People - I love the relationships I have had the privilege of developing and am excited to imagine who might be next.
Books - The books currently in my space have influenced my life in so many amazing ways and I am thankful to the authors who have shared so much of themselves.
Film & Theatre - I have been truly moved several times in my life and feel blessed to have learned to appreciate what this art form can be.
Writing - Honest self expression is always a blessing. Finding new ways of sharing my imaginations and those words that find me and choose to come out of the silence and reveal themselves in space brings a level of peace that I am currently and often thankful for.
Photography - I have yet to take the opportunity to study others photography but have enjoyed taking thousands of pictures of all kinds of subjects ranging from babies, parades, street photography, landscapes, nature, nudes, fashion, headshots, the sky, buildings, and my favorite of all, friends.
Music
Favorites include Tori Amos, Steven Carrel, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Radiohead, Air, The Pixies, The Cure, The Smiths, Aimee Mann, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Wilco, Drums & Tuba, Medeski Martin & Wood, Ani Difranco, Postal Service, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, James Blunt, Nick Drake, David Gray, Bright Eyes, Elliot Smith, Sublime, Bjork, Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Beth Orton, Beck, Tomahawk, The Violent Femmes, Nine-Inch-Nails, Poe, Sia, Live, Clem Snide, Joseph Arthur, Patty Griffith, David Bowie, Sigur Ros, Pink Floyd, Casandra Wilson, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Damien Rice, Liz Phair, Anthony Warlow, PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, Type O Negative, Clutch, Rage Against The Machine, System Of A Down, Portishead, Depeche Mode, Mazzy Star, Mos Def, Atmosphere, The Flaming Lips and more. I am also a showtune lover with favorites from Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, Boublil and Schonberg, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz and Jonathon Larson.
Movies
Films directed by PT Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love) Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tannenbaums, The Life Aquatic) David Fincher (The Game, Fight Club) Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Sunset Blvd.) Quinten Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles) Monty Python (The Life Of Brian, The Holy Grail, The Meaning Of Life) Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Tape, Waking Life) The films (What The Bleep Do We Know, I Love Huckabees, Life As A House, Love Actually, Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix Trilogy, Nine Lives, The Big Labowski, Office Space, Super Troopers, The Forbidden Zone - Elfman is a genius)
Television
Programming that excites the imagination. That helps us to remember that there is something we didn't remember we knew, that once reminded of could change everything. Programming that allows us to laugh at how absurd our behavior is when actually looked at with an open mind.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force,
Family Guy,
The Simpsons,
The Brak Show,
Adult Swim as a whole is pretty darn sweet.
Mr. Show - Bob and Dave, I think it is time that we hung out and caused trouble.
Books
The holy texts of the past and those written today and those remembered and imagined that are yet to be known outside of all there is. The New & Old Testaments, The Gnostic Scriptures, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Nag Hamadi Texts, The Essian Writings, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, The Apochrapha, The Conversations With God series, The Power Of Now, The Four Agreements, Love Without End, The Disapearence Of The Universe, A New Earth, Stillness Speaks, A Course In Miracles, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The Mastery Of Love, The Voice Of Knowledge, Mental Concentration, The Prophet, Illusions, Ishmael, The Island, Of Mice And Men, The Grapes Of Wrath, Cannery Row, The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight, Diet For A New America, Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, The Maker's Diet, New Chakra Healing, East Of Eden, The Secret Life Of Plants, The Hidden Messages In Water, Beyond Fear, The Road Less Traveled
Heroes
Lao Tzu, Siddhartha, Jesus, Krishna, Rumi, Muhammad, Kinsey, Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle, Don Miguel Ruiz, Neale Donald Walsch, Terry Seabaugh, Paula Morehouse, Becca Seabaugh, Steven Carrel, Joey Wagner, Nathan Eddie, Brad Weiberg, Andy Lyskowski, Markiss Steck, Heather Pirner, Ashley Wilson, Mark Peterson, Carissa Siebeneck, Christina Vinson, Matthew Plank, Tonya Mark, Kim Webb, Jim Turner, Kyle Cross, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Andrew Parker, Claudia Scott, Pete Tadros, Carlos Moreno, Curtis Suddeth, Joe Cardwell, Kelly Leveron, Sharri Edwards, Tommy Tatman, Michael E. Seabaugh Sr., Me, and anyone who has ever brought truth, beauty, and love into anyone else's life and presence. That means everyone of us.
People I find interesting. I enjoy spending a few hours with one subject to learn to see them in several ways. I find that shooting hundreds of photos allows varied personality to show up.
Live theatre from my experience has the ability to alter its audience greater than any other medium. When performed well it can touch or shock on levels film can't reach. You aren't removed from it enough to be passive about it.
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About me: I am anything and everything I choose to be in the only reality I know. The moment of now. I express my ideas and imaginations through writing, directing, producing, acting, photography, painting, music, and performing spoken word poetry. I love life and all that life brings before me. I am a light in what may appear to the untrained eye as darkness and have observed that by being truly me at all times I am able to encourage those in my presence to be authentically whatever they choose to be. I am not my ego even though at times I may temporarily forget the truth and still act like it. I have an amazing group of passionate and talented friends who are a daily source of inspiration and love. I have observed that absolute unconditional forgiveness of myself and others is the quickest way to let go of the past and see everyone, including me, as the love they truly are. Once the past is let go of you are free to see everything as if it were the first time and the world around me stays fascinating and mysterious and I will always choose that level of excitement. With no past in mind I am free to let those around me be free and find that I have no expectations and therefore am seldomly frustrated or hurt. I am a way, a truth, and a light. I am love.
Who I'd like to meet: The perfection in everyone around me. Imagine the "best you" you can currently dream of and know that you can know yourself right now as that dream. I want to meet dreamers and visionaries who will help us all remember to dream and to see things in forgotten ways. I desire to get to know the other parts of me that exist in you so that we may both see ourselves more fully. I want to talk to those who realize truth is illusory and perception is inevitable. Those who allow their truth to be just that and have room for others to have and know their own truths. People who observe that judgement is not the same as preference and is maybe the most uneccesary of all human experience.
Dear Michael Seabaugh: Thank you for YourFriendship. My eight-year-old-peace-activist son Axil's quest for World Peace Before 2021 is gaining momentum! I'm so proud of him. Please embrace him AND his song "World Peace Before 2021" which he sings beautifully. His performance can be seen on MySpace, his webpage www. worldpeacebefore2021. com and/or YouTube (by searching his name Axil Kollist.) It is my intention to post a new video of him singing his song every few months so people can watch his talent grow as impressively as the momentum for his quest! I'm sharing two photos with you. The first is of my son distributing his free world peace bumperstickers and the second photo is of him singing his song “World Peace Before 2021” at Maui's Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Day Festivities in January 08. By all means, email Axil if you’d like him to mail you one of his free “World Peace Before 2021” bumperstickers or if you’d like to invite him to sing for your function. His email address is worldpeacebefore2021@hawaii.rr.com .Very best regards, Axil Kollist’s mom
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