RF Film

The RF Film website is up.

Check out my latest crazy job: http://www.rffilm.com/

Making Stuff

The Iron Knuckle Santa gave me one of the best gifts ever:

Find it HERE

The 100

I woke up this morning and wondered how confident I would feel if I had to settle a dispute via the dreaded "Push Up Off." Only being able to bang out 23 solid knuckle push ups I knew I needed some help. I stumbled on a push up compilation at:

The Art Of Manliness

One of the reader comments has this revolutionary suggestion: http://www.hundredpushups.com/

I began my training immediately. I suggest you do the same. You never, never know...

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If you want to defend your ladies' honor like a badass, may I suggest "The Aztec":

Just Another Day At The Office...

More Digging

A sampling form my highly collaborative haiku period:

Tasting God

metal is where I live

dry mouth rusts in the moonlight

living beyond love

There are pages and pages and pages of this madness

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A New Dig

Going thru old bones and found this letter:

"The Perfect Dawn"

I've written many Jack Kerouacian odes to you and the Sun this morning. Full of molten highwaymen and raw illumination. For your copy of delights, look to the stars. They are the library of misguided dreams.

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The shell is broken. The yolk is exposed. I will go to Los Angeles in December. Too much fun to be had.

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Funny how everything looks different when the fuse is lit (even if only in your mind). Monsters are back to Shadows (then back to monsters again because Monsters tell better jokes). And all is as it is.

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I thought I needed to fight for the freedom of change (I always do), when it is simply in the way you hold the mirror until you can see it (or something like that). I think the sweet release of sleep of is about to be mine.

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I feel you with me. There's a giggle I hear inside that is not my own.

Beautiful...

Why I'm sharing this I do not know. I was compelled and here we are...

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A Must

Virgin Galactic

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How do you not fall in Love with Jean Loscalzo?

WARNING: This is very sexy!!!

Learn more at: www.supercreator.com

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A Lesson In Style

This is from my cousin Andrew's bar mitzvah.

While at the Corn residence for Turkey Day they dug out the photo albums, scanned this beauty in and demanded it be posted immediately.

I am about 16 and yes, am sporting the "mustachio primo," which I kept until 12th grade.

As the bolo-tied mind once said "A Snazzy Man always has many options..."

I've spent so much of my adult life alone I forgot how important family is.

Enjoy the giggles.

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Everyone's got Sadie-itis

[especially me]

QOTD

"Everybody was into the kung-fu films, but I don't know if everybody really knew the true meaning of what we were dealing with, the true meaning of it. I did. Ghostface did. I think that GZA did. Dirty did. And we basically had to educate the rest of the guys on the philosophy. Ghost was the first one to say, 'That's Wu-Tang. I'm Wu-Tang.'"

-The RZA

From CH2, Pg 63 of "The Wu-Tang Manual"

Just in Case You Forgot...

Let James Brown remind you...

This is what I'm Talkin' About!

Read about it HERE

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 12, 2009

"I hope that by now you have finished scrabbling along on your hands and knees over burning hot shards of broken glass. The next and hopefully final phase of your redemptive quest should be less torturous. In this upcoming chapter, the operative metaphor might be assembling a jigsaw puzzle with 200 pieces, all of which are red. Amazingly enough, you actually have it in you to accomplish this improbable feat -- as long as you don't spread out the puzzle pieces all over the burning hot shards of broken glass. Find a nice, clean, quiet place to do your work."

Courtesy of Free Will Astrology

Koreatown Sunrise

Just finshed working a block away from where I first lived in LA many
moons ago...

Emergency

I Loved THIS BOOK!!!

Reminded me of many obsessions I had left unfinished before I broke my foot

Next spring:

Tracker School

Shooting School

and...

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There is a philosopher in here...

Originally caught this on Fecal Face.com

The Ride Home

ee cummings

2:10am

Cherry Popped

Mulholland from the drivers seat of the Hoopermobile!!!

An LA Night

From the back of a stakebed

The Ripper

Did you say motorcycles?
Well, since you asked..
Lately I've been obsession over building an all around Ripper based on an FXR or Dyna.

A fine example is this one:

Read about it HERE

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Diamond Dave

Been reading David Lee Roth's autobiography, Crazy From The Heat.

The guy had a vision of an empire and he made it happen.

Gotta love it!

Genesis of a New Idear

Finally saw how to put it all together.

I'll keep you posted.

I couldn't have done it without you.

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Ahhhh the Good Life

Love Your Fate

Amor Fati

"Love your Fate"

Reminder brought to you by Ty O'Neill - Creator of Iron Knuckle Kung Fu

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Remote Viewing

****What follows is my experience and understanding.

I do not claim to be an expert.****

Remote Viewing has been coming up a lot lately so I figure it's high time to tell you about it, too.

I took classes in RV when I was was volunteering at The Omega Institute in upstate New York, and began working with the instructor,Dave Morehouse, when the summer was done. [The Omega Institute is basically a spiritual summer camp. Yoga retreats, Buddhist retreats, etc. One of the best summers of my life. But thats another story...]

Remote Viewing is defined as "the learned ability to transcend space and time to gather information from locations remote in space and time and report on the same."

What that basically means is that anyone can be taught to see and experience anything, anywhere at any time. Yeah, I know how that sounds. I thought so, too. Actually when I found out about it I couldn't sleep knowing this existed and that I had to check it out. I hear some questions coming...

Is it real? Yes.

Can I do it? Yes.

Anyone can do it. You just have to be taught. And yes, that includes YOU!

That's the beauty of it. I'll get into that in a minute...

A little history break:

In the late 70's the head of the CIA found out that the Soviets, Checks, Chinese, Germans, and British all had psychic espionage units. He asked his number 2 guy what we had. Nothing. Why Not? Shoulder shrug. Well lets get to it. So two laser physicists were charged with task of developing something comparable for the US. After several years and between 20-50 million dollars they came up with a step-by-step protocol that would teach someone with "the psychic ability of a bag of hammers to transcend space and time."

How it was used:

Remote Viewing was developed as an information gathering tool to augment satellite, radio, human, signal intelligence. For example: There was a warehouse on Northern Russia's coast that had been known to have a great deal of activity by way of satellite photos, but anytime an agent was sent in, the agent was never heard from. So, someone contacts the Program Manager of an RV Unit located in the states. The most publicized was at Ft. Meade, MD. The PM is given all the intel he can be given about the location and develops a target folder for the viewers. The viewers are then called in. They go into an altered state, are given the coordinates and go through the step-by-step process for 90 minutes, prepare a summary and hand in 60-90 pages of data on the target. What happened here was that a viewer drew pictures of a new type of submarine, and soon after satellite photos revealed a next-level sub exiting that warehouse.

It is important to note here that Viewers go into sessions "blind," meaning they do not know where they are going. When the target folders are prepared, the PM does so in private. The PM concentrates on the concept of the target. In the above example the concept would be something like: Access the warehouse at __________________ in present time and describe contents and activity inside. This could be written out and placed inside an envelope with a photo of the warehouse. Then the PM assigns coordinates, 2 sets of 4 random numbers, to that concept. When [don't fret, I'll explain the coordinates in a moment] the Viewers have cooled down [slowed their brainwaves to Alpha], they fill out a heading and are given the coordinates only. This is critical because it helps relieve the viewers of trying to "guess" where they are, trying to be "right" and free the Viewer to simply gather information as they move through the target.

The Coordinates:

When RV was being developed the scientists used latitude and longitude of sites to test the psychics. The results were so good that, scientists being scientists, they figured that maybe the viewers couldn't memorize every set of lat/long on the globe, but could recognize general areas. Then if a viewer saw coordinates that fell in France, for example, they could assume they weren't being sent to a smokey cafe for wine and honey covered cheeses, but would go for the Eiffel Tower, etc. So the scientists assigned 2 sets of four random numbers and the results got better because the Viewers were able to let go of the outcome. Coordinates can be generated in a variety of ways but most professional settings use a system of the top four numbers being the year, and the lower four being the session number. For example, if you where about to do the first session of this year the coordinates would look like this:

2009

0001

Once you, the Viewer, have the coordinates you simply move through the 6 stage protocol and write down what comes to you in whatever way it comes to you. In Coordinate Remote Viewing [CRV] you sit at a desk and work off of pieces of paper, alternating between placing your pen on the page and closing your eyes [a symbolic gesture of connecting to the target] and writing down what you feel, see, hear, sense, etc. Each stage asks you to seek specific things staring with basics of color, textures, temperatures, tastes, smells, to quick sketches, to emotional and aesthetic content with the final stage looking for full blown renderings all culminating with a summary of your experience allowing for anything left of the target to be reported after the session ends. There is an advanced form called Extended Remote Viewing [ERV] and hybrids of both, but that's a discussion for another day.

QUICK, BUT IMPORTANT, NOTE: RV is not 100% accurate. If someone claims they are a Viewer and are all good all the time, smile politely and walk away...

What makes Remote Viewing special?

There are several reasons including being able to help provide data in cases of crime solutions, medical/scientific R&D, etc. [It is important to note that when being used operationally, it is best to have as many Viewers working on a target as possible to cross reference the data and allow for the variety of data possible.] For me it is as a spiritual tool. There is something profound that happens when you close your eyes and know you are experiencing somewhere other than where your body is. In training you are given feedback in the form of photographs and video so you know that what you experienced was real. In the more advanced class we would do "beacon" targets meaning there is a trained Viewer somewhere on the planet and your task is to find them, describe them and their location. This was originally developed to track suspected double agents. Let's say we think "Dan" is a working both sides. We would send him to the Alps and task Viewers to find him. If 9 of 10 Viewers is coming up with bikinis and mai thai's, "Dan" may not be where he said he was gonna be. In the classes the students would declare male/female, young, old, black/white, etc; location and activity of the beacon. then the beacon would call in and answer questions [Yes, I have been a beacon]. The next step is to do a "split-beacon" where there are two trained Viewers in different locations on the planet. The same thing happens except for declaring specifically for beacon "A" and beacon "B". Then both beacons call in and the fun begins. Because now you, the student, have experienced being in three places at once. In the classroom, with beacon "A" and with beacon "B" all at the same time. You now have experienced, for yourself, how we are connected as human beings. This is the core of why I love the technology of Remote Viewing and feel that everyone who wants to learn, should. You don't have to ask me or anyone else for this type of knowledge. You can go find out for yourself.

What has it meant to me?

The biggest gift I've received is trusting myself. I have never had a problem with believing there was more than this body, this planet, this time, this dimension. My foibles lie in dealing with day-to-day affairs and having the guts to share who and what I am. This is still a moment-by-moment battle, but RV has been an invaluable tool to help me share more deeply, strongly, completely.

If you have any questions, feel free to fire off an email to me at: oldground@gmail.com

PS - Here's the real mindbender:

Remote Viewing targets are not limited to this time or even this planet, but you'll have to catch me in person to talk about that...

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What's A Girl to Do?

Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?

Simple. Beautiful.

[click title for video]

Saga of the Foot - New Chapter

This Xray is from my last appointment.

The arrow points out the piece that separated and where it was from.

It looks like it's starting to reconnect in one spot and the rest is surrounded by a mess of scar tissue and pixie dust.

Better every day.

Easter Island

I just got the bug to visit my brothers.
Let's see what kind of misadventures this creates!!!

In I

Was just turned on to this:

So Beautiful...

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Echo Park Film Center

Just heard about the Echo Park Film Center.

Looks like something special...

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Inner Me

Grabbed this off the interweb when I was in need of a snapshot of the inner me.
Thanks, interweb!

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This was just sent to me by a mischievous Leprechaun------>

Last Lecture

For some reason I am compelled to give a lecture.

Not sure on what or why, but I'm ok with that.

As I was cruising the interweb I came across this:

Randy Pausch is the author of The Last Lecture.

Falling In Love

Quote from Chrispoth Waltz on how he felt during filming of "Inglorious Basterds":

"I feel like an old man falling in love with a young girl after having given up on love altogether."

A Moment With Jason

Haven't posted anything embarrassing for a while [not due to a shortage of material, trust me] so I figure I'm about due.

This is an email I fired off to my buddy Jordan whose studlieness can be witnessed in About A Ball.

A brief intro:

I innocently called Jordan to check in with him. During the conversation he asked if I put the pounds back on since my injury and I admitted I was once again sporting my "Luxury Profile" due to too many cookies, pints of coconut ice cream and bouts of self love. He requested a pic of my sorry state because "he could use a laugh." Fit bastard!

***One thing I forgot to mention during the retelling of the story is that at the time I was also a week unshaven as I had a runaway zit community that looks like a freakin' martian leper colony festering on the center of my chin.

Jordy~D,

Thought you might appreciate this little moment from the other day:

After you and I get off the phone I grab a quick nap before a Bikram yoga class.

I'm groggy when I get to the studio so when I see the instructor talking to a cutie all I think is "Wow! She's Super Hot!"

Then I realize she's looking at me as I ogle her, then I realize its a girl I fooled around with a bit last year before she called it off ["The chemistry's just not working for me... Always good for the ego].

I'm still staring as I think this, then pull the slick 8th grade move of quickly look down and run into the classroom like a spaz without saying a word.

You know Bikram is all mirrors and shirts off. So there's this half naked, fit, bendy, well balanced hottie and me, the one footed white wale.

90 minutes of total embarrassment.

Once class is over I rush out of the room to change in peace and to compose myself and hopefully try and explain my awkwardness.

She comes out of the studio in all her glistening glory and I am there, blubbering about with a goofy grin and a coconut water.

I wait outside with a buddy for her to change [why suffer without a witness to forever remind me of my shame?] and when she emerges from the studio she looks even better than I remember.

We talk for a while and its going GREAT! I'm picturing her tied back up in my closet that night until I inform her how I'm back in class to heal my foot and reduce my "luxury profile." As I'm telling her how you requested a photo of my enormous belly for your enjoyment she glances down at my bulging mid section and looks away in horror!

This will shock you, I'm sure, but she didn't end up back in the closet or anywhere near my apartment once she stepped back and took the whole thing in.

Thanks, Jordan, thank you very much!

Big Love,

J

Hop-A-Long Hooper's Ring Walk Song

I like to ambush people by cranking this song off my phone before/as I strut into the room. Let me apologize now, I don't see this going away any time soon...

I sail

From my favorite movie of all time:
What about Bob?

Chart Yer Own Course

There are many ways to arrive at port.
Choose yours.
If you don't, someone will gladly do it for you.
And that ain't a way for any man to live.

Helicopter Guts

Cool!

Venice

Actually left the cave for a little while tonight.

A Query

What do I have against nudity all of a sudden?

I just finished a great 2 hour conversation with my buddy Shawn and I de-pants and immediately threw on a pair of shorts!

It's 1 am in my own apartment!

Why not hang out in my birthday suit?

I do in the mornings when I first wake up so I know it's not all nudity...

Do I just not want my balls to drag against the leather?

I don't get it...

This is where we stand today

I'm not 100% sure where this is going but here we are...

New Addition

There's a new addition to the family.

Picked up this Dennis McNett print today.

I love it!

See more at: www.wolfbat.com

One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen

http://shinyakimura.blogspot.com/

Gifts

I received some amazing gifts recently.

The Red Stripe glass is really great because it reminds of overall good times, a long lost

friend and was the first thing I drank to break my years of raw food.And who couldn't use a little fresh air and some good luck?

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139 Avenue A [at 9th St]

New York, NY 10009

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