My interests include, and are not limited to, painting, archeology, philosophy, theology, and music.
"Stars fade like memory the instant before dawn.
Low in the east the sun appears, golden as an opening eye.
That which can be named must exist.
That which is named can be written.
That which is written shall be remembered.
That which is remembered lives.
In the land of Egypt Osiris breathes..."
~Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real.
It is by the real that we exist;
it is by the ideal that we live.â€
~Victor Hugo
"The more you talk about it,
the more you think about it-
the further from it you go.
Stop talking, stop thinking
and there is nothing you will not understand."
~Seng-t'san
"Love has to spring spontaneously from within:
and it is in no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force.
Love and coersion can never go together
but though love cannot be forced onto anyone,
it can be awakened in him through love itself.
Love is essentially self communicative-
those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.
True love is unconquerable and irresistable;
and it goes on gathering power and spreading itself,
until eventually it transforms everyone it touches."
Iron & Wine - Bright Eyes - Broken Spindles - Deathcab for Cutie - Dntel - Rage Against the Machine - AFI - Matt Pond PA - Velvet Underground - Nat Kind Cole - Billie Holiday - Ella Fitzgerald - Rogue Wave - Thelonious Monk - Sammie Davis Jr. - Duke Ellington - John Coltrane - Miles Davis - Harry Connick Jr. - Louis Prima - Benny Goodman - Beethoven - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Charles Gounod - Vivaldi - Johann Sebastian Bach - Arco - Air - Barzin - Jimi Hendrix - Rancid - International Noise Conspiracy - Postal Service - Sigur Ros - The Dears - The Cure - Blur - Gorillaz - Ozomatli - Beck - Emilianna Torrini - Fall out Boy - Depeche Mode - Saves the Day - Thursday - Lois Armstrong - Tori Amos - Nine Inch Nails - Rolling Stones - Ween - Johnny Cash - Coldplay - 3 colours Red - Anti Flag - CCR - Violent Femmes - Weezer - Mirah - STP - Radiohead - The Beatles - Vast - Sublime - Flogging Molly - Portishead - The White Stripes - The Strokes - Her Space Holiday - Azure Ray - Perfect Circle - Goldfrapp - Hot Hot Heat - Stereophonics - KMFDM - Telepopmusik - The Flaming Lips - Handsome Boy Modeling school - Tenacious D - Bjork - Esthero - The Killers - Bloc Party - Franz Ferdinand - Brand New - Caesar's Palace - Arctic Monkeys - Arcade of Fire - The Bravery - Story of the Year - The Jealous Sound - Frou Frou - Milosh - Imogen Heap - Dandy Warhols - Desaparecidos - Marilyn Manson - Jurassic 5 - Rocketship - Saint Etienne - Pedro the Lion - Minus the Bear - The Unicorns- Grandaddy- Orgy - Sleeper - Tricky - Fin Fang Foom - Gregory and the Hawk - Junior Boys - The Good Life - Beep Beep - The Fire Theft - Zero 7 - Rocky Votolato - Arab Strap - Jimmy Durante - Nitin Sawhney - Tom Waits - Lou Reed - Ray Charles - Frank Sinatra - Collapsis - Guster - Refused - Bush - Elliot Smith - Head PE - Beck - Pennywise - Dear Nora - Dusty 45's - Travis - The Faint - Theivery Corporation - Pretty Girls make graves - Remy Zero - Jim Croce - Rise Against - Muse - Interpol - Oasis - The Shins - Jimmy Eat World - Kings of Convenience - Modest Mouse - Feist - The Decemberists - The Notwist - NoFX - Cat Power - Chicane - Cut Copy - Dead Kennedy's - Smashing Pumpkins - The Clash - Snow Patrol - Sexpistols - Damien Rice - Chevelle - G Luv & Special Sauce - Black Eyed Peas - Atmosphere - Swollen Members - Morcheeba - Nujabes - Charlotte Gainsbourg - Hot Chip - Q and not U - Ladytron - Cursive - Sufjan Stevens - Erlend Oye - Figurine - Jeremy Enigk - Andain - The American Analog Set - Boards of Canada - BT - Clap your hands and say Yeah! - Coco Lee & Yoyo Ma - The Crystal Method - Erick Satie - Dilated Peoples - Shiny Toy Guns - Metric, TV on the Radio, etc...
House of Flying Daggers, Jacob's Ladder, Clockwork Orange, Garden State, Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Army of Darkness, The Last Samauri, American Beauty, Dead Alive, Evil Dead, Asterix and the 12 tasks, Gladiator, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Indiana Jones Trilogy, The Notebook, The Neverending Story, Waking Life, Dangerous Beauty, Monty Python's The Holy Grail, The Crow, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Perfect Blue, Fight Club, Ninja Scroll, Finding Neverland, Hook, The Goonies, Amelie, American History X, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Night of the Living Dead (the original), Big Fish, Office Space, What Dreams May Come, United states of Leland, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dogma, Gladiator, Stigmata, Ranma 1/2, Evangelion: Neongenesis, Ghost in the Shell, Schindler's List, A Very Long Engagement, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fire in the Sky, Stargate, Jin Roh, Love me if you Dare, Hero, Amadeus, The Departed, The Illusionist, Conan the Barbarian, Krull, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Beach,Motorcycle Diaries ...etc.
Temple of Man- Schwaller de Lubicz, Initiation- Elizabeth Haich, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl- Daniel Pinchbeck, The Sign and the Seal- Graham Hancock, The Mayan Code- Barbara Hand Clow, Wherever You Go There You Are- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui- Arthur Braverman, The Lucifer Principle- Howard Bloom, Stargate Conspiracy-Lynn Picknett , The Tao of Love-Cheng Heng, Old Path White Clouds- Thich Nhat Hanh, Hardcore Zen-Brad Warner, The Teachings of Don Juan- Carlos Castenada, The Celestine Prophecy-James Redfield, Fingerprints of the Gods-Graham Hancock, The Message of the Sphinx-Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock, Astral Dynamics- Robert Bruce,The Secret Life of Plants- Peter Tompkins The Art of Happiness- Dalai Lama, Be Here Now, The Path of Transformation- Shakti Gawain, The Seat of the Soul- Gary Zukav, The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown.