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- May 7, 2008 1:31 PM Please follow me...
- May 3, 2008 1:13 AM Bikes, kayaks, nature and death
- Apr 21, 2008 1:31 AM Aqueous Transmissions on a rainy day
- Apr 14, 2008 11:34 PM Coming out of Agoraphobia
- Apr 13, 2008 3:08 PM Another Philly excursion
Interests
General
Books: My book collection is my pride and joy. See below.
Outdoors: Hiking, flat-water kayaking ('05 Dagger Blackwater 10.5), bicycling ('06 Specialized Tri-Cross Sport). I love to watch extreme sports, but keep my own pursuits fairly subdued.
Photography (Sony DSC-P7). Just a hobby, but I think some of my stuff is fairly good. See Slideshow >> or the Pics page for a sampling.
Buddhism & Yoga.
Driving. If you want to know what a Honda Civic is capable of, come for a ride with me. That unassuming little car can move. ;)
U.S. Civil War history. The portions of battlefields preserved in the mid-Atlantic region of the US are beautiful spots. Exploring them via car, bicycle and foot exposed me to the history of the war. I'm drawn to the time period, to the experiences of the civilians who lived near these battlefields, and to the big question: Why? Not just the political "why", but the personal "why" of the individual soldiers who fought. It's an endlessly fascinating topic.Music
For serious listening, there's very little out there these days that really moves me. I respond very strongly to certain voices, and to lyrics that give me something to think about. These days I'm a fairly monogamous fan of Incubus
For casual listening: T00l, Soundgarden, Gutter Twins, Pearl Jam, Guns'n'Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, Janis Joplin, Beethoven, Johnny Cash, Anouar Brahem, David Bowie, INXS, The White Stripes, Gnarls Barkley, Zydeco/Cajun... All sorts of stuff.Movies
Films I'll watch over and over: Dangerous Liaisons; Elizabeth; The Libertine; Period films in general; Donnie Darko; The Cell; To Kill a Mockingbird (best novel adaptation I've ever seen); Thelma & Louise; Dances With Wolves; A River Runs Through It; anything weird with Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys, Se7en, that kind of stuff); pretty much anything with Johnny Depp; pretty much anything by M. Night Shyamalan; the first Matrix (Reloaded and Revolutions fell short of their potential, I believe); the Harry Potter series (2nd best book adaptations I've seen); Star Wars (preferably Episodes I - III); lots of others that I just can't think of at the moment.Television
..Books
On my bookshelves: Philosophy (mostly Buddhist stuff these days, but also ethics and metaphysics); 18th - early 20th century ghost and vampire stories; mythology; the Harry Potter series; various Star Wars novels; Sherlock Holmes anthologies; various bits of poetry and sci-fi/fantasy; a few biographies; a few socio-psychological-type things; assorted nature and travel writing. And, a small collection of vintage books that I've picked up here and there.
Also, various works by: Rudyard Kipling; Roald Dahl; Oscar Wilde; Ambrose Bierce; H.H. Munro; Mark Twain; Shakespeare; Hermann Hesse; Goethe; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Voltaire; Edgar Allen Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Joseph Conrad; William Golding; Shirley Jackson; Bernd Heinrich; Carl Sagan; Clive Barker; Joseph Campbell; Keri Hulme; Lewis Carroll; William Least Heat-Moon; Edward O. Wilson; Bill Bryson; Neil Gaiman.
Subscriptions: National Geographic, Smithsonian, Yoga Journal, Shambala Sun, Bicycling Magazine.Heroes
The dude who invented copy'n'paste on the computer.
Anti-hero: The dude who invented cell phones.
Blurbs
About me:
I've found that MySpace is a great place to just talk, something I don't do much of "In Real Life". Oh, I can babble a blue streak about the weather, what I did over the weekend, and what's going on in current events, but I find little opportunity to really talk about more interesting, meaningful topics. I mean, how often do Jungian archetypes, song lyric interpretation, or just what makes us tick as human beings come up at the office water cooler? The blogging function here at MySpace was my original outlet, but their damned technical errors became too annoying so I moved my blog to http://kalidurga.blogspot.com/. So, if you feel we have interests in common or if something I write strikes you and you just want to blab, feel free to message me or post a comment here or at my blog.
(I've probably just made myself a target of every troll on MySpace,
but so be it.)
A request:
If you're considering adding me as a "friend", please send me a note to establish communication. I'm not here to collect a bunch of faces in my "Friends" section. As I said above, I'm here to talk, and it's rare that I approve "friend" requests without an accompanying message.
(I've probably just made myself a target of every troll on MySpace,
but so be it.)
A request:
If you're considering adding me as a "friend", please send me a note to establish communication. I'm not here to collect a bunch of faces in my "Friends" section. As I said above, I'm here to talk, and it's rare that I approve "friend" requests without an accompanying message.
Who I'd like to meet:
I wish there were a section titled "Places I'd like to visit". I've always had a stronger connection to place than to people. I remember a conversation I had with someone a few years ago in which he talked about how various songs reminded him of people he knew. I couldn't come up with a single person that any song reminded me of. I could, though, think of a handful of songs that remind me of places that I love.
I've met a few of the people I've admired over the years. In every case, I've either found that I had less to talk to them about than I thought, or I've found them to be less than I expected. Basically, either I say something stupid, or they do. But, in the fantasy-land of my imagination where things go just the way I'd like them to, I'd get a kick out of meeting:
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester; Siddhartha Gautama (pre- & post-Buddhahood); Carl Jung; Johnny Depp; Chris Cornell (pre-sobriety); Kim Thayil; the Marquis de Sade; the Dalai Lama; Maynard James Keenan; Queen Elizabeth I; Brandon Boyd; Joseph Campbell; Floyd Landis (pre-2006 TdF scandal); Dave Zabriskie; Anthony Bourdain.
I've met a few of the people I've admired over the years. In every case, I've either found that I had less to talk to them about than I thought, or I've found them to be less than I expected. Basically, either I say something stupid, or they do. But, in the fantasy-land of my imagination where things go just the way I'd like them to, I'd get a kick out of meeting:
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester; Siddhartha Gautama (pre- & post-Buddhahood); Carl Jung; Johnny Depp; Chris Cornell (pre-sobriety); Kim Thayil; the Marquis de Sade; the Dalai Lama; Maynard James Keenan; Queen Elizabeth I; Brandon Boyd; Joseph Campbell; Floyd Landis (pre-2006 TdF scandal); Dave Zabriskie; Anthony Bourdain.
Comments
Feb 4 2009 7:14 PM
Dec 29 2008 4:16 AM
Haw haw haw.
Yea, I break out a grin now and then. But, yes, it was a good beach day. The kind where it's hard to leave until the sun goes down.
Oct 20 2008 1:21 AM
How are ya?
Oct 20 2008 1:44 AM
Yeah, the new space and totally different but I certainly hope that doesn't prevent you from joining us more often.
Did you ever get those paint colors?
Smiles!
Sep 30 2008 6:42 PM
Happy Autumn.
Sep 14 2008 5:20 PM
hope this silence means that life is treating you well!
Jul 26 2008 4:02 AM
(you're in my thoughts...)
Jul 22 2008 1:39 PM
Jul 3 2008 7:13 AM
miss you. hope all is well :)
May 8 2008 4:28 PM
Mar 3 2008 2:49 AM
Mar 1 2008 10:59 PM
That's the spirit!
Can't even let the PB
slutty side Ozzy enter
my consciousness.
He rules that game!
Adorable immunity
idol shenanigans, no?
Feb 9 2008 6:28 PM
Normally I do take my own pictures...but haven't made it out anywhere lately! School! :)
My picture though - is mine. It's a cemetary in Charleston.
Jan 13 2008 3:13 AM
I will be checking in
to get and give the scoop.
J
Dec 23 2007 2:42 AM
xoxo,
~Dolly