words :: sounds :: color :: texture :: context :: fire :: chess :: humanity :: humility :: fluidity :: hops barley water yeast :: chi gong :: deutschland :: intelligence :: connectivity :: coincidence :: relevance :: königswinter :: timbre :: >12 tones :: ambience :: blah :: blah :: blah ::
Music
bjork :: imogen heap :: the gravel pit :: gustav mahler :: jacques brel :: steve reich :: gunther schuller :: trebek :: kipper tin :: lovewhip :: 4AD :: the high ceilings :: level 42 :: mylene farmer :: myself in the shower :: seal :: teddy larkin n scary wagon :: gore gore girls :: the chemical brothers :: jennifer tefft :: mel torme :: carly simon :: sarah borges :: birdsongs :: carrie akre :: scriabin :: brian eno :: john cage :: massive attack :: heidi saperstein :: jennifer tefft :: paul chihara :: revueltas :: ramayana monkey chant :: aaron copeland :: the sheila divine :: mixel pixel
Movies
koyanisqaatsi :: les enfants du paradise :: casablanca :: groundhog day :: metropolis :: die blaue engel :: the usual suspects :: aguirre, der zorn gottes :: strangers in paradise :: i robot :: blade runner :: 2001 a space odyssy :: apocalypse now :: terminator :: pay it forward :: berliner alexanderplatz
Television
star trek tng :: this old house :: pbs :: how it's made :: twin peaks :: anything from nova :: anything from frontline :: anything out my window :: nothing from disney :: nothing from nickleodeon :: nothing from bush
Books
nine horses :: leaves of grass :: stranger in a strange land :: cats cradle :: fruits, shoichi aoki :: postville :: the monkeywrench gang :: that hideous strength, out of the silent planet, perelandra :: the great mortality :: earthquake id
Heroes
ernest shackleton :: michel gondry :: mary bourquin :: carl sagan :: hunter thompson :: jack nicholson :: diane keaton :: billy collins :: emily dickinson :: michael moore :: walter gropius :: cs lewis :: a different language :: goethe :: rutger hauer :: copernicus :: my cats :: eddie lawson :: kenny roberts :: randy mamola :: dale quarterly :: kevin schwantz :: ayrton senna :: heather knowles :: schifffahrer am rhein :: dave dawson :: ben & jerry :: john quincy adams :: jim jarmusch :: creamy :: abraham lincoln :: jacques cousteau :: fred rogers :: mark strand :: einstein :: not bush :: builders of the st louis arch :: my kids, andy and sophie :: yankaridreams ::
I am a poet and host monthly poetry readings by published, award-winning poets at Zanzibar's Coffee Experience in Des Moines, IA
"die größer die Schwierigkeiten, die größer die Möglichkeiten"
Jaarno Saarinan is imagining ... Posted at 5:09 AM Aug 12, 2008 view more
poetry :: mowing my pathetic burned-up patch of a lawn :: my liferaft is floating in the wake of cornfields and rows of oily soybeans :: ralston makes monkey chow in iowa :: hormel makes spam in minnesota :: side-by-side we are a blue-canned affair :: why are you reading this drivel :: I host a monthly poetry series on Ingersoll Strasse :: published, award-winning poets :: myspace is stupid ::
Who I'd like to meet: you as a poem :: my cat's next life :: my anti-matter me :: a fourteenth century chess player :: ellen barkin when we were both twenty :: imogen heap :: my children as adults :: captain piccard :: the minimalist you :: mark strand :: george bush with a lemon meringue pie in my hand :: you with amnesia :: my parents when they were four :: edward abbey :: toni mang on the nordschleife der nürburgring :: you in satori deja vu while performing mahler's symphony of a thousand on december tenth, nineteen-seventy-seven :: send me an i.m. ::
May each day of 2009 bring you its share of beauty, tranquility, enlightenment, creativity, magic, joy, hope, prosperity, wonder, heavenly blessings, and love…
Happy Birthday from New Mexico to Iowa. I originated as a neighbor in Illinois. I haven't yet taken on the form of a poem but maybe when I shave I will. Many more happy days to you.
