Jonathan Stone
Jonathan Stone
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art is not life because it's art
Male
54 years old
ANNAPOLIS, MD
United States
Last Login: 10/13/2009
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| General | Decadent literary Romanticism. Symbolist art & music. Synesthesia. Astrology, which I've studied most of my life. | | Music | well, I play Brazilian music, so there's alot of Joao Gilberto and Jobim. kind of got a Chet Baker fixation, too. Other than that, lots of 19th century French music- Chopin, Debussy, Faure. I am a huge Erik Satie fan. Thomas Dolby, Ryuichi Sakamoto. Klaus Ogerman. Oh yeah, Bert Jansch! | | Movies | Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy, Blue,White, and Red. Especially Red. also his The Double Life of Veronique. Lawrence of Arabia. The Last Emperor, Raise the Red Lantern, Wilde, Impromptu, The Horseman on the Roof. An Ideal Husband. Tess. Any movie set in ninteenth century France. | | Television | A brightly colored shiny object, useful for distracting people's attention from the death of a thousand cuts being inflicted on you and me right now. OK, I will admit I watch The Wire & Rome on DVD, and anything by Aaron Sorkin. | | Books | W.B. Yeats, Balzac, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Huysmans and fin de siecle French stuff in general. Neoplatonism. Henri Corbin. Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. James Hillman, Revisioning Psychology. Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind. If you love Lawrence Durrell, I promise to come to your house and mow your lawn. | | Heroes | Pythagoras, Giordano Bruno, Erik Satie. Sebastien Melmoth. Aesthetic revolutionaries, ontological terrorists. The Tangerine habitue of kif who said "The eye wants to sleep, but the head is not a mattress." |
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W.B. Yeats, Romantics on the Romantics, Horoscopic Astrology, Bossa Nova, the Jung Room, Friends of Peter Fagerlind Classical Pianist and Keyboard Player, Yeats's Daemon, Spiritual Astrology
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Jonathan Stone's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | West Simsbury, Connecticut | | Body type: | 6' 4" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Children: | Undecided | | Occupation: | musician |
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About me:
Musician, astrologer, student of ancient philosophy. (I am trying to learn about astrology's original philosophical and psychological context.) I have a battery of love and art guns trained upon the minions of knee-jerk literalism. Humanity's most extravagant fantasies are my growth industries. We've all become musclebound literalists, driven out of our senses by centuries of specious dualism. I possess a bookshelf which could easily have gotten me burned alive a few hundred years ago, yet I am unable to find very much about evil in these mostly Greek and a few Arabic books. I am constructing a complex mechanical fortune-telling machine in the form of a bronze head similar to the one said to be possessed by St. Albertus Magnus. Um, well, ok , I'm really not. As far as I know. Arabic star-demons painted on the apartment walls of Renaissance Popes, bughouse utopian schemes, that sort of thing. I draw on these things (heterodox spiritual traditions), like so many Renaissance and Romantic Decadent artists did, to fuel aesthetic and imaginative contemplation.***
A medium once told me I had been a poet in ancient China in a previous life. Apparently I, intoxicated, fell off a bridge and drowned. Too much Green Elixir back in the T'ang Dynasty left me with an incurable paradise complex.***Art, Imagination's newspaper, is the sole human endeavor which brooks no interference to the will achieving its ends. The only limitations are those imposed by the medium of choice. For the sculptor, the block. For the painter, the blank canvas. For the musician, the room full of people conversing.....
Did I mention that I was a musician? I sing and play guitar. My genre- samba/bossa nova, which I secretly perform as part of a disorganized reverence to Yemanja, Afro-Brazilian love goddess.
...sailing to the Paradise of Apples in the West in a barbed wire canoe. Some beautiful fish, though...
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Who I'd like to meet:
Painters,poets,scholars, musicians, heretics. If you are all these things then I REALLY want to meet you. Write me a note, rant, poem, prayer, indecipherably mysterious revelation or curse.
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