(this is better-covered in the 'Blurbs' section, but, basically:)
Buddhism. Meditation. Art and design. Photography. Advertising. Punk rock. Doom and death-metal. Hip-hop. Skateboarding. Writing. Comedy. Blah blah blah.
Music
Punk, metal, death-metal, hip-hop, rock, experimental music, ambient music, reggae; Jah Wobble, Shambhala (the hip-hop group), Wu-Tang Clan, Pelican, Weezer, Only Crime, Black Sabbath, Boards of Canada, Samhain, Gary Numan, David Axelrod, Public Enemy, Ruin, RZA, Mastodon, The Hidden Hand, Beastie Boys, Can, Tosca, Maxi Jazz, Faithless, Kunga 219, Anticon, Roy Orbison, Prince, Oaxerai, Odd Nosdam, Isis, The Firstborn, Craig Armstrong, Max Romeo, Jay-Z, David Sylvian, Isan, Squarepusher, Black Flag, Beach Boys, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Lou Reed, System of a Down, Desendents / ALL, DJ Krush, Thelonious Monk, Earth Wind and Fire, Mogwai, Saint Vitus, Dennis Bovell, Kasuf and the Mazz Movement, Prince Paul, John Coltrane, Bad Brains, Roky Erickson, Husker Du, Cat Stevens, Richie Hawtin, Pere Ubu, Tool, Public Image Ltd (PiL), Shades Apart, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, David Darling, Wretch Like Me, DJ Shadow, Painkiller, Polecat, Alice Cooper, Sugar, Cramps, Probot, Nina Hagen, The Obsessed, Blind Idiot God, Helmet, Wings, Beck, Philip Glass, Buried at Sea, Metallica, Pete Rock, Sade, Cave In, Johnny Cash, Pole, Unit, The Album Leaf, Brian Eno, Isaac Hayes, Sixtoo, Lemons, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ornette Coleman, Lovage, Breakbeat Era, Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, Fantomas, Tim Hecker, Glenn Branca, Missy Elliot, Terry Riley, King Tubby, Madonna, Bobby Conn, T. Rex, Talvin Singh, Ginger Baker, Muggs, Massive Attack, Portishead, Laurie Anderson, Jimmy Scott, Madlib, Mandrill, Ravi Shankar, Napalm Death, Roni Size, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Radiohead, Witchman, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Zappa, Electric Prunes, Akbar, Hieroglyphics, Nellie McKay, Chuck D., Sofa Surfers, MF Doom, Karminsky, Biggie, GZA/Genius, Jurassic 5, Deltron 3030, Earl Shilton, etc etc.
Movies
Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, Star Wars, Ghost Dog, Groundhog Day, Yeah Right!, George A. Romero's zombie movies, Dogtown and Z-Boys; um, um... lots more. Can't think of them right now.
Television
My Name is Earl, South Park, The Soup, 60 Minutes, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Lost, Chappelle's Show, Sealab, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Da Ali G Show. That's about it.
Books
Mindfulness in Plain English; The Answer is Never; The Fermata; One Dharma; Our Band Could Be Your Life; Almost Home; Hardcore Zen; Living in the Light of Death; Pure Heart Enlightened Mind; Skateboarding, Space and the City; Pure and Simple; Fingerprints of the Gods; Manifesto; Damn Everything but the Circus; Franny and Zooey; Broken Summers; Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction; A Dirty Job; Hungry Ghost; The Wu-Tang Manual; Pure Drivel; Novice to Master; Hunger; The Air-Conditioned Nightmare; Inconspicuous Consumption; Taking the Path of Zen; Maakies; The Ambient Century; Choosing Death; David Gates; John Fante; Spalding Gray. Plus, these magazines: Buddhadharma, Shambhala Sun, Elemental, Chow, Radar, Tricycle, Punk Planet, Giant Robot, beautiful/Decay, Insight, Bark, Adweek, Wax Poetics.
Heroes
Maura O'Halloran, William M. Gaines, David Ogilvy, Jah Wobble, Soko Morinaga, Sinead O'Connor, Graham Hancock, Lin Jensen, Barbara Kruger, Trey Parker, Hiroshi Sugimoto, George Carlin, Eric Gill, David Cross, Cindy Sherman, Robert Aitken, George Lois, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Spalding Gray, Toni Packer, Scott Weinrich, Yoko Ono, Andy Kaufman, Woody Allen, Nicholson Baker, James Ishmael Ford, Larry Rosenberg, Damien Echols. This feels silly.
About me: Welcome to the MySpace page for theworsthorse.net-- a webzine that looks at how pop-culture, subculture and Buddhism (and/or meditation) do or don't mix.
This can mean many things. Like, say, Buddhism and ____________:
(choose one)
art / photography / sex / advertising / punk rock / heavy metal / hip-hop / surfing / skateboarding / movies / tv / comedy / and on and on.
As our site's "About" page says:
...The meditation teacher Larry Rosenberg says, "We can't all be celibate monks!" So what are we to be?
We're to be what we are: younger people, getting older; city-dwellers; misfits; hip-hop heads; punkers; computer-agers; mountain-climbers; artists; horror-movie buffs; whatever we actually are. Only, working on it, too.
Buddhism emphasizes that there's only NOW. For most of us, our Now, our reality, takes place in a world informed by media, pop-culture, sexuality, and on and on. That's the world where our practice has to happen, if it's gonna. It's do-able.
theworsthorse.net is loaded with constantly updated news and links, plus original content and a dedicated message-board.
Come check us out. Thanks!
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I've been trying to find info on a man called Kobutsu Malone since I saw that he is to be giving a retreat at a Zendo in my area that I have had my doubts about (Blue Mountain Zendo in PA) but haven't found much other than his bio on his page and links for books that he wrote. I thought "Well the horse always seems honest and unafraid of giving their opinion so why not see if they have any thoughts or info." Thanks so much for all of your time and help.
A comment on your 'About' page .. Buddhism theaches that there is no NOW dude. All things are in constant flux, so it's misleading to say there's only now... roll on bro With metta Aryapala
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