http://www.myspace.com/nzbannerman

Situations were playing out in a less than ideal way. Vulnerable backpackers with little to no direction except for my spurts of intuitive guidance, throwing us in the most counterintuitive path to righteousness. long story short, our plans disintegrated, allowing for an opportunity to be recognized by a cool brazilian fella who just so happened to notice us as the lost-looking backpackers from earlier in the day. he directed us to go see this band play an incredible set in auckland.

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another."

— Anaïs Nin

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a mysteriously fantastic unpredictable universe

hello lovely

you have worked for many lifetimes to be able to experience the richness of experiences that you are having today. Try not to take for granted, that which you have worked many lifetimes for....

red coral and the worlds largest storm

it used to be that comfort was indispensable and one did not have to think about the source of warm water or other things that constitute the comfort coated sensory experience. the shift in perspective that comes as a result of becoming aware of the things you take for granted is perhaps one of the most significant experiences that one could have. One experiences comforts with a new sense of appreciation that causes a deeper level of satisfaction and intimacy with the rapturous experience of being alive.

"I wish I could show you
when you are lonely
or in darkness,
the astonishing light
of your own being"

— Hafiz

the coyote that fasts

Nezahualcoyotl, the philosopher king

http://www.myspace.com/sallieford

The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK, online lecture, Dec. 5, 20

i am leaving for new zealand tomorrow in order to follow my dreams

anticipation is a hostile state of existence