Reading, writing, getting calluses from this old house, going to the park with my daughter, perusing vinyl, corn on the cob, culinary detours with my wife, mountainbiking,hiking, , impeaching bush Bronx cheers, subverting pedagogical institutions, brushing up on Sunstone, attaining immediate nostalgia, and stealing rocks from roadside construction piles to name a few...anything to resucitate the soul.
John Coltrane Colin Wilson, St. Augustine, Madame Blavatsky , Quetzelcotl, Judas, Jon Stewart, MLK, Bono, Sylvia Plath (thank god i am an atheist), Alan Watts, Uncle Al a.k.a. Master Therion & A couple of Rons...
"And the sound that you're hearing is only the sound of the low spark of high heeled boys...""She blew my nose and then she blew my mind..."And then there's Ray:
"Five thousand years of a beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Kofax, you're damn right I'm living in the past!!!"
It's all drivel.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole, The New Existentialism - Colin Wilson, The Gospel According to the Son - Norman Mailer, Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry, The Bell Jar - I wish I could have persuaded her otherwise, Anything by Ian McEwan, The Giver - Lois Lowry (different book each time) Anything by Rollo May, Octavio Paz, Alan Watts, Neil Postman, Castaneda, Hesse, Regardie.
NYPD, FDNY, Wilfred Brimley, Alex Jones (Google and think about WTC 7), Ram Das, David Ray Griffin, Unions, Gangleboo, Michael Vale, Che, Lewis Mumford, Uncle John, Jorge Posada, and of course - mom & dad.Links:
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