Anything that doesn't illegally alter my mood or pose a high potential of death or dismemberment. Integral Living, Theosophy, Philosophy, Humanity, Reading, Writing, Soccer, Spirituality, Quantum Physics, Sculpting, Painting/Sketching and anything that naturally provokes heightened senses or awareness (sound, art, scent, touch, good food-the spicier the better) and so forth. I'm just in love with being alive and discovering and highlighting the magic that exists in every day life. I'm alive! D'ya hear me?! I'm aliiiiiive! And I'm comin' to get ya! Yeeeeeehaw!
'Cause
"Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket."
Noam Chomsky, seekers on the path of The Tradition, people who have depth and something REAL to talk about.
“In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated. ‘What’s new?’ in an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question ‘What is best?,’ a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new ever happened, and ‘best’ was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum. Some channel deepening seems called for (7-8).†Zen & the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
“Shall the mind be a public arena where the affairs of the street and the gossip of the tea-table are chiefly discussed? Or shall it be a quarter of heaven itself--an hypethral temple, consecrated to the service of the gods? I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation. It is important to preserve the mind’s chastity in this respect...
It is so hard to forget what is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is [also] the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality...
If we have thus desecrated ourselves--as who has not?--the remedy will be by wariness and devotion to reconsecrate ourselves, and make once more a [temple] of the mind.†From "Life Without Principle" by Henry David Thoreau
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I'm addicted to sound. Alanis Morisette, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Amici Forever, Andrea Bocelli, Ane Brun, Aqua, Aqualung, Louis Armstrong, Asian Dub Foundation, Black Eyed Peas, The Beatles, Beck, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Beth Orton, Blue October, Bowling For Soup, Bright Eyes, Cake, Carly Simon, Citizen Cope, Coldplay, The Corrs, The Cranberries, The Cure, Cyndi Lauper, Dashboard Confessional, Daniel Johnston, David Gray, Dean Martin, DeVotcka, Diana Krall, Dido, Dropline, Doves, Eddie Vedder, Editors, Elton John, Enya, Erasure, Evanescence, Ewan McGregor (This man has THE SWEETEST voice on earth. Yeah I know he's an actor, but whew!), Eve 6, Five For Fighting, The Flaming Lips, Flogging Molly, Fort Minor, Frank Sinatra, Franz Ferdinand, The Fray, The Fugees (Lauren Hill), Gigi D'Agostino, Gnarls Barkley, Grandaddy, Guided by Voices, Hampton the Hampster (The meanest version of Cotton Eyed Joe ya ever did heard!), The Hackensaw Boys, Hayley Westenra, The Hives, Immortal Technique, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Jack Johnson, Jason Webley, Jay-Z, Jet, Jimmy Eat World, John Denver, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Judy Garland, Kasabian, Katie Melua, KD Lang, The Killers, Kings of Leon, The Libertines, Live, Los Skarnales, Macy Gray, Mademoiselle, Marianne Faithfull, The Mavericks, Mazzy Starr, MC Solaar, Sarah McLachlan, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Melissa Etheridge, Mercury Rev, Kings of Leon, Mika, MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE, My Chemical Romance, Nada Surf, Neil Diamond, New Found Glory, Notch, Novaspace, Oasis, OMD, Panic at the Disco, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd, Placebo, The Pogues, The Polyphonic Spree, Rachael Yamagata, Radiohead, The Ramones, Reel Big Fish, Regina Spektor, REM, Roy Orbison, They Might Be Giants, Sarah Brightman, Savage Garden, Scooter, Secret Garden, The Sex Pistols, Sinead O'Connor, Soul Asylum, Starsailor, The Strokes, Stuart Davis, Tangerine Dream, William Shatner, Willie Nelson, Windmill, The Zutons and on and on. I'm also a sucker for Punk/Ska and Dance covers, Rockabilly, Bluegrass and Bhangra. Any rythym that's been broken down, beaten up, deconstructed, chewed up (no spittin!), gnawed on, and has been treated to proverbial Scissorhands. I like gravy over nails and tightly woven melodies set to triple-time if I can lasso dance to it then it's ON!
Katie Melua - Call Off the Search
Neil Diamond - Touching You, Touching Me
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Carly Simon - Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits
David Gray - Other Side
Rachael Yamagata - Happenstance
What Chicago Sounds like
Kill Hannah - For Never & Ever
Silly, yet profound...
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
What love sounds like.
Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer
I have a ton of favorites. Unless a plot is just non-existent, I can typically find one redeeming quality in a flick, but I tend to prefer films that are rich in substance. I'm a Goonie and an Outsider and I love Bollywood flicks =) The most I've ever fallen into a film was near the end of Devdas when the heroine senses her lover is beyond the gates of her gilded prison and she's running as fast as she can to reach him before her husband's minions shut them. One minute I'm sitting there engrossed in the over the top melodrama and the next thing I know I've sprung to my feet like I'm going to run for the gates too. I had actually started to take a step before I realized what I was doing. It's a good thing because I likely would have broken my neck when I tried to leap over the seats in front of me. They should put a warning on the beginning credits. I don't know how I get so drawn into films that abuse the use of thunder and hair whipping fans so much, but there you have it. Deepha Mehta's elements series of films is good too.
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News junkie, Nova geek Stuff, House, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Olbermann, The History/Learning Channel, Saving Grace. I'm pretty careful about what I watch on TV because your reality IS what you focus on and shallow stuff WILL rot your brain and erode your conscious mindset. Did you know many channels now refer to commercials as "content" and the shows "filler?" Think about it, pay attention, and don't let others manufacture your mindset or consent.
Recommended Reading, These aren't necessarily my all time favorites, but me listing favorite books is like trying to pick a favorite among my children. Some of my favorite authors are Paulo Coelho, Don Miguel Ruiz, Mark Twain, Maeve Binchy, Frank McCourt, Ken Wilber, Rohinton Mistry, Richard Bach, Daniel Quinn, Malcolm Gladwell, Anita Shreve, Alice Hoffman, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Anthony Robbins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Lao Tzu, Noam Chomsky, Eckhart Tolle, Stephen Hawking, Ambrose Bierce, Stacy Ballis...oh heck! It really is endless.
Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom ...
Miguel Ruiz - The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relati...
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Clas...
Richard Bach - Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Ultimate Chick Book
Stacey Ballis - Inappropriate Men (Red Dress Ink)
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Douglas Adams - The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and ...
The Theory of Everything!
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