THIS CENTURY WILL COMPLETELY CHANGE THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE FOR ALL LIFE FORMS AND ALL LOCATIONS. INDIVIDUALS AND CULTURES TO EXPERIENCE RADICAL CHANGES TO LIVING CONDITIONS. Greenland is already melting like butter in a frying pan. Health of body and mind, from the cell level to the planet level. Seeing a world full of processes, not things. Looking for superior paradigms with which humans can guide themselves past the developed dangers of the materialistic destructions and blindfolds. An evolved level of general life support systems. Investigating any opportunity for humans to survive themselves as a species and within each lifetime, peak health, personal power, authentic presence, autonomous creative minds, music composing, playing and recording music, learning about cultures and foods of the world, learning about humor, different ways humans think or refuse to think, human emotional behaviors. Avoiding human behavioral cocoons, cultural dead ends, parasites and patronizers; perhaps trying to help them rejuvenate, just trying to stay above sea level!!!
I'd like to meet:
MY FRIENDS!
People who contribute to an improved global environment, health of society, mental and physical health of all species and individuals. "Waste Not Laugh A Lot"
Those integrated with Zen, yoga, accomplishing their values, travelling the Earth, humor/thinking skills/comedy, creating music and SINGING.
Bellydancers, to work out bellydance music since I'm creating some!!! They are such nice people!!! I'm convinced that some of the greatest talent, passion and mind-body capacity is in the current bellydance performance and music scene worldwide.
Single moms. I'm writing a song(s) for them, because of a few I've known and the situations they've been through put a powerful, insightful lantern on a lot of things.
James Lovelock, Fritjof Capra, Ayn Rand, Carmen Electra, George Carlin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Farley Mowatt, Tecumseh, Chief Seattle, Sitting Bull, Einstein, George Washington, Beethoven, Haydn, Jeff Beck, Sara Hickman, Boudica, Charles Dickens, Alan Watts, Mary Magdalene, Michael Collins, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gene Roddenberry, Robin Williams, Joseph Campbell, Charles Schultz, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Chan, Chris Evert, David Letterman, King Tut, Chuang Tzu, Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and most importantly, a good massage therapist and a mountain bike mechanic soon.
Music:
My website: WWW.EASYONMUSIC.CA
I appreciate music and cultures from around the world, from the most simple, transient and impulsive to the more traditional and developed. From classical to Renaissance, Celtic, to Austin's Sara Hickman, belly dance music, traditional music, E.T. Mensah (African highlife style), King Sunny Ade (highly recommended!), flute soloists, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Jane Bunnett, Gordon Lightfoot, Jethro Tull, roots and folk artists, Dido, Dr. Didg, trance, meditation, Tibetan bowls, and Ska. The Who and The Chieftains and the fantastics: Carl Stalling and Esquivel! Also, various specialty radio stations like www.CKUA.com, wild birds, music in sounds. At the Calgary Stampede I heard and watched music in the movement of 6-horse Heavy Horse wagon teams (12 of them in an arena at once), which, when in motion, creates a thundering knock on the spirit, a pure powerful rhythm as breath meets step, meets rhythm, meets motion, meets emotion IS motion.
When Beethoven was composing music he would sometimes be marching wildly around his apartment or out on a hike making a great noise. Get into it or you're out of it!!!
Movies:
THE 11TH HOUR. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. PLANET EARTH (BBC). ALL FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES (AND BOOKS) ON ECOLOGY, LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLIMATE, EXTINCTIONS, DISEASE, THINKING SKILLS, ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS AND REQUIREMENTS, FALSE POLITICS, POLITICAL IDIOCY (911), FUTURE FORECASTING, Calgary International Film Festival! Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Davinci Code, Dead Poets Society, The Searchers, The Cowboys, Seven Samurai, Terminator 2, The Aristocrats, Lord of the Rings, Lawrence Of Arabia, Drunken Master II, Where Eagles Dare, Ran (Kurosawa), Cold Mountain, Outlaw Jose Wales, The Life And Music Of Robert Johnson (blues musician), In The Shadow Of The Moon, Les Miserables, Hot Tomale, Into the Wild, Crude Awakening, BladeRunner and the list keeps growing.
Television:
By choice I STILL don't have a television. I threw it out to help concentrate on writing and recording a CD about 5 years ago. Now I'm making another CD and have no desire or use of a television.
Books:
My three favorite authors are probably Charles Dickens, Shakti Gawain and Chogyam Trungpa. Next in line would be Ayn Rand, Alan Watts, Wilkie Collins and Dr. Suess. Planet environmentalist James Lovelock's writing is getting more potent and invigorating as he advances on his course! I often read non-fiction (about nature, psychology, health issues, politics, music concerns, humor, travel and photography) and fiction I read tends to be something new that blasts away all my preconceived ideas or expectations about things. I like reading any author whose powers of imagination, creativity, scope, research, creative visualization and use of the language feels invigorating. I've just discovered Wilkie Collins, having already read 75% of Charles Dickens books. My current discovery is the Russian novelist Bulgakov; his book "The Master and Margarita". Sci-fi can be great nourishment for the brain, as can be comedy, the Diamond and Lotus Sutras and George Carlin, Alan Watts, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, ancient Chinese poetry, Edward DeBono's brilliant thinking skills books, Chogyam Trungpa's many vital books and related. Shakespeare. King Lear is about the inner and outer catastrophe and disconnectedness of mediated life and mediated thinking, the bane of modern urban 9-5 and the corporate LEGO experience. Everthing by Carlos Castaneda, although HE didn't get what was going on until around "The Fire From Within" book, which is SUCH a !!!
Heroes:
Kids who never lie to themselves or believe what morons tell them. Improv comedians, single moms, kids who say NO to cigarettes and ignorant behavior, organic food farmers, Apollo crews, Jack Nicklaus, the man who ran over and saved my life when I released the car brake when I was about 4 years old, my dogs whom I learned about friendship from at a very early age (and we treated each other like kings thereafter), my grade 6 teacher Miss Guyette who sang and played guitar in class and showed us humanity doesn't have to die during education and who was gorgeous as well, the people who make Talisker, Laphroaig and Cragganmore scotches, mountain bike manufacturers for their innovations, Chuang Tzu for his innovations of insight and humor, Tibetans who flee Chinese morbidity but are forever proud Tibetan, the brilliant and passionate Laaryah (stage name) for her many superior cultural and thematic events for bellydancers and musicians, anyone who plays musical instruments when they doubt they can, but feel it and let it happen anyway, Earl Scruggs, AND FINALLY AND ALWAYS FIRST AND NEVER LAST; people who through travel or living alone eventually break through fear and loneliness to experience the rewards of the understanding of self and connectedness with universe that one can have when clearing through it all, if even just sporadically, because I met some of them when I needed to, and it saved me from all sorts of standard human disappointments, in exchange for some totally new kinds, ha ha ha ha ha.
