Growth; Advaita; Inspiration Facilitation; Street Performing; The Book (as in "god is the book that is using my life to write itself")
Music
Carrie Tree; Martha Tilston; The Bolinski Project; Pink & Ruby; Jamie Woon; Pink Punk; The Hat; Bob Marley; Roots Manouver; Eryka Badu; Jill Scott; Common; Stevie Wonder; The Streets; Eminem
Movies
The Matrix; Magnolia; The Shawshank Redemption; American Beauty; Seven; Winter Kills; Fargo; The Big Lebowski; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Irreversible; The Godfather I & II; (anything by) Laurel & Hardy, Once upon a time in the West/America; The Fisher King; Casino Royal; The Parallax View; Team America; Fight Club; What About Bob; Groundhog Day; Memento; Lord of the Rings 1,2,3; Alien; Aliens; Terminator 1 & 2; Ben Hur; The Maltese Falcon; Brazil; Life of Brian; Excalibur; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: I heart Huckabees; The Truman Show; Touching the Void; Bound; Casino; Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction; True Romance; The French Connection
Television
Don't watch it anymore but used to love The Simpsons: Frasier; Family Guy, Spitting Image
Books
Catch 22; Life of Pi; Beloved; 100 years of Solitude; Anything by Thomas Harris
Heroes
Ramana Maharshi, Leo Hartong, Chuck Hillig; Muhammed Ali, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Simeon Miller & Maceo Ashby
After 15 years as a devotee of the rat race, at the not-so-tender age of 34, i was gifted with the realization that the money, power, status, sex and material gratification that the marketing people had promised would make me happy...wouldn't.
And so in a fit of peak, after a nervous breakdown/spiritual breakthrough (depending on your point of view) i gave up my £70K p.a. job in advertising and went to live under a tree in Battersea park.
During those life changing 7 months, in the spring & summer of 2002, i sold the Big Issue magazine on the streets of Victoria and blissfully bumbled around Battersea like the bling-less bum i'd become. Why? Well, i had the bonkers idea that if i could go back to square one, start at ground zero (in other words become a nobody) and if i could let go of my conditioned beliefs about who i was and what constituted a "succesful" life, i'd be giving myself the opportunity to find an authentic answer to the question that had begun to plague me, day and night: What is the purpose of my life?
3 months into my decidedly desperate experiment, poetry began to pour relentlessly out of me like demonically possesed projectile vomit, (i'd never written a poem in my life before this)and 5 years later, i am astonished to find myself in the highly fortunate position of living the life i feel i was born to live...or more to the point...i'm beginning to get the hang, of getting out of the way, so that life can live me!!! The main benefit of my existential loafing is that it gives me the time and space to contemplate, create and collaberate with other artists and friends who are celebrating the beauty of unity in multiplicity, unusually, musically, cluelessly and beautifully
Hey rodney thanks for the matrix poem I thought it was awesome.I just shared it with my facebook network.please feel free to come and add me if you are there.I couldn't find you there for some reason. Hope you are doing well.
Following up on the full moon eclipse that morning...:
Tues 7th July @ 'The Others' Stoke Newington London
The final UK 09 performance of Orryelle, Chaorder Magickian Musickian and Theatrickalist from Australia - http://www.myspace.com/orryelle Employing violin, voice, butoh dance and harmonic chanting, Orryelle will be exploring improvisational/invocational kinetic soundscapes in collaborative conjunction with London's experimental electronicists 'This Too Shall Pass' - http://www.myspace.com/flowersbonesandriotblood
(Sekhmet statue by Orryelle)
Plus more experimentia from 'WaRoNeRrOr'
£5 entry, 8pm start, Tues 7th July @ The Others 6 and 8 Manor Road London N16 5SA - http://www.theothers.uk.com
Tube: Finsbury Park, then 106 bus Train: Stoke Newington (from Liverpool Street) Buses: 67, 73, 76, 106, 149, 243, 476 (all stop @ Stoke Newington BR)
Short doco on Orryelle's performancy and other arts by Peter Gleeson:
Well what can i say!? Paradox well done you are a true inspiration to us all, man i dont have much to give but im definatly going to donate! hows it going, have you started your fast yet? One love Inlak'esh brother!
