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Maestro Pyroclastico

Thou Shall Not Take Consciousness for Granted

About Me

To quote Henry Miller - "I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul." I am searching for the perfect salsa. I'm all about family, the job, the mail, the craft, the Buffalo wings, The Middle Pillar, the green lawn , the bike, the new existentialism, crop circles in my garden, the Mayan Calendar, bridging the gap between the real and the ideal, using humor as a sald dressing, raising a glass with friend or foe to Dionysus, Apollo, and Don Knotts , resurrecting John Candy, and making work and play one and the same. I am waiting for the new anthem. The menu is not the meal. The map is not the territory. A = ~A. I am waiting for the better hot sauce. Jet liners fly by as we read this. Someone is sleeping. Clouds. Myspace Backgrounds

My Interests

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.

I'd like to meet:

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...

Music:

"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:

Movies:

"Five thousand years of a beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Kofax, you're damn right I'm living in the past!!!"

Television:

It's all drivel.

Books:

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.

Heroes:

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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My Blog

Stay the course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZE20lzZZF0 The comedy is outrageous.
Posted by Maestro Pyroclastico on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:33:00 PST