Riuichi Sakamoto, Kenny Burrell, Elbow, Blonde Redhead, Kurt Elling, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Barnes Trio, Habib Koité, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Ravi Shankar, Nick Drake, Belle & Sebastian, Norah Jones, Dowland, Arvo Pärt, the Books, Tiger Saw, Solas, Simon & Garfunkel, Neutral Milk Hotel, Iron and Wine, the Incredible String Band, the Dresden Dolls, Wax Poetic, Turtle Island String Quartet, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Gorillaz, Dead Can Dance, Konono No.1, the Be Good Tanyas, Dave Brubeck, Gesualdo, Shostakovich, Fauré, the Dirty Three, Joni Mitchell, Purcell, Art Stamper, Basil Kirchin, Edie Brickell, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Andrés Segovia, Liberation Prophecy, Holborne, William Byrd, the Mashrooms, Boismortier, Marais, Chick Corea, Return to Forever, Pink World, Sezen Aksu
Movies
Rabbit-Proof Fence, Auntie Mame, Amélie, Waking Life, Dreams, Dead Poets Society, When Harry Met Sally, Quills, Dancer in the Dark, Dark City, the Secretary, the Matrix, the Princess Bride, Grave of the Fireflies, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, Chocolat, the Cider House Rules, the Pianist, Dark Crystal, What Dreams May Come, Walkabout, Orlando, Ghosts in the Shells, Cowboy Bebop, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Touching Wild Horses, Doctor Zhivago, the Man from Snowy River, Much Ado About Nothing, What the ..$*! Do We Know!?, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the Royal Tenenbaums, Dune, Castle in the Sky, Punch-Drunk Love, Eat Drink Man Woman, Life is Beautiful, American Beauty, Pleasantville, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Patch Adams, My Fair Lady, Citizen Kane, the NeverEnding Story, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Television
Blake's 7, Red Dwarf, Doctor Who, Record of Lodoss War, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Stargate series, Code Geass, the Venture Brothers, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Books
David Icke, Stewart Swerdlow, Terry Goodkind's the Sword of Truth series, Drunvalo Melchizedek, Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time series, all of David Eddings, Barbara Brennan's Hands of Light and Light Emerging, the Stone and the Flute - Hans Bremmann, Hanna Kroeger's books, some of the Forgotten Realms series, Dragon Lance - old school, Angus Wells, George R. R. Martin, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Robberson's Sword-Dancer saga, L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Recluse series, Fred Saberhagen's the Book of Swords, Brain Jaques, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Terry Brooks, Mickey Zucker Reichert's Last of the Renshai series
Heroes
Stewart Swerdlow, David Icke, Buddha, my Dad, Jim Marrs, Alex Jones, LinkTV, Michael Tsarion, Freeman Fly, the Dalai Lama, my grandmother, and anyone who's been in a relationship with me. ;}
budding improv. cellist. accoustic, amplified fingerstyle: baroque/classical, folk, noir, eastern, soul, blues, zen minimal to flowery. a young yo yo meets jaco. shadow pickup through marshall accoustic.
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I teach and play cello. I'm interested in natural living, natural buildings, also writing and recording music; and seeking the naturalness of passionate creative truth within all of us. I'm an alternative historian, energy healer, Rainbow brother.
I know we and everything are all beautiful, but there are things working against us; there are things needing to be done to change from the way we have been led. I believe that through Love, Compassion, and Knowledge, we can build a conscious and living structure of Harmony. I believe we have a responsibility for what is happening on this planet, and I for one don't want to let it loose on the universe.
Let us try to listen to each other and flow love and gratitude even to the things that can't thank us directly. Through conscious change and demand of life, in every situation we encounter, we will have the tools to seek the knowledge that will help set us on our gentle and powerful way. Much love to you.
Blessings and Namaste.
"...Now I break out of my physical shell and exhale past this so called body... But in this land of the lost the cost of souls could be so high/ People be gettin high, wondering why we die/ But it's all planned, forget your fear take the hand/ We keep on returning cause the lessons need learning... If you free them they will start revolution/ and Babylon can not defeat them"
-k-os
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"What good the science that destroys itself? What purpose in awakening every morning for a wearisome daily struggle to reach the evening in a state of exhaustion, to reach the agony of such an empty life…As long as cerebral intelligence governs the world, it will be dominated by beings of inferior mentality..."
- R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
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Who I'd like to meet: ...some really sincere forest creatures who want to sit for a chat.
*Rainbow Family & Katrina: New Waveland Café* --- Rainbows in the press ---
Some Rainbow Family sets up a kitchen/ awesome facility in Waveland Mississippi, days after Katrina. It's a great example of how independent vision and organized love can help with what is needed most, where they need it the most -extremely heartwarming and hopeful for our society-; when need is the most, we recognize what we need most is Love. This video is amusing, beautiful, touching.
I had the pleasure to meet two of these Brothers and Sisters in Ocala, FL, at the regional there. Sister Dirty Momma and Arjay, Lovin' you! They are sweet, loving, beautiful souls.
Rainbow pictures:
European International Rainbow Gathering - Germany ('05): Family Photos
California National Gathering pictures ('04): Family Photos
I reccomend Rainbow Gatherings (& Rainbow Consciousness!) to all.
sorry i've been such a stranger. i'm a horrible friend but an excellent hermit. my apartment being my familiar hermitage. my mind being my playground. nothing is holy, nothing is tainted . . . everything is permitted.
Not in vain is My Promise that I shall ever lighten your burden. Knock, and the door shall open. Ask and ye shall be granted. I wish that you could have a cool Asian Afro like me and Sai Baba.
james i really like your current song. i will be around in a month so-perhaps we can get together and listen to it over and over again and you know like discuss the nature of the world and whatnot. or have a beer. whatever.
