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Idaho Slim

Are you MAD?!? Because you SHOULD be!!!

About Me

Mildly eccentric businessman by day, dirty beat poet by night.

My Interests

Complete ZEN silence, Live music, Dancing, Harley Davidson, buddhism, conversation, poetry, reading, guitar, Shakuhachi, Backpacking, hiking, nature, Texas Holdem Poker, World of Warcraft ___________________________________________A mountain man lives under thatch before his gate carts and horses are rare the forest is quiet but partial to birds the streams are wide and home to fish with his son he picks wild fruit with his wife he hoes between rocks what does he have at home a shelf full of nothing but books. --HAN SHAN

I'd like to meet:

Poets, Madmen, Musicians and Hermits.

Music:

Listen to my Radio Station BY CLICKING HEREPhish, Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Sublime, String Cheese, Govt Mule, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Bob Dylan, Railroad Earth, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen,Woody Guthrie, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Ween, Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr, The Doors,The Black Crows,Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Marsalis Family, Dizzy Gillespie, Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Louis Armstrong, Tool,Rolling Stones,The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Social Distortion,Rev. Horton Heat, Horropops, Southern Culture in the Skids, ELVIS, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, The Clash,The Chieftains, Flogging Molly,WICKED TINKERS, Rancid, Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards, Dropkick Murphy's, The Pogues, The Pixies, Rage Against the Machine. Any Jam, blues, punk rock,Rocka/Psychobilly, Celtic or Bluegrass...And everything else too.. .Mmmm Indian Tabla! Oh OH Japanese Shakuhachi music!....more tooo!

Movies:

Brazil, Anything Tarrentino, Garden State,Little Buddha, Cool Hand Luke, Seven Samurai,Boondock Saints, One flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Trainspotting, Thunder Road, Gone in 60 Seconds.

Television:

Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, History Channel and PBS.

Books:

On the Road, Dharma Bums, Heart of Understading,Hardcore Zen, Dharma Punx, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Walden, Into the Wild, Call of the Wild.... I could go on and on here... Most recent book read: BRAVE NEW WORLD

Heroes:

Buddha, Jesus, Jack Kerouac, Thich Nhat Hanh, The Dali Lhama, Henry David Thoreau and Samantha Senkbeil

My Blog

EEZE

Smooth slate Sky's Opening to show me the way From those roads above to the sky's below The splats of glass hit water   Feathers of intuition hunger for solitude For peace and complete anonymi...
Posted by Idaho Slim on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:37:00 PST

Rucksack Revolution.......*sigh*

"&see the whole thing is a world of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, ...
Posted by Idaho Slim on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:39:00 PST

Living

No year passes more slowly than the new year Its no waste of space or time The days we spend in waiting Are the days we live a lie.
Posted by Idaho Slim on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:21:00 PST

Sweet Home Chicago....

After 21 years my Bears are finally going back to the Super Bowl...   Da BEARS BABY!...
Posted by Idaho Slim on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:04:00 PST

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Posted by Idaho Slim on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:37:00 PST

Jacy Jurgens

On Monday morning I lost my Grandma Jacy. Her 9 year battle against Cancer  finally ended peacefully during the night, although her body gave out on her, the pain was eased with the assistance of...
Posted by Idaho Slim on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:08:00 PST

Recovery

The overburdened mind is in no way healthy. Too much stimulation can kill We need time to rest. To kick up our feet and clear the cobwebs from our brain. Sit, cross your legs and breath. Just breath....
Posted by Idaho Slim on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:02:00 PST

Drink Your Tea

~ Drink your tea slowly and reverently,as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future;Live the actual moment.Only this moment is life. - Th...
Posted by Idaho Slim on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:11:00 PST

Social Distortion

Wow what a fun night! Opening band was ok, sort of a Nirvana Knock off. The second band Supersuckers was great, I think I will try and see them again. Social D. fucking rocked the fucking house. Playe...
Posted by Idaho Slim on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:20:00 PST

What is the hardest part about smoking a turkey?

Keeping it lit. I spent all day Sunday smoking turkey for the 4th of July celebration at my Father-in-law's house. I brought it in the house to finish the cooking and now the smell of hickory has prev...
Posted by Idaho Slim on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:24:00 PST