I am a creative person. My passions are art, music, spirituality, revolution, nature, ecological design & food growing.
I am an ethically driven person with a good sense of humor. I am all about expanding consciousness & having a good time doing it! I seek to help, to change things for the better, to shift paradigms. I work hard & play hard. Simply, I am a person who cares.
I live in the Now.
I am about preserving (the positive aspects of) the past & embracing the new times with an open mind & heart. I see the sacred in everything, including the profane. I am about harmoniously uniting polarities, reveling in the marriage of Heaven, Earth, Hades & that other place where people just hang out. Multidimensionality is my (& your) nature, & I believe we are more than the sum of our parts. Can I get a witness?
Not too long ago I was focusing primarily on eco-design. I've decided recently that my farm & nursery business is a long term sort of a mission that will be operating in the background of my life indefinitely. I'll be working with the plants regardless of whatever else. ..but when it comes to my what I need to do now.. I've recently realized I must be what I am, an artist & musician. My muse has emerged recently & I'm feeling waves of creativity moving through me.
I try to make time to just be.
P.S. This website's database doesn't seem to recognize my favorite metal bands such as Wintersun, Strapping Young Lad, Arcturus & Borknagar.
I hear dubstep is the new thing, huh. Yeah, like ten years ago.
haha. I'm playing... for real.
I am open to listen to anything, really. What I want to hear time & again is relative, & I'm extremely selective about what I would actually purchase because when it comes down to it, I'm pretty picky! I have some favorites in just about every style though.
Ultimately, genre doesn't mean s**t to me, other than a cultural context for the music (all of which fascinates me to no end). The science of sound surely transcends all the little labels we invent for everything. That being said, genres are an incredibly useful tool to give someone an instant idea of what sound you're talking about... & yet it will never do justice to each individual soul, artist, piece, rhythm, or melody of the song.
Here's a little dissertation I wrote on music for another ancient profile, if you'd care to read it:
The cutting edge of the future as it bleeds into Now, the ancient as time itself...
So many artists, so many bands, so many albums, so many songs...
Let us remember & re-awaken all the wonderful & genuine soulful music & its composers & performers that came before us...
Let us pay respect to those who originated what we may take for granted...
Let us not forget that what we have wouldn't be possible, were it not for those brave adventurers who pioneered the art & science of communing with the spirits for their sacred song.
It is with they (the people, the spirits) in mind that I list a few "classifications" of the sound spectrum I enjoy, in no particular order:
OLD VINYL!!!, rock'n'roll, pre-punk, old school punk, punk rock, post-punk, pop punk, punk pop, street punk, hardcore punk, hardcore, grindcore, thrash, crust, speed metal, black metal, death metal, doom metal, epic metal, fantasy/Tolkien metal, European/Scandanavian metal (like Finnish, Norwiegan, Swedish etc.), Celtic, Euro-folk, bluegrass, blues, old west country, acoustic, jam, funk, psychedelic, classic rock, progressive, groove, world beat, many forms of electronica, triphop, hiphop, dub, reggae, jazz, swing, big band, ska, surf, garage, tribal, ancient, new age, ambience, mystical/religious (like Gregorian monks, Indian raga, African drumming, Native American, Tibetan etc.), classical...
...really anything raw and real, fantastic or magikal, worldly or spiritual.
...epic classical, obscure oldies, trance, drum'n'bass, guitar, vocal MUSIC.
