General
Active for environment, animals, civil rights & liberties, health care reform, indigenous rights...also like outdoor play, camping, theatre & movies. I have done karate, kick-boxing, iaido, aikido, ride horseback and kayak. I have been double certified in scuba, and am a certified Master Gardener. I have studied Buddhist dharma of various sects, hinduism, the tao; my favorite is western tantrism in the full scope of life. I paint and write poetry when time permits.
Music
Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens(Teaser & The Firecat and Catch Bull at Four), Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Chicago, Arlo Guthrie, Johnny & Edgar Winter, Kate Bush, Jefferson Aeroplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eric Clapton, Crosby,Stills,Nash and Young, Janis Joplin, Warren Zevon, George Harrison, Beatles, John Lennon, Robert Cray, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Yes, Leonard Cohen, Louis Armstrong, Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Blondie, Du Peche Mode, Carlos Santana, U2, Marvin Gaye, Mountain, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Bruce Coburn, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Rolling Stones, Blu Oyster Cult, Dr John, Joan Baez, Billy Idol, George Thoroughgood, Queen, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Police/Sting, Velvet Underground, Z Z Top, Frank Zappa......White Stripes, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Joe Satriani, Bush, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Rage Against The Machine, Garbage, Fast Ball, Cold Play, Green Day, Raconteurs, Sharon Jones, Evanescense, Death Cab for Cutie,
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WORLD MUSIC, including Taiko Drums(Fushu Daiko), Aboriginal Australian(Inlakesh), Mongolian Throat, Ray Spiegel...I enjoy some classical(Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, Chopin, Schubert), jazz(enjoy Miles Davis, recognize John Coltraine), blues(Stevie Ray Vaughn, Billie Holliday) and bluegrass(Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash)
Movies
Michael Clayton, Eastern Promises, An Inconvenient Truth, Why We Fight, Thank You For Smoking, Syriana, Meet Joe Black, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Artificial Intelligence, What the (Bleep) Do We Know?, Peter Sellers' Pink Panther Series as well as Dr Strangelove and Being There, Apocalypse Now, Cider House Rules, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings, Mad Max, Braveheart, Conspiracy Theory, Brother Sun Sister Moon, Woodstock, Concert for Bangladesh.....I like Martin Sheen, Gina Davis, George Clooney, Audry Hepburn, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, Johnny Depp, Selma Hayak, Morgan Freeman, Katherine Hepburn, Joaquin Phoenix, Hillary Swank, Michael Douglas, Keanu Reeves, Jodie Foster, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Claire Forlani, Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Dench, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Lithgow, Alan Rickman, Tim Robbins, Kevin Spacey, Meryl Streep, Edward Norton, Danny Glover, Glenn Close, Henry Fonda, Mae West, Marlena Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Andy Garcia, Toby Maguire
Television
Democracy Now,Colbert Report, Frasier, Daily Show, Keith Olbermann...
listen to NPR while driving; excellent local college station.....My Space not offering a favorite artist section, so here's mine ~ I love Van Gogh, also like Frida Kahlo, Henri Rousseau, Frank Frazetta, Georgia O'Keefe, Peter Max, Winslow Homer, Maxfield Parrish, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Books
Formative Books ~
Call of the Wild, Swiss Family Robinson, Tarzan/Korak, Cat In The Hat Series, White Fang, Black Beauty, Black Stallion Series, Michael Moorcock eternal champion series, anything on nature including natural history including geology.
I love historical tales: creation legends, Gilgamesh, Alexander, Beowulf, Arthur, etc.
Favorite Authors:
Walt Whitman, Krishnamurti, William Shakespeare, Rumi, Noam Chomsky, Musashi, Isaac Asimov, Morihei Ueshiba, Mary Renault, Keats, JRR Tolkien, Anna Quindlen, Herodotus, Robert Pirsig, Jack Kornfield, Michael Pollan, Jane Austin, Nicolo Machiavelli, Homer, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Shelley, Irving Stone, Louis L'Amour, Voltaire, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Heinlein, Greg Palast, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Ursula K LeGuin, John LeCarre, Ben Okri, Molly Ivins, Betty Friedan, Jim Hightower, Jack Kerouac, Jeanette Winterson, Howard Zinn...
Magazines: Ode International, Utne, Yes!***
Online: Inter Press Service, Alternet, Information Clearing House, Truthout, Slate, BuzzFlash, BBC, Guardian, Grist, Mother Jones, The Nation, Newsweek, The Independent, Progress Report
Heroes
Noam Chomsky, Viggo Mortensen, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Al Gore, Amy Goodman, George Soros, Julia Butterfly Hill, Cindy Sheehan, Gandhi, Mrs. Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Stephen Hawking, Helen Thomas, Carl Sagan, Sandra Day O'Connor, Marcus Caballero & KA, Edward R Murrow, Charlie Chaplin, dead La.Guvner Huey Long, Paul & Sheila Wellstone, Jackie Bouvier KO, JFK & RFK, Medea Benjamin and Diane Wilson, Jazz Musician and activist Charlie Hayden, SLC Mayor Ross Anderson, Molly Ivins
Comments
Feb 2 2009 9:28 AM
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The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.
The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma , Illinois , and Colorado . This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
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Sep 4 2008 2:15 AM
Thanks for the add, friend! I hope that together, we can get over a million trees planted in the next few years. If you would like to help or have any ideas on how, please let me know, ASAP! There is a deadline looming.
Thank you much,
Ryan Rodgers
GreenifyNow
www.greenifynow.org
www.myspace.com/naturalelement15
May 29 2008 10:35 PM
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Jan 8 2008 7:44 PM
Bicycling to utopia, protesting the IMF and World Bank...
Now on DVD - more info at www.caravanprague.com
Sep 2 2007 4:53 AM