What interests me ..NOT activities exactly

Geography interests me. However that is not like cycling or even photography -- which one can say one DOES.

Geography, somehow, is different.

Appreciating where things are. Geography I'm thinking which is usually not so far off; but instead where one can go easily. Where one can check the accuracy of one's map, or fill in details which were not printed on the map.

Visits for scenery's sake, well also are as geographical exercizes.

I am interested in exploring. Early stage.

RC airplanes. Radio controlled ie. Made from kits often, with tiny engines, three or more radio channels for different parts of the plane/

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Music which has affected my life:

In college I listenedlots to "Kinda of Blue,"an album by Miles Davis

At the Chicago Jazz Festival I once heard McCoy Tyner play. Sure what
I heard was very good, on the other hand it was not one of those "swept
away" concerts. On the first hand again -- it has stayed with me, that
dusk-time playing. McCoy Tyner, who was the piano in John Coltrane's
quartet 4 ca. years, played in a way which was beyond anything I've
heard before or since in the jazz vein. And jazz is a more
reasoned, cerebral (in a degree) music than other kinds of music in the
pale of the popular.

McCoy Tyner's tunes that evening were a fire like Balkan dance tunes,
only in a tradition which is -- more deep down -- my own. Penetrated
further into the DNA/my blood.

My interests in music are wide and far.

Just for example flamenco music

Once long ago in Bloomington, before the NPR station was 24 hr/day, I
awakened at 7. My radio had been left on. Music by Arcengelo Corelli
was playing; the music of a single solitary instrument. I think that
was a mystical experience; before all my brain cells were working, some-
thing began to pour into my soul. Again, once, hearing sonatas by
Beethoven there was the beyond-earth movement within.

I can recall B.B. King and very beautiful music from him. I heard Son
House at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival.

A country and western musician, Johnny Cash, has enriched my life.

Telemann, Purcell -- often John Dowland -- I find very rewarding.

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Hi(est)

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Colin Wilson, 1931- : an author of great interest

Hermann Hesse

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Sergei Prokofiev, 1891-1953

Activities, pursuits ..'. ' :)

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World band radio and microradio. Not necessarily in that order

Photography. As a minor interest; (somehow I do not think I'll ever get down and study the 'partial-field-focus' or whatever that is called. Nevertheless, "have tripod, will travel."

Wrenching. (Those of you who do also, will know :)

Being on the beemer
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Cycling. I enjoy commuting, *some* into club rides, distance happenings am not averse to... although my spirit turns toward trikes ('bent) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recumbent_bicycle ,

Being part of a drum line. --As can be in a place where a stable and large black community exists.

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Postlogue: "Seabiscuit" Enjoyable. A funny, informative and fulfilling - well!, if one enjoys racing! - story. True.




List of what have been _discoveries_ for me. By each of these I've been changed. When sharing one or several/with another person, this would be then to have something in common. Or, at least: a door opened, with aesthetic orientation(s) .

Miles Davis' "On the Corner" and "Kinda of Blue."

Geoffrey Hartman, theorist, omitted:othr site.

Ursula Leguin,
Robert Silverberg. !!!!!!!!
Theodore Sturgeon, espec. "Slow Sculpture," story. Of course "Baby Makes Three," the paranormals-gestalt, available I think just in the book length, "More Than Human" is genuine literature :)

"Ascension." 40 min.

Arthur Honegger, knowing in particular the "Pacific 231."

Peretz
Scholem Aleichem (originally heard [of] in Leonard Nimoy's NPR readings [1990's].)
Isaac Bashevis Singer

William Faulkner




2d-ary:
"The Foundation Trilogy"
"Fiddler on the Roof" and "Slaughter House Five" (films)
"Player Piano," with the Reeks and Wrecks, the CEO renegade and the scholar
"Farenheit 451"

"Brothers Karamezov" and "Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
Gooseberries", by Chekhov. Especially the lines about character of the materialist brother

Albert Camus, secondary sources..., "The Fall" I would cop to, as readable. "La Peste" /"Plague" IMHO suffers in translation.




Tertiary
Gerald Heard
James Hilman
"City and the Stars" (so moving when I originally read it). And "Childhood's End" -- the generation to cap off all generations.
"The Street Lawyer," "The Client."
The easily-FUNNY Kafka. In "The Castle," once the protagonist has wormed his way to a warm place ([no?] room at the inn) and the platoon-leader policeman is ringing up the Castle to verify the surveyor story, our man is lying on the straw RIGHT BELOW THAT WALL TELEPHONE. Ha! :) So policeman must lean and reach-way-out to [get] that phone. LOL No one designed it, but dude on the floor is winning. How absurd-looking is that authority :) :)
Erik Satie, French Impressionist composer. In mutual influence with Debussy