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John

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

people aware of their own uniqueness.

Music:

radiohead, nina simone, miles davis, air, modest mouse, kanye west, billie holiday, jimi hendrix, dylan, beatles, pink floyd, common, roots, aesop rock, saul williams, portishead, nirvana, mos def, talib kweli, thelonius monk, neil young, stevie wonder, natalie merchant, u2, drums and tuba, mountain frog, counting crows, chris whitley, bebel gilberto, jobim, nick drake, handsome boy modeling school, bright eyes, ween, ani difranco, tim o'brien, dag, the streets, nine inch nails, blind melon, mars volta, mogwai, sigur ros, fiona apple, ry cooder, lauryn hill, woody guthrie, sage francis, the secondhand outfit, acid mother's temple, the band, mirah, chris cornell, jedi mind tricks, air, tom waits, george schrub, chris chandler, taj mahal, buddy guy, bb king, camp lo, bob marley, hank williams, iggy pop, brian eno, daniel lanois, bob marley, grant lee buffalo, santana, dvorak, chopin, schubert, blackalicious, murs, bunny wailer, clapton, john lennon, nusrat fetah ali khan, ravi shankar, youssou n'dour, peter gabriel, dire straits, johnny cash, son volt, leadbelly, wilco, richard thompson, and on and on and on....

Movies:

sex and lucia, fight club, being john malkovich, thx-1138, snatch, pinero, lord of the rings, dark crystal, life of brian, dead man, titus, waking life, smoke signals, sling blade, the man who wasn't there, ran, run lola run etc...

Television:

nope. but i do like the daily show and cartoons.

Books:

Herman Hesse, Jorge Borges, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Sherman Alexie, Fred Chappell, Sapphire, Nikki Giovanni, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Simic, Li Young Lee, Rumi, Shakespeare, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Pablo Neruda, Noam Chomsky, Bertrand Russell, Einstein, Kepler, Amiri Baraka, Tom Robbins, Daniel Quinn, I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Isaiah, Job, Song of Solomon, Jose Saramago, Andrea Gibson, Patricia Johnson, Whitman, Twain, Patti Smith, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Tennyson, Federico Garcia Lorca, Tolstoy, Breece D'J Pancake, Roger Bonair Agard, Shuaku Endo, and on and on and on and on

Heroes:

gandhi, buddha, jesus, muhammed, marx, lennon, lenin, malcom x, mlk, castro, che, einstein, helen keller, grandmothers, farmers, fathers, mothers...

My Blog

east village vs.virginia (sw variety)

East village vs. virgina (sw variety)..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   One honky in a sea of taxi cabs. One orange spandex man with snarling boxer guard ...
Posted by John on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:59:00 PST

cicada

  Cicada   Please, a definition:  A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.   --Ralph Ellison   Inkwell eyes that see around corners wings transluscent, v...
Posted by John on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:06:00 PST

gut fist manifesto (no punchbacks)

Gut fist manifesto(no punch-backs)   Ain't no crawfish like me. No back sliding bourbon (straight no chaser) no check pay me cash only, flip a stone veins of creek water, yr Parisian models fall ...
Posted by John on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:04:00 PST

candle

Stoneangelcrying Date: Jul 20, 2006 3:33 PM Subject: Myspace vigil for peace; please repost Body: ----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------From: Goth Help UsDate: Jul 20, 2006 1:16...
Posted by John on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:19:00 PST

the practice of walking

The Practice of Walking                Every morning, I walk to work.  Granted, I have no license, but due to insane gas prices, I am in...
Posted by John on Wed, 17 May 2006 05:32:00 PST

poetry "narrator"

narrator.   in case of disaster, this poem can be used as a flotation device.   his ears are vises swollen shut.   his eyes pinhole the train a shadow box containing a map, una chicana ...
Posted by John on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:41:00 PST

poetry "survival"

..sur*viv*al.., n. [From (Survive).]   1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.   2. (Arh[ae]ol. & Ethnol.) Any...
Posted by John on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:38:00 PST

poetry "sundial"

sundial a poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human breast.          ;           ; -m....
Posted by John on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:37:00 PST