of their la...
Posted by Greg on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:22:00 PST

4:18 am

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those "It might have been". John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)Denial is a dangerous animal. It can move secretly and make itself invisible if yo...
Posted by Greg on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:25:00 PST

We are trapped between earth and sky....

I wrote a blog entry on my band's page that talks about being human, and how the simple fact that we are alive entrenches us in deep denial both about death and about life itself. Light reading, you ...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:28:00 PST

The bridge between us...

Sometimes, the moment, the night, the words, just come together. For those who were there, I love you. For those who were courageous enough to cry from your core, I love you. For those who talked t...
Posted by Greg on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:27:00 PST

REFLECTIONS: the Seattle, London, and Budapest reunion shows

Hi Trial reunion show blog reader,Reason number 43 why you don't want to be me, aside from the fact that you wouldn't want to shave your head, hang out with mimes and hypnotists all the time, eat thai...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:41:00 PST