Photography that haunts the recesses of my memory,
cinema with unforgiving honesty,
music that fires the unlit torches,
dancing with emotive luminance,
soaring visionary architecture,
art which soothes the savage disaffected, provocative vibrant design,
comically surreal performance artists,
hedonistic culinary treats,
epileptic fits of laughter with friends,
epic travelling to distant lands within my own soul,
being charmed by the brilliance of children,
extravagant experiences with the common,
uncommon love,
freshly created realities,
unbridled communication.
Music
A FINE FRENZY, ALICIA KEYS, AMY WINEHOUSE, ANI DIFRANCO, ANITA BAKER, ANNA NALICK, THE ARCADE FIRE, AUTOMATIC LOVELETTER, BB KING, BECK, BEN FOLDS FIVE, BILLY JOEL, BLACK EYED PEAS,
BLACK RAIN, THE CARDIGANS, CAT POWER, CELESTIAL NAVIGATIONS, CHANTAL KREVIAZUK, CHICK COREA, CLAUDE DEBUSSY, COHEED AND CAMBRIA, CORRINE BAILEY RAE, CREEDANCE
CLEARWATER REVIVAL, THE CURE, DALE LADUKE, DAUGHTRY, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, DEATHCAB FOR CUTIE, THE EAGLES, ELLIOT SMITH, EVANESCENCE, FALLOUT BOY, FEIST, FIONA APPLE, FIVE FOR FIGHTING, FOO FIGHTERS, THE FRAY, FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, GIPSY KINGS, GOOD CHARLOTTE, GOO GOO DOLLS, GREEN DAY,
GUNS N' ROSES, HERBIE HANCOCK, HOLLY PALMER, HOWLIN' WOLF, IMOGEN HEAP, INCUBUS, ISAAC HAYES, JANIS IAN, JANIS JOPLIN,
JEFF BUCKLEY, JIMI HENDRIX, JOHN COLTRANE, JOHNNY CASH, JOSS STONE, KATE BUSH, KINGS OF LEON, KORN, KT TUNSTALL, LED ZEPPELIN, LEONARD COHEN, LILY ALLEN, LINKIN PARK, LISA MARIE PRESLEY,
LIZ PHAIR, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, MARY J. BLIGE, MAURICE RAVEL, MAXIMO PARK, MAZZY STAR, MICHAEL DUFF, MILES DAVIS, MUDDY WATERS, MY
CHEMICAL ROMANCE, NICK DRAKE, NINA SIMONE, OCEAN COLOUR
SCENE, NINE INCH NAILS, NIRVANA, NORAH JONES, PATTI SMITH, PEARL JAM, PINK, PINK FLOYD, PJ HARVEY, THE POSTAL SERVICE, RACHAEL YAMAGATA, RADIOHEAD, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, ROSIE THOMAS, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, REGINA SPEKTOR, RILO KILEY, ROBERT JOHNSON, SANTANA, SCHUYLER FISK, SCISSOR SISTERS, THE SHINS, SON HOUSE, SONNY MOORE, SOPHIE B. HAWKINS, SMASHING PUMPKINS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, THELONIOUS MONK, TORI AMOS, U2, VAN HALEN, VAN MORRISSON, VELVET UNDERGROUND, VIENNA TENG, WARREN ZEVON, WILCO, YEAH YEAH YEAHS.
Movies
21 Grams, Across the Universe, Amadeus, Amelie, Atonement, August Rush, Becoming Jane, Being John Malkovich, Being There, Big Fish, Blade Runner, Braveheart, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bridge to Terabithia, Casablanca, Children of Men, Chocolat, Closer, City of God, Crash, Cries and Whispers, Dangerous Liaisons, Defending Your Life, Finding Neverland, Garden State, Groundhog Day, Harold and Maude, Hotel Rwanda, Into the Wild, Juno, Kill Bill, LA Confidential, Leaving Las Vegas, Lions for Lambs, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost In Translation, Love Actually, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Drive, Pan's Labyrinth, Pay It Forward, Phenomenon, Pride and Prejudice, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Reservoir Dogs, Running on Empty, Say Anything, Sense and Sensibilty, Serendipity, Seven Samurai, Shakespeare in Love, Sideways, Sliding Doors, Taxi Driver, Tender Mercies, The Constant Gardener, The Departed, The Piano, The Princess Bride, The Last Samurai, The Matrix, The Seventh Seal, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, To Kill A Mockingbird, Traffic, V for Vendetta, Whale Rider.
PAUL HAGGIS, NEIL GAIMAN, WOODY ALLEN, JAMES CLAVELL, BILLY WILDER, LARRY WACHOWSKI, DAVID MAMET, QUENTIN TARANTINO, PAUL SCHRADER, HORTON FOOTE, CHARLIE KAUFMAN, JERZY KOSINSKI, WILLIAM GOLDMAN, FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA.
T.S. Eliot, Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Dan Brown, ee cummings, Malcolm X, Ernest Hemingway, Ken Kesey, C.S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, L.Ron Hubbard, Harper Lee, Farley Mowat, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, William S. Burroughs, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Hawking, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Bukowski.
A CHORUS LINE, LES MISERABLES, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, INHERIT THE WIND, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, NINE, DREAMGIRLS, CHICAGO, RENT.
SALVADOR DALI, JACKSON POLLACK, ARTHUR CONWAY HUBBARD, LAUREN DAHL, DON LI-LEGER, EDGAR DEGAS,
MARC CHAGALL, PAUL KLEE, MAXFIELD PARRISH, ALFRED GOCKEL,
WILLEM DE KOONIG, CLAUDE MONET, GREGORY WILLIAMS, POMM HEPNER, ROBERT CRUMB, LAURIE MAITLAND, LISA KOWALSKI, GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, JIM WARREN, JEREMY MILES, MIKE VONTHAMERT, FRANCOIS NIELLY, BRYTEN GOSS, GUSTAV KLIMT.
ERNST HAAS, MICHAEL LEVIN, SLIM AARONS, MICHAEL MAGILL, MIA DELCASINO,
FRITZ LANG, MICHAEL TIGHE, DOUGLAS KENT HALL, ANNIE LIEBOVITZ, YOUSUF KARSH, RICHARD AVEDON, DIANE ARBUS, ROY SCHATT, MELANIE PULLEN, GORDON PARKS, RICARDO BARCELLOS, ANNIE COLLINGE, POPEL COUMOU, GIOVANNI DEL BRENNA, DAVID ELLIS, SHALON GOSS, NICOLAS PRIOR, ALEX PRAGER, TYLER SHIELDS.
ALVIN AILEY,
BOB FOSSE, GENE KELLY, JEROME ROBBINS, JOSE LIMON, MARTHA GRAHAM, ROBERT JOFFREY, TOMMY TUNE, ALWIN NIKOLAIS, PEARL PRIMUS, ED TYLER, JOSE NAVARRETE, MARIA DEL BAGNO, MERCE CUNNINGHAM.
"THE CREATOR OF THE NEW COMPOSITION
IS AN OUTLAW UNTIL HE IS A CLASSIC." -GERTRUDE STEIN
"A DREAM YOU DREAM ALONE IS ONLY A DREAM. A DREAM YOU DREAM TOGETHER IS REALITY."
-JOHN LENNON
"YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON YOUR EYES
IF YOUR IMAGINATION IS OUT OF FOCUS."
-MARK TWAIN
"GOD RESPECTS ME WHEN I WORK, BUT HE LOVES ME WHEN I SING." -TAGORE
"WHAT IF A DEMON WERE TO CREEP AFTER YOU ONE NIGHT, IN YOUR LONELIEST LONELINESS, AND SAY, 'THIS LIFE WHICH YOU LIVE MUST BE LIVED BY YOU ONCE AGAIN AND INNUMERABLE TIMES MORE; AND EVERY PAIN AND JOY AND THOUGHT AND SIGH MUST COME AGAIN TO YOU, ALL IN THE SAME SEQUENCE. THE ETERNAL HOURGLASS WILL AGAIN AND AGAIN BE TURNED AND YOU WITH IT, DUST OF THE DUST!' WOULD YOU THROW YOURSELF DOWN AND GNASH YOUR TEETH AND CURSE THAT DEMON? OR WOULD YOU ANSWER, 'NEVER HAVE I HEARD ANYTHING MORE DIVINE'?” -NIETZCHE
"ART IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE, BUT WHAT YOU MAKE OTHERS SEE." -EDGAR DEGAS
"THERE IS A VITALITY, A LIFE FORCE, A QUICKENING THAT IS TRANSLATED THROUGH YOU INTO ACTION, AND THERE IS ONLY ONE OF YOU IN ALL TIME, THIS EXPRESSION IS UNIQUE, AND IF YOU BLOCK IT, IT WILL NEVER EXIST THROUGH ANY OTHER MEDIUM AND BE LOST. THE WORLD WILL NOT HAVE IT. IT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS TO DETERMINE HOW GOOD IT IS, NOT HOW IT COMPARES WITH OTHER EXPRESSION. IT IS YOUR BUSINESS TO KEEP IT YOURS CLEARLY AND DIRECTLY, TO KEEP THE CHANNEL OPEN. YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF OR YOUR
WORK. YOU HAVE TO KEEP OPEN AND AWARE DIRECTLY TO
THE URGES THAT MOTIVATE YOU. KEEP THE CHANNEL OPEN.
THERE IS A QUEER, DIVINE DISSATISFACTION, A
BLESSED UNREST, THAT KEEPS US MARCHING AND MAKES US MORE
ALIVE." -MARTHA GRAHAM
"ART IS THE LIE THAT TELLS THE TRUTH."
-PABLO PICASSO
"ANYONE WHO LIVES WITHIN THEIR MEANS SUFFERS FROM A LACK OF IMAGINATION." -OSCAR WILDE
"SOMETIMES I'VE BELIEVED AS MANY AS SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST."
-LEWIS CARROLL
"I DO NOT TAKE DRUGS. I AM DRUGS."
-SALVADOR DALI
"THE ONLY PEOPLE FOR ME ARE THE MAD ONES,
THE ONES WHO ARE MAD TO LIVE, MAD TO TALK, MAD TO BE SAVED,
DESIROUS OF EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, THE ONES WHO NEVER YAWN OR SAY A COMMONPLACE THING, BUT BURN, BURN, BURN, LIKE FABULOUS YELLOW ROMAN CANDLES EXPLODING LIKE
SPIDERS ACROSS THE STARS..."
-JACK KEROUAC
"UNTIL ONE IS COMMITTED THERE IS HESITANCY,
THE CHANCE TO DRAW BACK, ALWAYS INEFFECTIVENESS.
CONCERNING ALL ACTS OF INITIATIVE AND CREATION,
THERE IS ONE ELEMENTARY TRUTH, THE IGNORANCE
OF WHICH KILLS COUNTLESS IDEAS AND SPLENDID PLANS:
THAT THE MOMENT ONE DEFINITELY COMMITS ONESELF,
THEN PROVIDENCE MOVES TOO.
ALL SORTS OF THINGS OCCUR TO HELP ONE THAT WOULD NEVER
OTHERWISE HAVE OCCURRED. A WHOLE STREAM OF EVENTS
ISSUES FROM THE DECISION, RAISING IN ONE'S FAVOR
ALL MANNER OF UNFORESEEN INCIDENTS AND MEETINGS AND
MATERIAL ASSISTANCE, WHICH NO MAN COULD HAVE DREAMT
WOULD HAVE COME HIS WAY.
I HAVE LEARNED A DEEP RESPECT FOR ONE OF GOETHE'S
COUPLETS:
'WHATEVER YOU CAN DO, OR DREAM YOU CAN, BEGIN IT.
BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS, POWER, AND MAGIC IN IT.'"
-W.H. MURRAY
"ALL THAT IS GOLD DOES NOT GLITTER; NOT ALL THOSE THAT WANDER ARE LOST."
-J.R.R. TOLKIEN
"TO BE MATTER OF FACT ABOUT THE WORLD IS TO BLUNDER INTO
FANTASY- AND A DULL FANTASY AT THAT, AS THE REAL WORLD IS STRANGE AND WONDERFUL."
-ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
"EVERYBODY HAS A SECRET WORLD INSIDE OF THEM. ALL OF THE
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, I MEAN EVERYBODY. NO MATTER HOW DULL
AND BORING THEY ARE ON THE OUTSIDE, INSIDE THEM THEY'VE
ALL GOT UNIMAGINABLE, MAGNIFICENT, WONDERFUL, STUPID,
AMAZING WORLDS. NOT JUST ONE WORLD. HUNDREDS OF THEM.
THOUSANDS MAYBE."
-NEIL GAIMAN
About me: Artist, songwriter, former backup guitarist, grade school teacher, minister, human rights activist, investment banker, fruit picker, truck driver, lumberjack, rancher, counselor, poet, screenwriter.
We all have past beingnesses that can never fully defined who we are.
But why place physical boundaries and definition to any
spiritual being?
We can create ourselves with well worn identities or
we can create ourselves and our world with imaginative genius.
Especially You.
Who I'd like to meet: You. Self fueled, creatively adventurous, live individuals.
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that
deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
-EE Cummings
Past All the Madness...
"Down the dwindling spiral of the rabbit hole,
past the spiritual madness of conspiracies unknown,
past the perfect delusions of finely manufactured truth,
past the triumphs of bloodthirsty kings and the ruthless ignorant,
past the whirring generators of pharmaceutical high anxiety
and the hypnotic bliss of senseless propaganda,
past the pixelated memories of misspent lives
on this prison planet of tormented souls,
and fired deep inward into the vacuum of uncharted space,
I have been somehow delivered straight to you and our one chance out."
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Here's to the Crazy Ones
"Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things."
- Jack Kerouac
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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Hello! We thought you might like to see the videos for our latest "Double A-Side" single: "All Over The World" b/w "Au Revoir" (featuring the great Mike Garson [of David Bowie fame] on piano) Hope you enjoy them. You can download the tracks for your iPod by clicking here: love Lola + Richard LOLA DUTRONIC xx
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