(theravada)Buddhism
the freedom and liberation of Burma, Palestine and Tibet
Sak Yant (& other buddhist tattoos)
jhana and the brahma viharasradical unionism
Buddhist phycology
the beat generation
haiku/senryu/haibun
qi-gong & wing chun
Religious amulets/ talismans
Minimalist art
democratic socialism
Theoretical Physics
travel
Etiquette
Living in Buddhist monasteries
Science/ the scientific method
Socratic method (method of elenchos)
the pali cannon
REVOLUTION!
I'd like to meet:
A new Cafe Society,bohemian poets, artists, musicians(who arent about "making it" or getting signed), writers, porn stars, zinesters, filmmakers and photographers. you know, artsy fartsy people...mods, punks, indie rockers.. beatniks, wierdos, freaks.....jazz musicians? people who wanna make films with me
Anne Waldman, Diane Diprima, Gary Snyder, Ajahn Brahm, Billy Childish, Lydia Lunch, Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Micheal McClure, Janeane Garofalo, Steven Hawking someone who knows what "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is all about
Music:
i mostly like noisey british indipop from the 80s and 90s (think boyracer, beatnik filmstars, 14 iced bears), bands from the c86 movement, american indie stuff like the brian jonestown masacre, sebadoh & henrey's dress. Jazz from the hard bop & bebop genres. Composers like john cage and philip glass, plus stuff like squarepusher, merzbow & Bastard Noise. and of course the dwarves and anything billy childish is in
Movies:
I watch a lot of foreign films, indie films, film noir and documentaries
Television:
no time for TV
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Books:
for politics it's Chomsky,Zinn, Bakunin and Bookchin, for poetry/prose it's the Beats (Kerouac, Holmes, Ginsburg, Waldman, Snyder, Whalen, DiPrima etc) The Japanese haijin (Ryokan, Issa, Ikkyu , Basho etc)and I also dig Billy Childish, Aaron cometbus ,Lydia Lunch,and Dan Fante. However, most of the books i read are Buddhist texts. Also i'll check out pretty much anything published by City Lights
Heroes:
the sangha in burma and tibet for their courage,
buddha, buddhadasa, dogen, all my ajahns, independant women, noam chomsky, murray bookchin, jack micheiline, Billy Childish, Wesley Everest, August Spies, allen ginsberg
