Peter Bolland
Peter Bolland
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51 years old
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 12/15/2009
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Peter Bolland's Interests
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| General | Sunlight, moonlight, wind, water, stars in dark skies, small truths, big truths, poetry, music that trusts emptiness, meditation, philosophy, art, yoga, baseball, surfing, pine trees, mountain streams, desert skies, food, simplicity, quiet, time, a good guitar and the God-Within. Oh, and quasi-poetic purple prose. | | Music | Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Jackson Browne, Lucinda Williams, Son Volt, Buddy and Julie Miller, John Hiatt, Steve Earle and any music that tells the simple truth without a lot of unnecessary bullshit or fashionista posing. Maybe it's just because I'm getting older, but I'm so tired of musicians that work harder on their looks than on their songs. If you have great songs, I really don't care how you look. And if you look great and have dumb songs, I really don't care.
People I would listen to singing the phone book: Allison Krause, Emmylou Harris, Eliza Gilkyson. | | Movies | It's a Wonderful Life, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Spinal Tap, Manhattan, Casablanca, The Grapes of Wrath, 2001: A Space Odyssey, My Fair Lady, Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now, The Sound of Music, Chinatown, Heart of Gold | | Television | 24, The Office, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (I cry every time)and major guilty pleasures: American Idol and Survivor. Best show on TV recently: Friday Night Lights, even though it's off the air. Characters rendered with depth and breadth, this show absolutely sparkles with life. I don't remember caring so much about characters in a long long time. As each scene unfolds I'm struck by one realization: these guys are doing everything right. And no, it isn't really about football. From the archives: I still really miss NYPD Blue, a masterful show that rendered perfectly the banality of heroism. But to be really honest, I'm finding it harder and harder to extract any enjoyment out of "murder dramas", the CSIs and Law and Orders of the world. Intellectually, I like a good mystery as much as the next guy, but finding entertainment in cruelty, brutality, torture, rape, murder and dismemberment, all depicted with excruciating realism and detail, well, it's just not as fun as it used to be. I'm no prude or puritan, but I find that the gravity of my soul is feeling the pull of other orbits. Turning the anguish and suffering of sentient beings into prurient, voyeuristic "entertainment" seems odd to me now. Jung said we must embrace our shadow side. Yeah, I get it. But acknowledging it isn't the same thing as reveling in it and filling hours and hours of every evening with it. The darkness just doesn't have the same allure it used to. | | Books | Been reading poets like Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Robert Hass, Rumi and Hafiz lately. But there's a special place in my heart for Czeslaw Milosz. The earth rumbles, the sky brightens, the blood warms and faint music pours down quiet city streets as you read the truths he pulls from the shadows of our lives. Also dipping back into Emerson's essays. Pure gold. Steinbeck is king. Hemingway is god. Ken Wilber is a probably a genius. His more than occasional condescension is somewhat off putting, but if you stick with him, you love what he brings more than you loath how he brings it. I get just a little bit smarter every time I read him. I count Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti among my teachers. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" should be inserted into the Bible, say between Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. If Whitman isn't a prophet, I don't know who is. Thoreau, maddox in hand, breaks through the hard-pan surface of things to what's eternal and real. The Bhagavad Gita haunts me every day. The Tao te Ching is the mist blowing across the green hills of my dreams. Krishnmurti feels like sunlight and tears.
As a boy, my imaginary friends were Bradbury, Tokien, Twain, Vonnegut and Hesse. They got in so deep I don't know where they end and I begin. At 16, Gibran's The Prophet pushed me off the pier and into deep water where I've been treading ever since. Castaneda and Tom Robbins were rafts. | | Heroes | People who live quiet, simple lives of integrity, depth, beauty and courage. Maybe I'll get there someday. |
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Peter Bolland's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Hometown: | Paterson, New Jersey Ventura, California | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No |
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Peter Bolland's Companies
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Broken Hills Productions
San Diego, California US
President/CEO
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2002 to present
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Long Road Records
San Diego, California US
President/CEO
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2002 to present
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The Coyote Problem
San Diego, California US
Front Man
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2002 to present
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Southwestern College
Chula Vista, California US
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
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1991 to present
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About me:
I have a new music page. Please add Peter Bolland music as a friend. A great life found me. I have work I love, a rare marriage, brilliant friends, a loving family and a kick-butt band, The Coyote Problem. I teach philosophy, religion, mythology and humanities at Southwestern College. I write essays, poetry and songs and play a good guitar (which is different from playing guitar good).
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Who I'd like to meet:
Meeting your heroes is tricky business. It's a little disconcerting realizing they're human. But ultimately inspiring. Because you realize, hey, maybe I could do something great too. They did. And they're not that different from me.
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I'd like to meet myself more often, the real me, instead of the scared, worried me I'm used to living with. Occasionally crossing paths with him keeps me inspired.
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