Brandon

"It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed." David Foster Wallace.

Got busted filming the whale singing on the bus - couldn't bring myself to post it - felt too bad/ashamed. Stupid feelings.

"Those who concern themselves with creation think that creation is the pervading power, the extension, so to speak, of God; but it is implied, those who concern themselves with the final and transcendental truth do not care about speculations on creation." - Shankara.

Never thought the Upanishads would make him giggle - "Salutation be to thy arms of might, salutation be to thy angry shaft." Nilarudra Upanishad.

Is contemplating taking video of a conversation between two severely mentally and physically challenged bus passengers - they sound like whales singing.

Derives his hippness from his squareness (ref. H. Lewis).

"...as it is the sum and end of all things, so everything else amounts to it and by throwing itself into it achieves the sense of its own existence." -Aurobindo.

Has been witness to the play of man in nature for the last 72 hours - tufted puffin, humpback whale & calf, grey whale, giant jellyfish, harbor seals, sea lions, pelicans, spotted owl and babies. Also helped release 10 rehabbed sea lions (shark bait) and grilled much cow.

Is whale watching in the Farralones. [Ahab is wondering why his first mate and harpooneers look like San Francisco hippies].

"...for not by things unstable shall one attain That One which is stable... who thinks he sees difference here, from death to death he goes... but as pure water that is poured into pure water, even as it was such it remains, so is it with the soul of the thinker who knows God." Katha Upanishad.

"The chilish wit, bewildered and drunken with the illusion of riches cannot open its eyes to see the passage to heaven: for he that thinks this world is and there is no other, comes again and again into Death's thraldom." - Katha Upanishad.

"Life [is] a figure of death, and death of life; the only true existence is the infinite, divive and immortal." - Aurobindo.

What do cougars dream of when they take a little cougar snooze? Do they dream of mauling firemen or anyone that'll buy them booze. Well don't you worry your crazy cougar head, we're going to get you to Sausalito and your cozy cougar bed."

"Meditate on the Self as OM and happy be your passage to the other shore beyond the darkness." Mundaka Upanishad.

Reserves the right to use 'gay' and 'queer' in their perjorative, but not homophobic/prejudiced sense, to mean odd, out of touch, campy and or not cool. If you think otherwise, you are not only gay, but ought to take your specious existence and borrowed opinions less seriously.

Superhero Massage Therapy (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...

"Of [the Eternal] - knowledge, austerity, self-conquest and works are the foundation, the Vedas (ways of knowing) are all its limbs, truth is its dwelling place." Kena Upanishad.

Can't figure out how many wolves are in his wolfpack.

Is seeing hangover for the second time and really hopes the blue hairs don't get it.

"[Man] is the highest realised here and now; he is not the highest realisable. As there is something below him, so there is something, if only a possibility, above... Mind too is not the first principle of things and therefor cannot be their last possibility." - Aurobindo.

Why are Scientists So Dull? - http://generativetransformatio...

"[Man] is the highest realised here and now; he is not the highest realisable. As there is something below him, so there is something, if only a possibility, above... Mind too is not the first principle of things and therefor cannot be their last possibility." - Aurobindo.

Saw the 'hangover' and was transported to a fratastic wonderland, full of all that is good and right and american. Seeing that movie might have rendered my 20's obsolete.

Spinal Tap New Album - http://generativetransformatio...

"Ego is only a faculty put forward by the discriminative mind to centralize round itself the experiences of the sense-mind...The ego uses [memory] as a rest and support..." - Aurobindo.

Is elated that his wife and mother-in-law now use the word 'dominate' regularly.

"The eternal question has been put which turns a man's eyes away from the visible and the outward to that which is utterly within, away from the little known that he has become to the vast unknown he is behind these surfaces and must grow into and be, because that is his Reality and out of all masqerade of phenomenon and becoming the Real Being...

Is certain he needs to reallocate his fun portfolio between the two types of fun, A. Fun and B. Not Fun.

My Dinner with Andre - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...

My Imaginary Kindle - http://generativetransformatio...