"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself."
Timothy Leary
Music
i suppose you can say my roots are in house music, but to say that you have to say my roots are really funk, soul, disco and gospel... and some primeval percussive stuff that goes thumpthumpthump like a heartbeat in the night sky
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a good joke for those of you who know me
Movies
21 grams, kurosawa films, last samurai, requiem for a dream, pi, memento...throw it all in a pot with some anime and sweetened with a pinch of disney
Books
the way and the power, seth speaks, the prophet, the late great planet earth, the karate dojo, tao te ching, i ching, tao of pooh, te of piglet......
Heroes
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-Carl Jung
About me: "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
George Carlin
"Sorcerers say that in every explanation there is a hidden apology. So, when you are explaining why you cannot do this or that, you’re really apologizing for your shortcomings, hoping that whoever is listening to you will have the kindness to understand them."
Carlos Castaneda
"Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Albert Einstein
"Fuck you. I won't do what you tell me."
Zach de la Rocha
"Profound realisation is discovered through simple experience."
-me
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness"
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"The road to truth is long and lined the entire way with annoying bastards."
-Alexander Jablokov
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-Albert Einstein
"She... calls me sunshine"
-Marc Evans "Given Me Joy" ---hits me right in the heart---
Who I'd like to meet: purple lefthanded hussies with an aversion to cattle prods...
and robert frost... i don't really know why. but why not
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...so long as edgar cayce is serving tea
The crisis, as well as the opportunity, of our time is to surrender our ego and conditioned fear mechanisms to the primary torsion energy of unconditional love that is seeking to evolve us and is calling us as a species home.
yeah, you were one of the few man. san fran has so many late nights and so many interesting people. its really great, i'm happy about the move but miss the shit out of you. we had a bunch of great times....