My Favorite Jews

It is lamentable that there still remains those persistent and troublesome notions that 1) the Jewish "people", and/or 2) the Jewish religious tradition somehow, by some mystical mechanics, exerts negative psychic / psychological / political / cultural / genetic / moral / economic influences upon other, more "righteous" societies.

It is for this reason that I've decided to post this entry, a list of my favorite Jews. Feel free to suggest any others I might want to add - I drafted it rather quickly, so there might be some oversights. Bear in mind, just because Paula Abdul is famous, and would rightfully belong on a list of "Famous Jews," this is a list of "Favorite Jews," and although I don't dislike Paula Abdul, by the same measure, I can't really claim to be a fan. And yes, I'm well aware that I included Paul Simon, but excluded Art Garfunkel.


So here's the list:

eden ahbez, Woody Allen, Geoffrey Blank, Jason Blank, Michael Bloomfield, Marc Bolan, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, Ryan Chorney, Jesus the Christ, Leonard Cohen, Sacha Baron Cohen, Al Cooper, Chris Cornell, Jacques Derrida, Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman), Albert Einstein, Uri Ely, Ernst Fuchs, Allen Ginsberg, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Green, Adam Horovitz, Ben Harper, Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr., Robby Krieger, Gary Lucas, Matisyahu, Gustav Meyrink, Randy Newman, Joey Ramone, Tamir Ratzon, Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, Andrew Schneider, Mark Silverbush, Shel Silverstein, Paul Simon, Hillel Slovak, Tom Stoppard, MCA (Adam Yauch)

Seongmodo Visit

Wednesday took a tour of one of the West Isles, Seongmodo, with Edwin and Alexia. It was nice to get away from Hopyung for a day. After arriving and getting a lunch, we went to the main attraction - Bomunsa, a Buddhist temple-complex, which is "overlooked" by a large bas-relief of the Buddha, carved onto the face of the mountain.

Afterwards, went out for some decent Italian food, and called it a night. Oh, yeah, and I lost my cell phone. That will get taken care of, though...

I was going to add some photos, but then I realized that I took the highest quality shots, so it was taking forever to load them...I'll know better next time ;)

Smashing a Wine Bottle

It's not seaworthy, but why not smash a wine bottle across this thing like they do in sailing circles?

This blog has been named after The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism, by Agehananda Bharati.