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the horse stance is the foundation upon which all choy li fut kung fu rests. so today, we did the stance for an hour straight. i can barely walk now. this is going to make the class i have in 3 hours very interesting.

the legend of the phoenix is fascinating. essentially, you can crash and burn, and then arise from the ashes transformed, a...
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so a good friend of mine was arrested for what i will only describe as a non-violent offense. it makes me sad because i just read an article in the newspaper that described him in a very unsavory manner, when the reality is i've never met a more aware, centered and giving person. it's impossible to believe that this person is somehow a danger to...
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i couldn't sleep at all last night, and really the whole week has been pretty restless. so i was supposed to go to the studio this morning but ended up at noon laying on the couch in the living room, the patio door open, a light, warm breeze rippling through from the heights of Twin Peaks, my cat pressed against my side, and my mind...
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new music = good
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bark psychosis -- replay [after almost ten years they are back together . . . one of my all-time favorite bands. this is music that recalls a specific moment and time in my life, where i can almost smell the emotions that were lived.]

jeff mills -- exhibitionist [his first live mix since "live at the liquid rooms" back in...
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"Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed."
---- From "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem


i'm searching for a way to forget everything i've ever known. i've decided in doing this i will be able to fully grasp all...
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it's been a long week here.

i think one of the great ironies of human behavior is that it takes tragedy for people to drop their egoist walls and recognize the love and compassion they have towards each other.

"there is nothing stronger than gentleness, and there is nothing as gentle as real strength" -- Chinese proverb on the altar at my kung fu school...
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i got to spin at my first renegade party last night. a renegade party is where someone takes their soundsystem somewhere they are not supposed to and throws down. it was on the beach in the south part of SF. i found out Friday night i was spinning (so much for a notice).

so i'm driving there at 2 am when i hear on the...
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it was a beautiful day here. cleaned house while listening to some music, opened the door and let the air clean out the accumulated debris of winter.

went to the local park to work out, under construction, so i wound up walking up through Noe Valley to a park in Diamond Heights. could see Oakland, downtown, the sun falling behind twin peaks. the park is...
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transitions can be so interesting

gravity is always a constant . . .

in spite of my attempts . . .


deep house elixir: Sweet Electro -- Firefly (David Alvarado remix) (nopalbeat records)

"when you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. when you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world."

--- Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks



"he made his way through the toxic streets of Synchro City -- sidewalks and alleys flooded with the hardened desires and neurotic glances of a city that had lost itself in its strive to achieve. and...
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