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Buda

JBUDA79

About Me

I think this world is in a sad state of affairs. There's far too much hate and intolerance, and there are far too many people all too eager to turn the other cheek. What's going on? I have an awesome girlfriend and 3 beautiful kids. In the very little spare time that I have, I am either on the edge of a stream sniping out trout, or at a bar or ampitheatre, dancing to live music. I feel that the war on drugs has become a war on civil liberties and the war on terror has become a war on anyone who has different values from which our society deems appropriate. It has been said, that before the world can be ruled by peace, the mind must be ruled by reason. “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” Haile Selassie

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My Interests

Music, politics (especially corrupting the youth of strong,republican upbringing with my distorted, liberal "treehugging" ways), anything that encourages abstract thinking,drinking tons of rich, dark, organic, fair-trade coffee, camping, fishing, just getting lost in the woods, my family, just being me and being kind.

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I'd like to meet:

Rumi and Kalil Gibran so that they may share a little bit of their wisdom and poetic insight into love, life, truth and knowledge. The man/woman who devised a way and means to deep-fry a candybar. Anyone whose patroned the Munchies Snack Shack at an upstate festival knows damn well what I'm talking about- A FAT KID'S DREAM- that's what... warm, greasy candy.

Music:

LEGALIZE BLUEGRASS!!! Grateful Dead, Old & In The Way, NRPS, Phil & Friends,Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Country Joe McDonald, Moe, Bela Fleck, Deep Banana Blackout, Hypnotic Clambake, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, MMW,The Buddahood Stringed Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, Oysterhead, Frog Brigade, Jazz Mandolin, Particle, The Slip, The Breakfast, Dave Grisman, Soulive, Red Sea,Dub is a Weapon, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown's Body,Donna the Buffalo, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Blueground Undergrass,STS9, Ulu, Mecca Bodega, Big Leg Emma, Moe, Benvenuto/Russo Duo, G'mule, Max Creek the list goes on and on... ..

Books:

Anything by the Beats- Kerouac, On the Road changed my life, Che Guevara... visions of a revolutionary,Dan Brown... I love a good conspiracy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Biekowski,Robert Persig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance opened my mind to new thoughts, kalil Gibran... The Prophet shares words to live by, Abbie Hoffman... how do you top a raving lunatic spun out on acid with a vision to change the world?, Ernest Hemingway shaped american thinkning as well as writing, Guy de Maupassant... master of the short story lengthened by imagery

Heroes:

Abbie Hoffman," F--- Pig Nation"! Jerry Garcia, " What we do is magic" John Lennon," All you need is love" Wile E. Coyote, no mattter what you just can't keep that cat down. He's been blown up, fallen off cliffs onto cacti, and has had boulders drop on his head, but he just never gives up. One of these days he will catch that damn bird!

My Blog

Something magical

As many of my friends are very aware, summer is right around the corner, and with that comes Sterling Stage. While handing out fliers, I've been trying to give people an explanation of what The Stage ...
Posted by Buda on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:18:00 PST

feeling liberated

Oh yes, I am feeling a little revolutionary today. I had a nice 20oz. RedEye to get me going (4 shots espresso, plus a dark roast of arabica) sat by the river and listened to National Public Radio rea...
Posted by Buda on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:30:00 PST