wavingmonkey
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | practictioner |
| Location | McleodGanj,Dharamshala, H.P., India |
| Introduction | As a Buddhist there are several purposes for blogging my life and times.My early years were conditioned by West Texas culture and values. Buddhism's fruition is purifying this conditioning and transforming the three poisons that habituate the nature of my mind. So as an ex-Pat I've come to live out my years purifying that which ails me. Please join me as I love company.I'm a little illiterate but lately honest and sworn to frank revelations. There are many on this path with me and we'll hear from them also. But the big questions about life and death are not to be revealed here.That's not this blogs preview.I prefer the haunting notions or unformed questions just out of reach. |
| Interests | I will stop here and come back with update on this antarctic tract. It's different then you might think. |
| Favorite movies | Casa Blanca,,All Raymond Chandler,,The Big Sleep,,Providence,Midnight Cowboy,Godfather,King of Hearts,Bridge Over River Kwai,, MORE FILMS I LIKE,, Moon Struck,,Out of Africa,Blade Runner,Raging Bull,,Apocalypes Now,,Taxi Driver,,Deer Hunter,,Mean Streets,,Seven Beauties,CoolHand Luke,,Pulp Fiction,The Apostle,Leaving Las Vegas,,Saving Private Ryne,,Bourne Ultimatum,,A hat tip to Clint Eastwoods movies,,Sex Lies and Videotapes ,,Rebel without a Cause,,To Kill a Mockingbird,,2001 A Space Odyssey,,Maltese Falcon,,Some movies that maybe were not so good but had an impact were: ,Yellow Submarine very fresh art at that time,,Samson- he was my hero when I was seven years old,**and as mentioned in a post at this blog "influential foreign flix,, Cinema Paradiso,,La Dolce Vita ,8 1/2,,The Night of the Shooting Stars,,Nosferatu,,Wings of Desire,, Lots of these movies,, O.K., I'll admit it I really like 'Legends of the Fall', |
| Favorite music | Gypsy bebop,,Dr.L.Subramaniam"His haunting Carnatic violin is the best",Middle Eastern music's Oud, Arabic/Hindi fusion ,,Mockingbird- Inez Fox,,Red Wine- You Be Forty ,, Isralites-Desmond Dekker,, Do Wop, Delta Blues ,, Adagio for Strings- Barber, ,,Let It Bleed the Stones,,Bringing it all Home-Bob Dylan,,Revolver-The Beatles,, songs by Otis Redding,,Blood on the Tracks -Bob Dylan,,All Miles Davis-In A Silent Way,,Oh Happy Day- Edward Hawkins Singers,,Weather Report, the Jazz band ,,Fifties songs I grow up on,,Young Blood,,Poison Ivy,,Searchin- Coasters,,Chuck Berry,,Little Richard,,Ray Charles** Of course I am looking all this up but man there were some great stuff to listen to.And there's more,,The House of the Risin Sun-The Animals,,Louie Louie why not,,Sympathy for the Devil,,The Good,the Bad and the Ugly,, |
| Favorite books | Women- Charles Bukowski ,,Lonesome Dove,,One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Catcher in the Rye,,The Great Gatsby,,Cyrano de Bergerac,, Brideshead Revisted,, Moviegoer,,The Tibetan Book of Living and Dieing - Sogyal Rimpoche,, The Advantures of Augie March,,Slaughterhouse-five,,On the Road-Kerouac,,Catch 22,Heller,,Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance,,Journey into the End of Night-Celine,,Poems of Pablo Neruda,,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,,Tobacco Road,,On the Beach,,John Steinbeck had a great influence-that was my army years.20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,,Electric Acid Koll-aid Test,,Candy-the high point of my education, the real high point is 'Words of my Perfect Teacher' not for the non practitioner, |