"Beauty is truth and truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know." ~John Keats
Music
Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Nirvana, the Funk Brothers, Billie Holiday, Madeleine Peyroux, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Babyshambles, Libertines, Eagles of Death Metal, The Wrecking Crew, ORBITAL, QUOTSA, Prince, Jellyfish, Arctic Monkeys, Citizen Cope, Satellite Party, Army of Anyone, Desert Sessions, Buckcherry, Mark Lanegan, the Waterboys, Bap Kennedy, Mudbone, Leon Russell, Otis Redding, Charlie Parker, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Steve Earle, Cake, the Panic Channel, Bob Dylan,Richard Ashcroft, the Verve, Pink Floyd, Chili Peppers, Ron Davies, Pulp, Plexi, Francis Albert Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Getz/Gilberto, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Fred Neil, Tim Buckley, Tim Hardin, Damien Rice, the Kinks, Etta James, Ennio Morricone, Mott the Hoople, Eric Carmen,Todd Rundgren, Brian Eno, Gram Parsons, Iggy, The Ventures, Snakehandlers, STP, NIN, Nino Rota, Miles Davis, the Killers, Foo Fighters, Mars Volta, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Guns n' Roses, Jeff Buckley, Patsy Cline, Kris Kristofferson, Sonny Boy Williamson, James Burton, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Albert King, B.B. King, Little Walter, Lonnie Mack, Jimmy Reed, Hubert Sumlin, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Bad Brains, Eddie Hazel, Wanda Jackson, Elvis Presley, Peggy Lee, Faith No More, the Beatles, Edith Piaf, Giorgio Moroder, Sabbath, Marvin Gaye, Pearl Jam, Blur, Scissor Sisters, Prodigy, Echobelly,the Black Angels, Echo and the Bunnymen, 8mm, Moving 2 France, Ringside, the Cesars, Razorlight, the Rakes, the Others, I Am Jack
Movies
Antichrist, The Age of Stupid, Capitalism: A Love Story, Collapse, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Revolutionary Road, Frost/Nixon, Into the Wild, Reds, Don't Tempt Me, In the Valley of Elah,The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Gandhi, Babel, Crash, Fight Club, Shine, Braveheart, The Libertine, Stage Beauty, Miracle in Milan, Once Upon a Time in America, Juliet of the Spirits, The Good Earth, Sex and the Single Girl, Moulin Rouge, This Property is Condemned, A Place in the Sun, Suddenly Last Summer, Lonely are the Brave, Play it as it Lays, Looking for Mr.Goodbar, Pride and Prejudice(1940), The Fugitive Kind, Finding Neverland, Bitter Rice, Berlin Alexanderplatz, La Notte, Naked Kiss, Le Magnifique, Judgement at Nuremberg, Das Boot, L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, Women in Love, Basquiat, The Fire Within, Gilda, Belle Du Jour, Closer, Every Girl Should Marry, The Lady Eve, The Philadelphia Story, Repulsion, Cruising, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Meet Joe Black, Shampoo, Frances, Being There, Cabaret, Valmont, Marat/Sade, The Devils, Two for the Road, Bad Timing, Breaking Glass, One Deadly Summer, La Cicala, Wifemistress, Turkish Delight, Madame X, Syriana, Traffic, Modesty Blaise, The Italian Job (original), Good Will Hunting, The Governess, Jules et Jim, Velvet Goldmine, Dead Poets Society, Phantom of the Paradise, The Bobo, Casino Royale, I Want to Live!, Capote, Junebug, anything that played on Z Channel and everything: Montgomery Clift, Kubrick, Natalie Wood, Catherine Deneuve, Elia Kaza, Arthur Penn, Susan Hayward, Tuesday Weld, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Warren Oates, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman, Ida Lupino, Nicholas Roeg, Laura Antonelli, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, Barbara Stanwyck, Sam Peckinpah or Sergio Leone and of course--What the Bleep do we Know?, Bladerunner, The Soloist, Autism: The Musical
Television
Eddie Izzard, Margaret Cho, Weeds, Mad Men, Six Feet Under, Dark Shadows, Bewitched, Land of the lost (1960's tv show) I Dream of Jeannie
Books
Less is More, A Hundred Years of Solitude, The Game of Life and How to Play It, Your Word is your Wand, The Secret of Light, The Mastery of Love, Your Answers Questioned, The Four Agreements, The Power of Now, The Book of Secrets, The Lion's Roar, The Fantasy Bond, Doing It for Money: The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, Summerhill
Heroes
Anthony DeMello, Florence Skovil Shinn, Maud Gonne, Virginia Woolf, Alice Paul, Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, Mary Shelley, Stanley Kramer, Gregory Peck, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Greer Garson, Raul Julia, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gerry Tolman, Seven Pearson
About me: Friends are as important as breathing. I love my friends. I love my life. Don't get on the bus, the limo is coming. Fly low. Drop cargo. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." "Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness." Do not do all you can, do not spend all that you have, do not believe all that you hear, and do not tell all that you know. What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you. What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. “You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results”. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness -- enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge. He/She who has a why to live can bear almost any how. If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt. Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances. It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. The only limits are, as always, those of vision. Old behavior isn't old behavior if your still doing it. Look at you, you madman, Screaming you are thirsty And are dying in a desert When all around you there is nothing but water!
Who I'd like to meet: Protect me from what I want. The best work never was and never will be done for money. Action is the real measure of intelligence. There's No Other Place That I Would Rather Be. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on. Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. Love is for Everyone. It's not that they can't see the solution; they can't see the problem. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is
delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is
something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being
nothing. Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his
conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind. As we advanced in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in
fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
tell me something without speaking do it with the eyes ... with the heat only in this land ... alone in a crowd
there's a light on us
alone in the sand ... alone in the midst of mist
Hey my friend, how are things? I hope you're doing well and looking forward to Thanksgiving! We'll be in your neck of the woods on Sunday, so hopefully we will see you at the show...