Poetry, Writing, Philosophy, Photography, Making Tea, Reading, Nature, Music, Painting and Sculpting on occasion, Colorful,intelligent conversations and encounters with old & new friends. Random,Obnoxious bouts of silliness and / or insanity, Gardening, Cooking, Sex, Love, Smoking, the occasional tandem jump, The constant search for new angles from which to view life and death. Putting my life energy into making every aspect of my life magical, peaceful, and meaningful... To ME., Lots of other ordinary and not-so- ordinary things.
Music
Ian Anderson (you know, the flute guy from Jethro Tull)
Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Damned, Cheech n Chong, Pink Floyd (All solo work from any of the band members, Fav. Pink F. DVD: Live @ Pompeii), Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen, Procol Harem, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac (All incarnations), Tuvan Throat Music, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Moody Blues, Robbie Roberston, Eric Burdon, Donovan, Leon Russell, Billie Holiday, The list goes on into the eternities! If you're really curious, just look over there in the stash of tunes I've got playing. It's not much, but it's a sampling.
Movies
Powder, BoonDock Saints, Girl Talk To Me, Live Concert DVD's From Lindsey Buckingham, Mountain, James Taylor, Pink Floyd's The Wall; Also Live At Pompeii, Tom Petty, Dylan, The Who, Isle of Wight, Woodstock The original one (yes, the one with all the idealistic hippies innit), The Neverending Story, Lady Sings the Blues (Billie D Williams was Hawt shit in that-- I don't care who he allegedly bitch slapped), Kung Fu Hustle, Anything with David Carradine, or Clint Eastwood innit, Butterfly Effect, The Notebook, What's Love Got To Do With It, Madea's Family Reunion, Scarface, Godfather Movies (Yet again, anything with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro innit, Gotti, Almost Famous, Walk the Line (I've met J. Cash and He was a quiet, deeply spiritual,polite man, who had no pretenses, no, not one)., Lewis Black stuff, Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni is a genius in this film), Harry Potter Movies (all of them), The Doors Movie, The Saint, A Clockwork Orange, and all of the cult classics, Most anything from the IFC, Avant-Garde Films, Pretty in Pink (Molly Ringwald is the chit), Blow, Cutaway, Spy Game, Interview With A Vampire (I've met Anne Rice as well, and she is also a quiet, polite person, VERY intelligent woman!), Barfly, 28 Days, Memoirs of A Geisha, Zodiac, 10 things I hate about you (which is a remake of Taming of the Shrew-- SHAKESPEARE), A Knight's Tale, Wonderland, Girl Fight (Michelle Rodriguez is the chit), Surviving Picasso (also a favorite-- anything with Anthony Hopkins innit), Quentin Tarantino's creations, Good Will Hunting, Ron White's 'They Call Me Tater Salad', Rodney Bingenheimer Mayor of The Sunset Strip, Shine, Arthur, The Last American Virgin, Gandhi, Patch Adams, Pump Up The Volume, The Rainmaker, Yoga Series From Rodney Yee-- Not just to watch!!), American History X, Something's Got To Give, Easy Rider, The Departed, Only You (Marissa Tomei), Anything with Robert Downey, Jr. Innit, K-Pax, Swimming With the Sharks, The list is Endless, and could go on until monkeys figure out how to diagram the trajectory of the entire universe, as we know it...
You Scored as Akasha
You are the ultimate in ambition. You don't just want to own the world you want to make crawl to you on its hands and knees begging for mercy or at the least a taste!
Television
Supposedly, It's not cool to watch TV anymore, but who gives two boo boos about that? How else are young kids going to learn about themselves and the world these days? Oh, that's right, there's the internet... ;)
James Baldwin's "Another Country" (God, this book is in my 'top five best pieces of literature I've ever read in my life' list)
Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent"
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Absolute Zero by Kevin Alexander Boon
Anything by Charles Bukowski
Aphra Behn
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The beat writers (William S. Burroughs,Kerouac, Ginsberg, N. Cassidy, Aldous Huxley, etc...)
Goethe
Voltaire
Neil Gaiman
Ed Sanders
Immanuel Kant
Douglas Adams
Anything on Taoism
Buddhism
Zen
Hinduism
Greek Mythology
Virginia Woolf (Particularly, Orlando)
Gloria Steinem
"Japanese Death Poems" By Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the verge of Death.
William Butler Yeats
Dylan Thomas
Konstantinos' collection (www.konstantinos.com)
Hafiz
Herman Melville's Moby Dick (great classic)
Richard Wright
Ellison
Rumi
The Portable Atheist
Beautiful losers
Reefer Madness
Running With Scissors (Augusten Burroughs)
Sellevision (A.B)
Magical Thinking (A.B.)
Possible Side Effects (A.B.)
Dry (A.B)
Homer
Ovid
Aristophanes
Virgil
Sappho
Plato's Republic
Hrafnkel and the Priest of Frey
Dante's Inferno, The Divine Comedy 1 Hell
Michel de Montaigne
Cervantes' Don Quixote (Spanish and English Versions,respectively)
Shakespeare, SHAKESPEARE, Shakespeare is the Master of the Universe.
Milton's Paradise lost, Paradise found, etc.
Dr. Seuss Books My favorite is the all time classic "Green Eggs N Ham"
Perfect The Pig
The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein's works are awesome, even if he was into the porno scene and then broke into the children's book writing scene)
Simulations of God by John C. Lilly, M.D.
Marx's Communist Manifesto
The Fuck Up by Arthur Nersesian
The Prevalence of Deceit by F.G. Bailey
Pronoia by Rob Brezsny
Adrienne Rich
Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Faulkner
Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman
Robert Lowell's poetry ('Skunk Hour' being my favorite of his)
Anything with universal truths (concerning the collective unconscious, or truths outside of such); or things that pique my interest, for whatever reason.
Yet, This is Another List That could go on Until Ants Crawl freely on the surface of Uranus.
Heroes
No one is worthy of Heroic worship, not even those who tell the truth...
Except maybe for The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
The Declaration:
I am laying heavy, dead, bloated, ballooning in the tub, inanimate ,yet breathing... thinking, while the plateau of my foot absorbs the white cold shock drop of water from the leaky shower head above. The only indication of life for my still, inanimate form is the movement of my black insect eyes that dart and stare, piercing the warm, plasmid water, which will also become cold soon enough.I notice that doctrines of the dead trail on any thought hinting of desperation or despair and absorbs and surrounds my ghostly, earthbound form. Those desperate, sinning, miasmic thoughts jettison straight to you; the embodiment of my lust, my doctrine. You are a worn piece of leather tempered by the blue flame. You draw me in to your center, leaving my body back somewhere that doesn't matter; Like, for example, here in this tub. I lay here recalling what a man once told me… That I will have to trade my sanity for the ability to write-- like the masters. What a small price to pay, what a short trip. I remember reading somewhere that the best writers are separated from themselves,seemingly distant, standing behind some bodily form that they had chosen in some weird cosmic state of predilection. And while sitting typing on a laptop, some lucid topic, they define this multidirectional, and multi- dimensional hallucination. I ask with a thousand silent whisperings: what do they mean separated? Aren't we separated now? What if we were completely sane, wouldn't being separated like we are now take its toll eventually? Won't time march us towards the firing squad at some point? Why not go ahead and disappear? Become some invisible shell? That way at that crucial moment when the bullet hits, traveling at the speed of light, ripping through sinew & flesh, we could be numb, unfeeling, having said all we had to say, in the words of some great master, that is ourselves. Hell yes, I would trade my sanity to write. Right now, as a matter of fact. And here is documented proof of trade. Signed, sealed and delivered.
-- Sans (TCA) 2002
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In that impregnable, surrealistic dizziness
I pieced together your
torn letter
under the light;
And read all misspelled words
as if there were no mistakes.
I knew your name,
and sat with you among volumes of books.
I reached you
through interwoven sonnets of tragic
Lovers--
whose death, like ours,
occurred directly
upon Awakening.
I was a sailor along for the ride. And I did not know where I was going, or from whence I had come. All I knew was that I was a seeker, whom had left everything behind. I had to grow my sea-legs. Little did I know, that this was a pivotal night of radical change. I sensed something was coming. I sensed that I had encased more personal power than the night previous. But it was only the beginning. And I had no idea of what, specifically, was to occur...
It was a night of the usual-- dropping acid and smoking bong hits, while listening to The Who. Conversations and communications consisted of telepathic, ghostly innuendos which transferred, like lightening from one possessed soul into another.
Small lessons were learned, such as, that truth is always evident, and that there are no secrets. And that ego is a useless, illusory roadblock which serves no purpose other than to cause the possessor of it to look like a fool in the face of soul-nakedness.
So, the usual music was playing, the usual drugs were being ingested, and the occurrence of building up of sexual energy-- for later consumption, was taking place.
Until...
I had to pee. By this time, the acid was kicking in, and we had a good buzz going, (which took the edge off of the blotter), and I had to go use the bathroom. So I put down my coffee cup and meandered towards the upstairs bathroom. I reveled in my foolish, youthful invincibility, as I ascended the winding staircase. I eventually reached the top floor.
No sooner did I reach the plateau of the bedroom on the top floor, did I sense an ominous, foreboding presence in the back of the room, casually sitting behind the heavy, hand-carved oak desk, in the over-sized black leather office chair. I was not alarmed, as I did not feel threatened. The overly large, dark being had no visual malice towards me, as it did nothing but sit in that chair waiting for something. The dark figure had been waiting for me.
I thought nothing of it, really. So, I went about my business in the bathroom. Even as I was sitting on the throne, I continued to sense the being's presence, but continued to think nothing of it. It wasn't there to hurt me, that much I knew. So I decided to live and let live.
No big deal.
I finished up in the bathroom, and turned off the light. I walked, casually out of the bathroom, and stopped. The dark, ominous presence was still there. Only this time, he stood up. I was in awe watching this presence going throught the motions of standing up. I couldn't believe my eyes. I was actually watching this being in motion. This was how I came to know of the presence as being real, and actual and not some figment of my imagination.
He stood up, and moved from behind the desk over to where I was standing, and stopped four feet, directly in front of me. I telepathically asked what it wanted, because by this time, the being had just been in the room, and had said nothing to me.
I asked him this question, and got no response. He just stood there-- all eight feet of him. The being was tall and very wide-- about three feet in width. Surprisingly large, like one of those freakishly large football players, whom you think can't be real, and would not believe it so, if he were not standing in front of you, in all of his grandeur.
I continued to ponder why, and how it came to be that this large, dark being made his way into my life and continued not to answer me. I gave up, figuring that he would not answer any of my questions no matter how long I stood there.
So, I turned, and descended down the twisting stairs towards the living room area, where I had left my coffee. This time, pondering who or what the being was, instead of focusing on my youthful beauty.
Just as soon as I got down the stairs, I heard a thousand quiet whisperings saying: "You are now one of us." I hesitantly walked forward, through a spirit trellis/ gate, which was lined with roses, intertwined at the cornerstone of the structure. I'd felt that I had been initiated into something; into what I did not know. But I knew that I 'd felt different. Safe. Protected. Loved. And Accepted-- a feeling that I had never known before in my short, brutish life.
And of course, my fiance just stood there asking what that thing was that I had brought into the house. I could not answer him because I had not brought anything into anywhere. The presence showed up of its own accord, and was still there for a good while after the events had unfolded. Not once that evening, did the presence intrude maliciously.
He was powerful, and I sensed that he could have been menacing. But when he appeared to me, it felt as if I were being gently embraced; like a beloved friend.
Years later, after the crux of my seeking was over, and I had become a spiritual master, and had overcome most of the things there were to overcome, did I realize that this dark, foreboding, and potentially menacing presence was my spirit guide, come to bid me farewell through my journey into the deepest parts of the dark forest of this thing we call the human condition. It was much later that I discovered his name: Abbadon.
Lie down anywhere
on this wet rock
at night
and stare into
the furious tantrum of stars
and feel
how this planet tries
to fling you
away,
how it tries to recede
from the touch of your body
like a lover
who's grown sick of you.
Try to say where this place is
(as if a chart meant anything,
as if location meant anything).
Do you own a map?
Look!
"You are Here"
but
you're going to be splattered
in the explosion
which is turning the mechanism
of gravity,
and you won't know what that's all about
till the total mass of the universe crushes you
and you die.
With this as the inevitable ending,
do you really want to know your place
in the greater scheme of things?
Instead of that
maybe you should
get a job,
be cynical
and
spend your salary
on sensations;
or perhaps you should
smoke a lot of pot
to dull sensation
till all that's left is delusion
and convince yourself
that it's a state of
heightened awareness;
or maybe some LSD,
which will allow you to tongue-kiss god;
or try religion,
which will allow you
to give god a rim job;
or you can kill someThing;
or fuck someThing;
Or you can eat Things.
The important Thing is
to just keep busy,
because Americans
have all gone nutsy--
They've been looking for Noah's Ark,
running for president,
and they often experience feelings
of madness and isolation;
and that may be because
they see something
unspeakable
when they look back
over their shoulder
from the surface
of the moon.
TCA 2006
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