I could write an essay on Interests., in fact I'm sure I've written many. Its a integral part of my life, and without them life would not be worth the paper it is written on, and life without art in form, media, and imagination would be colorless and dull . I have restructured my interests section's based on the basic concept of Yin and Yang. The mating of the masculine and the feminine which is combined in all of us. Through the synergy of both we find our home, our roots, and our soul. Personal preference aside until divine conception can be duplicated and mass marketed, regardless of what our birth certificates claim we have qualities of both in the core of our root being. I am woman, but I am also man. Such with art, both must be celebrated. To have one without the other would be to deny ourselves basic rights of personal humanity. We are at war with so many things, that by incorporating both the divine feminine and the patriarchal masculine we can ease un-needed reverb in the natural ebb and flow. Life itself is our biggest battle field, a puzzle to which we hold all the keys. Live, love, and find art in your own divinity. Don't sweat the small stuff, give credit to those who have aided your journey, even if you learned through their negative actions. Fail forward, so that you never truly fail by refusing to be a re-run in your own existence. WE know History repeats itself. Proven again and again. We can fight forever over who's god is better, best and most significant, or we can leave it to those gods to fight and pick off where they leave off. In the Heart of Humanity, which is the most human choice of them all. The one that excepts us regardless of any label that could, would or will be applied. It in the end is okay to agree to disagree, life is to short for the rest. Enjoy my little footprints on the web., and cherish your own.
You all inspire me.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. - Don Quixote
Namaste!
I'd like to meet:
How about You??? *efg*
John Zorn,Wicked Sax man, avant guard composer. Kristallnacht should be a part of world history. The pain is beauty, and the beauty is pain.
Ani Di Franco, cuz she is a righteous babe who carried he own label to make her name, and showed the world that love is unconditional. It has no label, it has no name, it knows no gender it just is.
Johnny Depp are you savvy? LOL. One of the most intriguing actors in the business, and the least likely to have a run in with ever on my list. So I'll just adore form afar. He's antisocial to an extent and I get that. Truly I get that.
I'd like to have a great glass of wine and talk with Tori Amos in Depth about everything and anything I could squeeze in, first meeting was only a tease!
Leonard Cohen, because his music is art, and his words are profound, pristine, and sometimes just simply beautiful.
Gustave Mahler, and Richard Strauss in that big place in the sky. We can all have a black box theater up there and toast all we left behind. That would be a dream symphony for sure.
People who have something to say, and something to offer. Every day is precious. We can impact the world one person at a time. One person can make a difference, I have to believe it is so.
Music:
Diversity is key here. Although I can't claim to not be a little bias when it comes to Tori Amos, who to me is a modern pantheon. As a singer, songwriter & composer, her body of work speaks well for itself. With the recent release of The Piano, A collection sampling and re mastering just a portion of the whole of her composition's once again proved that Piano's can go far when they try to be guitars. She Has risen as a musical salvation, to save the masses from kiddie pop post manufactured hard-on's.
If you don't know Tori, I wont tell you that you should, but if you love music, she deserves an honest listen. Like Life, her music has traveled, backwards, forwards, sideways and in between, from the Abysmal bottoms and challenges of life, to the moments of joy and inspiration we find somewhere beyond the fiction.
Yin:The Short List *efg*
A Fine Frenzy,
Tori Amos,
Fiona Apple,
Joan Baez,
Bjork,
Mary J. Blige,
Sarah Brightman,
Shauna Burns,
Kate Bush,
Patsy Cline,
Shawn Colvin,
Paula Cole,
The Dixie Chicks,
Roberta Flack,
Ani Di Franco,
Billie Holiday,
Breakfast With Chopin,
The Ditty Bops,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Etta James,
Nora Jones,
Janis Joplin,
Imogen Heap,
Heart,
Lena Horne,
K's Choice,
Diana Krall,
Cyndi Lauper,
Jenny Lewis,
Annie Lennox,
Madonna,
Aimee Mann,
Natalie Merchant,
Lorena McKennit,
Sarah McLaughlin,
Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde),
Stevie Nicks,
Jesse Norman,
Sinead O'Conner,
Delores O'Riordan,
Beth Orton,
Joan Osborne,
Dolly Parton,
Liz Phair,
Cat Powers,
Asobi Seksu
SIA,
Patti Smith,
Regina Spektor,
Barbara Striesand,
Sierra Swann,
KT Tunstall
Amy Winehouse,&
Rachel Yamagatta,
& Gretchen Yannover.....
Yang:The Short List
J.S. Bach,
Samuel Barber,
The Beatles,
Ludwig Van Beethoven,
Lenoard Berenstein,
Johnny Cash,
Frederic Chopin,
Leonard Cohen,
John Coltrane,
Aaron Copeland,
The Cure,
Miles Davis,
Howie Day,
Depeche Mode,
The Doors,
Danny Elfman,
Elvis,
Philip Glass,
Gogol Bordello,
Benny Goodman,
Green Goblyn Project,
Hindemith,
James Horner,
Gustav Holst,
Karl Husa,
Live,
Gustav Mahler,
Wynton Marsalis,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Rachmoniov,
My Chemical Romance,
NIN,
Charlie Parker,
A Perfect Circle,
Prince,
Sergi Prokofiev,
Rachmaninov,
The Ramones,
Simon & Garfunkle,
Robert Schumann,
Dimitri Shostakovich,
Jean Sibelius,
Philip Sparke,
Sufjan Stevens,
Richard Strauss,
Igor Stravinsky
System of a Down,
The Tea Party,
Frank Ticheli,
Tool,
Vampire Weekend,
The Verve Pipe,
Rufus Wainwright,
Richard Wagner,
John Williams,
Larry WIlliams,
YOAV,
Frank Zappa,
Led Zeppelin,
Hans Zimmer, &
John Zorn
Movies:
Movies like all visual art, are daily and change from mood to mood. The one thing amazing about the visual arts is its ability to alter, or mirror your moods based on your own particular pallet. This is just another of my short lists. I have left out many. This is just what pops into my head at the moment. SOme are current, some are old, and some are just pure art...
50 First Dates
The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert,
Amadeus,
Babel,
Blade,
Blade Runnner,
Bound,
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
The Breakfast Club,
Bullets Over Broadway,
The Celestine Prophecy,
Chicago,
Clockwork Orange,
The Company,
Copying Beethoven,
Corps Bride,
Crash,
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,
Curse of the Golden Flower,
Dancer in the Dark,
Dance's With Wolves,
Donny Darko,
Dracula,
Edward Scissorhands,
Elizabeth,
Ever After,
Exit to Eden,
The Exorcist,
Eyes Wide Shut,
Full Metal Jacket,
Funny Face,
Girl Interrupted,
The Godfather Trilogy,
Everything Becomes Illuminated,
Hero,
High Art,
High Fidelity,
Imitation of Life,
Immortal Beloved,
Interview with a Vampire,
The King & I,
A Kinght's Tale,
Kissing Jessica Stein,
Koma,
Lady Vengance,
Life Is Beautiful,
Little Miss Sunshine,
Marie Antoinette,
Memoirs of a Geisha,
Mirror Mask,
Momento,
Nosferatu,
One Flew Over the Cucko's Nest,
Phantom of the Opera,
The Piano,
Pride & prejudice,
Psycho,
Purple Rain,
Red Beard,
The Red Violin,
Rent,
Ran,
Sense and Sensibility,
Se7en,
Sherrybaby,
Sideways,
Skeleton Key,
Stardust,
Star Wars,
Stranger Than Fiction,
Tale of Two Sisters,
Titanic,
The Truth About Cat's and Dogs
Up in Smoke,
V is for Vengance,
Vampire Hunter D,
Vertigo
The Wall,
West Side Story,
What the Bleep Do We Know....,
What's Eating Gilbert Grape,
Woman Thou Art Loosed.
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Television:
T.V. Rot's your Brains Out
But I'm kinda partial to Weeds on DVD of course
and he Tudors has me slightly intrigued
tohewise I'm A PBS kind of Girl. Side where else can you watch the NY Phil play Mahler if you can't be in NY =)
and Jeff Dunham is my man with Many Friend
Achmed Rocks... Slience.... I kill you!!!!
Jeff Dunham Achmed the dead terrorist
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Achmed's Jingle Bombs
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Books:
For the love of word, through literature will illuminate us all. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and there are more books to read then time in breath we take.
Some of My All Time Faveriotes:
1984- George Orwell,
Book of Secrets - Osho
Book of Wisdom- Osho
Anna Karenina -Leo Tolstoy,
The Bell Jar -Sylvia Plath,
Coraline- Neil Gaiman
Da Vinci Code -Dan Brown
Their Eyes Were Watching God -Zora Neal Hurston,
Hamlet- Wiliam Shakespear,
The Giving Tree -Shel Silverstein,
Gnostic Gospel's -Elaine Pagels,
The Metamorphosis -Franz Kafka,
American Gods-Neil Gaiman
Piece by Piece-Tori Amos,
The Pit & The Pendulum-Edgar Allen Poe,
Sense & Sensibility- Jane Austen,
STardust-Neil Gaiman
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway,
The Shamanic Way of the Bee -Simon Buxton,
The Woman With the Alabaster Jar -Margaret Starbird,
Some of the Authors I fiend for:
Mya Angelou, Jane Austen, Charlotte & Emily Bronte,Dan Brown, Lord Byron, Depka Chopra, D.J. Connway, Philip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, OSHO, Elaine Pagels, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allen Poe, Silver Ravenwolf, Anne Rice, Rielke, J.D. Salinger, Willaim Shakespear, Shel Silverstein, Mary Shelley, Margaret Starbird, J.R.R. Tolkien, Walt Whitmann
My love for Mary Magdalen:
I feel that Mary Magdalen is one of the saddest victims of male egotistical tyranny in all Literature, including the big book. There are many parallels and faces of Mary people refuse to acknowledge because its easier to call her Christianity's Whore, much harder to believe she was a woman who lived and loved much as we d, maybe more so. If Christ died for our sins, then Mary was buried by humanities sin against women and power, by men in robes who feared her difference's. That Christ loved her in 'whatever" way should be good enough. Its okay to hold him up to the light,while banishing a womanwho worked beside him, and continued his message is not just profane, but it says a lot about why women were diminished to demure servitude in conjunction with the Unification of Christianity. I cherish all those who write to erase her defamation of character, despite a deep seated hatred that can come of it. SOme day all of Mary's many personas will be united and enligted upon us.
The Power of Written Word:
Fear of the Inexplicable
Rainer Maria Rilke
But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished the existence of the individual; the relationship between one human being and another has also been cramped by it, as though it had been lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities and set down in a fallow spot on the bank, to which nothing happens. For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and un renewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence. For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it appears evident that most people learn to know only a corner of their room, a place by the window, a strip of floor on which they walk up and down. Thus they have a certain security. And yet that dangerous insecurity is so much more human which drives the prisoners in Poe's stories to feel out the shapes of their horrible dungeons and not be strangers to the unspeakable terror of their abode.We, however, are not prisoners. No traps or snares are set about us, and there is nothing which should intimidate or worry us. We are set down in life as in the element to which we best correspond, and over and above this we have through thousands of years of accommodation become so like this life, that when we hold still we are, through a happy mimicry, scarcely to be distinguished from all that surrounds us. We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Heroes:
Alexander Kaminsky: My angel of music. What might have been had I not been in that sweaty gym that day so many years ago. He built a program from nothing, and showed a bunch of kids the wonder of music. Not so unlike Mr. Holland's Opus. Continuing to build and inspire new musicians every day.
never ending thanks for the key in my life that was missing
Paul Basler:My first un-horn professor/Renowned composer/Horn God/Fullbright Scholar and lecturer.... I can still see the elephants running across the Kenyan Landscape!!Or atleast a room full of want to be horn gods who sounded more like those elephants running! Thanks for all the time and encouragement throughout the years. You are so right, we never know what path the world will lay out for us. Your an amazing Teacher, and all those Gator's are lucky to have you in their presence.
Barry Benjamin: Ex-Horn professor At UW Milwaukee/ Pioneer in the Dorian Quintet. Showed me the reality in the profession and guided me through my years alone in the frozen arctic lovingly called the Midwest
Thank you for your lessons, and for taking me under your wing
Tori Amos:I don't need your voice because I have my own... But I've traveled in your lyric's and been lifted beyond my pain to a place where healing did begin.
Strong and savvy business woman, Singer/Composer/&Pianist who found life outside of the conservatroy. SO luck for your ear's with feet that Mozart's calling wasn't quite yours. Much respect, unsurmountable joy, and so many lessons in a song. "I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things." -Tori Amos
Joscy: My little sister... My friend, my confidant. Its such a pleasure to have seen you grow into such a beautiful woman with a loving soul...I am sooooo proud of you. I miss you much.
Jen:Sister's forever. We but heads, but we are both stubborn. I love you none the less.You can be the amazing mother I know is inside you as long as you remember to think beyond yourself. Naomi is your masterpiece, help her gather the stars! =)
Naomi Josephine : because she has a whole life to live and a whole world to explore. Her smile reminds me daily of just how much we all still have to learn about life, love and humanity. She has the whole world in her eyes. I hope I can help keep the world there as long as possible.
Jean Sibelius: Who united a torn country with a Tone Poem, a composition, a song. If only a song was good enough to heal the whole world. One can dream, that uncommon man or woman may yet still come
John Zorn: Composer/Musician/Eclectic soul/// For redefining the sounds of what is music, for challenging artist to think outside the box, for always raking risks to achieve great things. For inspiration
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: for being certifiable throughout the ages, for being one of the first great POP icon's. And the quintessentail Prodigy.
