The endless, joyful pursuit of learning, knowledge and their distant cousin truth as discovered in: Love and Fear, Writing, Drumming, Aviating, Globetrotting, Snowboarding, Surfing, Goalkeeping, Handing out Halo Beatdowns, Spending Less Time in the Hospital/Making The Most of Time spent in the Hospital, Military and Church history (which are all too often overlapping topics of study) :p ...and exploring the intersection of Psychology, Physics and Spirituality, which would include the freakishly named cross disciplinary pursuits of: Psychoneuroimmunology, Biopsychology, and Quantum Particle Physics, most exciting to me as they serve to illuminate the finer points of Healing Music Theory and some other stuff that I really enjoy like Eating, Applied Psychopharmacology, and Love, of course the most organic culmination and worthwhile mental, physical and spiritual pursuit of them all. And in the mean time, you'll find me benefitting from EMDR, Psych-K, and the most assuredly brilliant work of Dr. Bruce Lipton Ph.D man, I never knew I was such a damn hippie until I wrote this. a quantum hippie, though, which I think, if you were standing next to me, would smell much better over the long run : )
The countless amazing people I've lost touch with. Which is almost everyone, at this point. Send some love, I dare ya.
pearl jam, mother love bone, temple of the dog, mad season, tori amos, apc, u2, dredg, jeff buckley, explosions in the sky, muse, thomas newman, the tea party, buddha bar I-IV, secret chiefs 3, incubus, coldplay, sarah mclachlan, hooverphonic, radiohead, ours, tom petty, neil young, dmb, rage against the machine, rush, tool, deftones, nirvana, soundgarden, stp, toad the wet sprocket, better than ezra, halfway, natalie merchant, 10,000 maniacs, nin, live, our lady peace, soad, mars volta, cold, mr. bungle, johnny cash...by no means a complete list, though it be a highly cherished, scratched and faded one.
The Boondock Saints, Pi, American Beauty, Moulin Rogue, The Shawshank Redemption, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, DiG!, The Devils Advocate, Lords of War, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Fight Club, Jarhead, Almost Famous, The Bourne Identity, The Doors, What Dreams May Come, Contact, Dogma, American History X, What About Bob?, Good Will Hunting, Apocalypse Now, Boiler Room, Garden State, Trainspotting, Napolean Dynamite, Half Baked, Zoolander, The Devil's Own, Back to the Future, Office Space, Magnolia, Good Morning Vietnam, Glory, We Were Soldiers, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, The Aviator, LOTR Trilogy, Dances With Wolves, Legends of the Fall, A River Runs Through It, (yes, I like disappearing into long occasionaly sleep inducing period epics) Life is Beautiul, The Messenger, Matrix Trilogy (minus meaningless cash register revo'poop'tions), Pirates of the Caribbean, Muppets in Space, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc., Goonies, Waynes World, Tommy Boy, Father of the Bride, The Edge, Conspiracy Theory, The Big Lebowski, Caddyshack II, Space Balls, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Zhivago, Water, Swingers, They Live, and Godzilla Movies, occasionaly Mothra and a Harry Potter movie or two.
The Muppet Show, SNL, Scrubs, Entourage, Numb3rs, Over There, Boston Legal, The West Wing, Modern Marvels, The Office (BBC & NBC), Late Night With Conan O'Brian, The Apprentice (my ex-girlfriend was on the German version, made it to the finale and lost...no joke) Breaking Bonaduce, (my rehab, my therapist, the bed I slept in...all on the show- a very surreal experience to see the people and places in your life unexpectedly staring back at you from the TV) ER, Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Three Wishes, Mail Call, Chappelle's Show, The Mind of Mencia, I Love the 80's, The Daily Show, School of Rock, South Park, Rescue Me, My So-Called Life, Behind the Music, Band of Brothers, Biography, The Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Most Extreme Challenge, Air Wolf, Knight Rider, The A Team, Fall Guy, Dharma & Greg, Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, Real World, Hogan Knows Best, Pimp My Ride, Today, E! True Hollywood Story, Score (the concept is great) and yes, unfortunately I have to cop to it- Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. haha, no I don't. That show sucks. But the DVCPRO100 they shot it on and dipped in honey looks pretty dang tasty and adds amazing cinematic depth to an otherwise very shallow show. {dreamsequence: And maybe one day I'll have an iPod chock full of the TV episodes I've somehow managed to transfer from all the DVD's I've burned off the Tivo...anything and everything for the oft neglected cause of stamping out acute emergency room induced boredom once and for all, people : p...end:dreamsequence} Hooray for gratuitous commentary! Hooray!
The Message, A Course in Miracles, The Biology of Belief, The Breakout Principle, A Return to Love, Ender's Game, The Alchemist, 1776, Blink, The World is Flat, Next, It's Not About the Bike, The Oligarchs, A Normal Totalitarian Society, Rules for Revolutionaries, The Catcher in the Rye (the literary anthem of every kid who had occasion to read it atop their boarding school bunk bed) The Mozart Effect, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, American Soldier, Paths Beyond Ego, Psychopictography, Who Stole My Money (the best book by Richard Kiyosaki the Cash Flow guy), Healing Codes of the Coming Biological Apocolypse, The High Flyer, Quantum Healing, LOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, Dead Man Walking, Rogue Warrior, Blackhawk Down, The DaVinci Code, The Music of Primes, The Devil Wears Prada, Fab...the most prized tomes on the shelf, most read entirely, a few read mostly, and all discussed at great length with the most voracious reader I've ever met. (my mom)
John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mike McCready (they all lived a full life in the face of debilitating Crohn's) My mom, Bruce Lipton, Rob Williams, (who've illuminated so brightly the possibilities of my own path out of disease) Lance Armstrong (same as last parenthetical side-narrative) Mark James (for continuing to infuse me with hope, when I all but have none) and anyone who looks me in the eye when they're talking to me. And Dr. Baird Smith, the brilliant pediatric laparoscopic surgeon who gave me my first belly scar. Ali Bissell, even though she doesn't know me anymore- (she told me to seek out laparascopic surgery, when Children's Hospital in Oakland insisted on a foot long, midline incision, complete w/ ostomy.) And of course, Steve Jobs, for the lovely, spiritual machines, that have been the engine of creation for so many people, for so many years.